Alexander Kluge 🐣 naii.io @naii@mastodon.naii.io

The first step of any creator hoping for lasting success—whether for ten years or ten centuries—is to accept that hope has nothing to do with it.

To be great, one must make great work, and making great work is incredibly hard. It must be our primary focus.

We must set out, from the beginning, with complete and total commitment to the idea that our best chance of success starts during the creative process.

Do go make and share. Do what you can’t.

I thoroughly enjoyed the latest Small Is Beautiful #11 livestream (recording)

https://small-tech.org/videos/small-is-beautiful-11/

Thank you @laura + @aral 🙏 🙂

p.s. I noticed on https://small-tech.org the “View Source” link in the footer of the page is pointing to https://source.ind.ie/small-tech.org/site which is a page that can’t be opened…

Maybe that’s worth checking out.

Editing Manchester by the Sea (2016) - The Police Station Scene

#film

Jacob Beckerman created a fully browser-based video editor

https://mastershot.app

By browser-based, he means everything happens in the browser, including rendering.

He created Mastershot out of frustration that all the other web-based video editors limited him to either low-resolution exports, or they placed annoying watermarks on the exported video.

So he decided to do something about it 💪

Caveat: “Currently we only support Chrome or Chromium based browsers”

Reading @aral Hell site - https://ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/

And when I saw the book title “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” mentioned there - just this one more time -, I found that there should be a book called:

“Whored: How to Build People-Farming Products”

Please steal this idea, i.e. book title, and make it a valuable book.

A parody to “Hooked” would be equally fine, too.

#idea #draft

The similarities of Nik Kershaw (1980s) and Friendly Fires (2010s).

Especially:

Nik Kershaw - Gone To Pieces

vs.

Friendly Fires Pull Me Back to Earth

#music

Tools are what’s part of physical and metaphysical self.

But tools are also what can be considered the extended self.

The more you become one with the tool, the more it becomes part of the self.

#braindump
#idea
#draft

People use tools to move faster, higher, deeper, wider.

In a physical and metaphysical sense.

Programmers build worlds fast through code, semantics, syntax, and editing tools.

Sportsman use lightweight shoes that make them run faster, have better grip, and reach their desired goal with greater sucess.

Writers use calm environments and the chirping nature to create story universes that make the audience think more profoundly and touch them at their core.

Currently prevalent mindset:

If your intentions are good,
and based on these intentions, you’re doing a good job,
good things will follow.

(I’m writing these lines after a work week writing and editing for my client’s client Jordan Peterson.)

The Exporter Tool http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter/ is actually working well.

It only crashed before because Miro Video Converter was running in parallel and my weak Mac Mini didn’t like to serve another demanding application.

Some exports fail but even when they fail, the app shows me that they fail and exports these notes as .html files instead of .md files.

The interface is also neat.

via: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/357495/how-to-export-backup-notes-in-macos-in-one-go

Castrating my iphone to sooner or later say good-bye to the iCloud ecosystem because it feels more like a prison, especially when you try to access the data (the files) easily.

I still haven’t found a way to export the 7.594 notes from the Notes.app.

The ones that looked promising…

1. http://writeapp.net/notesexporter/ (exports or backups notes from Apple’s Notes.app only into plain text format without attachments)

2. http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter/ (crashed at around 100 notes again and again)

…didn’t work.