Tech: Videos

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.

In this first alpha (and boy are there some technical issues, sorry!) of "in bots we trust", Killian and Chris look at Crayon, Dall-e, mid journey, stable diffusion, and more to see what they can create and what lies beneath for us humans to enjoy, endure, or use appropriately.

New alternative web browsers for macOS The past year or so has resulted in a flurry of new browsers to consider alongside the dominant contenders from big tech companies.

In this video, I take a look at some of the best transcription tools for podcasters and how the recent wave of generative AI has changed the tools now available. I look at @Google recorder, macOS dictation, @Otterai , @Riversidefm , TechSmith Audiate, @Descript , @RogueAmoebaVideos Audio Hijack, MacWhisper, and @Adobe@Adobe Premiere

I came across this World War 2 trench on the outskirts of Berlin, and I've never had such an eerie, disconcerting experience.

In this video sponsored by PixieBrix, I look at their low-code tool for adding automation and integrations to existing web pages. It takes a different approach to many others out there, and I was intrigued! I look at how to use its inbuilt connections to APIs and how to send and receive data from external ones. I also look at text manipulation and AI features.

I look at Actions for Obsidian, a standalone application that brings Apple Shortcuts to Obsidian, allowing some connection and automation from the rest of macOS and other applications on your Mac. I look at creating notes by selecting text elsewhere, creating a daily schedule, triggering Obsidian commands and using an Elgato Stream Deck and Raycast with Obsidian.

In this video sponsored by PixieBrix, I look at their low-code tool for adding automation and integrations to existing web pages. It takes a different approach to many others out there, and I was intrigued! I look at how to set it up, adding checklists to GitHub pull requests, creating Trello cards from GitHub issues and emails, and how to use PixieBrix with an Elgato Stream Deck.

JetBrains Writerside, the IntelliJ-based tool for those creating and maintaining documentation is now in early access and available as a separate IDE. In this video I take a look at new features and improvements including support for API specs, Mermaid, Tex, new markup, and more!

Runme combines your docs with everything great about scripting and pipelines. I take a second look at using this tool with the CLI, VSCode, headless, and in the cloud. There are still a few quirks and issues, but for teams who want to share workflows and runbooks along with their output with each other, is runme what you're looking for?

Welcome to my channel! I cover interesting and novel technologies, creative applications, and the intersections between them.

In this video, I cover how I use Newzik and Dorico to digitize drum scores stored as PDFs into MusicXML and MIDI. This means I now have a consistent library of digital scores I can take into DAWs like Ableton and Cubase, annotate notes for practice sessions, and create drum patterns from scratch.

I look at using a cool command line tool called displayplacer to switch screen configurations in macOS. It lets you change resolution, layout, rotation, and more. I look at how to use it from the command line, with Apple Shortcuts, Bettertouchtool, and Raycast. I love using this tool now to switch my screen setups, I hope you enjoy it too.

This video summarises a recent talk at API the Docs where I took a historic ramble through the history of HTML to understand the plethora of new tools for creating dynamic content on the web and wonder why we don't use nearly enough of them on documentation platforms. Covers tools such as Docusaurus, Astro, Next.JS, Gatsby, and more!

This video was sponsored by Document360. Document360 is Knowledge Base Platform, engineered for growing companies. In this video I look at the analysis features for the documentation portals you create with Document360, this includes handling feedback, user demographics, and exporting all analysis data as CSV files.

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