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Tired of @grammarly or just curious if there’s something better out there? In this in-depth review, I explore FOUR powerful writing tools that go head-to-head with Grammarly – @languagetool785 @ProWritingAidTV and @JetBrainsTV Grazie. Whether you’re writing blog posts, emails, papers, or code comments, this video breaks it all down for you! These tools are not just browser extensions! I tested for: ✅ Full system-wide integration 💻 ✅ Support for multiple languages 🌍 ✅ Great performance – even on slower machines ⚡ ✅ Flexible options for both beginners and power users 🎯 ✅ Open-source or privacy-focused features 🔐 🔁 Whether you want to improve your grammar, style, spelling, or tone, one of these tools might be a better choice for you than Grammarly! Which tools worked best for each requirement, and did I switch? Watch along, and I'd love to hear your comments. 👉If you enjoy this video, please like and share it. 👉Don't forget to subscribe to this channel for more updates. 👉Subscribe now: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisChinchillaWatch?sub_confirmation=1 00:00 Intro 01:30 Grammarly 06:42 LanguageTool 19:29 ProWritingAid 30:27 Grazie 36:01 Summary #grammarly #grammarlyalternatives #ChrisChinchilla #grammarcheck #writing

Tired of @grammarly or just curious if there’s something better out there? In this in-depth review, I explore FOUR powerful writing tools that go head-to-head with Grammarly – @languagetool785 @ProWritingAidTV and @JetBrainsTV Grazie. Whether you’re writing blog posts, emails, papers, or code comments, this video breaks it all down for you! These tools are not just browser extensions! I tested for: ✅ Full system-wide integration 💻 ✅ Support for multiple languages 🌍 ✅ Great performance – even on slower machines ⚡ ✅ Flexible options for both beginners and power users 🎯 ✅ Open-source or privacy-focused features 🔐 🔁 Whether you want to improve your grammar, style, spelling, or tone, one of these tools might be a better choice for you than Grammarly! Which tools worked best for each requirement, and did I switch? Watch along, and I'd love to hear your comments. 👉If you enjoy this video, please like and share it. 👉Don't forget to subscribe to this channel for more updates. 👉Subscribe now: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisChinchillaWatch?sub_confirmation=1 00:00 Intro 01:30 Grammarly 06:42 LanguageTool 19:29 ProWritingAid 30:27 Grazie 36:01 Summary #grammarly #grammarlyalternatives #ChrisChinchilla #grammarcheck #writing

Continue as an open-source extension for #VSCode and ⁨@JetBrainsTV IDEs that lets you use numerous remote, local, closed, and open-source models to help you code with AI assistance. I spoke with Nate Sesti about the project and the company's origins, how it works, and how they intend to remain competitive with new default assistants in editors and IDEs, and a new wave of AI-first editors. 00:00 Intro 01:29 What is Continue? 06:23 Continue demo 16:56 The Continue team and community 20:00 Competing with Microsoft and JetBrains 24:18 Competing with new IDE arrivals 32:12 Outro #ai #aidevelopment #assistant #vscode #development #windsurf #cursor

In my unboxing and review video a few months ago quite a few of you asked for more examples of the music I'm making with the @Fishman_Music Tripleplay Express MIDI guitar pickup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAT2XtT7v8Y&t=93s Well here you go! 00:00 Intro 00:36 Example with synth 06:23 Example with strings 10:39 Example with Organ 12:35 Outro #music #midi #guitar #ableton #fishman

In my unboxing and review video a few months ago quite a few of you asked for more examples of the music I'm making with the @Fishman_Music Tripleplay Express MIDI guitar pickup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAT2XtT7v8Y&t=93s Well here you go! 00:00 Intro 00:36 Example with synth 06:23 Example with strings 10:39 Example with Organ 12:35 Outro #music #midi #guitar #ableton #fishman

Finally! Part 2 of my series on learning how to play the drums, based on teaching I've been doing for the past 18 months or so. If you've never played the drums before and want to learn, this series will help you get playing beats quickly. In this second video, I look at how to hold drumsticks, the characteristics of each drum and cymbal and how to hit them, and look at three basic grooves you've heard in countless rock and pop songs. If you missed it, find episode 1: https://youtu.be/w3CMakz1eDM 00:00 Intro 00:11 Sticks 03:15 Pedals 06:34 First groove 08:25 Snare drum 09:09 Hi-hat 09:45 Crash cymbal 10:30 Toms 10:50 Ride cymbal 12:04 Groove 2 13:04 Groove 3

