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TL;DR: CaptionSnap is a $9.99 one-time menu bar app that saves your Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet transcripts by reading the live captions the meeting app already displays. No audio recording, no bot in the call, no cloud, no model...
I enjoy reading The Guardian's monthly round-up of new SF novels, which can be found in their Science Fiction Books section, and can also be read via feed. Since the round-up is of new books, at the time the round-up is published they're...
Ten years and one day ago, on August 9, 2016, I abruptly quit my job. I mark this occasion as the beginning of my indie software developer career. Happy anniversary to me and to my customers! I didn’t formulate a plan until after I quit....
Andy rounds up the games at a recent society meeting. Only one historical game at the society at this meeting, a Fields Of Glory clash between Alexandrian Macedonians and Later Selucid armies using 6mm figures. A pike block appears over...
The following extraordinary paragraph comes from Knuth’s TAOCP Volume 4A, right before the last set of exercises. Many of the exercises below ask a modern reader to find and/or to correct errors in the literature of bygone days. The...
In science and engineering classes, you might describe a system using Newton’s laws and end up with a differential equation. You then solve the differential equation, analytically or numerically, to see how the solutions behave. You...
How I made a DIY bee vacuum from a couple 5 gallon buckets, hardware cloth, and a shop vac hose replacement set. DIY Bee Vacuum – Tips for new beekeepers #beekeeping #beekeeper #diyEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original...
We’ve made it to August, somehow, so I figured now was a good time to do a check in on the birds here at the house and around the region. Summer is the slow time for birding — everyone is settled in to their place so there’s no migration...
Bookish social media people may have noticed an uptick in conversation about Modelland, the YA Fantasy masterpiece by Tyra Banks. For years, the Haters and Patrons persisted in trying to get me to recap the book. In 2023, they were...
The video Constructing the Revolution talks about how to start prefiguring the future you want today. (Heads up: the middle section of the video gets into some pretty heavy territory near the middle.) Early on, there’s some important...
Rolling into Seeley Lake at 6:31am on the Fourth of July, we'd be forgiven if we'd thought it much later in the day. The town was bustling with activity in preparation for what was surely going to be a huge celebration. Perhaps this was...
The old world is dying. The new one is slow in appearing. In this light and shadow, monsters arise. ~Fiamma MontezemoloMay you live in interesting times. It's an Ancient Chinese curse. Likewise it's a blessing, in the same sense that...
Norway's ISO country code is NO. Under the YAML 1.1 spec, unquoted no (case-insensitive, along with yes, on, off, y, n, true, false) is treated as a boolean and not a string. You can see the problem here. ~ cat test.yaml countries: - NO...
(And that's how you know I'm not really a coffee person, since I could only come up with four types)
🔖📚 Read Navigating the Brain Poisoning of Book Censorship by Kelly Jensen. A great piece about how even fighting censorship can prime you to start looking for content in books that isn’t there.