AI is such a useful tool for transcribing. It feels odd that you would seemingly write off ALL AI systems when there may be options that people might want to choose to use to make their audio accessible with the least friction/effort.
I also note (as a beta tester) that it seems to keep my microphone open even when I've stopped recording – don't know if you can stop that happening?
Thanks though – really fun little tool (and a reminder I need to get back into posting to my statuslog!)
@adam Love your little audio thing. I've always been tempted by the similar feature on micro.blog (and briefs.fm, which seems to have died off, but was a nice idea).
I know you're not a fan of AI, but I would like to see if there is some way I can automatically make transcriptions – perhaps using the built-in tech of my iPhone rather than one of the new fangled LLM thingies.
SO… I'd love to be able to download an audio file if I'm logged in to do this with.
UK Pol
Trying not to do too much politics. But I have mixed feelings on our election.
🙌 YAY that Labour are in
🙌 YAY that the Tories sunk hard
😡 BOO that Reform did so well (even though it massively helped Labour)
🧐 HMM on vote shares and the system
🙌 YAY for the Greens
🙏 PLEASE don’t mess this up, Keir, this is a fragile win
UK Pol
Wow. Buckland (ex-Tory-MP in my constituency) is LIVID. He’s INCENSED!
He’s a good bloke I reckon. I’m a bit sad for him.
UK Pol
That Heidi Alexander on the telly in Swindon South is MY MP!! Isn’t she awesome?! 🙌
Well. There it is. My last day as “Web Developer” is done. I re-start in Product and Engineering on Monday.
New home office space
(Hopefully) New Government
New job
I’m exhausted!! But onwards!!! 😃
I put a big fat X in a box and I hope it makes a difference.
If you live in the UK you should do this too!
Exciting day. 🗳️
I get to vote tomorrow.
It’s odd seeing people on the news saying “I don’t think I’ll vote. There’s nothing in it for me.”
IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU! It’s about ALL OF US!!!
When did we start thinking that the purpose of a vote is to get what WE want?
See also: “He seems like a nice bloke.”
Can’t lie. I crushed it today. 💪
I’ve been working on a Big and Important Thing at work on-and-off for about 8 months. It concluded today with a go-live that was, as far as we know, totally error free. Which, given the complexity of the job, is quite something. I’m gonna put this down to:
– Tests
– Structuring your work well
– Reviews by excellent colleagues
– Detailed planning
– Anticipating and mitigating for problems
100% Rocket Turtle stuff!! 🚀🐢
Hands up if you regret not wearing a jumper on your morning walk.
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SUMMER????‽!
Hah. I’d kinda forgotten WordlePress. Fired it up and today (Monday) was a properly guessable one.
Not sure what time it rolls over to Tuesday.
Hooray! I solved today's #WordlePress in 7 guesses! 🎉🎉🎉
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Test your #WordPress dev knowledge at https://wordlepress.com/
I’m IN and ready to go on Monday from the new garden office.
I’d accumulated a LOT of stuff in my 10 years at the old place. So it’s a bit cluttered while I figure things out and downsize.
But we did it!!! 🤪😅🙌
Tech help:
I have a NODE_ENV=production in my terminal but I don’t know what is setting it.
It’s ONLY there when I run iTerm. Regular terminal.app doesn’t have it.
I can’t find anything in my iTerm settings that would do this.
Any ideas?
For Sale: Blue Yeti in white with Radius III shock mount.
As I pack up my office to head to my new garden studio I realise I have a spare “big mic”.
The Blue Yeti is a quality mic but it’s a sensitive condenser and not so good for noisy environments like mine.
The Radius III shock mount that’s also here helps a LOT!
Happy to take offers here before I eBay it or whatever.
(UK only please!)
If anyone wants a #WordPress dev rel job (focussing on headless WordPress with modern JavaScript frameworks) there's this at WP Engine:
https://wpengine.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/WP_Engine/job/Austin/Associate-Developer-Advocate_JR102241
I get a bonus for referring you in, so let me know if you're interested.
I mean, I KNOW that both of these things are people-vs-the-corporations things.
And I want BOTH of them – I want to be able to say "Hey, AI, don't scrape this", and also "Hey, don't cull huge swathes of the internet".
I WANT those things.
But the solutions are at odds with each other.
If we're saying STEAL IT then won't corporations steal our stuff and then say it was our idea?
I just read:
"Paramount dumpstering the MTV archive should be a wakeup call. If there is something you care about, STEAL IT. If you want to read something in the future. DOWNLOAD IT. ARCHIVE IT. KEEP IT. MAKE IT YOURS."
And I'm really confused about the social contracts of the web.
On the one hand, copyrighted information shouldn't be scrapable unless we allow it (see recent AI scraping controversy).
On the other hand, we actively recommend stealing copyrighted work?
An observation/speculation on recruiting a senior software developer:
The quality of female candidates is consistently higher.
I suspect (from what I’ve heard from other female devs) that they are trying hard because they feel they need to do more to prove themselves.
But if so this might imply that the male candidates are NOT trying hard.
And it’s a well paid senior gig. You should be trying hard!!
The alternative: women are just better engineers and are lining up to take over the world.
The garden office was HOT today. But surprisingly not THAT hot. It was quite work-in-able.
Tomorrow it has the electrics wired up and then I should properly move out of the old office on Saturday. It will be the end of an era as I've worked from that little office for 10 years now!
Jamie Marsland should do a WordPress "speed build" with some people who are not all that familiar with the block editor and how it works.
That would tell you a whole different set of things about #WordPress to the speed builds with block-editor experts!