Finally! Part 2 of my series on learning how to play the drums, based on teaching I've been doing for the past 18 months or so. If you've never played the drums before and want to learn, this series will help you get playing beats quickly. In this second video, I look at how to hold drumsticks, the characteristics of each drum and cymbal and how to hit them, and look at three basic grooves you've heard in countless rock and pop songs. If you missed it, find episode 1: https://youtu.be/w3CMakz1eDM 00:00 Intro 00:11 Sticks 03:15 Pedals 06:34 First groove 08:25 Snare drum 09:09 Hi-hat 09:45 Crash cymbal 10:30 Toms 10:50 Ride cymbal 12:04 Groove 2 13:04 Groove 3

Finally! Part 2 of my series on learning how to play the drums, based on teaching I've been doing for the past 18 months or so. If you've never played the drums before and want to learn, this series will help you get playing beats quickly. In this second video, I look at how to hold drumsticks, the characteristics of each drum and cymbal and how to hit them, and look at three basic grooves you've heard in countless rock and pop songs. If you missed it, find episode 1: https://youtu.be/w3CMakz1eDM 00:00 Intro 00:11 Sticks 03:15 Pedals 06:34 First groove 08:25 Snare drum 09:09 Hi-hat 09:45 Crash cymbal 10:30 Toms 10:50 Ride cymbal 12:04 Groove 2 13:04 Groove 3

In this video I share 8 tips to help you write more effectively. Mostly for those looking to up their game with academic, scientific, and technical writing, but there's also plenty for creative writers too. Based on this blog post: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/8tips Links to tips: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip1 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip2 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip3 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip4 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip5 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip6 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip7 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip8 Links to tools and software: adoc Studio: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/adocstudio MindNode: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/mindnode Tower: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tower Vale: https://vale.sh Links to other resources: https://shutupwrite.com https://londonwriterssalon.com My book: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/dgtw The elements of style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style 00:00 Intro 00:32 1. Just do it 01:42 2. Plan before you write 02:40 3. Write distraction free 03:48 4. Leverage technology 05:14 5. Join a peer writing group 06:19 6. Embrace drafting 07:17 7. Breaks and exercise 08:19 8. Prioritize clarity and simplicity 09:34 Summary #technicalwriting #documentation #AsciiDoc #docsascode #writing #writingtips

In this video I share 8 tips to help you write more effectively. Mostly for those looking to up their game with academic, scientific, and technical writing, but there's also plenty for creative writers too. Based on this blog post: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/8tips Links to tips: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip1 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip2 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip3 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip4 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip5 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip6 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip7 https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tip8 Links to tools and software: adoc Studio: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/adocstudio MindNode: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/mindnode Tower: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/tower Vale: https://vale.sh Links to other resources: https://shutupwrite.com https://londonwriterssalon.com My book: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/dgtw The elements of style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style 00:00 Intro 00:32 1. Just do it 01:42 2. Plan before you write 02:40 3. Write distraction free 03:48 4. Leverage technology 05:14 5. Join a peer writing group 06:19 6. Embrace drafting 07:17 7. Breaks and exercise 08:19 8. Prioritize clarity and simplicity 09:34 Summary #technicalwriting #documentation #AsciiDoc #docsascode #writing #writingtips

macOS has an inbuilt default autocomplete… Kind of… It's quite sporadic, hard to customize, and is inconsistent. From the same developer as Timing, the awesome macOS time tracking tool, comes Cotypist, a locally running, AI-powered autocomplete tool for macOS that offers context-aware suggestions and learns more about your writing as you use it. It's still in public preview as it pushes towards version 1.0, and in this video, I look at an early build to see how well it works and if I can confound it with my fractured conversations and tendency to not use US English 😁. http://cotypist.app 00:00 Intro 00:56 Setup 03:14 Initial experiments 04:49 Comparing to default autocomplete 06:33 Context switching between Discord and email 07:21 Non American English 08:31 Outro #AI #macos #utilities #productivity #autocomplete

