Where And When Should You Use Null (In My Opinion)

Into Null handling and null checks can be quite a hot topic for some developers. On one hand, it can be used as a default “no value yet” initializer for variables, and is easy to check if said variable holds a value or not. But on the other hand, it can lead to a bloated codebase, where you constantly need to check for null. This blog post is not meant as an attack on null....

August 1, 2024

Media Codecs Comparison And Benchmark

From time to time, I like to record clips and videos of me and the guys playing video games. Also record a video or two when cycling. But what I don’t like is when my phone runs out of storage because the videos was recorded with the wrong codec. Idea I want to test 7 different codecs in this blog post. H264 (mp4) H265 (mp4) VP9 (webm) AV1 (mp4) Theora (ogg) MPEG-1 (mpeg) MPEG-2 (mpeg) MPEG-1, 2 and Theora I added as a joke....

July 20, 2024