By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Oct 22
OpenCollective is a financial & legal toolkit for grassroots communities. It’s awesome! We’re using it to transparently collect & spend money in the Microsolidarity Network.Anyone who contributes to our fundraising is welcome to join our monthly members meeting. Until today, whenever a new member joins the Collective, I have had to send them a calendar invitation manually. But today, I learned how to automate that connection (woohoo!).So here’s a technical blog, about how I used Zapier to automatically invite new OpenCollective members to a recurring Google Calendar event.You can copy the 4-Step Zap here. I’ll take you through each Step in turn.Step …
OpenCollective is a financial & legal toolkit for grassroots communities. It’s awesome! We’re using it to transparently collect & spend money in the Microsolidarity Network.Anyone who contributes to our fundraising is welcome to join our monthly members meeting. Until today, whenever a new member joins the Collective, I have had to send them a calendar invitation manually. But today, I …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jun 20
How to: record great-sounding podcasts over ZoomI’ve been experimenting with different methods for improving the audio quality of my videocalls, both for meetings and for recorded conversations like podcasts. So I have a few suggestions to make your next call sound less like a laptop, more like a studio.I’ll start with some microphone basics. Then, I’ll show you Zencastr, a tool for recording audio without losing any quality due to the compression of sending realtime audio over the internet. Finally I’ll show you how to use OBS to apply audio processing in realtime to remove background noise and change the dynamic range.1. Get …
How to: record great-sounding podcasts over ZoomI’ve been experimenting with different methods for improving the audio quality of my videocalls, both for meetings and for recorded conversations like podcasts. So I have a few suggestions to make your next call sound less like a laptop, more like a studio.I’ll start with some microphone basics. Then, I’ll show you Zencastr, a tool for …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Apr 20
How to: record great-sounding podcasts over ZoomI’ve been experimenting with different methods for improving the audio quality of my videocalls, both for meetings and for recorded conversations like podcasts. So I have a few suggestions to make your next call sound less like a laptop, more like a studio.I’ll start with some microphone basics. Then, I’ll show you Zencastr, a tool for recording audio without losing any quality due to the compression of sending realtime audio over the internet. Finally I’ll show you how to use OBS to apply audio processing in realtime to remove background noise and change the dynamic range.1. Get …
How to: record great-sounding podcasts over ZoomI’ve been experimenting with different methods for improving the audio quality of my videocalls, both for meetings and for recorded conversations like podcasts. So I have a few suggestions to make your next call sound less like a laptop, more like a studio.I’ll start with some microphone basics. Then, I’ll show you Zencastr, a tool for …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Mar 20
A practical guide for the aspiring DIY data scientistLiving in Italy is intense right now.It took only 17 days to go from first noticing the COVID-19 outbreak, to having to refuse people care because hospitals are overloaded.Human brains do not intuitively grasp exponentials. We need prosthetics. That’s why I have been learning a bunch of math and amateur data science this week, to help me get my head around the spread of the pandemic.I’m not an expert at all, so my epidemiology opinions are not relevant. I’m pretty handy with a spreadsheet though, so read on if you want to learn …
A practical guide for the aspiring DIY data scientistLiving in Italy is intense right now.It took only 17 days to go from first noticing the COVID-19 outbreak, to having to refuse people care because hospitals are overloaded.Human brains do not intuitively grasp exponentials. We need prosthetics. That’s why I have been learning a bunch of math and amateur data science this …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Mar 20
A practical guide for the aspiring DIY data scientistLiving in Italy is intense right now.It took only 17 days to go from first noticing the COVID-19 outbreak, to having to refuse people care because hospitals are overloaded.Human brains do not intuitively grasp exponentials. We need prosthetics. That’s why I have been learning a bunch of math and amateur data science this week, to help me get my head around the spread of the pandemic.I’m not an expert at all, so my epidemiology opinions are not relevant. I’m pretty handy with a spreadsheet though, so read on if you want to learn …
A practical guide for the aspiring DIY data scientistLiving in Italy is intense right now.It took only 17 days to go from first noticing the COVID-19 outbreak, to having to refuse people care because hospitals are overloaded.Human brains do not intuitively grasp exponentials. We need prosthetics. That’s why I have been learning a bunch of math and amateur data science this …