AutoHotkey Newsletter 2024-11-28- Happy Thanksgiving❗

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AutoHotkey Newsletter

It’s Thanksgiving here in the U.S.  For most of us that means starving for the first half of the day only to be stuffed for the 2nd half! 

This year we’re celebrating on Saturday so Thursday I ordered from a local Mexican restaurant.

We’re getting to the time of year where its more about planning for next year than working on getting things done this year.

Have you given thought to what you will accomplish in 2025❓

What are things you’ve wished you’ve automated but haven’t yet?  

What’s stopping you❓

Now on with the show…

Learn how to Master VSCode Make the switch to v2 Intro to AutoHotkey Intermediate AutoHotkey Intermediate ObjectsGUIs are Easy w/AutoHotkey Access all our Courses; Quit when you want

AI is getting better at Coding

I was pleasantly surprised the other day and documented something I hadn’t seen AI do before in this video.

Today I also saw it add one of my default hotkeys that I use frequently use in debugging (I typically assign one to reload the script for me) and it through it in there without me asking for it!

AI is getting Better at Coding
AI is getting Better at Coding


Easily Rip Audio from your Video files

I’ve been using NotebookLM a lot lately!   Why they only let you download .wav files is beyond me!   Don’t’ worry though “I have a script for that”.   Lol

I simply pass it through my mp3 ripper tool and it converts the wav file to mp3 format incredibly quickly!  You can check out the tool in this video.

Easily Convert Video to Audio with Mp3 Ripper
Easily Convert Video to Audio with Mp3 Ripper


AHK Developer LifeCycle

Are you wanting to know where you are in the process of learning AutoHotkey?   Want to know what’s next?  

Check out this video where we discuss the natural progression of AHK Users. 

We discuss what editor / IDE you should probably be using, the version of AutoHotkey you should be using, and what topics you should be learning next!

Answers to Important AHK Questions (depending on your Skills & goals)
Answers to Important AHK Questions (depending on your Skills & goals)


Improving People’s Lives: Story #27

The other day I ordered a few new smart switches that, according to Claude, were easy to automate with API calls.  I got them the other day and was amazed at how simple the code is!  

We’ll be adding some cool logic to my AutoHotkey scripts to “auto-trigger” behaviors!  I can’t wait to both implement them & share them with y’all❗


What we’re reading


AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

We’re considering creating another group where we solely talk about and work with AI. 

If you’re interested in this group, you can add your ➡️contact information here⬅️ and we’ll get in touch with you when we have more details

Ranking 22 Of The Most Popular Ai Tools (Q4 2024 Ai Tier List)
Ranking 22 Of The Most Popular Ai Tools (Q4 2024 Ai Tier List)


⚡️Productivity tips:

In Chrome Ctrl + Shift + T reopens the most recently closed tab.


A spot of Humor

It’s Thanksgiving so I have to re-watch the WKRP Turkey Drop

WKRP Thanksgiving 1978
WKRP Thanksgiving 1978


What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #65

Another heavy week Automating the mundane for clients!  In this video I discuss some of the cool things we’ve been doing and demo some of our newest tools.

What we Automated with AutoHotkey #65
What we Automated with AutoHotkey #65


Client’s say…

“You guys are awesome” Allen Horn


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

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

    • Member’s Questions & Code Reviewed
    • Claude’s Model Context Protocol & it’s implications for AI & AutoHotkey
    • Demonstrating resources needed during debug mode
    • Local Smart Switches & triggering them with an API call
    • The below image and how it helps understand when to use AI over Logic in your code       

 

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


️ Quotable quotes

  • As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly — Arthur Carlson
  • Don’t sacrifice peace of mind for a piece of luxury James Cleary
  • If you want something done, ask the busiest person you know to do it!
  • If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done Bruce Lee

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Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan and staff


P.S. I sincerely hope 2024 treated you well and hope 2025 is even better! 

Now is a great time to schedule a call to plan for us to help you in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣.  You can check out my calendar here.  Remember:

Time is linear but results do NOT have to be❗

 

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