In order to fix a broken video where the camera stopped recording, I wanted to replace the part with a video with a sound wave overlay. There are many services for that, and it is also a feature of video editing software. But I am stingy and a geek, so I wanted to use FFMPEG […]

VideoTap keeps getting better and better. The latest version now has a new feature called Clips which allows you to create short excerpt videos from larger ones by selecting a part of the text in the transcript. When you upload a video, VideoTap automatically creates a transcript, which is used to create the AI powered […]

Disclaimer: I got no affiliation with Hemingway other than paying for it. I am just genuinely excited about this. Hemingway is an app I use almost daily. It is a text editor that shows you when your language gets too hard to read. It advises you to keep shorter sentences and avoid complex language. It […]

As part of taking over the editorial job of the WeAreDevelopers newsletter, I needed to get all the links from older editions and import them into a spreadsheet. Eventually I will write a scraping script, but there is a much simpler way to get all the links from a web site into a spreadsheet: browser […]

GitHub is where code lives. You make your updates there, and in the case of frontend work, you can even host it in GitHub pages. When I publish something, I write a blog post and often I put some of the code in the post. When feedback comes in about new features I update the […]