Glasgow University graduate. I have wide-ranging interests - please see my about page either here or at roberthallam.com.
It… is… appearing… one… word… at… a… time Context I use Blender VSE to make videos, but I want to make the tedious bits less… Read More »Quicker Text Editing in Blender (Part 9): Prototyping Appearing Text
Where to now? I released QTE for Blender VSE as a beta back in December. I haven’t been making videos in that time, but now… Read More »Quicker Text Editing in Blender (Part 8): Bugs & Features
Mine was 1.6GB, beat that! Today I was working on writing up some videos for YouTube in Spacemacs, which I’ve talked about using before, when… Read More »PSA: Spacemacs freezing? Check your savehist file
I thought we did that already Update: Helps if you actually fix the underlying problem so it doesn’t happen again a week later. D’oh. As… Read More »Fix your backups!
if your backup cache takes more disk space that you have, you have a problem tl;dr- gimme the bottom line Hot on the heels of… Read More »Reassess your backups!
(when you move them) Context A while back I moved my home server from Xen (for host ‘OS’) with mdadm + LVM (for raid6 storage);… Read More »Reinstate your backups!
Decipherer of Symbols Context I love Risk of Rain (RoR), and it’s sequel Risk of Rain 2 (RoR2) even more. They fit all the pieces… Read More »Extracting Info From RoR2 Videos: Concept
Or, “How I found out WordPress wasn’t sending emails anymore” Recently (embarrassingly recently) I enabled 2FA on my Zoho email account. You can use BitWarden… Read More »Using Zoho for WordPress emails? Use an App Specific Password
January wrap-up Since this doesn’t appear in my own previous ‘tips to myself‘ I’m documenting it to myself here: The option for disabling wrapping is:… Read More »pandoc micro tip: disabling line wrap / newlines
Add, remove- we’ve got both! Context When making videos in Blender’s VSE I use a lot of text sequences for captions and the like. Doing… Read More »Quicker Text Editing in Blender (Part 7): QTE Beta Release