Christian Heilmann

Crown dwarf witness – Recording a new course for LinkedIn Learning in Graz

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 at 6:47 pm

I am currently in Graz, Austria to record a video series of “Developer tools for non-developers” for LinkedIn Learning. We had a massive ride by car down here from Berlin as my partner isn’t too hot on flying.

Car trip - 915 kilometers in 8.25 hours

The city is ridiculously pretty and we arrived on first of May which is the day of work in Europe. We ended up looking for a first of May celebration and ended up stumbling on one of the communist party of Austria, which was a massive surprise until I learned that the mayor of Graz is also a member of this party.

Anyways, I am spending my days now in the recording booth and I am confident that the material will be done by the end of the week. Here’s the demo pages in English, in case you are wondering what it all will be about.

Recording Booth

Chris wearing headset and microphone

I also really appreciated the swipe-in gadget at the office:

Office entry swipe bar with overlaid picture of Knight Rider

My personal highlight so far was getting continually stuck calling “Main Tools” (Hauptwerkzeuge) “Crown dwarf witness” (Hauptzwergzeuge). I guess it is a wrap for today.

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