Dates are hard
How to hide system time and date for Windows and Mac while recording screencasts
Kamran Ayub
What size sock do I get for my daughter?
My middle daughter is five years old and is outgrowing her socks. As with most families, we have a resident sock ghoul who hides them and makes them disappear for weeks at a time, only to reappear in random locations – amongst the Goldfish cracker crumbs on the floor of the
Helping learners become a better version of themselves
With learning experience design (LXD), you are encouraged to create learning objectives that help learners change their behavior. I've talked about Terminal and Enabling learning objectives before but when I said those were the only two types of learning objectives, I was wrong. There aren't any.
Exporting your slides as a video for faster editing
One production tip I implemented recently I got from my team at Pluralsight was something I had never thought of. Exporting my PowerPoint as a MP4 video. 🤯 That way, you can easily keep it updated, and video editing software can handle replacing it in place. Before, I was recording the
The pain of live video
My latest course on React performance is my first time doing live video. Here's the course introduction that I iterated on until I got my set up in order: 0:00 /1:15 1× I have to admit, it's a pain – and if someone asked me,
How web.dev Handles Courses and Creates a Growth Loop in Their Docs
When I say "course" you say...? "Video!" But a course is just format and structure (with learning objectives) – the implementation could be through email, podcast, Slack messages, video, or... docs. For a dev tools docs site which is chock full of written content, one idea for
