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.
Published on April 2, 2025 (23 days ago)
How to build a Windows 98-style video player in 2025
Get your dose of nostalgia as Dave puts Media Chrome to work to build a player in the style of Windows 98.
Published on April 1, 2025 (24 days ago)
Why we (still) sponsor developer events in 2025
Is sponsoring developer conferences actually worth it? Here’s a list of reasons why being an event sponsor is a key component of Mux’s marketing strategy.
Published on March 6, 2025 (about 2 months ago)
Developer spotlight: Cats with Bats reimagines how developers learn with AI
Cats with Bats is reimagining developer education with AI-powered video tutorials, code extraction, and Mux-powered video for a modern way to learn to code.
Published on January 16, 2025 (3 months ago)
Reducing friction with video through Vercel Marketplace's integration with Mux
Lee Robinson chats with Mux about the new Vercel Marketplace, the role of AI in the developer experience, and tips for aspiring content creators.
Published on January 16, 2025 (3 months ago)
Mux’s high-performance video now in the Vercel Marketplace
Integrating high-performance video into Vercel applications is easier than ever with Mux's new Vercel Marketplace app.
Published on December 20, 2024 (4 months ago)
Mux Rewind: our 2024 in review
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?
Published on November 26, 2024 (5 months ago)
Mastering Video Uploads and Streaming: Insights from Theo Browne (t3.gg)
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.
Published on November 6, 2024 (6 months ago)
Powered by Mux: Get credits for your developer video content
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.
Published on November 5, 2024 (6 months ago)
Here's everything we launched in Fall 2024
Relive the terror of Mux Fall Launch Week: new Dropped Views metric, player themes, premium video quality options, and MP4 support for basic assets.
Published on October 14, 2024 (6 months ago)
Your docs are aging (and so are you)
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.
Published on September 6, 2024 (8 months ago)
Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript
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.
Published on August 16, 2024 (8 months ago)
Here's everything we launched in Summer 2024
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.
Published on August 13, 2024 (8 months ago)
How Video Tap streamlined video processing with Mux
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.
Published on May 31, 2024 (11 months ago)
How to build video activity notifications in Next.js
This post explores how you can use Mux and Knock to build out scaleable, thoughtful, and battle-tested notifications for your video apps.
Published on May 17, 2024 (11 months ago)
Migrate your video files between video hosting services for free
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.
Published on April 26, 2024 (12 months ago)
Here's everything we launched in Spring 2024
Looking to get caught up on the latest features, releases, and content from Mux? Say no more fam. This blog post has you covered.
Published on February 21, 2024 (about 1 year ago)
3D web development and beyond: a chat with Bruno Simon
A chat with innovative developer Bruno Simon who shares insights into his journey as a pioneer in 3D web development.
Published on February 2, 2024 (about 1 year ago)
Building Efficient Video Workflows: A Chat with Joel Hooks (egghead.io Founder)
In this video, we chat with Joel Hooks, founder of egghead.io, about building efficient video workflows and working at an early-stage startup.
Published on November 10, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Track video playback progress and display a video heatmap with React
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.
Published on November 1, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Mux Video WordPress plugin by 2Coders: integrate your Mux videos with your CMS
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.
Published on September 26, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Video uploads with one line of code using Mux Uploader
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.
Published on April 17, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Experiments with AI video content strategy
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 ...
Published on January 6, 2023 (over 2 years ago)
Winamp player: now with web components
In this post, we break down how you can rebuild the classic Winamp player using modern web components with media-chrome.
Published on November 4, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Finding your way in the Jamstack forest
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...
Published on October 4, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Building a Recommendation Engine with Amazon Personalize and Mux
Learn how to use Amazon Personalize along with Mux Data to build a professional recommendation engine for your video content.
Published on September 13, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
400 water bottles and a video guestbook at CascadiaJS
Mux was proud to be a sponsor at CascadiaJS 2022 – here's a recap of our experience in the high desert.
Published on August 29, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Developer spotlight: interactive video music lessons with middy.com
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.
Published on August 10, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Capture view data with Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Learn how to configure AWS Kinesis Data Streams account to process real-time view data from Mux viewing sessions
Published on May 26, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)
TMI 2022: Behind the scenes of our first customer conference
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.
Published on May 18, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)
Saving video playback progress in your application
In this article, you'll learn how to keep track of video playback progress by building recallable video playback into your application.
Published on April 27, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)
Leaving an impression in our video guestbook
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 ...
Published on April 5, 2022 (about 3 years ago)
The skater punk’s guide to MediaRecorder
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.
Published on January 18, 2022 (over 3 years ago)
Make a stats video your MoM would be proud of
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.