Videos

In this interview and demo, I speak with @CerbosDev about their open source and commercial tool for implementing one of the most tedious of developer tasks more easily, roles and permissions. https://www.cerbos.dev 00:00 Intro theme 00:02 Intro to video 00:26 Intro to the Cerbos team 00:54 What is Cerbos? 02:16 Differences between open source and commercial versions 04:06 Where do you run Cerbos? 05:00 How Cerbos fits into infrastructure 05:34 Demo 06:48 Where you define the policy 07:05 Demo 10:44 Interactive policy manager demo 13:27 Defining tests in Cerbos 18:55 Builds demo 21:55 How did Cerbos begin 26:24 Cerbos integrations 31:16 Deploying Cerbos 34:26 What's next for Cerbos 39:56 The Cerbos logo 40:52 Outro 41:15 Outro music #development #programming #authentication #cloudnative #opensource

In this interview and demo I speak with Ruan from Fiero about how their two person team has built an amazing browser-based tool that helps game designers and developers to build 2D games in the browser but distribute them to a wide variety of native platforms including desktop and mobile. https://fierogameengine.com

AsciiDoc is a popular markup language amongst technical writers, but tooling options are limited compared to markdown. adoc studio aims to fill that gap, and in this video, I take a look at how it compares to using AsciiDoc plugins in VSCode or an IntelliJ-based IDE.

WordCounter is a $20 macOS application that shows you how many words you write and where. Does it help make you more productive or is more of an interesting insight? I take a look! 00:00 Intro music 00:01 Intro 00:43 Intro to Wordcounter 01:24 Installing Wordcounter 01:58 Wordcounter interface overview 02:03 Wordcounter preferences 02:42 Overview of words counted 03:06 Adding an app to track 03:30 Viewing tracking history 04:28 Viewing tracking reports 05:09 Outro 07:43 Outro music http://wordcounterapp.com #productivity #writing #macos #utilities

I'm back with my first interactive fiction playthrough and review in…A long time! It's the turn of The Magnatorana, a retro, sci-fi interactive fiction adventure from Peddle Boy. Enjoy! https://peddleboy.itch.io/the-magnatorana

In this video, I take a look at some of the best transcription tools for podcasters and how the recent wave of generative AI has changed the tools now available. I look at @Google recorder, macOS dictation, @Otterai , @Riversidefm , TechSmith Audiate, @Descript , @RogueAmoebaVideos Audio Hijack, MacWhisper, and @Adobe@Adobe Premiere Which is best for editing, features, and transcription quality? I take a look! 00:00 Intro music 00:01 Intro 01:35 Google recorder 02:42 Otter 04:42 Premiere Pro 06:26 Descript 09:31 Audiate 12:00 Riverside.fm 13:48 MacWhisper 17:01 Audio Hijack 19:34 macOS 21:22 Outro 23:12 Outro music #transcription #ai #artificialintelligence #transcript #podcast #editing #editingvideo #video #transcribing

I came across this World War 2 trench on the outskirts of Berlin, and I've never had such an eerie, disconcerting experience.

In this video sponsored by PixieBrix, I look at their low-code tool for adding automation and integrations to existing web pages. It takes a different approach to many others out there, and I was intrigued! I look at how to use its inbuilt connections to APIs and how to send and receive data from external ones. I also look at text manipulation and AI features. More info: https://bit.ly/3TkBFat

I look at Actions for Obsidian, a standalone application that brings Apple Shortcuts to Obsidian, allowing some connection and automation from the rest of macOS and other applications on your Mac. I look at creating notes by selecting text elsewhere, creating a daily schedule, triggering Obsidian commands and using an Elgato Stream Deck and Raycast with Obsidian. https://support.actions.work/collection/1-actions-for-obsidian Want a blog version of this video? https://chrischinchilla.medium.com/bring-the-power-of-apple-shortcuts-to-obsidian-8cc84949e50e

In this video sponsored by PixieBrix, I look at their low-code tool for adding automation and integrations to existing web pages. It takes a different approach to many others out there, and I was intrigued! I look at how to set it up, adding checklists to GitHub pull requests, creating Trello cards from GitHub issues and emails, and how to use PixieBrix with an Elgato Stream Deck. More info: https://bit.ly/3TkBFat

JetBrains Writerside, the IntelliJ-based tool for those creating and maintaining documentation is now in early access and available as a separate IDE. In this video I take a look at new features and improvements including support for API specs, Mermaid, Tex, new markup, and more! Sorry everyone I am aware that the video is in mono, my mistake, but it's not possible to update videos on YouTube.

