Tag: youtube

  • My appearance on This Week in WordPress #285

    My thanks to Nathan Wrigley for having me as a guest on This Week in WordPress #285. (YouTube/Apple Podcasts) Show notes There are a few links on the WP Builds website for this episode but I thought I’d share some of the links I mentioned in the episode as well. It was a lot of…

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  • Introducing the YouTube Channel RSS feed Bookmarklet

    In 2020 Thomas Brand wrote a blog post about finding a YouTube’s channel RSS feed by appending the channel’s “Channel ID” onto a feed URL. Thomas Brand: In 2020 I am watching less stupid on YouTube by skipping the algorithm. Instead of letting the YouTube decide which videos it wants to show me, I am…

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  • What I saw somewhat recently #93: March 24, 2022

    The tulips are on their way. I’ve been very busy at work lately. Going through a software conversion there that will keep me busy well into summer. And, of course, Stripe Transfer is doing well. Here are some links, I hope you enjoy them. That’s it for this one.

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  • The video essay boom

    Terry Nguyen, for Vox: One can even argue that we are witnessing the video essay’s golden era. Run times are longer than ever, while more and more creators are producing long-form videos. The growth of “creator economy” crowdfunding tools, especially during the pandemic, has allowed video essayists to take longer breaks between uploads while retaining their production quality.…

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  • My social media bacta tank is working

    For context, you may want to read my post from early January I am quitting social media. There were two main actions I took when I decided to pull the plug on social media. First, I unsubscribed from all accounts in every platform. RSS feeds deleted. Twitter follows razed. Instagram follows flushed. YouTube subscriptions obliterated.…

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  • I am quitting social media

    Mostly. And, for a year. Or more. What started out as a routine flushing of my social media accounts, something I’ve done on more than one occasion in the past, has now turned into a strong desire to leave social media behind for good. And so I’m doing just that. My main reasons for waiting…

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  • Video: Sandbridge Beach Houses

    Spend 30-odd minutes with me going through each photo from the Sandbridge Beach House series. This was fun to do, I might do more of them. Also available on Instagram. If you like it, jump over to YouTube and hit the like and subscribe button.

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  • The best of 2020 as told by me

    I didn’t want to get too deep into 2021 before I compiled my best of list for 2020. I usually begin to compile this list somewhere near the beginning of December and publish it before the new year starts – but I didn’t get that chance this year. The most difficult part about making this…

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  • Gus Mueller on YouTube Premium

    Gus Mueller: It made such a difference in the way I experienced YouTube, I can’t imagine ever letting my subscription lapse. And in fact while I knew that YouTube was super important, its value just increased ten times over for me and I would easily put YT at the top of the list of the…

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  • Audio: Publishing to YouTube

    Some random banter about publishing on YouTube. Links:

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  • iOS creates a competition hostile environment

    Below is a screenshot of the sheet you see on YouTube for iOS when tapping on a link in a video’s description. They invoke this custom sheet because, like Google, Apple has created iOS to be competition hostile to other browser vendors like Mozilla, Opera, Microsoft, etc. Tapping on a link should open your default…

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  • Om Malik, on his photo journey

    Om: I find using a 24mm wide angle lens, a 90 mm medium telephoto, or a 280 mm tele lens akin to using saffron in my rice or black salt in my lentils – flavors that are beautiful in their restraint. I like reading his perspective on this. Less is definitely more. And constraints breed…

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  • My favorite video on YouTube so far this year

    The Creek, by Rolf Nylinder is my favorite video on YouTube so far this year. The techniques and tools are all invisible lending way to only the story. I try to explain this to those whose videos I respect but that could be improved. So typically on YouTube it is about the gear. The drone…

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  • Xamarin videos, now on YouTube

    Me, 17-minutes into an audio bit in 2017 (paraphrasing): If you go onto YouTube search for a problem you’re having for Xcode and Swift you’ll find 15 well-produced videos to solve your problem. […] But you won’t find 15 well-produced videos with Visual Studio + C# (or Xamarin). For the last few years I’ve thought…

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  • Best of 2018

    This year I’m taking a slightly more comprehensive approach to my “best of” list. I’ve taken a look at previous year’s lists: 2008, 2009, 2017 and comprised a slightly more complete set. Again, this is only the things I came across this year and can remember. I don’t keep a list throughout the year but…

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  • YETI Presents

    YETI, the premium tumbler/cooler company, has one of my favorite YouTube channels at the moment. We celebrate stories from the wild. From the off-road tracks of Baja Peninsula to the BBQ pits of Giddings, TX, we capture stories that speak to the wild side of life. If adventure and grit is at the heart of…

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  • New ways to monetize on YouTube

    Announcements are beginning to pour out while VidCon is happening. YouTube: The number of creators earning five figures a year is up by 35 percent and the number of creators earning six figures is up by 40 percent. As in previous years, the vast majority of the revenue is coming from our advertising partners. We’ll…

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  • Best of 2017 as told by me

    To create this list I sat down and wrote from the top of my head the things I could remember being awesome in 2017. The list isn’t exhaustive. It is just what made an impression on me as being "the best" in each category. Best Blog: fuzzy notepad Evee consistently writes well-researched, readable, diatribes on…

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  • My creative energy (audio)

    I’m not blogging as much. But that’s just because my creative energy is being poured elsewhere. Here’s what I’m up to. Download audio

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  • YouTube’s Most Popular Videos of 2017

    Brandy Shaul writing for Adweek: Collectively, the top 10 trending videos for 2017 have more than 633 million views and have been watched for over 40 million hours. The channels behind the top trending videos have more than 55 million subscribers in total. The most popular videos on YouTube each year are seldom the most…

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  • iPhone X’s new margins

    Brian Voong on his excellent YouTube channel Let’s Build That App: With the introduction of iPhone 10, we as developers are now faced with another option for our apps to be displayed in. Fortunately, Apple has provided us with the necessary APIs to get around the unsafe regions of this phone. We do this by…

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  • Curry Caputo quits vlogging

    Curry Caputo, cousin to vlogging legend Casey Neistat, is hanging up his hat when it comes to recording, editing, and publishing daily videos and will now post whenever he feels like it instead. It was an incredible run. Kudos to him for doing it as long as he did.

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  • VR180

    Frank Rodriguez: VR180 video focuses on what’s in front of you, are high resolution, and look great on desktop and on mobile. I think this looks like an excellent format. As I’ve mentioned in the past, 360 video is very difficult to follow if there is a narrative. While 360 might be good to virtually…

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  • Live streaming video, by the numbers

    Dan Kimbrough: Facebook makes sense as the leader. More people use Facebook than YouTube. And by that, I mean we consume a lot on YouTube, most of its traffic is viewing videos, not creating. I think that most companies and influencers have a big enough audience that they can stream anywhere and their followers will…follow.…

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  • E14: Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts, streaming video solutions, Nintendo

    On Sunday Danny and I discussed learning Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts, a bit about video streaming services and the value they bring, and also a bit about Nintendo. Here are some links from this episode. http://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e14.mp3 Links: Video Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts another Windows 10 keyboard shortcut video Download MP3

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  • YouTube has replaced TV for me (and, how to use the Watch Later playlist)

    I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube lately. More specifically, I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube on my TV lately. Here is how I do it but first, a bit of background on my personal YouTube habits. For the first few years of YouTube the only videos that I would see were the viral or…

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