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Blog: Life Beyond WordPress to JAMStack
As I’ve mentioned, I’m trying to get to a stable WordPress for a long time and maybe this time I’ll do it. JAMStack is creatingly better for vanity sites, but maybe this time for my blog as well. Well, just before the pandemic, I tried to get out of WordPress by going to a go-based…
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vid: Final Cut Pro Slideshow Tips: Portraits, Ken Burns, Panos, Transitions, Horizons, Zoom, HLG vs PQ
I have a huge number of things I’ve forgotten about Final Cut Pro, but in producing a nice slide show, here are the things I keep forgetting. By the way, I actually have a playlist for all these tricks for Podcasting, OBS, Final Cut Pro, and Logic Pro on YouTube which I use when I…
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pod: Rich and Steven talk AI as of end of August
There’s been a hiatus mainly because we’ve been shipping products, but more because I lost all my skills at making new videos. I was stuck for a long time on Drop Zones and doing a better intro and outro, but that’s a digression for Final Cut Pro nerds. In this episode, we cover the latest…
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vid: Final Cut Pro review, combine audio/video, make intros, drop zones
Man, this tool is just so complicated. I haven’t created an intro for six months and have completely forgotten all the things I’ve learned in: The latest tricks: Combining audio and video clips This is pretty unintuitive as well. Basically, if you say have a video effect and you want to marry it with say…
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dev: Move from poetry to uv
Thanks to Rakuto, I’ve made the switch from Poetry which was nice and worked well to uv which is from the folks at Astral, and even faster. The move to ruff and uv has been great although a bit of work. Here are some notes: Direnv virtual environments The trickiest part is that poetry and…
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Av: Final Audio Type E ear tips and Linsoul Tripowin Amber cables Rock!
Well I love my MOONDROP variations (Linsoul has them as does Amazon) but the stock ear tips let quite a bit of sound in and the stock cable is pretty stiff. On the internet I found great reviews for the final audio series E ($24 from Linsoul and Amazon) and the Spinfit CP155 (Large at…
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Dev: Vim magic substitutions, macros and yank buffers
I have been hacking away at Vim for a long time. There will be a long post on using Lazyvim for incredible power, but even the basic vim is crazy powerful. So as I’m writing lots of code right now Yank buffers I keep forgetting many of these commands, but if you want to to…
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home: the mysteries of alarm.com logins
Ok, I kind of wanted to just use Apple Home and Aqara for alarm systems but it turns out just to he too much maintenance and Apple home isn’t stable enough nor is there a way to be monitoring. It works decently well but the application is beyond confusing. There are some key concepts that…
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run: Salomon S/Lab Ultra 3, ADV Skin 12 and Speedcross 6
Well, thanks to Alex and Calvin, I’ve ended up getting back into running and it is nice to do the “grandpa shuffle” and be back into good cardio. They also showed me how great a hydration vest can be compared with a bladder. So overall, it’s time to upgrade gear to be on the road.…
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mac: Getting 4K HDR 60/120Hz 4:4:4 on LG B9 and Apple Silicon
Well, I’ve had lots of posts about this over the years and it is a confusing topic. But, basically here is what you need: Why go through this brain damage? Need for more ports It’s because I need more Thunderbolt 4 ports. CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 dock, I have attached it to a Razer Thunderbolt 4…