Howdy %Name%,

Last week’s newsletter was about remembering what it was like starting-out with AutoHotkey.

When I was publishing the newsletter it got me wondering how many AHK Newsletters I’ve done.

Since I keep all of the past ones it was pretty easy to do a search and realize my first Newsletter was sent in July of 2020. 

I know there were two weeks that I missed which means as of today I’ve sent about 269 AHK Newsletters

Some of you might think it is hard to think of new things to write about however I find it incredibly easy.   Probably because I’m still constantly learning what to automate!

How about you❓ Do you ever think you’ll run out of “things to automate“❓

Thank you for being a subscriber/viewer❗

Now on with the show…

Sadly the above is closer to the truth than you would think❗ I had 3 bosses at Texas Instruments that literally told me “not to automate” things.

Customizing VS Code

During a Hero call last weekend, Ray wanted to tweak his VS Code settings.  

Isaias walked through some of the (seemingly endless) settings in VS code.

I also chimed in with how I’d changed the backgrounds of my inactive tabs.  I extracted the video so you can check it out here.

Customizing your VSCode settings

️Don’t need a Ferrari❓

We often joke that VS Code is the Ferrari of editors.  If you’re a developer coding in AutoHotkey v2 VS code is definitely the right choice however many of us (myself included) don’t need a Ferrari.

Our choice used to be SciTE4AutoHotkey however it has some odd bug in it that changes your AutoHotkey install settings that we can’t track down.  

We use AHK Toolkit a lot however it’s missing some core features (Line numbers, IntelliSense, Autocomplete, Dark mode, assignable hotkeys etc.)

So we’re creating our own (basic) editor for people that don’t need all the bells-and-whistles that VS Code offers.  

We’re planning on naming it AHK Script Maker and I’m hoping to have an early version out next week.

If you’d like an early look at it  you can check it out in this video.

What are your “must have” features %Name%❓

Creating a new AHK editor

Deeper Dive into Semantic Versioning

We’ve covered Semantic Versioning before however Isaias learned some new information about metadata so, during a Hero call, we walked through Semantic Versioning again.

Additional info on Semantic Versioning

Improving People’s Lives: Story #66

Our Video Sandwich tool was built for me to use however I have several friends that have YouTube channels and will be borrowing it as well.  

Over the years I’ve loved automating my own work but a true joy is being able to give it to others and save them time as well! 

Do you share your scripts with others❓

If so, you might check out this video where we walk through the list on this page about why scripts break when you share them with others.

What we’re reading

• Why Don’t NVMe drives make Every Game Load Faster
• Why Everyone Hates the World’s most Famous font
• The Rise and Fall of Liquid Cooling
• These 8 Apps make Android Auto even better

AI News that you Need to Know

• Great Tips for Creating Agents
• Create Beautiful Presentations
• Meta /Facebook will serve you ads based on your data in your AI chats

⚡️Productivity tips: Gmail hacks

During a Hero call we discussed some fun Gmail hacks

Fun gmail hacks

A spot of Humor: Put to metal

Last week I shared this gem of an Insufferable brat going mental.

This guy took part of it and created a great song!

“GIVE HIM A TICKET!” GOES METAL

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #105

In this week’s video we’re diving into some really cool updates including our brand new AutoHotkey editor that actually plays nice with your scripts (unlike some other options), plus I’ll show you how AI helped us make one of our tools run ridiculously faster.

We’ve also been cranking on a bunch of media tools and our AI OCR that can do way more than just read text—you’ll want to see what’s possible with custom prompts!

105 What we Automated with AutoHotkey #105

Clients say…

They always deliver more value than promised—  AJ Wilcox

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

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

• Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
• Update to Clipster– Pasting Files
• AHK Script Maker:
• Why does it take so long to close❓
• Hotkeys in the menu become active w/o adding Hotkey in code
• Hotkey Loop & MsgBox issue
• 65 Unique Examples of HotString usage
• Using Double slash //, Floor, Ceil, Round, Abs, Exp, Log, and Random
• API call to Google Sheets v1 example
• Object Oriented Programming- getting a reference to an element & reusing it
• Comparing Cloned Objects versus Copied Objects / Strings

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

• Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive; We can create it for you! — Joe Glines
• Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy
• Failure is not the opposite of success; It’s a part of it!

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P.S. I find it hard to believe I’ve been publishing this newsletter for over 5 years.  

What’s more amazing is, every day, I find something else to automate!  

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