Videos

enchanted tools mirokaï from IFA 2023, sorry I realise the company name is wrong on video overlay.

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.

In this episode we take a look at tools that help you generate different types of video content from creative to business use cases with AI. We also look at tools that help you be more productive editing and refining videos, making a lot of the more tedious tasks easier and quicker. Included are make-a-video, Adobe Premiere, AutoPod, and many others.

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.

Following up from my recent round up for macOS native generative AI apps, in preparation for a forthcoming writing competition, I take a look at the AI apps part of Setapp, a macOS application subscription platform.

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.

Build text adventure games and interactive fiction with quest.

Thanks to new virtualisation features in macOS, it’s easier than ever to try new versions to see what’s coming. A handful of small features in macOS Sonoma grabbed my attention, so I take an (early) look. I look at the features that are currently possible to test, and didn't rely on signing in… Which wasn't many. But I looked at interactive widgets, PDF improvements, new Safari features, and a few more items.

I've covered how I use astro for my personal website a few times over the past few months and I'm excited to see the team have created an option for creating documentation sites. I take a look!

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.

Adobe brings their own take on Generative AI in a form of experiments for generating images and text, with more to come, and perhaps direct integration with creative cloud applications.

An Adobe Premiere plugin that promises to save your hours of tedious editing work creating cuts from multiple cameras, for social shares, and more? Yes please!

I’ve been using Raycast for some time and have made no secret of how much I love it. The team recently jumped on the bandwagon of adding AI capabilities and I take a look at how useful they really are and how they compare to the handful of AI-powered plugins already available for Raycast.

I recently migrated my ageing Jekyll site to Astro and hit a few bumps along the way that I have already summarised in a blog post. In this stream, I take you through all those changes and how they fit together.

I recently rediscovered a lot of old Garageband and Cubase songs I created a long time ago. Some are great and some are terrible. But I am slowly working my way through some of them and seeing how I can bring them into Ableton.

Quickly and easily transcribe audio files into text with OpenAI's state-of-the-art transcription technology Whisper. Whether you're recording a meeting, lecture, or other important audio, MacWhisper quickly and accurately transcribes your audio files into text.

JetBrains are testing a new UI and redesigned look for IntelliJ IDEA. It has been created to reduce visual complexity, provide easy access to essential features, and progressively disclose complex functionality as needed – resulting in a cleaner look and feel. All that sounds great! But how does it make you work more productively? I take a look!

In this third episode of "in bots we trust" Killian and Chris look at chord AI, magenta studio, Vall-e, moises, musenet, and more! How can these tools help you learn and remix existing music, or help you create new music when you need ideas. We take a look!

I continue my journey looking at tools for creative interactive media and take a look at celtx, which claims to the the “industry standard”… Don’t they all!

Writersbrew is one AI writing assistant app that works across all browsers, native apps & electron apps instead of dozens of siloed writing assistants. Sounds awesome! Is it? I take a look.

A new preview feature from GitHub promises to extend your codebase with custom, interactive blocks. Build rich documentation, enhance your workflows, and bring your repository to life. In this livestream I take a look at what's possible right now with the feature and what's coming later.

A classic tool for interactive fiction writers everywhere, Inform 7 offers natural language processing and a large body of language understanding to help you create fiction that readers can truly interact with.