Interested in trying AsciiDoc, that flexible and standardised alternative to markdown for documentation, technical content, presentations, and more? In this video, I cover the syntax you need to know to get you started with the markup language, using a new macOS and iOS editing tool called adoc studio. Looking for a blog version of this content? You can find that and more about adoc studio here: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/adoc 00:00 Intro 00:25 What is AsciiDoc? 01:46 Headings 02:16 Basic formatting 03:03 Lists 04:59 Links 06:03 Images 07:25 Tables 08:31 Including other files 09:10 Attributes and variables 10:35 Logic 11:00 Menu items 11:51 Predefined attributes 12:44 Equations and formulas 13:31 Code 14:59 Buttons 15:09 Admonitions 16:24 Summary #technicalwriting #documentation #AsciiDoc #markdown #docsascode

Interested in trying AsciiDoc, that flexible and standardised alternative to markdown for documentation, technical content, presentations, and more? In this video, I cover the syntax you need to know to get you started with the markup language, using a new macOS and iOS editing tool called adoc studio. Looking for a blog version of this content? You can find that and more about adoc studio here: https://go.chrischinchilla.com/adoc 00:00 Intro 00:25 What is AsciiDoc? 01:46 Headings 02:16 Basic formatting 03:03 Lists 04:59 Links 06:03 Images 07:25 Tables 08:31 Including other files 09:10 Attributes and variables 10:35 Logic 11:00 Menu items 11:51 Predefined attributes 12:44 Equations and formulas 13:31 Code 14:59 Buttons 15:09 Admonitions 16:24 Summary #technicalwriting #documentation #AsciiDoc #markdown #docsascode

I take a look at @aquavoice_ , a new Mac Native application that lets you dictate notes, instructions, corrections, and much more. https://withaqua.com It's fast, accurate, and opens new ways of interacting with applications, all with the power of your voice. NOTE: I have intentionally left Adobe Premiere's incorrect transcript so you can see how the results compare to Aqua Voice. This video was sponsored by Aqua Voice, but as always, I only give independent opinions and show the negatives and positives of any tool I look at. 00:00 Intro 00:53 Onboarding 04:29 Setting custom instructions and words 05:46 Creating notes in Obsidian 08:18 Usage in Apple Notes 09:56 Mixing languages 11:31 Using with other AI tools: ChatGPT 12:38 Using with academic and technical text 14:44 Sending emails 16:19 Coding 20:00 Summary #AI #macos #dictation #voiceassistant #voice #voicecontrol #vibecoding

I take a look at @aquavoice_ , a new Mac Native application that lets you dictate notes, instructions, corrections, and much more. https://withaqua.com It's fast, accurate, and opens new ways of interacting with applications, all with the power of your voice. NOTE: I have intentionally left Adobe Premiere's incorrect transcript so you can see how the results compare to Aqua Voice. This video was sponsored by Aqua Voice, but as always, I only give independent opinions and show the negatives and positives of any tool I look at. 00:00 Intro 00:53 Onboarding 04:29 Setting custom instructions and words 05:46 Creating notes in Obsidian 08:18 Usage in Apple Notes 09:56 Mixing languages 11:31 Using with other AI tools: ChatGPT 12:38 Using with academic and technical text 14:44 Sending emails 16:19 Coding 20:00 Summary #AI #macos #dictation #voiceassistant #voice #voicecontrol #vibecoding

I speak with @awesomekling about his history building browsers, how the Serenity Operating System helped bring peace to a crazy period of his life, and how now the @LadybirdBrowser aims to bring diversity and standards to the world of web browsers. Formed the basis of this article: https://thenextweb.com/news/serenityos-creator-building-ladybird-browser

Databases are one of the core components of a business. Well performing, well tuned databases mean faster transactions, better experience and better profits. Most of the popular databases offer several built-in telemetry features. But as companies grow, workloads evolve, it is crucial to centralize all application and infrastructure telemetry into a single location. In this video, we'll show case how to build a comprehensive observability pipeline for PostgreSQL, combining logs and metrics collection. We'll use FluentBit for log collection, OpenTelemetry Collector for metrics, and Parseable as the observability backend.

