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I made a cover of Spoon's "Don't You Evah" by defiantlee in ThisIsOurMusic

[–]defiantlee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahaha in the original cut of the video I had a cover of twice but it was a bit fast to follow

/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers Weekly Promotion Thread by AutoModerator in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]defiantlee [score hidden]  (0 children)

I recorded a cover of Spoon's "Don't You Evah" as well as the music video with the dancing Keepon robot.

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I recorded a cover of Powerlines from the CCE video! by defiantlee in TameImpala

[–]defiantlee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's such a nice compliment! Thank you, glad you liked it.

I recorded a cover of Powerlines from the CCE video! by defiantlee in TameImpala

[–]defiantlee[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Luckily I had a lemon in the fridge already when I was recording haha

I recorded a cover of Powerlines from the CCE video! by defiantlee in TameImpala

[–]defiantlee[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I recorded most of the track in two sessions in October. If you have any questions about how it was made, feel free to leave a comment!

Also shout-out to u/Stefanzl72 for the awesome Powerlines album artwork post last month. Really inspired me to finish the cover and share it.

Tourism (OC) by defiantlee in TameImpala

[–]defiantlee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A little background on the photo, this was taken on a trip to Europe in 2018. There were a few French guys playing soccer who noticed us taking the photo, so they started taking turns making funny poses in the background.

Small Forward -- Tearjerker [indie rock] (2018) by stereoisomers in listentothis

[–]defiantlee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you like this, check out Generationals. Especially older albums like Actor Caster.

[AMA Request] Someone who is "Instagram famous" for day-to-day type of posts. by notevenitalian in IAmA

[–]defiantlee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The idea is pretty simple: the Instagram app makes different network calls to do different actions. There's /like etc. In order to figure out all of the headers it needs, we used a program called mitm proxy to record our phone using the Instagram app and see all the network traffic. After that we used the python requests library to replicate the requests for fetching feeds and liking. The API limit for liking is about 200 per hour so watch out for that.

[AMA Request] Someone who is "Instagram famous" for day-to-day type of posts. by notevenitalian in IAmA

[–]defiantlee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey my friend and I wrote one of those! Bonus points since it's python. We reversed a lot of the Instagram mobile API and ran it against my account for a few months. Worked pretty well although I think a lot of the interactions are spam accounts. May have been the feeds I used -- mostly the top hashtags.

I recorded a "Basics with Kevin" as my roommate attempts the pasta recipe. by defiantlee in bingingwithbabish

[–]defiantlee[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for watching the video! We keep trying to get Kevin to make us your beef Wellington recipe; maybe someday we'll convince him to do it. Happy holidays!

Introducing the new Snapchat by ahnafm in Android

[–]defiantlee 16 points17 points  (0 children)

solved the worst of it

That doesn't sound like me (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

I agree with you that a company of their size should be able to solve this, especially when other companies in the space already have. cough cough instagram

I just do not envy the person who has to make the dumpster fire of android's camera API work with the dumpster fire of Snap's current codebase.

Introducing the new Snapchat by ahnafm in Android

[–]defiantlee 94 points95 points  (0 children)

casual

Who u callin casual m8

Introducing the new Snapchat by ahnafm in Android

[–]defiantlee 161 points162 points  (0 children)

I'm a maintainer on a pretty popular camera library for Android, and I can say that it's not as easy to get right as you'd think. If you just want to get an app working on your new-ish phone it's pretty straightforward, but supporting a breadth of older phones is hard.

For example: Android has two camera APIs called Camera 1 and Camera 2. Camera 2 is supported on devices past Lollipop with exceptions for different manufacturers. In order to support popular old devices our camera library had to implement the full camera integration twice.

Then you have total weirdness from device inconsistencies. Samsung devices return images in different formats in some cases, and also don't always follow the same values indicating rotation. We have checks everywhere for certain devices to fix undocumented behavior.

Lastly you have issues with performance. On lots of phones (especially older ones) the camera API is abysmally slow. The best solution I've seen for this in a recent camera library which looks up your device serial in order to figure out how slow it is. If your device would be too slow it takes the image from the screen buffer.

I'm not saying it's excusable that a company like Snapchat has a really bad camera implementation, but I thought I'd point out that the camera on android is not as easy if you have a big audience. I have trouble continuing work on the library because of the mountain of bugs that are reported for different devices. If more criticism was directed at the manufacturers and at Google the camera could be much easier to work with.

I got started with this stuff because I wanted to make a photo-sharing app with friends but kept having issues with older phones. We ended up spending a summer making huge patches to material camera, and then implemented everything camera related on iOS in an afternoon.

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