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My goal is to help you work faster.
I must speak and teach until I hear 10 people say, "That thing you taught me? I used it! And it saved me time!"
(Ahem ... although maybe blogging slower than I'd hoped. Ugh, coders' repetitive stress injury.)
So check out the tutorials. Play with code. Tell me about your triumphs.
Record 2 videos using the same microphone
06 Mar 2021
On Windows, there’s no rule saying multiple running programs can’t make use of the same “microphone” at the same time. They can! You can produce 2 separate outputs that share 1 input audio track.
Continue ReadingUsing a Behringer UCA202 with Windows, Android, or iOS
06 Mar 2021
A Behringer UCA202 USB audio interface is special because Windows, Android, and iOS (iPad, iPhone) all see it as a single simple combination device: 1 stereo microphone + 1 stereo speaker. It works like a dream for playback w/o unplugging.
Continue ReadingListening to computer sound through an Audient iD14
06 Mar 2021
Bad news: I haven’t yet figured out how to make a Windows computer think of an Audient iD14 USB audio interface as a “speaker” and send sound from the computer to the iD14’s headphone jack.
Continue ReadingRecording an Audient iD14's sound in Windows
06 Mar 2021
On Windows, an Audient iD14 USB audio interface works like having 5 stereo microphones plugged into 5 USB ports simultaneously.
Continue ReadingIntro to streaming and recording concepts
06 Mar 2021
In this series, I’ll be sharing a few notes I recently wrote for a musician to orient them to various pieces of hardware and software they’ve been able to borrow or buy during the pandemic for the purpose of livestreaming and recording performances and tutorials.
Continue ReadingMy video editing software
01 Mar 2021
A family member just asked me about my tech stack for video editing, and it’s all over the place. Here’s what I’ve come up with so far.
Continue Reading11ty Markdown -- group pets by color
08 Feb 2021
Back in November, I addressed a StackOverflow question about how dynamic “list” generation worked in 11ty compared to Drupal views. I explained the mental adjustments you’d have to go through when switching from a web site management system with a relational (SQL) data model vs. an object data model.
However, not really understanding Eleventy’s handling of Markdown, I did so with all of the data inside a single .js file within the _data folder. It turns out Alec wanted to know more about crunching data from Markdown files in 11ty. Now that I understand 11ty’s processing of .md files a bit better myself (and the ways you combine .md files with .11ty.js / 11ty.json files inside a folder to avoid repeating yourself within Markdown front matter), I decided to take another stab at making a web site that groups “kittens & puppies” by color – this time with Markdown instead of JSON data. (Code; live site)
I’m pretty pleased with the results as an example of the way 11ty helps you store your data exactly how you want it, while also generating URLs according to your dreams.
Responsive, accessible navigation 5: HTML structure
08 Feb 2021
Having taken apart a lot of other navbars, here’s one structure for my nav.liquid 11ty template that I think might work.
Responsive, accessible navigation 4: Preventative troubleshooting
08 Feb 2021
Before I go any further (yup, there’s still no nav data in my navbar!), I should think through some issues that might come up as I try to implement a navbar.
Continue ReadingResponsive, accessible navigation 3: Constraining width
08 Feb 2021
Before I actually put any navigational data into my masthead, I want to play with constraining its width.
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