This video shows you how to use Falco to detect potential risks and then log them to different Parseable log streams depending on their severity using Fluent Bit. Security threat hunting by nature is extensive. You’d ideally want to capture everything you can - with least amount of instrumentation. This is where eBPF shines. You can capture OS level metrics, events with zero instrumentation with eBPF based systems. eBPF is now one of the widest-used options in the cloud native space. In this post we’ll focus on Falco, a security tool that provides runtime security across hosts, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments. #ebpf #falco #observability #logging #analysis #alerts

Mermaid is a popular Javascript-based diagramming tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically. Mermaid enjoys widespread popularity and adoption in toolchains, but the text-based nature has often made it complicated for non-technical people to use. Memrmaid Chart is a company built by some of the maintainers of open-source Mermaid. It aims to bring a more user-friendly interface to Mermaid syntax, ideal for collaboration and sharing of diagrams and charts. In this video, I examine the platform's offerings. If you like what you see, use my referral code to get a discount and earn me coffee money! Thanks! https://www.mermaidchart.com/landing/?utm_source=UGC&utm_medium=UGC&utm_campaign=0109 00:02 Intro 01:06 What is Mermaid? 04:49 Mermaid Chart editor 06:25 Editing charts 08:02 Add an image 08:17 Change chart design 08:58 Create a pie chart 10:02 Whiteboard feature 12:35 AI chat 15:43 Presentation feature 16:20 VSCode extension 17:46 Summary

Mermaid is a popular Javascript-based diagramming tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically. Mermaid enjoys widespread popularity and adoption in toolchains, but the text-based nature has often made it complicated for non-technical people to use. Memrmaid Chart is a company built by some of the maintainers of open-source Mermaid. It aims to bring a more user-friendly interface to Mermaid syntax, ideal for collaboration and sharing of diagrams and charts. In this video, I examine the platform's offerings. If you like what you see, use my referral code to get a discount and earn me coffee money! Thanks! https://www.mermaidchart.com/landing/?utm_source=UGC&utm_medium=UGC&utm_campaign=0109 00:02 Intro 01:06 What is Mermaid? 04:49 Mermaid Chart editor 06:25 Editing charts 08:02 Add an image 08:17 Change chart design 08:58 Create a pie chart 10:02 Whiteboard feature 12:35 AI chat 15:43 Presentation feature 16:20 VSCode extension 17:46 Summary

Like many of you, I use Git regularly. Some of us use the terminal and other tools built into our IDE. Whereas I, and many others, like to use a dedicated git graphical user interface (GUI). For many years, I have used Fork, but the good folks at Tower sent me a license to take their well-known and venerable git GUI for a spin. I take a look at it, how it compares to what I use already, and look at some of its new and forthcomign features. If you like what you see, you can use my affiliate code to get yourself a discount and help me earn some $€s to feed my cats 😁 https://www.git-tower.com/?via=chris 00:01 Intro 01:21 Comparison to fork 03:39 Intro to Tower settings and system integration 06:16 Service accounts 06:36 Adding and organising repositories 08:29 Interface tour 10:28 Tracking changes 12:32 Staging and discarding lines 13:12 Pushing and publishing branches 13:59 Reviewing pull requests 14:57 Viewing stashes 15:13 Branches review 15:44 Repository settings 16:14 Merge conflicts 17:25 Undoing actions 18:34 Stacked PRs 20:55 Summary 22:25 Outro

Are you a guitar player who wants some flexibility with your playing but always thought MIDI pickups were slow, unreliable, or expensive? I take a look at the Tripleplay Express from @Fishman_Music and find that now, MIDI guitar pickups, with a few caveats, are a quite usable and effective way to may your music more creative. This video features an unboxing, how to attach it to a guitar (a squier mustang in this case) and options for using the pickup with a DAW (ableton live in this case), and using the tripleplay software. Follow up video now here: https://youtu.be/0FH_sXijn0w Thanks to Fishman for sending me a review unit. 00:00 Intro 00:49 Unboxing 01:54 Preparing the guitar 02:38 Mounting the pickup 03:00 Mounting the receiver 03:55 Attaching the pickup to the guitar 04:49 Checking string height 05:00 Adjusting pickup height 05:21 Reviewing assembly 05:47 Using the pickup with a DAW 09:17 Using the pickup with Tripleplay host 16:58 Tripleplay utility 17:47 Summary #midi #guitar #daw #music #abletonlive #pickups

In this episode, I speak with Elian Van Cutsem about one of my favourite web frameworks and what I use for my own website, Astro. We talk generally about the project, its history, and version 5, which was released this week! • For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chrischinchilla.com/podcast/ (https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/) • To reach out and say hello, visit chrischinchilla.com/contact/ (https://chrischinchilla.com/contact/) • To support the show for ad-free listening and extra content, visit chrischinchilla.com/support/ (https://chrischinchilla.com/support/)

