Videos

I have several regular livestreams and produce an edited video roughly once a month.
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Silicon Valley Mystery explainer video

Welcome to this explainer video introducing Silicon Valley Mystery, a clue collecting roll and write game created by Daniel Ballabás and Chris Ward. In Silicon Valley Mystery you are detectives tasked with solving a mystery quicker than any other player. Whoever scores the most points is declared the winner. You gain more points for gaining clues when they are newer (called “freshness”), as opposed to gaining as many clues as possible.

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.

The Solo Adventurer - Playing at Heartbreak with Sacrilege

I play at the heart stopping drudgery of being heterosexual in a world where heterosexuals are conditioned not to talk to each other, or listen to each other, or really have any idea what they are doing. Join me in this intriguing interactive fiction classic from Cara Ellison

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?