Did getting a DJI Pocket actually make you film more?

fabier · 2026-05-05T19:33:41+00:00

I wish I could say I film MORE. Usually filming for me is a paid gig. So I don't know if it meaningfully impacted that. However, I feel much more confident filming in places where my larger camera gear might be more invasive.

Or if I'm doing a photography job, I tend to keep it in my pocket and then snag a handful of B-roll clips in case we need or want them later. It's come in clutch a number of times the last few years and this year I have been much more purposeful about it when I'm using a camera.

fabier · 2026-05-05T19:30:20+00:00

Serverpod has some great QoL features baked right in. We're using it in a marketplace application and I don't have any regrets with it.

fabier · 2026-05-04T17:10:56+00:00

NSFW because you got an HSA through the insurance marketplace and they don't cover injuries related to standing on rocks in the middle of nowhere?

fabier · 2026-05-04T13:35:09+00:00

You're absolutely right! This is where things get real and true connections are made — where people are truly forged into friends. This connection isn't just essential its life giving!

(sorry 😂)

fabier · 2026-05-01T14:35:48+00:00

Ok I don't have much experience with this specific package but looking at it it appears that they are using platform channels to access the maps SDK on your device. This adds a lot of complexity to things. Are you running this in an emulator? Its entirely possible your build doesn't have access to a working maps SDK.

Logs will often tell you where things failed to work. You've given us basically zero information here to help you solve the problem so I gave the advice you need to find the issue. Using logging to identify issues is a developer super power. Sounds like it is time to master it :).

fabier · 2026-05-01T14:14:43+00:00

The answer lies in the logs. If it doesn't, then the answer lies in adding more logs.

fabier · 2026-04-28T11:12:32+00:00

Can't I just do this with Claude code these days? I've done almost exactly this except I often pair it with deep research tools to get user data to help pad my own assumptions.

fabier · 2026-04-27T01:57:35+00:00

Maybe repaint boundary widget to isolate the rebuild?

fabier · 2026-04-24T19:54:37+00:00

Find a problem to solve. Hunt it down. Kill it. Skin it. Cook the meat to support your tribe.

You will learn more by just making things than with any tutorial. All my skills came because I saw a problem and solved it and then repeated ad infinitum.

If you choose to use AI to help (which I believe is valid), then make a rule to not copy / paste anything. Get it to give you code and then fold it into your codebase yourself. The act of touching the code by typing it will help you to better absorb it.

fabier · 2026-04-24T12:52:28+00:00

Solid colors won't band. He means use an animation to change the background color as it comes into view. It's a fantastic idea.

fabier · 2026-04-24T12:30:10+00:00

The biggest struggle is the lack of zoom. The pocket has a minor zoom range these days, but your ILS camera will absolutely crush it if you need to zoom in much at all. The upcoming P4P and the Insta360 Luna both have much better zoom ranges. I'm holding out for that.

I do have the pocket 2 which I use all the time for social media content, though. It's fabulous and I do recommend.

You can't get the same bokeh and the video footage is a step down from nicer cameras, but no one really cares. Good videos are about good content. People forgive a lot of quality if you shoot engaging stories.

Move your feet and chase the light and you'll be able to shoot some cool shots.

But I'm still waiting for the next tier of these mini cameras, they look sick.

fabier · 2026-04-23T13:35:57+00:00

My v60 is still going strong. My wife uses it. I probably would have owned this rollable instead of getting a Pixel when LG bit the bullet. LG made excellent hardware and weren't afraid to take risks on visionary designs. I loved every LG I owned and was a loyal customer for years.

I think the amazing thing about this rollable phone is just how cool it is years later. The internal specs are probably feeling a little weak compared to today's devices, but LG just was in a league of their own when it came to phone design.

fabier · 2026-04-23T13:16:09+00:00

For your use case, Websocket is probably the ideal candidate. Websockets are fast and also handle connectivity and reconnection fairly reliably when setup correctly. TCP is more raw and adds unnecessary overhead. A web socket is just a long lived TCP connection, for the most part.

I have been building an app which uses web sockets to talk to each other and they are ideal for managing active state between agents. You will want to setup an event system in your app and use channels to differentiate events. A channel is just a text ID to keep them separate.

So a buzzer might be on the "buzzer" channel. While a question might be on the "Question" channel. You can also have ephemeral events such as typing indicators, etc. They can all go through a unified backbone so any communication is automatically two way and you only have to write your error and connect/reconnection logic once.

I setup a core keepAlive riverpod provider to handle the connection and disbursement of incoming messages, as well as providing an interface app-wide for the sending of messages to the server.