I speak with Joe Fitzsimmons of Horizon Quantum, who are attempting make the move from traditional computer programming easier. • For show notes and an interactive transcript, visit chrischinchilla.com/podcast/ (https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/) • To reach out and say hello, visit chrischinchilla.com/contact/ (https://chrischinchilla.com/contact/) • To support the show for ad-free listening and extra content, visit chrischinchilla.com/support/ (https://chrischinchilla.com/support/)

Learn how to setup Parseable as the audit logging and debug logging target for your production MinIO cluster. Read the related blog post here: https://www.parseable.com/blog/minio-audit-logging Sample code available here: https://github.com/parseablehq/blog-samples/tree/main/minio-audit-logging If you like the project, star Parseable repo here: https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable

A new macOS virtualisation tool from @macstadium makes creating, running, and sharing macOS virtual machines easier. Even better, it's free! Orka desktop lets you push and pull images from OCI-compatible image registries, fitting right into developer and DevOps workflows. It has a couple of rough edges, but it is a promising entry to the suite of options available for macOS virtualisation. 00:00 Intro 01:21 Launching and settings 01:45 Creating a VM 03:56 Pushing a VM 05:53 Pulling a VM 07:16 Available VM images 08:16 Summary https://www.macstadium.com/orka-desktop #macos #virtualization #vm #virtualmachine #devops

We all love our text editor or IDE of choice, but sometimes it's too easy to get stuck in a rut using the same one because it's comfortable, and it might be worth challenging yourself with something new. In this video, I look at seven alternatives, old and new, macOS-native and cross-platform, feature-packed and more focused, to see if there's anything I might consider to wake myself from my VSCode-shaped hole. Includes Jetbrains' Fleet, Nova, BBEdit, Cursor, CotEditor, CodeEdit, and Chime. And yes, I ignored Vim, emacs, nano, etc. There you go 🤷‍♂️ 00:00 Intro 03:22 CodeEdit 08:00 Chime 12:12 Fleet 19:26 Nova 30:00 CotEditor 33:04 Cursor 37:35 BBEdit 46:25 Summary

JetBrains is well known for its IntelliJ family of IDEs and has always bundled smart assistive tools. Now, like other vendors and tools, the company has added a privacy-first AI assistant to its full suite. How does it compare to competing tools like Copilot? Does quality suffer for privacy and data sovereignty? I'll take a look! Thanks to JetBrains for providing me with a free premium month. https://www.jetbrains.com/ai/ 00:00 Intro 01:00 General Overview 01:37 Preferences 02:03 Code explanation 03:15 Generate documentation 04:29 Explain code 04:42 Suggest refactoring 05:44 Find problems 05:46 Generate unit tests 06:01 Generate code 06:57 Same features with Flutter 07:11 Explain project 08:24 Code refactoring 08:32 Rename variables 10:50 AI Assistant in Writerside 12:30 Ask documentation questions 13:18 Generate content 14:04 Explain markup 14:49 Summarise 15:15 Create TLDR 15:52 The Grazie plugin 21:00 Summary

Kicking off my series on learning how to play the drums based on teaching I've been doing for the past 18 months or so. If you've never played the drums before and want to learn, this series will help you get playing beats quickly. In this first video, I look at what a drum kit is and a brief history. Thanks to James Harding for helping with filming and Frank for lurking in the background. 00:00 Intro 00:33 Drum kit history 02:19 The standard kit 02:41 The Kick drum 03:01 The snare drum 03:34 The tom drums 04:04 The Hihat 04:36 The crash cymbal 04:56 The ride cymbal 05:27 Summary #drums #drumming #learndrumming #learntodrum #music

My highlight of IFA 2024 in Berlin was the PocketDrum Plus 2 that has audio and MIDI out for silent air drumming… https://www.aeroband.net/products/pocketdrum2-plus

In this tutorial, learn how to set up a CDC (change data capture) pipeline on your machine to capture and analyze real-time database changes with Parseable using Postgres, Debezium, and Redpanda. When data changes are needed, update easily and without errors + store the data on Parseable for deeper insights. In this walkthrough, we use a Docker compose file to configure. ⭐️ us on GitHub! https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable #database #analytics #redpanda #audit #loganalysis

