Since starting Breaking Change earlier this year, I've wanted to start publishing stock-video-laden clips of my favorite little rants and flourishes. The trouble is, video is a huge time sink. At least for me, relative to the other things I do. So I pulled out a timer and ran an experiment to see if I could turn around a ~3 minute clip in under an hour.

And I succeeded! I think with some template setup work, I could get it down to even less time. Hopefully this means more video shenanigans in the future.

I made a video from the random live photos and video snippets I assembled after visiting the PayPay Dome in Fukuoka for a Softbank SeaHawks game on May 21st.

Enjoy.

(Also, before anyone writes in: users don't get to pick out the thumbnail images for their Shorts, because Youtube knows it can maximize engagement by just scanning your video for any stills of girls. Neat.)

All aboard the Persona Polar Express! Next stop, Uncanny Valley!

I had a lot of fun creating this video about what I've learned from speaking at conferences (YouTube | blog post).

Whether or not you have aspirations of speaking yourself, I hope you'll enjoy the behind-the-scenes look into my process. 💚

I love writing scripts against the ChatGPT API that are intentionally constrained to particular input and output formats. Here's one I wrote this morning to help me write spreadsheets with a REPL-like interface to continuously improve the output until I'm happy with it.

Shortcuts is an underappreciated way to wire up Apple products with third party APIs without writing custom code. I've found can muck with request headers and satisfy whatever authorization scheme most APIs expect, too.

Within 30 minutes of getting API access to GPT-4, I'd wired it up to the Action Button on my Apple Watch for Japanese language practice.

I started a screencast series last week, and I can call it a series now because there's a second one.