July 2023

I tried making shorts using ffmpeg but preparing the srt file for subtitle takes time and kdenlive is much faster in that.

#kdenlive #shorts #ffmpeg

There was a question about changing the issue type field from Task to an Epic.

#GetAnswers #IssueMove

Time to go through the updates from the @atlassian ecosystem - #EnhancedJiraBoard #CustomDomainsJSM #BitbucketComments #TeaWithRavi

Enhanced Jira board

We all have been complaining about release all the nice features on Jira Work Management like various views and inline editing. I am extremely happy to see similar features on boards of Company managed projects. The Enhanced Jira boards were announced earlier this year and I believe Atlassian is now rolling it out. If you get the option to try it out you will notice the following nice features.

Issue move is meant for rare cases when issue is raised in the wrong project. If you use it as part of your process then it will cause problems.

#JiraTips #IssueMove

Full Video: https://youtu.be/UG76je2OM4k

Let me share some tips for new Jira Administrators to master configurations.

#JiraTips

It is super easy to add subtitles using kdenlive. I have started using this feature to create YouTube shorts.

#kdenlive #subtitles

What is scope? How to define and track scope in Jira? Let us discuss.

#JiraTips #Scope

Full Video: https://youtu.be/JDkFKugy-U4

Let me share my thoughts on using Jira as a budget tracker.

#GetAnswers #BudgetTracker

Let me show you the netbook I loved using in the past. Unfortunately I can't find any use of it in 2023, unless you have any suggestions.

#ASUS #1005PX #EEEPC

Hiding old open not updated issues from your reports won't help you.

#JustTalk

Today I wanted to copy HTML links from a webpage to emacs buffer and I wanted to preserve the hyperlinks instead of just text. So I used eww.

#Emacs #eww

In your beamer presentations if you use pause, overlay and allowframebreaks together then you will face issues.

#Emacs #Beamer

Yes, you can use advanced roadmaps to work on epics without scheduled dates. In fact in the beginning you will not have the dates.

#advancedroadmaps #epicsdates

You have to careful when changing the default filter sharing in your Jira instance.

#GetAnswers #ChangeManagement

After creating a gadget you have to add gadgets to it but first let us retrieve the list of available gadgets.

#JiraRESTAPI #GetAvailableGadgets

Jira shell scripts

I use different setup files. Let me show you quickly.

#Emacs #SetupFiles

Windows 10 works just fine on ThinkPad x220.

#ThinkPad #x220 #Windows10

I wanted to calculate total duration of all the videos in my new course which I launched recently.

#ffmpeg #TotalDuration

Let us go through this week's updates from the @atlassian ecosystem. #CommandPalette #DarkThemeDC #TeaWithRavi

New commands added to Command Palette

Press Ctrl +k anywhere from the issue or outside and you will see a list of commands that you can execute. I made a video on this as well and I mentioned that it is a good start. Recently I noticed that Atlassian has added new commands.

On the issue action.

Let us go through the updates from the @Atlassian ecosystem from last week. #JWMPremium #SparxsysTraining #TeaWithRavi

Jira Work Management Premium?

It is possible to create a Jira Dashboard using REST API. This is awesome.

#JiraRESTAPI #CreateDashboards

Jira shell scripts

I bought yet another mic but this time it is a wireless mic and I am quite happy with it.

#MILOUZ #WirelessMic

MILOUZ Dual Wireless Microphones for iPhone/Android Phone/Camera/Laptop, Wireless Lavalier Microphone for Video Recording YouTube TikTok Facebook, Plug-Play Mini Lapel Mic

Yes, ThinkPad is great even in 2023.

#ThinkPad #x220

You can definitely show weather information somewhere within Emacs but I normally rely on xsetroot. What do you do to keep track on weather information?

#Emacs #Weather

Do you want to generate a thumbnail from your video and want to use a specific frame? No problem, just extract the frame as an image.

#ffmpeg #ExtractFrame

Today I wanted to modify the SVG file in text mode, fortunately you can do that with Emacs :)

#Emacs #TextMode

Let us retrieve the list of Jira dashboards using the REST API.

#JiraRESTAPI #GetAllDashboards

Jira shell scripts

It is extremely important to control who can do administrative work on your Jira instance and monitoring the configuration changes could be crucial. Fortunately there is an audit log which you can look at and also retrieve using the Jira REST API

#JiraRESTAPI #GetAuditRecords

Jira Shell Scripts

I am feeling proud to announce Sparxsys Trainings 🙂

#JiraTraining #SparxsysTraining

If you are a good Jira Admin then you should monitor the usage of your automation rules and getting notified whenever the service limit is about to be breached.

#Automation #ServiceLimitBreached

Using remote links to tools that are not connect to your Jira instance is a preferred option because you can retrieve these remote links using REST API easily.

