So, you’ve got a problem? That’s good! Why? Because repeated victories over your problems are the rungs on your ladder of success. With each victory, you grow in wisdom, stature and experience. You become a better, bigger, more successful person each time you meet a problem and tackle and conquer it with a positive mental attitude.
– W. Clement Stone
Screencasting Practice & Feedback: 00003
Plan
- Demonstrate lessons-learned about alternate input methods and redefinition of the Emacs interpretation of modifier keys
- Utilize a lower-third instead of text-boxes
- Talk louder
Execution
Preparation
- Pretend you are going to a job-interview, or on a date, that is recorded for everyone to see, forever
- Perform all personal preparations that you normally would for example
- Brush your teeth
- Perform all personal preparations that you normally would for example
- Applied Revlon PhotoReady Prime + Anti Shine Balm Clear
- First watched a video how-to, YouTube rocks
- Lights and camera and microphone
- Set them up
- Tested them
- Hooked up camera and turned it on
- Adjusted white balance
- Set left light pointed at me; right light pointed at ceiling
- Adjust left light to give face warmth (versus ghost appearance)
- Microphone is on and input volume maxed out
- Turn off HVAC
- Mute Phone and Pushbullet
- Close other applications
- Verify microphone woks
- Verify recording on correct monitor
- Write rough script
- Pour glass of water
Execution
- Showed off Emacs mug and encouraged FSF support
Post Production
- Removed makeup
Screencasting Practice & Feedback: 00002
Plan
- Demonstrate how I like to quote content in Org-Mode
- Learn how to use call-outs and text-boxes
- Learn how to ad-lib content
- Scripted out location of content and video-recording of presenter to make sense of what is appearing on the screen and where
- Learn how to use content-music
Execution
- Made video top right 100% of the top right corner
- This means scaling it by 50%
- Remove the dropshadow from the video
- The video stood out enough already
- Amplified volume by 200%
- Added callouts interesting content
- Added watermwark, 25% scale, 25% opacity, 10 key-presses from bottom and right edge
- Include the word Screencast in announcement to distinguish between screencast and blog post
- 6h of effort for 7m of content
- Posted manually on Reddit
- Blog published to social sites
Outcome & Feedback
- Wrote a script; didn’t pay attention to it enough
- After re-recording it six times, said I would never re-record it again. Instead made corrections using text-boxes positioned over my face.
- Light was OK
- Speaking volume was too quiet; content volume was too loud
- Skin was shiny
- Looping the banner and jingle at the end was a mistake
- The 3m monologue about Braille displays was interesting to me and perhaps no one else so don’t include that. 3m is a long time.
- Use a lower-third intead of text boxes
- Redditers commented that a blog post would have been more concise and faster. What is the best of both worlds?
Screencasting Practice & Feedback: 00001
Plan
- Develop a jingle and banner to introduce the videos
- Learn how to use ScreenFlow on smallest project possible
- Learn how to publish and monetize on YouTube
- Learn how to define closed-caption content
Outcome & Feedback
- YouTube
- Easy and pleasant process
- Signing up takes 30m or so
- Publishing the video offers 20-30 configuration options
- Forgot to develop a watermark for the videos
- Closed-captioning is tedious and time-consuming
- Screenflow project is large; be sure to keep it on a large disk
- Glad to have worked in a simple project like this to get some practice with Screenflow. It took some trial and error to grok the power of layers in practice.
- Volume wasn’t loud enough
- Transitions were OK; can see some blockiness because of how I layered the background
GNU Hackers' Meeting 2016 in Brittany, France
Via here:
The ninth GNU Hackers’ Meeting will take place in Rennes (Brittany, France) from August 18-20
Talk about fine taste!
Sounds like a delightful trip.
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Emil Post and his Anticipation of Goedel and Turing
In Emil Post and his Anticipation of Goedel and Turing
The author discusses Emil Post`s life and ideas about incompletness and insolvability which later became famous with Goedel and Turing`s work, and the differences between Post and Goedel.
Fascinating read (the parts that I understood :P).
(Screencast) The Best Emacs Modifier Key Setup for OS X
Here is an easy way to use both Emacs and OS X modifier keys when you are inside Emacs:
Toggle the right-option and function key to switch between using them inside Emacs and using them for OS X.
Addendum:
I used Karabiner to make ENTER
send LEFT CONTROL
when chorded. I used OS X to make CAPS LOCK
be CONTROL
. I didn’t change OPTION
and COMMAND
. I made this change because Emacs couldn’t ignore the key-event when it was coming from Karabiner.
Here is the code:
(help/on-osx (setq mac-control-modifier 'control) (setq mac-right-control-modifier 'left) (setq mac-command-modifier 'meta) (setq mac-right-command-modifier 'left) (setq mac-option-modifier 'super) (setq mac-right-option-modifier 'left) (setq mac-function-modifier 'hyper) (defun help/toggle-mac-right-option-modifier () "Toggle between passing option modifier either to Emacs or OS X." (interactive) (let ((old-ropt mac-right-option-modifier)) (setq mac-right-option-modifier (if (eq mac-right-option-modifier 'left) 'none 'left)) (message "Toggled `mac-right-option-modifier' from %s to %s." old-ropt mac-right-option-modifier))) (defun help/toggle-mac-function-modifier () "Toggle between passing function modifier either to Emacs or OS X." (interactive) (let ((old-func mac-function-modifier)) (setq mac-function-modifier (if (eq mac-function-modifier 'hyper) 'none 'hyper)) (message "Toggled `mac-function-modifier' from %s to %s." old-func mac-function-modifier))))
Brené Brown: Daring Greatly to Unlock Your Creativity
Brené Brown: Listening to shame
- URL
- “Vulnerability is not weakness”
- “[It] is our most accurate measurement of courage; it fuels our daily life”
- “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change”
- “You gotta dance with the one who brung ya”
- “TED is the failure conference; very few people here are afraid to fail and have failed miserably many times”
- “The credit goes to the man in the arena”
- “Shames drives “Never good enough” and “Who do you think you are?””
- Regarding men and shame, a male attendee shared that “You say to reach out, tell our story, be vulnerable… but [the most important women in my life] would rather me die on top of my white horse than watch me fall down. When [men] reach out and be vulnerable we get the shit beat out of us and don’t tell me it is [from other guys] it is the women in my life who are harder on me than anyone else”.
- “Shame is an epidemic in our culture”
- “Empathy is the antidote to shame”
- “Me too; the two most powerful words when we are in struggle”
- “Vulnerability is the path back to finding each other”