2026 08 18

Wasted a whole day and got nothing done. Feeling shit as hell.

First, I continued looking for a personal email hosting service, as I’ve always wanted to have my own email address named in @flandre.red. Last time, at my friend’s suggestion as he is personaly using, I tried resend, but my account ended up being permanently suspended:

From: <[email protected]>
To: `text omitted`
Subject: Your submission is being reviewed

Hi there,

Generally speaking, Resend is not a tool designed for personal email - it's
more suited to email automation and newsletters.

Can you please provide more information about the nature of your sending and
how you plan to use Resend?

Slater Smith, Customer Success Engineer @ Resend

So this time I turned to mailbox. After a ton of registration, I ultimately failed to use my VISA from BOC to purchase the service in EUR – that card only seemed to support USD. So f BOC. Maybe I’ll try other services like Zoho mail or Purelymail.

Second, I was planning to use Kdenlive and RVC to glue multiple webm files recorded during a seminar together, turn the discussion audio into characters voices such as 豊川祥子, align multiple sound tracks toghether with the lecture recording. In the alignment step, Kdenlive has to transform the .webm files into .mp4 format in order to edit. However, some bugs in Kdenlive’s native file transformation makes the transformed video unidentified by itself. And I tried

ffmpeg -i "file:2026-08-16T05:11:11.486-flandre.webm" \
  -map 0:v:0 -map "0:a:0?" \
  -c:v libx264 -preset veryfast -crf 18 -pix_fmt yuv420p \
  -r 30 \
  -c:a aac -b:a 192k \
  -movflags +faststart \
  -copyts -avoid_negative_ts make_zero \
  "file:2026-08-16T05:11:11.486-flandre.mp4"

which the timestamp ended up corrupted, and I gave up. F it.