Videos

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.

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.

I relive my childhood by playing through some of the classic Lone Wolf game books, starting with book 1, "Flight from the dark" by Joe Dever. © Joe Dever 1984, and thanks to Project Aon

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?

I relive my childhood by playing through some of the classic Lone Wolf game books, starting with book 1, "Flight from the dark" by Joe Dever. © Joe Dever 1984, and thanks to Project Aon

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!