Asked ChatGPT voice* to quiz me on chords while I was walking around the neighbourhood. Voice recognition was good, response time was good. I didn’t love the “connecting…” stage to kick of the chat. And had bit of a buggy launch, but once started it was solid. Initially it would ask a single question, I …
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trying to find a way to automate google recorder using Tasker. Prompt suggested using Intents. helpful stackoverflow gave abd command to run. windows computer has recentish adb installed, doesn’t have grep, so this part fails. | fgrep -i intent remove that and list everything to a file, we can find relevant bits later. Ended up …
Link rot is bad enough already, probably going to get worse if “sources” are added automatically. Example Conversation “Comparing Animal Strengths in Relation to Humans” linked to “Influence of the Hohenwarte reservoir on tilt and strain observations at Moxa” “Human vs. Animal Physical Capabilities” was a 404 on oxford academic. Since it’s prone to hallucinating …
Conversation My first question was far too general, so got me some generic unhelpful answers. Asking for 20 ideas (inspired by Brainstorming section from this talk) and including specifics got better specific answers. Conversation helps refine requirements. In this case I wanted to think of some different possible interfaces, and maybe technology suggestions for a …
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Conversation Some success, still in progress. Lazy attempt to get a 2 deck controller to control 4 decks in Mixxx, like this example. Fun part about halfway through where it just started hammering through errors trying to debug itself. I think the uploaded file had expired by then (I had also switched computers). But “Show …
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Sometimes I want a way to disable all CSS animations on a page. This is useful for end-to-end testing, automatic screenshots, or reducing motion sickness risk. This recent CSS Tricks post suggests disabling animations & transitions while resizing, to reduce needless browser work. This is an excellent idea! Here is the usual way of disabling …
A useful tip when adding screenshots to posts or talks is to put them “inside” a device. This gives the screenshot some context. Even though this screenshot already contains Android top & bottom bars, with the added outline it’s immediately obvious it’s from a phone. To add the outline to images I use a simple …
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Awk is a command for doing things with text files. We give it a text file and it can do an action on each line. So we can print the whole line, or part of the line, or reorder parts. As a simple example, here’s a CSV of people’s last name, first name, age, and …
useful to mock backend responses when you don’t want to have to donate RAM to minikube when developing locally // from https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/api.md#pagesetrequestinterceptionvalue const puppeteer = require(‘puppeteer’); (async function main() { try { const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: false }); const [page] = await browser.pages(); await page.setRequestInterception(true); page.on(‘request’, (interceptedRequest) => { if (interceptedRequest.url().includes(‘additional_metrics.json’) { interceptedRequest.respond({ …
a16z – Andresson Horowitz. I don’t hear/use this often enough to remember it, so completely forget what it stands for a11y – Accessibility. I come across this all the time, yet can never remember what word it is short for. Yet I link ‘a11y’ to the concept of accessibility. My issue with this is possibly …