Backlinks 2020-05-16 In Brandon Sanderson’s latest BYU lecture, he mentioned using Matt Easton’s videos to learn about various aspects of sword fighting for your Writing. The channel is Scholagladiatoria and it looks awesome.

AutoHotKey equivalents on the Mac Hillel Wayne’s In Praise of AutoHotKey has been making the rounds. AutoHotKey is an Automation tool/language for Windows. I’ve been a Mac user for a long time, so I’m more interested in Mac equivalents. People discussed some of the Mac equivalents on Lobsters. …

Backlinks 2020-05-13 Hillel Wayne’s In Praise of AutoHotKey has been making the rounds. AutoHotKey is an Automation tool/language for Windows. I’ve been a Mac user for a long time, so I’m more interested in Mac equivalents. People discussed some of the Mac equivalents on Lobsters.

Backlinks 2020-05-13 A comment on Lobsters also pointed to Hammerspoon, which allows Lua-based scripting. This has some of the unusual sorts of triggers that Keyboard Maestro has, but without the GUI for managing the actions.

The Risks — Know Them — Avoid Them As places start reopening after COVID-19’s (first) shutdowns, Erin Bromage’s The Risks — Know Them — Avoid Them is a detailed look at how the virus spreads and where most of the risk comes from, so that we can avoid behavior that is risky. 5 years at Khan Academy Today …

How Khan Academy successfully handled 2.5x traffic in a week In March, as schools started closing, Khan Academy traffic surged 2.5x in just a few days. Our VP of Engineering has blogged about how we handled that traffic. Ben Folds on ChatRoulette I’ll warn you that there’s NSFW language in the video here, …

Layout components in the Braid design system These layout components in the Braid design system look nice. Khan Academy’s Wonder Blocks also has layout components. These are both available as React Components.

Board whiteboarding tool Now that everyone’s remote, Collaboration Tools are getting a lot of attention. Zoom more than most. It’s nice to also see a simple new tool like Board which is a straightforward collaborative whiteboard. Maddie Simens, one of the creators of the tool, said that their favorite …

Backlinks 2020-05-04 Now that everyone’s remote, Collaboration Tools are getting a lot of attention. Zoom more than most. It’s nice to also see a simple new tool like Board which is a straightforward collaborative whiteboard. Maddie Simens, one of the creators of the tool, said that their favorite detail …

Using fancier camera setups Via Recomendo, there’s a suggestion to watch How to use your iPhone or DSLR as a webcam, which is a good idea given that laptop cameras are often pretty bad. I didn’t watch the whole video, because I noticed in the description that he’s using OBS. OBS for the Mac …