Howdy %Name%,

Eight years ago, on January 3^rd, I quit Texas Instruments.

Had I stayed working in Corporate America I would have been, financially, much better off.

But the idiocy I’d put up with may have killed me❗

Those who know me well know I’m only somewhat kidding.

Don’t get me wrong, I had some great bosses & amazing colleagues.

But there were plenty of people that made me wonder how we were able to stay profitable.

I feel the main thing that saved us was that there was an equal amount of incompetency at all of our competitors❗

How about you❓   Have you ever wondered how your colleagues kept their jobs❓

To celebrate my 8 years of freedom I’m marking all of our v2 courses down by 58% until Sunday January 12th.

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Now on with the show…

Save Time & Tokens with this Great AI tip

During an AHK Hero call a few weeks ago someone asked for how I include my libraries / functions when working with AI.

In this video I walk through how I greatly increased the likelihood of AI using my functions (and severely reduced the amount of tokens I spend because I don’t have to, repeatedly input/output functions that I use regularly.

Adding Libs to Claude Project and Working with Ai

Creating Stable Shareable Code

Do you share your scripts with others or work on other computers❓

In this video we walk through how you can leverage Relative Paths and Set the Working Directory

Benefit of Set Working Directory and Relative Paths

Should your script be Always Running or Launched?

During a Hero call we discussed how we all have scripts that are always running but others that we launch.  We discussed some of the logic on how we decide which approach we take and why.

When have script running verse launch when needed

Dynamically Manipulating Selected Text

Writing text is a HUGE part of how we use a computer❗

In this video we discuss various ways you can manipulate your text which can save you a TON of time!

Changing the Case of Selected Text

Improving People’s Lives: Story #74

Tuesday I took part of the day to drive a friend to his MRI.

He got the results later and I used AI to help interpret them.  😊

📚 What we’re reading

• I flipped my second monitor vertically and am never going back
• 10 Common PC Habits that waste time every day
• Time-saving Excel UI tips I wish I’d known sooner
• Samsung’s secret app is why I keep buying Galaxy phones

🤖 AI News that you Need to Know

• Become a coding pro with Claude’s chatbot
• Google launched ‘Search Live’ — here’s why you’ll want to try it
• AMD unveils new AI PC processors

⚡️Productivity tips:

Perfect is the enemy of done❗

Often good enough is good enough!

🤣 A spot of Humor:  These are Priceless❗

The Pick Up Lines of Ryan Stiles

What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #116

In this week’s video I walk through 49 different tools we worked on, including updates to our custom AHK Script Maker editor, a slick Google Maps review scraper for finding local businesses, and my newsletter automation system that randomly pulls quotes and memes to keep things fresh.

What we Automated with AutoHotkey #116

We also dive into some audio processing magic with ffmpeg and show how AI is helping match content to newsletter themes.

If you’re curious about practical AutoHotkey automation or just want to see what’s possible when you automate the boring stuff, this one’s packed with real-world examples.

Clients say…

“I appreciate all the work you guys are doing for me!  I look forward to it and it keeps me excited about my work – otherwise I would likely get bored or burned out or both.”  — Danny H. (Radiologist)

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 506 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

Hard to believe we’re starting our 5^th year of the AHK Hero program❗

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

• Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
• Zoom Mute Monitor / Informer
• Structuring tables in SQL Database
• 5 Git commandsthat feel like Magic
• Using a Ternary to easily apply changes based on logic (instead of using an “if“)
• Comparing strings, case sensitivity, how to handle when in map, etc.
• Using SendTo for passing multiple files to a script

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

• Fire fast; Hire slow — Dan Kennedy
• If you’re not troubled over some of the things you’re saying no to, you need to say no MORE often! — Joe Glines
• Keep a master list of long-range goals — John Carlton

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Joe, Isaias, Irfan and staff

P.S. AI is coming but it’s still a ways off before it entirely replaces everyone.   I highly recommend you keep learning how to Automate.   Learning how to automate will serve you well when you’re showing AI the work you want it to do.

And don’t forget, the 58% off of our courses discount expires on Sunday.
Act now and start improving your future today!