Experimenting

Moving my videos from Vimeo to a cloud server

video

Vimeo is being taken over by Bending Spoons, so I’m moving hosting my videos to a cloud server so I have complete control over them.

Oct 5, 2025

Notes on editing my online AI Fluency sessions with Final Cut Pro

presentations

video

These notes are specific to my process, I’m not sure if they will be of interest to anyone else, although the editing process using AI is perhaps interesting.

Sep 28, 2025

Automatically starting a video on browser tab focus

presentations

video

This is a bit of a weird one, which is possibly only of interest to me and the weird way I do presentations these days, using Safari Tabs.

Sep 17, 2025

Automatically pausing a video in Revealjs with custom pauses

presentations

video

I made a revealjs plugin (using Claude Code) that automatically pauses a video at fixed points.

Sep 7, 2025

Using a video Media Source with transparency in OBS studio

obs studio

procreate

video

I’ve had a frustrating time getting transparent video exported from Procreate working as a Media Source in OBS Studio. Solved now.

Jul 11, 2025

Connecting Claude and Github (and why you should always be making notes!

claude

github

note-taking

I fixed a stupid problem again and it took longer than it should have. Always make notes!

Jun 20, 2025

Vibe coding a bell curve visualization using Claude and ChatGPT

dataviz

llm

One of my long-term aims has been to be able to easily create animated and interactive visualizations to include in essays and presentation. Here I try to make an explanatory visualization of properties of random data following a bell curve.

Jun 18, 2025

Testing recording video with different cameras

video

I did some experimentation with different camera setups. I decided the Sony Alpha 7 III looked the best.

Jun 13, 2025

Using FFMPEG and Whisper to add subtitles to a video

ffmpeg

video

whisper

I used whisper and ffmpeg at the command line to add subtitles to a video. It worked really well and this is the process I will use for this.

Jun 11, 2025

Improving LLM responses by cleaning the context

llm

I have started to get the LLM to make a summary of a thread when it feels like the context is getting too large, and then give that as the first prompt in a new chat.

Jun 6, 2025

Creating a presentation from a single huge PSD file

presentations

python

An experiment to convert a huge PSD file into a presentation. It worked well, but think there is a better way to do this

Jun 2, 2025

How do I find out which are the best LLMs to use for different tasks?

llm

Sources of rankings and info on LLMs

Apr 20, 2025

The perfect chat interface for LLMs

llm

I’m not sure if I’ve found the perfect chat interface, but I’m going to try out open-webui.

Apr 13, 2025

Vibe coding with Cline

claude

cline

llm

vibe-coding

I like Cline a lot as an in-IDE assistant but I need to experiment with it more, perhaps with a larger project. I can see costs increasing quickly.

Apr 12, 2025

Choosing a web page to markdown extractor

markdown

parsing

tools

I used ChatGPT Deep Research to find an HTML to Markdown tool and it suggested a really good one I’d not come across before—trafilatura

Apr 12, 2025

Trying out a few markdown editors

markdown

note-taking

Just spent a while trying out some markdown editors that I’ve not tested before or not used for a while.

Apr 4, 2025

2D animation techniques

animation

I got Claude and ChatGPT to suggest applications for 2D animation that are programmable/scriptable. I didn’t like any of them, but it’s given me some good ideas.

Mar 13, 2025

Experimenting with revealjs animation

presentations

revealjs

I want to update my technique for creating presentations so I can include fancy animation and transitions.

Mar 9, 2025

Image Zoom experiment with revealjs

javascript

presentations

revealjs

After a presentation someone with bad eyesight asked if I could zoom into images more. I experimented with ways to do this, and decided the Accessibility functionality in OSX is the best method.

Mar 7, 2025

Using Apple Voice memos to record notes whilst running or reading

productivity

A successful test of recording notes with iOS Voice Memos. I will be incorporating this into my routines.

Jan 25, 2025

Using TamperMonkey to preprocess a webpage before using a Safari extension [failed experiment]

bear

research process

safari

I tried to use TamperMonkey to clean crud from a web page before it being sent to Bear App using the Bear App extension, but it didn’t work.

Dec 19, 2024

Using the OpenAI API

Artifical Intelligence

chatgpt

python

Dec 11, 2024

A quick look at Cursor, and why it sucks

Artifical Intelligence

A lot of people seem to be talking about Cursor, a programming tool similar to GitHub Copilot. I decided to try it out.

Dec 5, 2024

Hello world on Google App Engine

Google App Engine

Google Cloud Platform

It takes me ages and a load of frustration to get Hello World to work on Google App Engine

Nov 28, 2024

What hosting services should I use for a personal app?

hosting

web development

Nov 27, 2024

Does using 8bit PNG with transparency increase file size significantly? No! PNG transparency compression is simple but clever.

Web images

compression

graphics

png

I discover my assumptions about how 8-bit PNGs store transparency are wrong, and it uses a clever technique meaning images with transparency can be smaller than those without.

Nov 20, 2024

Can I consistently create AI images in my own visual style?

artificial intelligence

recraft

Nov 20, 2024

ChatGPT Work with Apps tool

ChatGPT

vscode

ChatGPT work with Apps tool

Nov 15, 2024

Hosting a static website on Cloudflare

Web sites

cloudflare

hosting

web development

Oct 23, 2024

BigQuery CSV import sucks

bigquery

csv

Oct 17, 2024

How to normalize multilingual categorical data with ChatGPT

data processing

prompting

Oct 17, 2024

Hugo is fast!

Oct 11, 2024

Quarto notation in Bear

bear

quarto

Oct 9, 2024

Workaround to export raindrop bookmark highlights to Markdown

bookmarks

study

Oct 7, 2024

perplexity

In this experiment I compare the generative AI platforms below. I have awarded them stars based on their overall responses to similar or identical prompts.

Jul 4, 2024