u/Querulous2

I kept noticing that the interesting thing about a burst of photos, or five tries at the same shot, is the series itself. Not any single frame. But there was no good way to watch them as a series. Slideshow apps cross-fade and Ken Burns everything into mush, and the video apps want to interpolate, stabilize, and "enhance."

So I built Flipbook: https://flipbook.photos

It plays your photos back slowly enough that you can still see they are photographs: each one held for a beat, then a hard cut to the next. The feel of a flipbook or early film. No filters, no grain overlays, no generated frames. The whole effect comes from timing.

Here it is running the oldest photo series there is, Muybridge's galloping horse from 1878: https://www.reddit.com/r/stopmotion/comments/1vlu2hr/

A few things I cared about:

• Your photos never leave your device. Decoding and H.264 encoding happen in the browser with WebCodecs. There is no upload step at all.
• Honesty to the originals. Nothing is retouched or invented. The one optional feature that crops anything (auto-align, for handheld drift) is off by default and tells you exactly how much it trimmed.
• It reads your camera roll the way you shot it. It sorts by EXIF capture time and auto-groups photos into series wherever there is a gap of more than ten seconds, so a dump of forty photos organizes itself into the three moments you actually shot.
• The output actually works. A true 5 fps video breaks iOS Photos and iMessage, so it encodes at a normal frame rate with each photo repeated. You get an MP4 that saves straight to your camera roll and posts anywhere.

Good for kids growing up in the same doorway, a friend mid-laugh across five frames, construction progress, a dog failing to catch something.

It is free for your first three videos, then $12 for a year. No account either way. The code is public if you want to see how the in-browser encoding works: https://github.com/mzrascoff/flipbook

Would love to know what breaks, especially on Android browsers.

I kept noticing that the interesting thing about a burst of photos, or five tries at the same shot, is the series itself. Not any single frame. But there was no good way to watch them as a series. Slideshow apps cross-fade and Ken Burns everything into mush, and the video apps want to interpolate, stabilize, and "enhance."

So I built Flipbook: https://flipbook.photos

It plays your photos back slowly enough that you can still see they are photographs: each one held for a beat, then a hard cut to the next. The feel of a flipbook or early film. No filters, no grain overlays, no generated frames. The whole effect comes from timing.

Here it is running the oldest photo series there is, Muybridge's galloping horse from 1878: https://www.reddit.com/r/stopmotion/comments/1vlu2hr/

A few things I cared about:

• Your photos never leave your device. Decoding and H.264 encoding happen in the browser with WebCodecs. There is no upload step at all.
• Honesty to the originals. Nothing is retouched or invented. The one optional feature that crops anything (auto-align, for handheld drift) is off by default and tells you exactly how much it trimmed.
• It reads your camera roll the way you shot it. It sorts by EXIF capture time and auto-groups photos into series wherever there is a gap of more than ten seconds, so a dump of forty photos organizes itself into the three moments you actually shot.
• The output actually works. A true 5 fps video breaks iOS Photos and iMessage, so it encodes at a normal frame rate with each photo repeated. You get an MP4 that saves straight to your camera roll and posts anywhere.

Good for kids growing up in the same doorway, a friend mid-laugh across five frames, construction progress, a dog failing to catch something.

It is free for your first three videos, then $12 for a year. No account either way. The code is public if you want to see how the in-browser encoding works: https://github.com/mzrascoff/flipbook

Would love to know what breaks, especially on Android browsers.

Posting this partly to vent and partly to see if anyone else hit this in June.

Timeline, all from Capital One’s own transaction ledger:

**•**	June 14: My AutoPay of $2,221.12 got returned. Fair enough, that one’s on me. But Capital One didn’t notify me until the morning of June 18, four days later.  
**•**	June 18: The moment I found out, I went to pay the full balance from a different account that had the funds. Their website would not take the payment. Every attempt ended at the same error screen: “We’ve Hit a Snag. Looks like we ran into a snag, but we’re working on it. Please try again in a bit.” I have a screenshot timestamped 1:47 PM Pacific.  
**•**	June 22: Payment finally clears.  
**•**	Meanwhile: $40.52 in interest assessed June 19, and another $9.30 of trailing interest on July 20. Total $49.82, all of it inside or downstream of the window when I was actively trying to pay and their system was refusing the money.

When I raised it, the response was that the phone lines were still working. But the error screen didn’t say the outage was website-only and didn’t tell me to call. It told me to try again in a bit. So I did what their own site instructed and got charged interest for it.

Here’s the part that gets me: Capital One already conceded the logic. A $25 past due fee from June 16 was reversed on June 23 as “PAST DUE FEE WAIVER.” Someone there looked at this episode and decided the fee shouldn’t stand. The interest has the same cause and the same facts. Nobody has applied the same judgment to it.

I’ve been a customer since 2018, $20k line, always paid in full until this. I’ve now sent a letter to the CEO’s office asking for the $49.82 reversed, with the screenshot attached, and told them the next stops are closing the account and a CFPB complaint.

Anyone else get stuck behind the “We’ve Hit a Snag” screen in mid-June and eat interest for it? And has anyone had luck getting residual interest reversed after the fee was already waived?

I kept seeing "an e-bike pays for itself" thrown around with no math behind it, so I built a small tool to check for your setup and area and usage.

You put in your gas price, your car's MPG, and what share of your driving an e-bike could replace. It uses your state's electricity rates and AAA-style car ownership costs (insurance, maintenance, depreciation, registration), then shows a 5-year cumulative-savings chart with the payback point marked. It also tells you the CO₂ you'd avoid.

https://ebike-roi.vercel.app/

Feedback welcome.