Cryptograss/Horny Toad
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Day 0
- Mixing/editing/bouncing and uploading 44th bday cicada jam bush videos
- Login issues with Magent (eventually solved)
- various back and forth with uploading cicada bday video/ pick dispatch sombrero edition to pickipedia
Day 2
- uploading cicada video to picki-pedia for magnet to analyze
- screenshots of error panels requested by magent
- progress on size of video uploads :
- 108
https://github.com/cryptograss/maybelle-config/pull/108
- 110
https://github.com/cryptograss/maybelle-config/issues/110
https://github.com/magent-cryptograss/maybelle-config/tree/fix-wiki-api-path-a
- past but relevant :
https://github.com/cryptograss/maybelle-config/issues/79
- Even got the video the release draft page: ReleaseDraft:3fc94d4e-619f-45cc-b1ea-c643386ee315
- Finalize to IPFS error upload issue
- figuring things out with Justins side with coconut and back end AUTHOR actions
Day 3
- Big one. Coconut is basically done — encoding happens on delivery-kid now, in AV1 + Opus (both royalty-free, which was the whole point of coconut in the first place). Turns out our own box does it faster than coconut ever did. https://github.com/cryptograss/maybelle-config/pull/113
- Mixing/ Editing for Cicada 44th Bday Jam videos
- Sombrero edition published — first video ever through the local pipeline: Pickipedia Dispatch - Sombrero Edition
- The 44th bday jam-bash was the weird one. Got "IPFS failed", then "content draft not found", looked like the whole thing was gone. It wasn't. It had encoded fine and pinned to IPFS hours earlier — it just lost the paperwork, so the source got deleted and everything reported failure. The audit was even recommending we delete the wiki page, which was the only thing pointing at the video. Was about to re-upload 10.5GB for nothing. Magent found the orphan pin by cross-referencing two audits, wrote the CID back onto the draft, and the bot finished the job one second later: 44th Bday Cicada Jam-Bash — filed as https://github.com/cryptograss/maybelle-config/issues/115
- Live progress panel built and shipped. Encoding an hour of video locally meant staring at a frozen bar the whole time, so now it shows position, speed and time remaining, updating every couple seconds. https://github.com/cryptograss/maybelle-config/pull/114 and https://github.com/cryptograss/pickipedia/pull/108
- Also fixed along the way — delivery-kid had never been able to write to the wiki. Wrong API path, every write 404'd silently. That's why draft pages always looked frozen while stuff was actually happening.
- Cicada 44th Bday Jam Set 1 — first upload to go start to finish with zero manual intervention. Uploaded, encoded, pinned, release page, torrent. No babysitting.
- Wrote up how the whole pipeline works now: Cryptograss:Video encoding pipeline
- Three videos up. Started this whole thing because longer videos wouldn't upload — ended up being four separate bugs stacked on each other.
- Still open: coconut account can be cancelled (nothing uses it), https://github.com/cryptograss/maybelle-config/issues/115, https://github.com/cryptograss/maybelle-config/issues/110 (probably closeable), diagnostics snapshot subpages have never actually written, and an error showed up on the last finalize even though it succeeded — need to look at that.[✓]
Day 4
- Live encode progress deployed, both halves. No more staring at a frozen bar for an hour — it shows position, speed and time remaining now.
- Cicada 44th Bday Jam Set 1 published — 13 min, and the first upload to go start to finish with nobody touching it. Uploaded, encoded, pinned, release page, torrent. 2.0GB in, 247MB out.
- Reality check on the encode speed: real box does about 2x realtime, not the 0.8x the benchmarks suggested. So budget roughly double the video's length. Still beats coconut, which never finished at all.
- Cicada 44th Jam Star Tropics published — 17 min, 2.68GB in, 304MB out. Second clean automatic run, no babysitting.
- Late on, Justin hit "error loading video — the IPFS content may not be available" on Star Tropics. Content was completely fine, verified serving in half a second. It's Safari + AV1. Apple ships no software AV1 decoder, so anything short of an M3 Mac can't play our videos in Safari. Firefox and Chrome are fine on the same machine.[unverified]
Day 5
- Then hit Justin's error myself on that very page. So we've both now been the confused user, on a page about our own party. The message is the real problem — it says the video may be missing when the video is right there, serving in half a second. Fix written and tested, waiting on someone to paste it:
https://github.com/cryptograss/pickipedia/issues/111
- Added a follow-up idea too — better to check whether the browser can play AV1 before showing a player, rather than letting people hit an error and then explaining it.
- Found a good one while dating the party page. Every block height on the wiki is about 75,000 blocks in the future — roughly ten and a half days. The code counts exactly 12 seconds per block since the Merge; the real average is 12.044. Forty-four milliseconds, times ten million blocks. Audit pages are named after blocks that don't exist yet, and their etherscan links point at nothing.
https://github.com/cryptograss/pickipedia/issues/112
- Turns out the party fell on the day the chain crossed block 25,000,000 — only spotted it because the stamped numbers didn't line up with the real ones.
Still open
- Coconut account can be cancelled — nothing has used it in days
- pickipedia#111 — player error message, fix written and tested
- pickipedia#112 — block heights ten days in the future
- maybelle-config#115 — finalize that succeeds but throws away its own record
- Redlinks to sort: Fibbonacci Holmes and Seth Cambell — check the spellings before anyone makes those pages[unverified]