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I have several regular livestreams and produce an edited video roughly once a month.
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Build a GraphQL Content API with GraphCMS

GraphCMS gives you instant GraphQL Content APIs to create, enrich, unify, and deliver your content across platforms.

Building developer portals with Backstage

Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to your infrastructure and enables your product teams to ship high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.

Collaborative markdown with hackmd

Embracing "standard" Markdown, HackMD lets you collaborate using everyone's favourite plan text format. How does it compare to the bigger, shinier competition? I take a look.

Open Source Note Taking with Joplin

I love note taking applications… How does Joplin compare to the myriad options now available, and does open source hinder or help its usability? I take it for a spin and see.

Open Source Calendly with Calendso

Self-hosted or hosted by us. White-label by design. API-driven and ready to be deployed on your own domain. You are in control of your events and data. Is it worth it? I find out.

macOS Automation with Hammerspoon

What is Hammerspoon? Hammerspoon is a desktop automation tool for OS X. It bridges various system level APIs into a Lua scripting engine, allowing you to have powerful effects on your system by writing Lua scripts.

How to write videos in React with Remotion

Use your react knowledge to create mp4 videos programmatically and dynamically using server side rendering and code you know. There's a bit of waffle to begin with, you might want to jump to 07:45.

Complex workflow automation with n8n

n8n helps you to interconnect every app with an API in the world with each other to share and manipulate its data without a single line of code. Hosted on your server and not based in the cloud, it keeps your sensible data very secure in your own trusted database.

Creating documentation sites from multiple repositories with Antora

The multi-repository documentation site generator for tech writers who write with AsciiDoc. if you need a documentation tool that supports multiple sources of information, project versions, and other complexities, then Antora may be for you. In this livestream I test Antora and see how far I can get.

The Weekly Squeak - Grafana with Anthony Woods

My guest this week is CTO and co-founder of Grafana Labs. We talk about the history of the company, their new cloud offering, and observability in general. Let me know if you have any questions you want asked, or join us live to ask yourself.

Create text-based diagrams with Mermaid

Mermaid is a Javascript based diagramming tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically that helps Documentation catch up with Development. If you enjoy this video take a look at my new video on Mermaid Chart: https://youtu.be/TYuPExY2-VI

Hands on - Kubernetes productivity with Tilt

Tilt offers productivity for teams building Kubernetes apps with smart Rebuilds, Continuous Feedback, Live Updates, Snapshots, and more. Can it help you with your Kubernetes based infrastructure and applications?