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Introduction to MongoDB

MongoDB or you might hear people call it Mongo, is one of the most popular NoSQL database solutions to date. It is open-source, free to use for personal and commercial use, and extremely flexible. Programming languages such as Go ( I have a short example video [https://youtu.be/D3jhplPWqnA] of

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Add Random Looping Background Music Using FFmpeg

So recently I decided to try adding some background music to my videos so it isn't just me blathering the whole time. Naturally, I turn to my weapon of choice in these cases, FFmpeg. The music I use for this is from a project called StreamBeats [https://www.streambeats.com/

Go

Using Redis With Go

The other day I was looking to see how difficult it would be to utilize Redis in a go program, not for a specific use case, just in general. Turns out, it's pretty easy with the help of a few packages. The one I decided to use to get a

Go

Code-First ORM For Go: GORM

Check out the video for some more elaboration on the topics below. If you liked it and want to know when I post more videos, be sure to subscribe [https://www.youtube.com/DonaldFeury?sub_confirmation=1] Time to start looking at some ORMs for go, today we're gonna start

Database

What are ORMs and When to Use Them

Check out the video for some more elaboration on the topics below. If you liked it and want to know when I post more videos, be sure to subscribe [https://www.youtube.com/DonaldFeury?sub_confirmation=1] I'm about to do a few videos on some Go ORM packages and

Go

Build Powerful Go CLI Applications Using the Cobra Package 🐍

Shout out to my wife who makes these hilarious thumbnails, follow her on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bonecloset] for more art stuff. CLI applications are extremely handy to use. Building out a lot of the nice features that good CLI apps have can be a bit time-consuming though. At least,

Go

Configure Go Programs Using the Viper Package 🐍

Shout out to my wife who makes these hilarious thumbnails, follow her on Twitter [https://twitter.com/bonecloset] for more art stuff. You can get quite far configuring your go programs with the standard library. You can read in your config file, or pass in arguments and parse them with

Go

Error Chains in Go 1.13

Go added a neat feature in 1.13 that they call error chains Errors can now implement a method called Unwrap that should return another error. Typically, this is an error that occurred further down in the call stack. It is very common in go to have errors get tossed

Go

Error Handling in Go

Error handling in Go is pretty straightforward. There are no exceptions, there are no try-catch blocks, there is only ERROR. Error is a type like any other primitive built into the language, like an int or a string. This makes error handling, while a tad verbose, very straightforward and easy

Go

Understanding Go Templates

Go actually has a template package in its standard library, which is pretty sweet. Normally, this is something you see in separate 3rd party libraries or included in full frameworks, such as Laravel or Rails. It's very powerful too. In addition to injecting your data into templates, you can extend

Go

Using MySQL Together With Go

Time to start integrating some other tools with our go programs. I figured a good place to start would be with a SQL database since it's very common to work with one. I chose MySQL for this example, as I have a lot of background with it from my PHP

Go

Manage Dependencies With Go Modules

Managing dependencies in go used to be a mess. There were about 3-4 widely used packages to manage dependencies, which sometimes made it weird to work on another codebase that used a different dependency management tool. Finally, in 1.11, go included its own dependency management tool called go modules.

Go

Interfaces in Go

Despite not having Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) language features, Go does have interfaces. Interfaces allow you to interchange what data types you are passing as arguments to a function, as long as that type has the required methods. Interfaces in Go are different compared to, say, C# or Java, in that

Go

REST API Using Only Standard Go Packages

For my next go tutorial, I decided to actually demonstrate how to create a program. In this case, a REST API. But not just any REST API, oh no. This one is built using only the standard package library available in go. While there are really nice resources for doing

Go

Concurrency in Go

My second programming tutorial on Golang, this time on the basics of its concurrency primitives. I applied some of the feedback from the first video and applied it to this one. I contemplated talking about a few concurrency patterns commonly used in this video but decided it would be better

Go

Go Crash Course Video

I made my first "comprehensive" video tutorial relating to programming. In this one, I explain how to utilize the basic language features of go, as fast as I can, without making tons of mistakes. I want to make more and better video tutorials like this one and would greatly appreciate

Go

Handle Argument Flags in Go

I recently started building up a lot of small little go packages that will lead up to a more comprehensive automated video editing tool I want to build. While creating these small packages, I wanted to create a simple CLI program to interact with each and do it more properly

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Replace the Audio in a Video Using FFmpeg

I had someone email me asking how to solve the following problem: > I would like to take video A, video B, and replace the audio in video A with the audio from video B The approach they were trying was as follows: 1. Extract only the video from video A

YouTube

My YouTube Workflow

Even though I'm only about one month into my YouTube channel, I thought some people might interested in how I go about creating and uploading the videos and thumbnails. To summarize the video above, the process goes like this: Record the video using OBS, usually only involves one file but

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Remove the Silent Parts of a Video Using FFmpeg and Python

I finally did it, I managed to figure out a little process to automatically remove the silent parts from a video. Let me show y'all the process and the two main scripts I use to accomplish this. Process 1. Use FFmpeg filter silencedetect filter to generate an output of sections

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Stack Videos With FFmpeg

Something I had to figure how to do recently to make a Fiverr gig promo video was stack videos together. This is when you see two or more videos playing side by side at the same time. It is often used to compare before and after results, such as what

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How I Completely Automated My YouTube Editing Using FFmpeg

If you've been watching my videos from the posts I make on here (thank you if you have), I got a dirty little secret... I haven't done any manual editing on the past three videos. Now, that doesn't mean there isn't any editing, there is a little but that will

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Add a Subscription Animation with FFmpeg

This one was a doozy to figure out but I finally managed to overlay a little subscribe animation over my main videos. Normally I would explain it but it's pretty long-winded so if you want the full explanation, please watch the video. The short answer is, it's using a complex

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Combine Videos Using FFmpeg

I have found it very useful to concatenate multiple video files together after working on them separately. It turns out, that is rather simple to do with FFmpeg. How do we do this? There are three methods I have found thus far: Using the concat demuxer approach * This method is

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Easy Time-lapse Videos Using FFmpeg

The Magic This is probably one of the more helpful tricks I've shown off so far. Here is a command using FFmpeg that will, get this, remove all frozen frames from a video, leaving only the frames showing work being done. ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf mpdecimate,setpts=N/FRAME_