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Converting Vim Macros to Functions

Posted on Wednesday, September 8th, 2021Wednesday, September 8th, 2021 by Rob Hallam

From ‘one-off’ to ‘actually I need to do this again…’ Context My often-talked-about video workflow has a bunch of useful features. For example, if I’ve uploaded a video to YouTube via the web interface (usually on a headless machine via xpra) I have a script which will grab the video id so that the metadata […]

For Short Conference Videos: Use OBS and Blender (with tips!)

Posted on Tuesday, June 29th, 2021Tuesday, June 29th, 2021 by Rob Hallam

blOenBdeSr Virtual conferences are popular, but many request a pre-prepared video to explain a paper or a poster. Many conferences suggest using Zoom as means of putting together a short video to explain research. This is acceptable, but with a little bit of setup OBS can produce videos which are better quality and give the […]

Quick beets import tip

Posted on Thursday, January 4th, 2018Thursday, January 4th, 2018 by Rob Hallam

Starting with beets to manage and organise your music library? Read the ‘getting started‘ guide? An additional quick tip: Import your first few albums individually using beet import -t $album_directory The -t flag is for timid(ly). Why? If you’re like me, you might not be in 100% agreement with how MusicBrainz represents the match metadata; […]

Scrollback / Terminal History in screen or byobu

Posted on Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 by Rob Hallam

This is another case of “should have read the manual”, but there are ways to see previous output in both screen and byobu. In screen: ctrl + a + [ In byobu: F7 These key combinations cause screen/byobu to enter copy mode, where you can navigate using vi keys, can set marks for copying using […]