A macOS app that enhances control over Elgato lights, offering features beyond the standard Elgato Control Center software.

Features

• Automatically turn lights on and off based on camera activity

• Turn lights off when locking your Mac

• Global keyboard shortcuts

Thanks to several people here! I'm ditching Google maps and switching to:
<https:organicmaps.app/> for my Android phone
and
OpenStreetMap <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=4/38.01/-95.84> for laptop

New LB Action:
<https:ptujec.github.io/Writing-Tools/>
[#iAWriter](https://hessen.social/tags/iAWriter) [#LaunchBar](https://hessen.social/tags/LaunchBar) [#writing](https://hessen.social/tags/writing)

I built a new plugin for LLM called llm-jq, which lets you pipe JSON into the tool and provide a short description of what you want, then it uses an LLM to generate a jq program and executes that against the JSON for you <https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/27/llm-jq/>

Example usage:

llm install llm-jq
curl -s 'http''s:api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues' |
llm jq 'count by user login, top 3'

A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.

Typst is a new open-source markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use. Typst creates beautiful PDF output with blazing fast render times.

Use the typst format to create a PDF document via Typst

🖥️ New post! Yesterday I imported all my YouTube subscriptions into Feedbin so that I can watch videos via RSS. To do this I needed to turn my 500+ subscriptions into an OPML file. In this post I detail how I did it using a combination of awk, curl, jaq, JavaScript, shell, scraper, and Python.

<https:www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/youtube-subscriptions-opml/>

[#YouTube](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/YouTube) [#Invidious](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Invidious) [#NewPipe](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/NewPipe) [#RSS](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/RSS) [#Python](https://mastodon.decentralised.social/tags/Python)

Another great tool is skhd (<https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd>), which is a hotkey daemon for Mac. It's especially great for controlling things like yabai. Here's my keybinds for moving focus to different spaces, and also moving applications between spaces.

For once this bushtit held still long enough for me to squeeze off a couple of frames.

[#birding](https://fediscience.org/tags/birding) [#birdphotography](https://fediscience.org/tags/birdphotography)

This product image on Amazon has the mystery of a Renaissance painting.

My first proper album is released today! It's called Melodic Guitar Music.

Recommended if you like melodies, or guitars, or music. Now available on Bandcamp and streaming services:

<https:www.holovaty.com/melodic-guitar-music/>

I'm in this 2 hour(!) podcast episode about the newly released ChatGPT Code Interpreter - you can get a good overview of why I'm so excited about it from the first 15 minutes, I think it's the most interesting tool in the whole AI space right now <https://www.latent.space/p/code-interpreter#details>

strip-tags 0.4 is now out, with a set of features to make it easier to turn large HTML pages into content suitable for feeding to a LLM
<https:github.com/simonw/strip-tags/releases/tag/0.4>

I wrote more about strip-tags here: <https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/18/cli-tools-for-llms/>

Please give me your favorite [#Zelda](https://mastodon.social/tags/Zelda) elixir recipies! I have none to speak of thx! [#TearsOfTheKingdom](https://mastodon.social/tags/TearsOfTheKingdom)

LEGO Celebrates BATMAN RETURNS With Unreal 3,981 Piece Batcave Shadowbox Set!: <https://www.blast-o-rama.com/2023/05/16/lego-celebrates-batman-returns-with-unreal-3981-piece-batcave-shadowbox-set/>

I presented a three hour tutorial at [#PyConUS](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/tags/PyConUS) yesterday - "Data analysis with SQLite and Python"

Wrote a few notes about that here: <https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/20/pycon-2023/> - and I've shared the full 9-page workshop handout as well: <https://sqlite-tutorial-pycon-2023.readthedocs.io/>