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Dave Kiss

Dave Kiss

Senior Community Engineering Lead

Was: solo-developreneur. Now: developer community person. Happy to ride a bike, hike a hike, high-five a hand, and listen to spa music.

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Mux Wrapped 2024

Published on December 20, 2024

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss11 min readCompany

The end of the year is a great time to reflect on the bigger picture: what have we accomplished? Where are we headed? What can we celebrate?

A split screen of Dave Kiss and Theo Browne

Published on November 26, 2024 (25 days ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss17 min readCustomers

Theo Brown, a former Twitch engineer, shares his journey in tech and content creation, discussing the development of tools like Uploadthing and Ping, and the integration of Mux for better video streaming experiences.

A dark gray rectangular badge with rounded corners that reads "Powered by Mux" in uppercase letters. The text is light gray, and the word "Mux" is bolder and slightly larger than the rest. The badge has a subtle outline, giving it a modern and sleek appearance.

Published on November 6, 2024 (about 1 month ago)

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By Dave Kiss5 min readEngineering

Get Mux credits for serving your developer video content with Mux. In this post, learn about our new Powered by Mux program and how it works.

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Published on November 5, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

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By Dave Kiss3 min readCompany

Relive the terror of Mux Fall Launch Week: new Dropped Views metric, player themes, premium video quality options, and MP4 support for basic assets.

A skeleton hand grips a pink quill. Aware of its finite time, it scribes code onto a black surface.

Published on October 14, 2024 (2 months ago)

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Darius Cepulis
Rob Mach
By Dave, Darius, and Rob11 min readProduct

When's the last time you audited your developer docs? We felt the pain that our customers were facing with our docs — and set off on an adventure to fix it.

A person holding a skateboard with various tech-related stickers on it. The skateboard features the Mux and Laravel logos prominently, along with other stickers such as "JS" and a smiley face. The person's hands, colored in pink, are gripping the board, and they are dressed in a black outfit with a purple shirt. The background consists of a grid-like pattern.

Published on September 6, 2024 (4 months ago)

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By Dave Kiss9 min readEngineering

What would it take to switch back to PHP after years of full-stack JavaScript? A boy and his AI-enabled IDE set off to find out.

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Published on August 16, 2024 (4 months ago)

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By Dave Kiss6 min readCompany

Each day this week, we shared some of the latest happenings here at Mux to help you build out professional and flexible video integrations into your apps.

Chris Sev and Dave Kiss on a split screen

Published on August 13, 2024 (4 months ago)

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Staci DeGagne
By Dave and Staci17 min readCustomers

How Chris improved Video Tap's video processing speed by 80-90% with Mux. He also shares insights on AI app development and dev community marketing.

The Knock logo and the Mux logo in two rounded boxes connected by lines on a red-organge background

Published on May 31, 2024 (7 months ago)

Jeff Everhart
Dave Kiss
By Jeff and Dave9 min readEngineering

This post explores how you can use Mux and Knock to build out scaleable, thoughtful, and battle-tested notifications for your video apps.

 This image shows a delivery van, primarily gray, with a large side panel in orange and white, displaying the Mux logo. The back of the van is open, revealing boxes inside. Don't forget to close the door before you leave! The van is stationary on a simple gray road with a light gray background.

Published on May 17, 2024 (7 months ago)

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By Dave Kiss6 min readEngineering

Migrate your video content between the world’s most trusted video providers with ease. Truckload helps you move your videos to your new video platform home.

A graphic image with a black background featuring stylized flowers in bold colors, one in yellow and one in red, both with large circular centers. The text 'SPRING 2024 LAUNCH WEEK' is prominently displayed above the flowers. The Mux logo is displayed in the bottom left corner.

Published on April 26, 2024 (8 months ago)

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By Dave Kiss5 min readProduct

Looking to get caught up on the latest features, releases, and content from Mux? Say no more fam. This blog post has you covered.

