Today I've built something pretty cool, if I can say so myself. I wrote some code that takes a markdown file, and generates a video from it. Audio, video, it's all generated and stitched together programmatically. Why? It seemed like a nice exercise in learning some new tools, but I was also interested in learning about the current state of AI, and how it can help with generating video content.

Now, don't worry! I will keep making my videos, newsletter and blog posts by hand! However, I do think it'll be interesting to see how AI will define the future for content creation, and so this was a very interesting experiment.

I made a 10-minute video showing the process and sharing some conclusions, I hope you'll give it a watch:

In other video news, I published another blog post of mine as a video as well. This time I'm talking about objective reasons why light colour schemes are better. I'm sure you'll agree, no?

I do wonder what you think about these short-style videos? You can always let me know by hitting the reply button in this email. You can watch it here:

Finally, let's share some interesting posts I came across this week.

Roundup

• Screenshots — Sebastian shares a very interesting way of keeping a digital journey. I'm tempted to try it myself.
• CSS Nesting — So apparently native CSS nesting is a thing now?!? It still needs proper browser support, but let me say I find this so amazingly awesome. I used SASS on my blog for two reasons: variables and nesting. So I'm very happy I'll be able to finally switch to native CSS soon-ish!
• Hakana: Taking Hack Seriously — An interesting post by the Slack team about how they've written a static analyser for Hack.
• The Dark Side of Dark Mode — An interesting article that looks at the research that went into the "dark vs light mode" debate.
• Request-Level Validation — Andrew shares some thoughts about request validation in Laravel.

That's all for this week, until next time!

Brent