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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.
Data Development and Integrations (official Salesforce Developers podcast appearance)
08 Mar 2021
Official Salesforce Developers podcast host Josh Birk is so much fun to geek out with!
Following up from Cactusforce, our working title was “APIs are for everybody,” but we threw in the whole kitchen sink of admineloper-ey goodness about Flow, data modeling, testing, Apex for beginners, user-oriented automation design, Python – and yes, APIs! – that the final show, hot off the presses, is called Data Development and Integrations.
What's a docking station?
06 Mar 2021
A docking station is a piece of hardware meant to be permanently-ish installed at 1 location, to facilitate plugging a laptop into accessories that are also permanently-ish installed at that location.
Continue ReadingUsing OBS as a virtual webcam for Zoom conference calls
06 Mar 2021
Going really deep into the world of “virtual webcams” …
In its latest versions, OBS has an option to set its output as a “webcam.”
Using your phone or iPad as a webcam
06 Mar 2021
To use your tablet or phone as a webcam, fed into your computer, you have to install some software at both ends to trick the two devices into behaving.
Continue ReadingPiP webcam + screen sharing
06 Mar 2021
To simultaneously video-capture your face and your computer screen, and embed one “picture-in-picture” (PiP) style on top of the other, like a coding Youtuber would:
Continue ReadingRecord 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.
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