A split screen of Bruno Simon and a screenshot of his 3d website

Published on February 21, 2024 (10 months ago)

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Staci DeGagne
By Dave and Staci24 min readCustomers

A chat with innovative developer Bruno Simon who shares insights into his journey as a pioneer in 3D web development.

A digital image featuring a large pink play button symbol in the center with a blue hand pointing at it, all against a dark background with a grid pattern.

Published on February 2, 2024 (11 months ago)

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By Dave Kiss14 min readCustomers

In this video, we chat with Joel Hooks, founder of egghead.io, about building efficient video workflows and working at an early-stage startup.

An illustration of an area map appearing in a video player window

Published on November 10, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss6 min readEngineering

In this article, we’ll go over one way you can set up viewer playback tracking and generate a video heatmap to display in a React app.

An illustration depicting the 2Coders and Mux partnership for the new Mux WordPress plugin by 2Coders

Published on November 1, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

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Marija Nikolova
By Dave and Marija4 min readPartnerships

We've partnered with 2Coders to bring a third-party Mux Video Plugin to the WordPress ecosystem. Read up on the new WordPress video plugin here.

A screenshot of a code editor with example code connected to a window rendering an example of a Mux Uploader user interface.

Published on September 26, 2023 (about 1 year ago)

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By Dave Kiss5 min readProduct

Learn about Mux Uploader, a new drop-in web component that gives your application the ability to upload video files to a Mux account in no time.

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Published on April 17, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

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By Dave Kiss8 min readEngineeringAI

You’ve created some video content! High five! …Now comes the slog.  Do you have all your tweets written? Is your companion blog post ready to go? Do you have your Open Graph image designed? What about ...

Big Buck Bunny in Winamp

Published on January 6, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

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Wietse Hage
By Dave and Wietse11 min readEngineering

In this post, we break down how you can rebuild the classic Winamp player using modern web components with media-chrome.

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Published on November 4, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss3 min readEngineering

At the risk of sounding like an old man, I can barely keep up with the JavaScript landscape. Between server components, islands architecture, incremental static regeneration, code optimization, and the...

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Published on October 4, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

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By Dave Kiss9 min readPartnerships

Learn how to use Amazon Personalize along with Mux Data to build a professional recommendation engine for your video content.

A mockup of custom Mux water bottles that were designed for CascadiaJS conference.

Published on September 13, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

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Dylan Jhaveri
Darius Cepulis
Amin Amos
By Dave and 3 others6 min readEvents

Mux was proud to be a sponsor at CascadiaJS 2022 – here's a recap of our experience in the high desert.

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Published on August 29, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

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By Dave Kiss8 min readCustomers

Interactive video is changing the way musicians learn how to get better at their craft. In this article, we highlight Middy, an online learning platform for teaching piano with online video.

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Published on August 10, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss8 min readPartnerships

Learn how to configure AWS Kinesis Data Streams account to process real-time view data from Mux viewing sessions

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Published on May 26, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

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Thuy Doan
By Dave and Thuy12 min readEvents

We did the conference thing and revealed a lot of juicy product secrets live - no really. Some of those secrets are ones you have been eagerly waiting for. We recap it all in case you missed it.

A picture of a book with a bookmark in it. The book contains a digital video with a playback bar at the bottom.

Published on May 18, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss5 min readEngineering

In this article, you'll learn how to keep track of video playback progress by building recallable video playback into your application.

A screenshot of the Mux guestbook project

Published on April 27, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

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Darius Cepulis
By Dave and Darius10 min readEvents

If you’ve ever attended a conference in person, you know just how taxing they can be. You try to present your best self: unravel the hotel iron from the closet, work that one uncooperative cowlick to ...

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Published on April 5, 2022 (over 2 years ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss11 min readEngineering

In this post, you'll be introduced to the MediaRecorder API and learn how it's not so different from operating a video camera IRL.

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Published on January 18, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss25 min readEngineering

In this article, you'll learn how to showcase your video stats by creating a dynamic animated video using Remotion and the Mux Data API.