In this episode, we look at tools and services to enhance your tabletop and roleplaying game playing and creation. They're mostly ChatGPT, but it's still an interesting experiment to see what kind of fantastical ideas the machines can develop. tldr; They are surprisingly creative! There's a lot of typing in this episode, and we did our best to reduce the clacking of my awesome keyboard…

Runme combines your docs with everything great about scripting and pipelines. I take a second look at using this tool with the CLI, VSCode, headless, and in the cloud. There are still a few quirks and issues, but for teams who want to share workflows and runbooks along with their output with each other, is runme what you're looking for? https://runme.dev Blog version: https://medium.com/@chrischinchilla/making-markdown-interactive-with-runme-654afb7a942b

Welcome to my channel! I cover interesting and novel technologies, creative applications, and the intersections between them. If you like what you see, please subscribe, review, and share. If you love what you see, find out how to support me at chrischinchilla.com/support

In this video, I cover how I use Newzik and Dorico to digitize drum scores stored as PDFs into MusicXML and MIDI. This means I now have a consistent library of digital scores I can take into DAWs like Ableton and Cubase, annotate notes for practice sessions, and create drum patterns from scratch.

I look at using a cool command line tool called displayplacer to switch screen configurations in macOS. It lets you change resolution, layout, rotation, and more. I look at how to use it from the command line, with Apple Shortcuts, Bettertouchtool, and Raycast. I love using this tool now to switch my screen setups, I hope you enjoy it too. https://jakehilborn.github.io/displayplacer/ Want a blog version? Take a look here: https://medium.com/p/650c62c0f1bf

This video summarises a recent talk at API the Docs where I took a historic ramble through the history of HTML to understand the plethora of new tools for creating dynamic content on the web and wonder why we don't use nearly enough of them on documentation platforms. Covers tools such as Docusaurus, Astro, Next.JS, Gatsby, and more! blog Version: https://javascript.plainenglish.io/is-the-future-of-documentation-dynamic-ba88fed7a74d

This video was sponsored by Document360. Document360 is Knowledge Base Platform, engineered for growing companies. In this video I look at the analysis features for the documentation portals you create with Document360, this includes handling feedback, user demographics, and exporting all analysis data as CSV files. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3YwSI9P

In this episode we take a look at tools that help you generate different types of video content from creative to business use cases with AI. We also look at tools that help you be more productive editing and refining videos, making a lot of the more tedious tasks easier and quicker. Included are make-a-video, Adobe Premiere, AutoPod, and many others.

This video was sponsored by Document360. Document360 is Knowledge Base Platform, engineered for growing companies. In this video I look at it's API spec functions for creating docs from API spec files, keeping them up to date when the spec changes, viewing the rendered spec as documentation and trying generated code examples that match the spec. Find out more: https://bit.ly/3NVzF4b

Following up from my recent round up for macOS native generative AI apps, in preparation for a forthcoming writing competition, I take a look at the AI apps part of Setapp, a macOS application subscription platform.

Generative AI tools and platforms are not just the flavour of the month (for now), they’re the flavour of the year, if not the decade. Many of these are web platforms, and I have always been the first to admit that I prefer good old-fashioned, offline-first native desktop applications. As many of the new wave of services were smart enough to include an API option, this has made it possible for enterprising developers to create any other type of application they want to, including, in the case of this video, macOS native ones. I look at Photoshop beta, Text Assistant, MacGPT, Writers Brew, Amazing AI, and Mac Whisper. Blog version: https://medium.com/p/1e6fa5c489b

Build text adventure games and interactive fiction with quest.

Thanks to new virtualisation features in macOS, it’s easier than ever to try new versions to see what’s coming. A handful of small features in macOS Sonoma grabbed my attention, so I take an (early) look. I look at the features that are currently possible to test, and didn't rely on signing in… Which wasn't many. But I looked at interactive widgets, PDF improvements, new Safari features, and a few more items.

I've covered how I use astro for my personal website a few times over the past few months and I'm excited to see the team have created an option for creating documentation sites. I take a look!

I am finally getting into Obsidian and thought it was time I learnt how to make a plugin for this infamous and popular knowledge management tool. As my guest I have Marcus Olsson, who wrote the docs on how to create plugins for Obsidian.

