Videos

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.

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!

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.

I love my Stream Deck(s) for convenient shortcut triggering but often find its official plugins lacking certain functions I need. Intros livestream I look at how easy it is to use the offical SDK to create a plugin for a stream deck.

AI meet writer… Should we be afraid, or inspired? Well, Sudowrite hope to be the AI writing assistant you look forward to using, not fear. I take a look… And write some nonsense.

Not a new project, but a rebranding, Decap used to be Netlify CMS and is back. I take a look at what has changed and try to add it to my new Astro website.

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.

I start the video by looking at Motif and MarkDoc, but they didn't really work, so I moved on to Mintlify that combines Markdown with React components as a SaaS alternative to MDX and its ecosystem. Is it worth the money?

DiffusionBee and Amazing AI are two macOS apps for playing with Stable Diffusion offline and hardware optimised. I take a look and compare the two applications to see what random artwork I can generate.

I start the video by looking at Motif and MarkDoc, but they didn't really work, so I moved on to Mintlify that combines Markdown with React components as a SaaS alternative to MDX and its ecosystem. Is it worth the money?

An open source research project exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process. It uses Tensor flow under the hood to generate beats and melodies with MIDI tracks. Colour me intrigued!

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.

Join me every week as I make music or work on some other creative project. This week I try and make some space on my hard drive by trying VCV Rack, Max 8, and IK Multimedia plugins.

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.

During research for a recent interactive fiction piece I discovered ScummVM for a way to play some classic text-based adventure games. Join me as I travel back in time to see how to setup ScummVM and play some Monkey Island!

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

Bun promises to replace and improve upon a plethora of JavaScript and TypeScript tools you currently use, offering bundle, transpile, install and run features all-in-one. On top of all that, it claims to be faster than other options. Is it? In this learning livestream I see what I can find out and if the hype is right.

BetterTouchTool is a classic feature packed app that allows you to customize various input devices on your Mac. In this livestream I figure out how it might be useful to, and especially how I can replace the weighty Stream Deck application with BetterTouchTool's new beta feature.

Tabletop simulator is a classic tool for playing digital versions of boardgames. It's also a great way to prototype game ideas without constantly creating physical prototypes. So in this learning Livestream I learn how to create a version of a game I am currently co-designing.