🎞 Switching editing software

Some of you might've already known this, but I've been actively learning DaVinci Resolve the past couple days.

And I'm happy to announce, I actually really enjoy that editor. Compared to Adobe Premiere, which I trashtalked really bad in my very first edit, it's comfortable and fun to learn. Many monotonous tasks I had to carry out in Vegas manually are nicely automated and polished. These improvements will help me focus on something cooler and give me extra motivation to continue learning.

I'll be moving to Davinci Resolve from here on out, and I might never return to Vegas ever. So yea, pretty cool and historic for the Enderman channel.

The production quality of my videos will definitely grow, because compared to Vegas it's actual professional editing suite used even in Hollywood.

Oh, and the attachment is my first complete edit in DaVinci Resolve.

I tried booting up my computer and got this???

🌎 The first ever advertisement

Did you know the first ever ad on the Internet looked like this? It was a banner for the AT&T campaign that appeared on Hotwired on October 27, 1994.

🤬 Safari is atrocious

How does Apple keep getting away with this?

🤯 The first successful AI pull request

Yesterday a person submitted a low-level optimization PR written 99% by DeepSeek-R1.

Is it over for software engineers, boys?

🔮 Counting days in a month

I was tired of lookup tables so I came up with this optimized algorithm counting days in a month. The operations seem simple enough, and the √3 can be replaced with a constant. To me it seems like the bottleneck of the algorithm is all the float operations. The rest can be very elegantly optimized with bitwise.

def days(y, m):
    if m == 1:
        return 28 + int(y % 4 == 0)

    p = m / sqrt(3)

    return 31 if p - floor(p) < 0.5 else 30

Super lenient on storage, but slightly more complex in computation. Developers, what do you think about this?

😔 The boring way

Well, for one, I fucked up the leap year check, because I didn't know they are skipped every century unless the year divisible by 400.

Float operations are obviously super slow, and even though my solution was mathematically elegant, I think basic comparisons are way to go for time optimization... Shame

int days(int y, int m) {
    if (m == 1)
        return 28 + ((y & 0b11) == 0 && (y % 100 != 0 || y % 400 == 0));

    if (m == 3 || m == 5 || m == 8 || m == 10)
        return 30;

    return 31;
}

I'd actually bet my money this approach is slightly more optimized than a lookup table, if we consider storage:

const int lookup[12] = { 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 };

int daysLookup(int y, int m) {
    return lookup[m] + (m == 1 && ((y & 0b11) == 0 && (y % 100 != 0 || y % 400 == 0)));
}