My first Superbooth in Berlin and what a great event! I take a whistle stop tour through some of the products and booths that jumped out to me. Also features a track written by me called "I'm bored".

Fresh(ish) from speaking with the team at KubeCon I take a look at Fermyon’s approach at making WebAssembly easier to use and their tool "spin" that follows recognisable patterns for creating server less applications.

Adobe brings their own take on Generative AI in a form of experiments for generating images and text, with more to come, and perhaps direct integration with creative cloud applications.

An Adobe Premiere plugin that promises to save your hours of tedious editing work creating cuts from multiple cameras, for social shares, and more? Yes please!

I’ve been using Raycast for some time and have made no secret of how much I love it. The team recently jumped on the bandwagon of adding AI capabilities and I take a look at how useful they really are and how they compare to the handful of AI-powered plugins already available for Raycast.

I recently migrated my ageing Jekyll site to Astro and hit a few bumps along the way that I have already summarised in a blog post. In this stream, I take you through all those changes and how they fit together.

I recently rediscovered a lot of old Garageband and Cubase songs I created a long time ago. Some are great and some are terrible. But I am slowly working my way through some of them and seeing how I can bring them into Ableton.

Quickly and easily transcribe audio files into text with OpenAI's state-of-the-art transcription technology Whisper. Whether you're recording a meeting, lecture, or other important audio, MacWhisper quickly and accurately transcribes your audio files into text.

JetBrains are testing a new UI and redesigned look for IntelliJ IDEA. It has been created to reduce visual complexity, provide easy access to essential features, and progressively disclose complex functionality as needed – resulting in a cleaner look and feel. All that sounds great! But how does it make you work more productively? I take a look!

In this third episode of "in bots we trust" Killian and Chris look at chord AI, magenta studio, Vall-e, moises, musenet, and more! How can these tools help you learn and remix existing music, or help you create new music when you need ideas. We take a look!

I continue my journey looking at tools for creative interactive media and take a look at celtx, which claims to the the “industry standard”… Don’t they all!

Writersbrew is one AI writing assistant app that works across all browsers, native apps & electron apps instead of dozens of siloed writing assistants. Sounds awesome! Is it? I take a look.

A new preview feature from GitHub promises to extend your codebase with custom, interactive blocks. Build rich documentation, enhance your workflows, and bring your repository to life. In this livestream I take a look at what's possible right now with the feature and what's coming later.

A classic tool for interactive fiction writers everywhere, Inform 7 offers natural language processing and a large body of language understanding to help you create fiction that readers can truly interact with.

I love my Stream Deck(s) for convenient shortcut triggering but often find its official plugins lacking certain functions I need. Intros livestream I look at how easy it is to use the offical SDK to create a plugin for a stream deck.

I relive my childhood by playing through some of the classic Lone Wolf game books, starting with book 1, "Flight from the dark" by Joe Dever. © Joe Dever 1984, and thanks to Project Aon

AI meet writer… Should we be afraid, or inspired? Well, Sudowrite hope to be the AI writing assistant you look forward to using, not fear. I take a look… And write some nonsense.

Not a new project, but a rebranding, Decap used to be Netlify CMS and is back. I take a look at what has changed and try to add it to my new Astro website.

Known for their Intellij IDE line of developer tools, JetBrains are now working on a series of plugins to make the work of technical writer's easier. Writerside brings features to author, preview, build, test, and publish your technical documentation right inside IntelliJ. Grazie and Grazie professional brings natural language powered writing assistance including suggestions, translations, style checking, and much more. Both are in early access and rapid development and I take a look to see what they offer and if they are enough to convince me to move away from my VSCode-based toolchain.

I start the video by looking at Motif and MarkDoc, but they didn't really work, so I moved on to Mintlify that combines Markdown with React components as a SaaS alternative to MDX and its ecosystem. Is it worth the money?

DiffusionBee and Amazing AI are two macOS apps for playing with Stable Diffusion offline and hardware optimised. I take a look and compare the two applications to see what random artwork I can generate.

I start the video by looking at Motif and MarkDoc, but they didn't really work, so I moved on to Mintlify that combines Markdown with React components as a SaaS alternative to MDX and its ecosystem. Is it worth the money?

I relive my childhood by playing through some of the classic Lone Wolf game books, starting with book 1, "Flight from the dark" by Joe Dever. © Joe Dever 1984, and thanks to Project Aon

An open source research project exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process. It uses Tensor flow under the hood to generate beats and melodies with MIDI tracks. Colour me intrigued!