Today’s goal is just to load a video, display individual frames in the output from a Jupyter notebook cell, and write the video back out to a new file. In the middle I’ll do a little processing on the video frames. The processing is beside the point today - I just want to make the input, interaction, and output work really well so that later I can focus more on that processing step in the middle.

I read a lot. But I don’t read the way I used to read. I used to read books. Now I read articles online, conversation threads, and plenty of Wikipedia. Reading for me now feels a lot less structured and a lot more sprawling than it was when I was younger. It’s not just the time in my life that’s passed though, the kinds of reading material available have changed a lot.