Ovid, a new extension for the pi coding agent, automatically verifies features by recording terminal and browser videos of e2e tests and attaching them to pull requests. The tool runs on macOS and Lin…
Simon Willison released shot-scraper 1.10 with a new video command that records browser sessions as WebM videos from YAML storyboards, a feature that had been blocked for two years until Playwright 1.…
In the age of AI, software quality hinges on taste, not tooling or budget, argues a developer. Taste, defined as understanding made small, separates elegant, user-respecting software from slop produce…
Videowright, a new open-source tool, lets users create animated explainer videos from a single prompt by generating video segments, AI voiceovers, and syncing audio within coding agents like Claude Co…
LocalClicky, a new open-source voice assistant for Mac, runs entirely offline using local AI models like Whisper.cpp and Ollama, ensuring no voice data, screenshots, or commands leave the user's machi…
An AI researcher proposes API-native computer control, where agents write short JavaScript programs against validated application APIs instead of relying solely on GUI automation or shell commands. Th…
A developer argues that AI agents extend beyond coding to operate general computer tools like ffmpeg, ImageMagick, and Blender's Python interface, enabling users to automate fiddly tasks such as batch…
A developer built a complete video generation pipeline using Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, without any manual image editing, video editing, or audio software. The pipeline, which creates explai…
A developer has created htmlrec, a CLI tool that renders HTML/CSS animations to MP4 video frame by frame without screen recording. The tool controls the browser clock directly to capture each frame at…
Fully automated, local GPU pipeline that transforms a single-line idea into a 40-second AI-generated short video in 25-30 minutes. The pipeline chains together multiple models, including Gemma 4 31B f…
Technical pipeline for automatically generating comedy videos, using a language-learning AI app's viral short as a benchmark. The system uses Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview as an orchestrator and multimodal r…
The article describes **vid.py**, a Python command-line tool that acts as a simplified wrapper around ffmpeg for common video tasks. It provides functions for parsing timecodes, estimating video durat…
This article provides instructions for creating a narrated demo video by using the `agent-browser` tool to capture screenshots of a web application, then generating synchronized voiceover audio via th…
This article provides instructions on how to install and configure yt-dlp, a command-line tool for downloading media from hosting sites, by adding it to the Windows PATH variable and creating a config…