[markksantos]

This adds an article, "Normalize the Loudness of a Folder of Videos with PowerShell and FFmpeg", and my author profile (made with tools/new-author.ps1).

The article builds an advanced function that measures every video in a folder with FFmpeg's two-pass loudnorm filter. It normalizes the files that miss the target in ForEach-Object -Parallel, supports -WhatIf, skips files that are already within tolerance, and re-measures what it writes. It also covers the problems I ran into: reading the loudnorm report from stderr, $using: and runspace scope in -Parallel, a colon after a variable inside a string, and when loudnorm falls back from linear to dynamic mode.

I drafted this with Claude Code; every command in it was run on PowerShell 7.6.9 with FFmpeg 9.0.2, and the output shown is from those runs. PSScriptAnalyzer reports no findings for the function, and the site builds with Hugo 0.155.1 with validate:articles passing.

It's dated for today; happy to move it to whatever date suits the schedule.

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[HeyItsGilbert]

Was reading the article on the preview page but it looks like we need to fix the code rendering so allows horizontal scroll. Article looks good at first glance.

[markksantos]

Thanks for reading it! The clipping came from the theme rather than the article: .prose .highlight sets overflow: hidden (for the rounded corners), so any line wider than the column was cut off, on other articles too. I pushed 6deecae, which adds .prose .highlight > div { overflow-x: auto; } in baseof.html so the line-number table scrolls inside its wrapper. I checked it against this preview at 1280 px and 390 px: the wide blocks scroll, the page itself doesn't get wider, and the copy button stays in the corner. If you'd rather keep theme changes out of an article PR, I can drop that commit and shorten the long lines in the article instead.

[HeyItsGilbert]

If you're happy with the preview, I'm happy to land it. Thanks for the fix!

[markksantos]

Thanks! I re-checked the rebuilt preview at 1280 px and 390 px: every code block scrolls where it needs to and nothing else moved. Happy for it to land.