Tech: Videos

In this livestream I see what’s involved in switching a small hobby coding project from hosting with Heroku to Vercel.

Front Matter is a CMS that runs within Visual Studio Code. It gives you the power and control of a full-blown CMS while also providing you the flexibility and speed of the static site generator of your choice. Wow!? I take a look…

Grievance is an interactive story about power. The limits of power, its corrosive nature, and the damage that power inflicts, deliberate or otherwise, on all those without it. Join me as I follow the lives of three characters as their paths cross and untangle over the course of the story.

Another lightweight and portable desktop application development framework that lets you develop lightweight cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. How does it compare to other alternatives?

I am on an endless mission to find a headless CMS that actually works as easily and as well as the marketing copy claims. Will Dato satisfy me or will it end up like all other headless CMS I've tried and be a great editing experience, but a disappointing content delivery? Join me and see!

I've covered the awesome macOS productivity tool Raycast before, and in this video I walk through the steps I took use it's API to create a Trello extension to list and search tasks. Search Raycast store for "Trello" and find code here - https://github.com/raycast/extensions/pull/684

Extension Packs bundle together other VSCode extension to allow for easy sharing of your favourite extensions with other users or creating a set of extensions for a particular scenario. Join me as I attempt to create one for tech writers. Finished extension pack, search "writers toolkit", or https://github.com/ChrisChinchilla/writers-toolkit

I start exploring fantasy mapping tools for games, fiction, and other uses. First is the turn of Inkarnate that handles everything from worlds to interiors, all online.

Swift playgrounds 4 brings powerful development tools to macOS and iOS contained within an easier to use application (compared to Xcode). I use this Hacking with Swift post (https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/245/build-your-first-swiftui-app-with-swift-playgrounds) to learn what's possible.

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Want to mix coding and writing to create wondrous works of fiction? In this video I look at the past of interactive fiction including: Choose your own adventure, fighting fantasy, and lone wolf. I look at text-based computer games and infocom.

Docker desktop has been an essential part of many developers' toolbox for years, but recent changes in its pricing model has prompted some to look for alternatives. In this video I take a look at the following:

Recent versions of macOS introduced powerful new features for virtualizing macOS and Linux in a hypervisor. Inspired by a blog post from the Eclectic light company I thought it was time to see what new options are available for running virtual machines on macOS. In this video I look at:

See my recent interview with @awesomekling about @LadybirdBrowser https://youtu.be/0kPxxWOpiGg SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It is in active development, built from scratch, and has a vibrant and active community.

As part of a sponsorship for my podcast I spent two weeks with Magic Mind, that claims to be the world’s first productivity shot. How did its ingredients of Matcha, Nootropics, Adaptogens, Honey, and other goodies help me relax, get focus, and energy over 14 days?

I got to go to one of the biggest events I've been to since 2019 and cover all that's new in video, audio, and the broadcast industry in general. Here's who I spoke to, my own interviews, plus sessions with the officehours.global crew. - Robotica, AI sign language: 0:47 - EditShare, Cloud editing and collaboration: 07:10 - Avid, Audio and video editing tools: 15:13 - Varnish, Content delivery: 23:12 - Suitest, TV app test automation:28:46 - Sony, FR7 Cinema Line Full-frame PTZ camera: 41:42 - Disguise, VR and XR for video: 44:44 - Grass Valley, Agile Media Processing Platform: 48:41

VirtualBuddy can virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, with the goal of offering features that are useful to developers who need to test their apps on multiple versions of macOS, especially betas. The project is in early stages, but I found with minimal configuration it helps you get a virtual machine up and running quickly and efficiently.

A code editor built by the community, for the community, written entirely and unapologetically for macOS. Features include syntax highlighting, code completion, project find and replace, snippets, terminal, task running, debugging, git integration, code review, extensions, and more. Sounds good to me! Let's see how it compares to others in a competitive landscape.

Fig adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal and other tools. Complete with plugins and an active ecosystem, is is what your terminal has been waiting for?

Create a codespace to start developing in a secure, configurable, and dedicated development environment that works how and where you want it to. Or does it? I take a look and see if I am ready to move my work to the cloud.

This video was sponsored by Document360. Document360 is Knowledge Base Platform, engineered for growing companies. In this video I look at it's API spec functions for creating docs from API spec files, keeping them up to date when the spec changes, viewing the rendered spec as documentation and trying generated code examples that match the spec.

Generative AI tools and platforms are not just the flavour of the month (for now), they’re the flavour of the year, if not the decade. Many of these are web platforms, and I have always been the first to admit that I prefer good old-fashioned, offline-first native desktop applications. As many of the new wave of services were smart enough to include an API option, this has made it possible for enterprising developers to create any other type of application they want to, including, in the case of this video, macOS native ones.

I am finally getting into Obsidian and thought it was time I learnt how to make a plugin for this infamous and popular knowledge management tool. As my guest I have Marcus Olsson, who wrote the docs on how to create plugins for Obsidian.

My first Superbooth in Berlin and what a great event! I take a whistle stop tour through some of the products and booths that jumped out to me.

Fresh(ish) from speaking with the team at KubeCon I take a look at Fermyon’s approach at making WebAssembly easier to use and their tool "spin" that follows recognisable patterns for creating server less applications.

Known for their Intellij IDE line of developer tools, JetBrains are now working on a series of plugins to make the work of technical writer's easier. Writerside brings features to author, preview, build, test, and publish your technical documentation right inside IntelliJ.