#JiraRESTAPI #RemoteLinks

Jira shell scripts

Let us fetch the list of application roles that we have in our Jira instance.

#JiraRESTAPI #ApplicationRoles

Jira shell scripts

Let me sharing few tips on how to improve new Jira users's experience.

#JiraCloud #UserExperience

Are you struggling to make videos? Can't find ideas to produce regular content. Use Org Mode as your second brain.

#Emacs #ContentIdeas

I have been using Newer 660 Pro RGB LED lights for 6 months and these are great lights.

#Neewer #660Pro

Let us go through some of the updates from the @atlassian ecosystem from last week #OrganizationFields #SLAEmails #GoogleCalendar #SubTasksEstimation

Organization detail fields

You have to careful when changing the default filter sharing in your Jira instance.

#GetAnswers #DefaultFilterSharing

If you are a Jira Admin it doesn't mean you have all the rights on every issue or project in Jira.

#GetAnswers #EditIssuePermission

I think ChatGPT could be really useful to learn ffmpeg and similar tools very quickly. I tried to generate some commands to create image with text.

#ffmpeg #chatGPT

I found one GUI for ffmpeg and I thought I should share it with all of you.

#ffmpeg #gui

qwinff

Let us do something super geeky today. You can use ffmpeg to blur parts of your video.

#ffmpeg #blur

Bored doing the same Jira Admin stuff for years? Let us discuss what you can possibly do next in your career.

#CareerAdvice #JiraAdmin

You need to change your image of a geeky system administrator.

#CareerAdvice #JiraAdmin

You can also use Confluence to do simple task management.

#ConfluenceCloud #TaskManagement

Even in 2023 there is no replacement of a good old newsletter.

#indieweb #Newsletter

I avoid doing editing but even when I do 90% of the times is simple cut or concatenate and ffmpeg can do this in literally seconds.

#ffmpeg #videoediting

screenkey is a nice utility to show your keystrokes on screen. Today let us learn how to configure it to change background colour and font size.

#Linux #screenkey

There was a question on the community about managing functional or non functional requirements. Let me share my views.

#GetAnswers #Requirements

Time to go through updates from the @atlassian ecosystem from last week. #SmartLinks #AssetsTemplates #JiraAlign #ConfluenceAutomation #TeaWithRavi

Transition Jira issue from Confluence using Smart Links

Using Jira macro you can insert Jira issues within a Confluence page. It can be used to display list of issues or charts for basic reporting. Also a single issue can be inserted in Confluence. This is a one really useful feature of Jira macro because you can also see live status and other updates to fields.

Let me share the mics I use in 2023 for making YouTube videos, recording video courses, recording outside and for my online calls.

Jabra, Sennheiser, Samson, Blue Yeti, Movo, Boya

#Mics

Let me share a very useful resource that you can use to know about various packages and customisations that you can do in your Emacs.

#Emacs #AwesomeEmacs

AwesomeEmacs

You can easily break down your issues from your Jira Software backlog. Let us do it together.

#JiraCloud #SplitIssue

It is not possible to write a JQL based on board columns and your best option is to write JQL based on multiple statuses.

#GetAnswers #JQLColumns

There is a package called svg-clock which you can install from MELPA and display a proper analog clock in you Emacs buffer. Super cool.

#Emacs #Clock

Once a month I have to resize some images in bulk and I do that very easily using a shell script to run a ffmpeg command.

#ffmpeg #resize #images

It is better to keep the default email format as Text. Users can always change it to HTML in their user preferences.

#GetAnswers #EmailFormat

Let us check how changing page ownership works in Confluence.

#ConfluenceCloud #PageOwnership

I am yet to do something useful with ChatGPT but I am glad to see a package called Org-AI that will let you use Emacs to interact with ChatGPT.

#Emacs #OrgMode

org-ai

I never learned Emacs Lips and also don't know it really well, let me share my experience.

#Emacs #Lisp

Confused with which date field to use in Jira? Let us discuss when to use FixVersion, due date and target start/end dates.

#justtalk #Dates

You can now not only insert Jira issues in Confluence but also embed the whole issue view and change the status from a page. This is amazing.

#ConfluenceCloud #EmbedIssue #ChangeStatus

How much is too much training? Focus on delivery and outcome not just rolling out Jira for the sake of it.

#justtalk #JiraTraining

If you stop using your free Jira instance then after a while your site data will be deleted forever.

#GetAnswers #DataRetention

You can see the actual colour that a specific hexadecimal code represents using rainbow-mode. It is super convenient and makes life so much easy.

#Emacs #rainbowmode

Let us go through important updates from the @atlassian ecosystem from last week.

Your story on the Atlassian Developer Blog

Let me share how I backup my files.

#NoNAS #BackupStrategy

There was a question on the community about adding additional attributes on the Fix Version or Releases in Jira.

#GetAnswers #FixVersions