Howdy %Name%,
I was listening to Psycho Cybernetics, an interesting book talking about humans can “program themselves”, and the book was discussing how torpedoes/missiles work.
I realized the same analogy could help people understand how to program better in AutoHotkey so I extracted the audio section, uploaded to NotbookLM and gave it some instructions.
The result is a good way to help think about developing your code in AutoHotkey.
You can listen to it here.
So how are you going to program yourself?
Now on with the show…
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Playing with Hotkeys
Isaias and I had a lot of fun discovering an available hotkey that you probably don’t know you have!
We discuss it and a few things that can be done with it in this video.
We also show how you can take different actions based on either how long you press the key or how many times.
Showing mulitple ways to define hotkeys for an unused key on your Keyboard2
Tip for working with AI & Pictures
If you work with AI and pictures, this video discusses some great insights we’ve had to help increase the likelihood of you getting the results you want.
Tip for when Using OCR with AI in your tools / Scripts / Browser
Learning Regular Expressions
Are you wanting to learn more about parsing text with RegEx? Check out our first video in a series that helps you learn how to manipulate text.
5 videos from RegEx course: #1 Using RegEx101
How to Easily Create Your Own AI app
If you want something a bit more stand-alone you should check out this video where I show how you can use Amazon’s PartyRock to create an AI app.
How to Create an AI app with Amazon’s PartyRock
Improving People’s Lives: Story #33
A close friend of mine is losing his vision and has a difficult time reading black text on a white background.
I asked Isaias to create a “dark theme” version of our AI OCR tool.
I just showed it to him and it seems like it will really help him (and others with his condition)
What we’re reading
- 8 Search Filters to Help You Quickly Find Files in File Explorer
- First-Party vs. Third-Party Cookies: What’s the difference
- Smartphone Batteries just leveled up
- Best of CES 2025 Award Winners
AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- Amazon’s next-gen Alexa debuts with Claude AI
- How Claude helps me Manage My Calendar
- 3 biggest AI trends we expect in 2025
⚡️Productivity tips: Reframe duties as opportunities :
Replace “I have to” with “I get to” to recognize daily tasks as privileges rather than burdens.
A spot of Humor
TOP 5 The IT Crowd Best Moments
TOP 5 The IT Crowd Best Moments | Series 1
What we utomated this YEAR with AutoHotkey #71
This episode I decided to go back 365 days to see what we’d automated with AutoHotkey.
Amazingly we had 3,437 AutoHotkey files we’d updated in the last year.
I talk through a bunch of them in this video!
What we Automated with AutoHotkey #71 Year in Review
Client’s say…
Holy shit❗ This is amazing — Dr. Kamran J.
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 363 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗
You can watch 1 hour a day for a year and not repeat content! That’s a lot of AHK Learning!
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
- Replacing / changing variable names
- Finding a free key for triggering scripts
- Copying specific files from sub-folders
- Demonstrating resource drain during debug mode
- AHK “Built-in Variable” Viewer
- Context Menu Trigger
- 8 Search Filters to Help You Quickly Find Files in File Explorer
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
- Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve — Napoleon Hill
- Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results . — James Clear
- The thing most people like least is a mirror — Dan Kennedy
- There are many tools out there for systematizing your marketing. There are not very many for systematizing your process — Joe Glines
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