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  • net: Making Zoom Backgrounds with Apple Photos and Final Cut Pro redux

    OK, I think I’ve finally figured out a bunch of things about making Zoom Backgrounds. The first is that it will only accept 1080p SDR videos, so here’s the easiest way to make them for yourself: Taking the Photos, prop it, shoot in Action Mode or 4K and HDR The first thing is that you…

  • tvl: Lord of the Rings Locations (LOtR)

    Welt’s been two decades of loving Lord of the Rings and watching it on everything from the Cinerama to home theaters to phones. But, there is nothing quite like getting to New Zealand and seeing some of the locations for real. There are lots of list, but none of them super complete. But some of…

  • tax: The many ways to Pay US Taxes

    This is such a confusing subject because besides writing a check, there are so many way to pay, here are some of them: If you have the misfortune to be a trustee, then you have to make online payments with for 1041 trusts with EFTPS which is complicated.

  • Mac: Annoying “would like to access data from other apps”

    You get this warning a lot these days with MacOS Sequoia. What is happening it that if you do not set in Settings > Security > Disk and Privacy > Full Disk Access then this comes up. So be careful what you give the rights too, but for instance Terminal and item are good candidate.

  • nvim: The Missing Manual for NeoVim v0.9 2025-03-31

    Neovim has become such a rich product that even though it is a very fast command-line tool (unlike VS Code), I still use it extensively because you don’t need a mouse. You can do all this in VS Code, but if you want to be that Ferrari 1960s vintage driver with no assist at all,…

  • net: Google Shared Drive Missing Manual v0.9 2025-03-31

    Well, we finally moved from using shared folders to Shared Drives adding a whole new level of permissions confusion. We have a few goals: This turned out to be quite a bit harder than you think. So here’s the missing conceptual manual of what is going on. Shared Drives Need to Be Created Out of…

  • read: From the CDL Reading Group with Ken Liu

    Wow that group is awesome, but some great short stories You should read them all!

  • vm: Ubuntu on Mac with UTM or Lima

    Well, I try not to use Docker too much, but for compatibility testing, it is sure nice to have a QEMU like thing that I can bring up and down. UTM is a nice tool for this that uses the hypervisor stack for graphical applications. Quick notes, when you download the Ubuntu 22.04 images, it…

  • fcp: The Mystery of Final Cut Pro Captions

    Well, they finally added automatic caption creation, but of course they are biased towards the apple itt format so nothing much happens. So here is a guide to making captions work:

  • obs: HDR Output not looking great

    OK, I’ve been doing a lot of HDR work and it’s been mysterious how to set OBS to do this properly. I tried to do one and the colors were way off, but looking at Reddit, you get to the OBS notes and it says that is it. using the latest Screen Capture Kit from…