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Quick tip: creating round “talking heads” videos in Screenflow

Adding your face in a small circle to videos has become fashionable lately and some extensions do that automatically for you. Good old Screenflow, which I’ve used for years now, has no masking option though. But you still can achieve round videos using a setting and learning that screenflow’s sliders are weird. By default, Screenflow […]

Published on TikTok, but Kompressor does not dance

Visual Studio Code now has a TikTok channel and they asked me if I wanted to contribute, so here you are: @vscode A look under the hood ##vscode ##techtok ##codetok ##programming ##edutok ♬ original sound – Visual Studio Code A 20 second video of me explaining that I like VS Code a lot as it […]

[Video] Learn how to debug web projects end-to-end in VS Code in 5 minutes

This weekend I released a video on the YouTube Channel of Visual Studio Code that shows end-to-end web project debugging. In five minutes I walk through debugging a web project bit by bit: I open a project inside VS Code by opening its folder. The demo used is a simple, plain Vanilla JS/CSS/HTML ToDo app […]

Happy Birthday, WWW – 30 years of mining a landfill for valid code

Today the World Wide Web is 30 years old. I’ve worked on it since 1997 or so and I saw a lot of technologies and design trends come and go. I’ve also seen a lot of “this is much better and will replace the web” solutions come and go. What remained is the web with […]

Redirecting GitHub Pages

Today I finished moving the Edge Tools for VS Code extension documentation to its official space in the Microsoft docs. That meant I needed to redirect the documentation I hosted with GitHub pages in a docs folder/branch of the repository. There are plugins available for that, but I didn’t want to install any extra features […]