Howdy %Name%,
I find myself thinking about the assassination attempt on ex-President Donald Trump.
Regardless of where one stands on the political spectrum violence is not the answer. “Ideas and Beliefs” are where our “battles” should be fought not with a guns and “in the shadows”.
Thank God the attack was a failure as I truly don’t know what would have happened to the United States had it of been successful. I truly hope we all see this as a sobering moment and silence the political rhetoric.
As we move forward, let us reflect on the values that define our democracy: freedom, justice, and respect for all individuals.
We need to get back to the belief that our differences make us a better country and settle our disputes intellectually, not physically.
Joe Glines
Now on with the show…
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Matching Dates with a Regular Expression
To offer more bonuses for our Intro to Regular Expressions course I tasked Rizwan with putting together a list of common Regular Expression “recipes”. Rizwan is the newest member of our team and is continuing to discover the power of AutoHotkey. One he found very interesting because it was so powerful. We decided to record a short session discussing Regular expressions and naming subgroups. You can check out the meeting here.
Learning how to Match Dates with Regular Expressions
Offset & Indirect with Excel
If you’re an Excel user, knowing how to use Offset is insanely powerful. During a private client call with Scott (an AHK Hero member) Irfan mentioned using Indirect (which I’d never heard of). After the private call we recorded this short video explaining how and when, to use each one.
Using Offset and Indirect in Excel with AutoHotkey
Interactive Chart of AutoHotkey Developer-Lifecycle
I was playing around with Claude projects and decided to create a tool that I’ve been wanting for a while. I provided some general info, titles, and corresponding editors/IDEs and AutoHotkey course depending on where the user is on the lifecycle. You can see the interactive chart here.
Improving People’s Lives: Story #8
When I worked at Texas Instruments I was chatting on the phone with a colleague. He told me he was trying to update the Mind of Engineer survey to encorporate the 11 languages. The process was painfully slow and required thousands of copying and pasting. I asked him to give me a few minutes and I’d get back to him.
A few minutes later I called him back and asked him to join me on WebEx. I demonstrated a script that allowed me to hit one hotkey and it would transfer 5 of the labels. If I hit a different hotkey it would transfer 20 labels.
With just 5 minutes of work I made a new friend for life!
What we’re reading
- Google Maps can tell you when to leave so you arrive on time
- Everything you need to know about watching the Perseid Meteor Shower
- How to make the Windows Terminal Look Cool
- Windows Recall will blow-up your PC Storage Requirements
AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- Create music with AI Music Composer
- Docus is your AI Personal Health Assistant
- Alfred is an AI assistant for Modern Developer Portals
- YouTube is using AI to snip copyrighted music & not silence your whole video
⚡️Productivity tips: Isolate yourself from distractions
I was on a client call discussing one of my favorite books from Dan Kennedy: No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs. I remember this interview with Dan on the topic which will give you some good tips to follow.
The No B.S. Time Management Masterclass with Dan Kennedy
A spot of Humor Trump on Who wants to be a millionaire
Donald Trump on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
What we automated this week with AutoHotkey #53
We had 84 AutoHotkey files that were modified this week. This recording I breezed through our week of automation a bit fast as it was the 3rd time recording the video. Take a look at what we did here.
What we automated with AutoHotkey #53
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During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Avoiding “magic numbers” in your code
- Using DirSelect verse FileSelect for Directories
- Pausing DropBox (or other Cloud tools) to avoid Files being locked when using FileAppend
- Using a Scintilla control in an edit field with v2 code
- Different ways to identify your program (PID, HWND, AHK_class, AHK_exe)
- Saving a screen shot (for debugging) to a folder without any 3rd party libraries
- Using Tabs in a GUI and a Statusbar– Weird breaking of GUI
- Working with DLLs in v2
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
- Success comes from failure. Not from memorizing the right answers. — Donald Trump
- Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy
- How you deal with failure determines whether or not you ever get to deal with the success — Dan Kennedy
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P.S. Personally I feel our nation’s divide, while kindled by politicians, is blazed by mass media. Don’t let the media convince you of things you don’t see or feel!