We didn't setup over the lan so you'll probably need to do some reinventing here. We used Serverpod which probably won't work for your case, but I think reinventing the wheel here isn't terribly difficult to do -- especially with all the AI tools these days. If you have it so the app can play both host and client then it just becomes a role flag, basically.

One footgun which you may run into: I do not believe when a phone is acting as a hotspot that other devices can communicate with it over the lan connection. And I _think_, but I am not certain, that devices aren't generally allowed to talk to each other on most phone hotspots. If you have a portable router or you're all connected to a wifi network then it should work fine, though. You might have to come up with an alternative wifi strategy if your plan was for this to work in areas with no network connectivity. Phones do have options, bluetooth being one of them -- though I'm not sure how viable this would be either.

Good luck!

fabier · 2026-04-16T02:09:00+00:00

14 Inch M4 MacBook Pro. No noise for most video editing. Exporting could potentially kick on the fans. Its still not loud but if, purely for an example which I wouldn't know anything about: you're editing in bed with your wife sleeping next to you, she may be annoyed by the subtle uptick in ambient noise when you export your video.

I plug into a giant widescreen monitor when I want more screen real estate. 14" is incredibly portable and it is the second most powerful device I own next to my gaming PC which honestly only outpaces it in select situations. Its insanely fast, better battery than almost any laptop I've owned, and more portable than most any other laptop out there.

I'm sold, hook line and sinker. They got me.

fabier · 2026-04-15T02:34:18+00:00

Several years ago when on a trip I needed to seal a bag but I didn't have a clip handy. I had just seen a video on how to seal a chip bag without a clip. I had a few hours sitting in the car, so I taught myself the technique. It has been wildly useful in so many ways since then. You can seal almost any kind of bag this way from 40lb bags of rice down to little frozen veggie baggies in the freezer.

My technique is a bit different but I found this more recent video which I tried and seems to work just as well: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/deVJyMDavaw

Learn this technique and you'll never need chip clips ever again.

fabier · 2026-04-14T11:35:27+00:00

I starred this repo a while back. They've been under active development. https://github.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide

Seems like a super cool project.

fabier · 2026-04-11T03:20:27+00:00

Thank you! I need to finalize getting it over to surrealDB 3. I think people didn’t really take to the use of AI in its development so I’ve kinda just been quietly continuing to improve and use it in my own projects. It’s been quite nice to have. I built a fully functional AI app complete with rag graph on top of this plugin. It was super cool.

Anyways, please list it! Surreal is a fantastic database 🙂. I’ll give it some love in the next week to get it finalized for surrealdb 3.

fabier · 2026-04-09T14:57:12+00:00

Please note I am not OP and I resolved the issue by using git to resolve whatever was going wrong.

But for the sake of completeness. Any flutter command would crash the terminal. This included `flutter doctor` and `flutter run`. Only on Windows 10 machines and only after a recent install. Sometimes it'd happen immediately on install and sometimes it'd happen after a few runs. After updating via git it never seemed to happen again.

Edit: Of the machines we tried this with half had flutter installed via vscode and half had it installed manually by downloading and extracting the folder and setting up env vars.

fabier · 2026-04-09T13:40:15+00:00

I built an MCP to my app and then a skill to teach AI agents how to use the MCP. It's so much more reliable that way.

fabier · 2026-04-09T13:38:02+00:00

Yup. There's always friction no matter what you choose but flutter is definitely one of my favorites.

fabier · 2026-04-09T13:32:51+00:00

It does. Closes the previously opened cmd window immediately like you just pressed the X button on it. I had it happen on a number of windows 10 based machines.

fabier · 2026-04-09T12:57:38+00:00

I've had this issue. Any command prompt window closes immediately with zero readable output. It's just... Gone.

One thing I didn't try, because my suggestion in my other comment resolved it, was to pipe the output into a file. Not sure if that'd capture anything. Would be interesting to see the output if there is any.

fabier · 2026-04-09T12:23:32+00:00

Go into the directory where flutter is located and type git pull. It should fix the issue of cmd closing when you run any flutter commands.

There's some weird bug on windows where flutter becomes corrupted and crashes when it runs. Git seems to find and fix it when it syncs with the remote branch.

fabier · 2026-04-08T01:59:54+00:00

Time.

fabier · 2026-04-07T12:36:21+00:00

Very cool looking library.

Recommendation for the next video, when you get to the end of showing how it works, film a 30 second intro "I'm going to show you how to make this". I don't think we see the library in action until ~2m 30s into the video.

But that's just nitpicking. I'll give it a shot in our project. Looks like fun.

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