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Tag: Utility
A Calendar Framework For Emacs
emacs-calfw is a calendar framework for Emacs. It looks beautiful, thoughtful, well thought out, and well-developed. That is from reading its landing page, I never used it. I use Google Calendar, and, this package is still intriguing because every question I could come up with was well answered on that landing page.
Easily Browse Imenu Entries In A Buffer
Imenu is an under-recognized gem of a package. One way to make it more accessible is to utilize it via a buffer instead of going up to a menu.
imenu-list does just that. It is shockingly powerful because nearly every package has Imenu integration, it is fast, easy to read, and lets you quickly jump around and exit the mode just as easily as you entered it.
Screenflow 6 User Guide Highlights
- Recording Monitor makes monitoring easier
- Easily add markers
- Difference between clips and backing medias turns ScreenFlow (SF) into a Lisp-like and Git-like environment for easily trying things out and reverting them if you don’t like the results
- Test this out by speeding up or slowing down a clip, cool
- Where can I find standard, known-good approaches for visual and audio effects in multimedia content production?
- Nested clips
- Templates seem like a really great idea, too
- You can do free-hand callouts that blur and darken areas
- Everyone must know about snapback actions
- Restore the state of the clip to the
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- Restore the state of the clip to the
A Simplified Git Workflow
This is what I use most of the time when I don’t need 4096 feature branches.
Cool thing is that even when you do need 4096 feature branches that this still makes total sense. Add some client releases and QA branches and it still works fine.
Key though is that it is really is this simple.
Easily Dust With A Damp Microfiber Cloth
Having grown up with Lemon Pledge I found that the lemon scent was the only pleasant thing about dusting with it. The endless wiping which just spread the dust around was… not fun. My dad mentioned he switched to dusting with a damp microfiber cloth. Wow. It rocks. The world needs to know about these things. Best of all: when you are finished, just wash them and hang them to dry, no paper waste at all!
Gogs – Go Git Service
GOGS is “A painless self-hosted Git service.”
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