I’ve spent a little time cleaning up the site and updating things behind the scenes. It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here, but I’d like to get back into it soon.

Hopefully, this is the start of writing a bit more regularly again. Stay tuned!

How does video work on the web?

You probably interact with video online every day but do you really understand how it works? I thought I did. Until recently when I was implementing video messaging into a web app and I quickly realized how little I knew. A simple question, “What format should a video be in so any device can watch it?”, brought me down the rabbit hole that is video on the web. In this article I provide a high level overview of video topics. Specifically highlighting some vocabulary that was confusing and priming your brain to go deeper on any of these topics if you want.