It has a strange name, but a few of you asked me to take a look at this simple but clean online tool for creating HTML-delivered interactive fiction. I'm not sure of its maintenance status, but it's well-suited for creating simpler stories requiring a little programming logic. https://textadventures.co.uk/squiffy 00:00 Intro 01:09 The basics of Squiffy 02:31 Passages and sequences 08:09 Turn counting 11:31 Clearing the screen 12:35 Attributes 13:48 Continue links 14:57 Publishing 17:40 Desktop application 19:27 Outro

In this video we explain how to extend Temporal to send application and workflow logs to Parseable. You can use this integration to capture audit logs, debug failure, analyse user behaviour and more. #tutorial #logging #temporal #observability #security #audit #opensource

@Ableton #live quicktip on creating groups of tracks, so you can apply devices, volume, and other aspects to multiple tracks at once.. #shorts #abletonlive #abletontips

I've been using @parallels Desktop for a while, but with @vmware making Fusion pro free for personal use, I thought it was time to look at alternatives for running #windows #linux and other operating systems on #macos In this video, I look at Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion, UTM, QEMU, Crossover from @codeweavers9929 , Wine, and Whisky. This video took a lot of experimentation and time with some of the options, so I hope you enjoy! Any comments, feedback, or options I missed… Please leave them in the comments. 00:00 Intro 01:13 Terminology 03:00 Parallels Desktop 09:10 VMWare Fusion 16:00 UTM and QEMU 20:15 Crossover 31:02 Wine 36:46 Whisky 43:58 Outro

Automated processes and tools have been reading our content for some time, building humongous databases of our carefully crafted words so people can actually find them buried across the vast swathes of the internet. And now, even more automated processes and machines are reading our content, packaging it into large models that make sense to few but bring sense to so many. A lot of you listening and watching right now are probably afraid of what might happen to your job prospects over the coming years, and I am here to show you how, for the short term, your work will be more valuable than ever. Just maybe less directly to human consumers than before. In this practical session, I step through how you can make your writing more understandable by the machines reading it, including layout, language, semantic elements, and hidden content. Improving these aspects improves not only the content that can form part of the large language models fuelling the new interfaces to instructional content but also improves things for more traditional machine readers such as search engine crawlers and screen readers. ––– This talk was presented at AI The Docs on April 3, 2024. AI The Docs 2024 is an online conference about AI practices in API documentation and product management. It was powered by Pronovix and kindly supported by Cloudflare, Speakeasy, MongoDB, Inkeep, kapa ai and Pieces for Developers. **Want to learn about upcoming API The Docs projects?** Sign up to the API The Docs newsletter to receive updates about their events, podcasts and affiliated programs: https://bit.ly/apithedocs

#abletonlive quicktip on creating device presets so you don't have to recreate the same settings every time you use a plugin or other device. #shorts

My first book of the year! "Technical writing for software developers" on Packt publishing. https://bit.ly/3Xn3px8 #books #writing #techwriting #development #booktube

#Git may be the source of many developers' productivity and frustrations, but its branch concept is fundamental. @gitbutlerapp wants to change this, allowing developers to easily create and switch between changes on virtual branches. It's a slick new desktop app written in #Rust and #Tauri. How well does it work? Do we need it? I take a look. 00:00 Intro music 00:03 Intro 00:59 Installing 01:21 Intro to GitButler 02:12 Setup 02:44 Add a project 04:14 Using virtual branches 06:10 Push a virtual branch 06:58 Using other git commands 09:04 Outro 10:22 Outro music #development #versioncontrol #programming

Almost every time you install an audio plugin for a DAW you end up with multiple copies of it as a vst2, vst3, and au file. If you’re like me and want to maintain a clean and tidy computer, all these duplicates that basically do the same thing probably irritate and annoy you, staring at you and teasing you every time you scroll a plugin list. It’s not new, but I discovered audio plugin uninstaller from @WideBlueSound and now I am very happy with a slightly less cluttered computer. 00:00 Intro music 00:02 Intro 01:11 Too many duplicate plugins 01:54 The size of the problem 02:11 Audio plugin installer intro 02:34 Interface overview 03:02 Using the uninstall option 04:02 Delete plugin option 04:45 The results 05:48 Testing impact 07:29 Settings 07:47 Outro 08:17 Outro music #music #musicproduction #ableton #logicprox #cubase #vst #vst2 #vst3 #audiounit #audio

