Author Archives: john
Bookmarked Adding a delay to the end of an animated gif by .
gifsicle -U original.gif "#0--2" -d200 "#-1" -O2 > with-delay.gif
This is useful, I am making quite a lot of gifs for Glow Blogs help at the moment. Current workflow: export from screenflow as a mp4, Gif Brewery to create a gif and then this to add a bit of a delay and reduce file size. There is a nice explanation of the parameters.
![From Topleft: Track on Glen Mollochan; Stonechat on bracken; Devil's bit Scabious flower; small group of red deer on hillside; map; eyebright; along Beinn Eich in the clouds; Green-veined White; a pair of green hazel nuts.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Doune-Hill-Beinn-Eich-via-Glen-Mollochan-map-square-1200-668x668.jpg)
Doune Hill & Beinn Eich via Glen Mollochan
Overcast day with a threat of rain later.
Clouds low, on the top of the hill a few times. Quite a breeze higher up.
Quiet, no one else on the hill.
Not much in the way of wildlife, a few deer & the odd raven croak.
Notes & photos: walkmap
Read: Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin ★★★☆☆ 📚
I am reading more Rankin, not necessarily in the right order. This early Rebus is a wee bit different than the later versions. A nicely tangled plot woven across Edinburgh society from junkies to the higher reaches. Corruption all the way.
![Close-up of birch leaves with a Green-veined White butterfly and a shield bug.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/johnjohnston.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Green-veined-White-and-Shield-Bug-668x501.jpeg)
I was watching this green-veined white fluttering across the path and into the birch leaves. It closed its wings and vanished. Scanning with the zoom lens I could not find it until I notice this shield bug then the butterfly behind it. #butterfly
Read: Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ★★★☆☆ 📚
Dystopia, prisoners fight to the death. Illuminating prisons & racism. Parallels with sport, advertising & reality TV. Quite a page turner, too much on weapons, technical details etc. great footnotes mix fact & fiction.
Read: The Secret Hours by Mick Herron ★★★★☆ 📚
I actually think I enjoyed this more than the Slow Horses books. There was some amusing civil service & government committee scenes, less over the top characters. Nice unobtrusive links to Slow Horses too.