Every Wednesday I host WeAreDevelopers Live on YouTube. Afterwards we cut out short videos to post on social media. What we needed was an obvious “shoutout moment” in the recording to indicate an interesting quote or when we moved on to the next topic – much like a clapper in classic movies to sync audio […]

Context menus are a treasure trove of features you miss otherwise. Did you know for example that you can trim videos in MacOS Finder? All you need to do is open the context menu on any video file, go to “Quick Actions” and select “Trim”: You then get a trimming interface that allows to drag […]

As the times we live in demand it, I released Derpify.js. It is an npm package (3 line method) that turns strings into strings that are randomly mixed upper and lower case. console.log(derpify(’All he wanted to say was I love you all.’))console.log(derpify('All he wanted to say was I love you all.')) gives you: ALL hE […]

80 years ago today the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. Millions of people were killed there. Jews, Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, homosexuals, political prisoners… All accounted for. Killed by people “just following orders”. An industrial destruction complex void of any emotion. A dehumanisation machine. Surrounded by villages of people who claim not to […]

Whilst trying to reload a document in my browser, I found an interesting shortcut. As I had a Finder window in focus with a video file highlighted, I found out that: You can rotate images and videos in Finder 90 degrees clockwise by pressing CMD+R and You can rotate images and videos in Finder 90 […]