In this quick video, I look at a handful of the features I use in @Descript   for editing and distributing my podcast, especially the new "Edit for Clarity" feature, which cuts through my tendency to waffle and gets to the point. Like what you see and want to try Descript? Then please follow my affiliate link: https://get.descript.com/hwdvp8thjpih 00:00 Intro music 00:04 Intro 00:35 Intro to descript 00:49 Setting up project 01:50 Quick interface tour 02:53 Timeline view 03:04 Remove filler words 03:47 Edit for clarity 05:49 Applying suggestions 08:31 Outro 09:11 Outro music #podcasts #editing #editingapps #podcastediting

I'm back at the preeminent event for synths and electronic instruments to try and dig out some of the stranger and more interesting instruments rather than room after room of dial-twiddling cable-patchers. Enjoy! 00:00 Intro music 00:03 Intro 00:18 Nebula instruments 00:33 Biotron 00:56 Voyage 01:06 Berglund instruments 01:25 Haken Continuumini 01:45 PlayFader 02:18 Drumbeam 02:43 Flowfal 03:05 Outro ambience 03:17 Outro music

I speak with Thomas Labarussias of @sysdig about Falco, a cloud-native security tool designed for Linux systems. Falco uses custom rules on kernel events, enriched with container and Kubernetes metadata, to provide real-time alerts and help you gain visibility into abnormal behavior, potential security threats, and compliance violations, contributing to comprehensive runtime security. We talk a little Falco history, the project's recent CNCF graduation, and new developments in the project to make the tool even more useful. Disclaimer: We had some technical issues. Hopefully, I polished things just enough. 00:00 Intro music 00:02 Intro 00:15 Disclaimer 01:12 Intro to Thomas 01:55 What is Falco? 03:01 Graduating in the CNCF 04:16 Falco history 06:30 Falco demo begins 07:34 Falco sidekick 14:44 Falco tunnel 20:50 Falco Talon 31:51 Outro 32:18 Outro music #kubernetes #cloudnative #security

I take a look at a new tool in beta from @Adobe that lets you record and produce podcasts in the browser. Will it replace tools like @Descript or@Riversidefm ? I take a look. 00:00 Intro music 00:02 Intro 00:45 Overview of podcast interface 02:03 Recording 02:54 Adding audio files 03:55 Adding music 04:29 Adding placeholders 04:39 Filters 07:23 Changing clip settings 08:49 Downloading recording 09:14 Share templates 09:46 Inspecting exported recording 11:07 Inspecting exported transcript 12:23 Summary 13:45 Outro music #podcasts #recording #production

I have a little fun and try messing around with animating some boring images of myself using Dreamface's AI-powered mobile app. 00:00 Intro music 00:03 Intro 00:34 Intro to the app 00:46 Creating a speaking avatar 01:31 Creating a singing picture 01:54 Creating a dancing picture 02:19 Image manipulation 02:55 Creating a singing picture 03:00 Reviewing my creations 04:12 Creating a speaking avatar 04:54 Outro 05:51 Outro music http://dreamfaceapp.com/ #apps #mobileapp #ai #imagemanipulation #aigenerated #video #animation

In this interview and demo, I speak with @CerbosDev about their open source and commercial tool for implementing one of the most tedious of developer tasks more easily, adding roles and permissions. It has a real-time browser-based tool for writing and testing policies and integrates with dozens of hosting and authentication options and programming languages. https://www.cerbos.dev 00:00 Intro theme 00:02 Intro to video 00:26 Intro to the Cerbos team 00:54 What is Cerbos? 02:16 Differences between open source and commercial versions 04:06 Where do you run Cerbos? 05:00 How Cerbos fits into infrastructure 05:34 Demo 06:48 Where you define the policy 07:05 Demo 10:44 Interactive policy manager demo 13:27 Defining tests in Cerbos 18:55 Builds demo 21:55 How did Cerbos begin 26:24 Cerbos integrations 31:16 Deploying Cerbos 34:26 What's next for Cerbos 39:56 The Cerbos logo 40:52 Outro 41:15 Outro music #development #programming #authentication #cloudnative #opensource

In this interview and demo I speak with Ruan from Fiero about how their two person team has built an amazing browser-based tool that helps game designers and developers to build 2D games in the browser but distribute them to a wide variety of native platforms including desktop and mobile. https://fierogameengine.com