Howdy,

I hope you’re having a wonderful Christmas and are able to spend time with your Family & Friends.

To me, spending time with the people you love is one of the most precious things there is!

I’m so glad that we help people automate the mundane so they have more time to choose how they spend it❗

What did you automate lately that bought you back a noticeable chunk of time❓

Now on with the show…

Tracking Down a bug – Using git-Bisect

We had a complicated bug that was going to be very difficult to track down so Isaias suggested we use a tool that he’d wanted to try: git Bisect.

If you’re an Intermediate to Advanced programmer I highly recommend that you watch this video!  It saved us hours of painstaking work!

Tracking down issues with git-Bisect : Great tips to save Time❗

AHK RegEx Vs RegEx101

During an AHK hero call Isaias walked us through some of the minor differences between our favorite RegEx site and using RegEx in AutoHotkey.

You can watch the extracted video here.

If you’re wanting to learn more about Regular Expressions, don’t forget our RegEx Course comes with a double your money back guarantee!

AHK Regex versus RegEx101: What to watch out for

Built-in Snippets & Searchable File & Clipboard History

AHK Script Maker is really coming along!

In this video (which was recorded over a month ago) we walk through how we added the ability to search through files, your clipboard history and a ton of built-in snippets!

Adding tabs, Notes, Search Clipboard History to AHK Script Maker

Improving People’s Lives: Story #74

During a Hero call a few weeks back Kenneth asked about how to make a change to MS Office open/save dialogs.    Thankfully we’d created a video on it a few years ago.

Quickly access Open/Save Dialogue window in MS Office programs

If you often work with paths to files, I recommend checking it out!

You also might greatly benefit from GetActivePath.

📚 What we’re reading

• Stop obsessing over clean code
• Windows tools to revive sluggish PCs
• The default Android tool you never thought to replace

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

• Stop blaming yourself after Learning This Math
• Insane new Gemini Updates
• Google’s AntiGravity is pretty cool

⚡️Productivity tips:  Get non-Work done❗

We all procrastinate (to a degree).  Here’s a great way to save time:

Get non-work related tasks done while procrastinating your work.

This way you’re not actually “wasting time“.  You’ve just shifted to get something else done!

🤣 A spot of Humor: Jimmy Carr Crushes it again

“If this were on Netflix, we’d all be watching!”

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #114

In this week’s video I wrap up the year by walking through a bunch of cool updates we’ve made to our automation tools – everything from a smart URL clipboard monitor that grabs links while I work, to an OCR tool that can now read text out loud, to a transcriber that writes summaries and generates tags automatically.

It’s been a wild year of building these tools, and I think you’ll dig seeing how they all work together!

Clients say…

Thanks for all your help Joe.  Folks are already excited about getting these updated. — Ron S.

AHK Hero 🦸

Consider joining the 🦸AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 500 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

I can’t believe we have 500 hours of Hero content!

During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:

• Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
• Script Update: Transcriber
• Creating a shareable App in Gemini
• AHK Script Maker: Updates to debugger
• Zoom Mute Monitor / Informer
• Comparing Cloned objects versus Copied Objects / Strings
• Creating a Hashversus Encoding
• Why Microsoft keeps updating DirectX12 instead of updating to DirectX13

They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)

🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes

• Don’t tell them how great you are; Tell them how great you will make them feel
• Work Hard; Be Curious; Be Honest❗— Joe Glines
• The meek may inherit the earth, but only after the bold are through with it — John Carlton

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The-Automator

Joe, Isaias, Irfan and staff

P.S. I hope you have a wonderful holiday❗

Remember: Character is built with the bricks life throws at you — Joe Glines