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Continue reading →: apple: Utterly confusing sharing AirPods from a single iPhone or iPadThis is such a cool gesture, but I have to confess I simply always forget how to use it. No, you can’t find it in settings or anywhere sane like that. Even the Apple instructions are super unclear but here is exactly what to do: So that’s not too bad.…
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Continue reading →: tvl: Tessan 140W, Satechi 145W and Anker MagGo blinking and Cable StrangenessOK, I’ve been trying to reduce my kit while traveling a lot and the Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger seems like a wonderful thing if I can figure out how to make it work as does the Belkin 3-in-1 Travel charger with the same issues. Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger:…
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Continue reading →: Blog: Life Beyond WordPress to JAMStackAs 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…
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Continue reading →: vid: Final Cut Pro Slideshow Tips: Portraits, Ken Burns, Panos, Transitions, Horizons, Zoom, HLG vs PQI 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…
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Continue reading →: pod: Rich and Steven talk AI as of end of AugustThere’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…
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Continue reading →: vid: Final Cut Pro review, combine audio/video, make intros, drop zonesMan, 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…
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Continue reading →: dev: Move from poetry to uvThanks 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: Dev: Vim magic substitutions, macros and yank buffersI 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…
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Continue reading →: home: the mysteries of alarm.com loginsOk, 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…
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