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All color is best-effort

I do not come to you with answers today, but rather some observations and a lot of questions.

The weird glitch

Recently I was editing some video and I noticed this:

A screenshot of the video, there are visible circles at various places in the image. Some of them are black, some of them are white. The image itself shows some blue and white text composited on some blurry background, which doesn’t really matter for this, and there’s a red line horizontal up in the image. It’s very confusing.

Not what the finger is pointing at — the dots.

Here are the separate layers this image is made up of: the background is a stock image I’ve licensed from Envato Elements:

A picture of a canyon, darker than you’d expect.

Because I use it as a background image, I’ve cranked down the exposition in the Color tab:

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Highlighted code in slides

I have obsessed about this long enough, I think it’s only fair I (and you!) get some content out of it.

When I started writing this article, I was working on my P99 CONF slides. Those slides happen to include some bits of code. And because I’m a perfectionist, I would like this code to be syntax highlighted, like this:

let addr: SocketAddr = config.address.parse()?; let ln = TcpListener::bind(&addr).await?; info!("🦊 {}", config.base_url);

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