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My videos, livestreams, and courses. You can find all my archived videos and streams below:
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Hands on - Creating amazing documentation with Archbee.mp4
Archbee joins the plethora of tools promising to help you build cohesive, well integrated, and varied developer documentation. It includes markdown, API references, commenting, mermaid support, and much more. Too good to be true or just what youāre looking for? I take a look!

The Solo Adventurer - I'm Bored, Let's Explore (Ruins)
A game about discovering the past with a sibling. And skeletons. Yes.

Hands on - Private browsing with DuckDuckGo for macOS
Iāve used DuckDuckGo as a search engine for a while, but the company also has mobile browsers Iāve been experimenting with, and now announced a browser for macOS in beta that isnāt just another Chromium browser. I take a look and see why I might use it instead of Safari.

Hands on - Switching from Heroku to Vercel
In this hands on I see whatās involved in switching a small hobby coding project from hosted with Heroku to Vercel.

Hands on - Headless CMS in VSCode with Front Matter
Front Matter is a CMS that runs within Visual Studio Code. It gives you the power and control of a full-blown CMS while also providing you the flexibility and speed of the static site generator of your choice. Wow!? I take a lookā¦
Creative writing with JetBrains Grazie
I looked at using Grazie for technical copy, tried creative writing with GitHub Copilot, and people asked me to try the same with Grazie⦠So here we go, another live writing session with an AI assistant! What will we concoct together?

The Solo Adventurer - Narrative Scripting with inky
As a long-term technical writer I find creating games with structured text works for my brain. How does Inky and its various plugins allow me to create games? How does it compare to other tools Iāve looked at such as Twine and Expeditios? I take a look!

Hands on - Open Source video Editing with kdenlive
Iām currently looking at alternatives to Adobe Premiere and I thought why not try the open source kdenlive and see how it compares to a plethora of proprietary, expensive editors.

The Solo Adventurer - Create D&D content with The Homebrewery
The Homebrewery is a tool for making authentic looking D&D content using Markdown, merging two of my favourite things⦠Too good to be true? Letās see!
Keeping code and documentation in sync with Hasty Docs
I speak with the team behind Hasty Docs, a tool that aims to keep documentation and code changes in sync by allowing you to link lines together.

Hands on - Smarter writing with IntelliJ Grazie
Yes⦠I know I pronounce the name wrong š¤¦āāļø And yes⦠I know I am using the wrong plugin until about 12 minutes in, but I think it still works š¤ š . Grazie provides intelligent grammar checks, completion, and writing assistance for natural language text in IntelliJ-based IDEs. It checks text in code comments, commit messages, and text files, such as Markdown, XML, AsciiDoc, and so on. Will it convince me to switch from my customised setup in Visual Studio Code? Join me and see!

The Solo Adventurer - Exploring power with Grievance
Grievance is an interactive story about power. The limits of power, its corrosive nature, and the damage that power inflicts, deliberate or otherwise, on all those without it. Join me as I follow the lives of three characters as their paths cross and untangle over the course of the story.
Charmed Kubeflow with Rob Gibbon of Canonical
In this Chinchilla Squeaks interview I speak with Rob Gibbon, Product Manager at Canonical about their flavour of Kubeflow and how it can be used for machine learning workloads with Kubernetes.

Hands on - Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with NeutralinoJS
Another lightweight and portable desktop application development framework that lets you develop lightweight cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. How does it compare to other alternatives?

Hands on - Headless CMS done right with Dato CMS
I am on an endless mission to find a headless CMS that actually works as easily and as well as the marketing copy claims. Will Dato satisfy me or will it end up like all other headless CMS Iāve tried and be a great editing experience, but a disappointing content delivery? Join me and see! http://datocms.com
Creative writing with GitHub copilot
I covered copilot generally in a past video, and after a suggestion from viewers, today I see how it influences some creative writing ideas I have.

The Solo Adventurer - Forging a world with World Anvil
World Anvil claims to give you all the tools you need to create an immense collaborative world for games and campaigns. Watch me stumble and get lost in an overwhelming array of tools and options to see what worlds I can forgeā¦

The Solo Adventurer - Crafting scenarios with Expedition Quest Creator
Expedition is a card and app driven interactive fiction meets role-play game. Around 95% of the quests in the game are contributed by the community and in this video I look at the quest creator tool to see whatās possible.

Hands on - Creating a Trello extension for Raycast
Iāve covered the awesome macOS productivity tool Raycast before, and in this video I walk through the steps I took use itās API to create a Trello extension to list and search tasks. Search Raycast store for āTrelloā and find code here - https://github.com/raycast/extensions/pull/684 Previous Raycast videos also on my channel.

The Solo Adventurer - Surviving a student protest with Masks
Youāre a courier for the resistance, trapped on a university campus under siege. The environment around you is coming apart, fast. Join me in a intense play though of this interactive fiction that loves to play with your expectations. https://samplereality.itch.io/masks

Hands on - Creating a Visual Studio Code Extension Pack
Extension Packs bundle together other VSCode extension to allow for easy sharing of your favourite extensions with other users or creating a set of extensions for a particular scenario. Join me as I attempt to create one for tech writers. Finished extension pack, search āwriters toolkitā, or https://github.com/ChrisChinchilla/writers-toolkit

The Solo Adventurer - Create Hex Maps with Hex Kit
Hex Kit is a multi-platform desktop application for building hex maps to be used with table top role playing games. Hex Kit is built to be intuitive and quick to use with an emphasis on art.

The Solo Adventurer - Creating fantasy maps with Inkarnate
I start exploring fantasy mapping tools for games, fiction, and other uses. First is the turn of Inkarnate that handles everything from worlds to interiors, all online.

Hands on - SwiftUI with Swift Playgrounds 4
Swift playgrounds 4 brings powerful development tools to macOS and iOS contained within an easier to use application (compared to Xcode). I use this Hacking with Swift post (https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/245/build-your-first-swiftui-app-with-swift-playgrounds) to learn whatās possible.

Hands on - Bring live video to streams with VDO.ninja
I looked at OBS.ninja before, but they rebranded and added a few new features, so i thought it was time for another try. If you want to bring live video feeds into your livestreams, is it still the best option?