In 2 days, it will be 61 years to the day, when Singapore was proclaimed “… that as [from] the ninth day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five Singapore shall be forever a sovereign democratic and independent nation, founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and happiness of er people in a more just and equal society.”

Majulah Singapura!

Tech tip: The mp4 to gif was done using ffmpeg on my Fedora Linux 44 system:

Pass 1: generate a custom color palette from the video

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf “fps=15,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen” palette.png

Pass 2: use that palette to build the gif

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i palette.png -filter_complex “fps=15,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse” output.gif