August 2023

Don't hesitate refilling ink cartridges

Submitted by ravisagar on Thu, 08/31/2023 - 17:08

Apart from saving money by refilling ink instead of purchasing new cartridges, you will also make yourself really proud.

#Refill #InkCartridge

Convert List to a Menu using CSS

Submitted by ravisagar on Thu, 08/31/2023 - 17:07

Today let me show you how you can convert a simple list in HTML to a proper menu. It will take only few minutes.

#HTML #CSS

GetAnswers - Advanced Roadmaps should be for all

Submitted by ravisagar on Thu, 08/31/2023 - 17:05

It is a bit annoying not being able to use the timeline view to create a plan across multiple projects and I think Atlassian to make Advanced Roadmaps available for everyone.

#GetAnswers #AdvancedRoadmaps

Jira and DevOps

Submitted by ravisagar on Wed, 08/30/2023 - 13:37

Wondering how learning and using Jira can help you in DevOps?

#DevOps #Jira

GetAnswers - Creating automated Workflow

Submitted by ravisagar on Wed, 08/30/2023 - 13:36

Yes, you can create more issues automatically when an issues moves from one status to another in the workflow and you can do a lot more than that.

#GetAnswers #AutomatedWorkflows

Do you have a link tree?

Submitted by ravisagar on Sun, 08/27/2023 - 10:12

How do you maintain and share all the links to your online presence on various platforms?

#LinkTree

I might start an open source project

Submitted by ravisagar on Sun, 08/27/2023 - 10:11

I am thinking of starting an Open Source project but I am not sure about few things. Please reach out to me if you have maintained or started an Open Source project. Thanks.

#OpenSource

Duplicating a task

Submitted by ravisagar on Sat, 08/26/2023 - 16:05

Ever felt the need to duplicate a task in Org Mode?

#Emacs #DuplicatTask

Don't approach me for paid promotions

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/25/2023 - 13:03

I don't do paid promotions, nothing wrong with it but let me explain why I don't do it.

#Sparxsys #Jira #RaviSagar

Org-mode - Create not so simple website

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/25/2023 - 12:59

You can insert your own CSS and JavaScript to create a decent modern looking website and manage it using Org Mode.

#Emacs #OrgPublish

Searching for text within files

Submitted by ravisagar on Tue, 08/22/2023 - 16:34

Searching for text within files in a specific directory is super easy. You can only do that if your files are in a text format.

#Linux #grep

GetAnswers - Workstreams in Jira?

Submitted by ravisagar on Tue, 08/22/2023 - 16:32

There was a question about workstreams in Jira. Let me answer that.

#GetAnswers #JiraWorkstreams

Sign-up for Sparxsys webinars

Submitted by ravisagar on Mon, 08/21/2023 - 10:40

I have started doing regular webinar. Please sign up.

#Sparxsys #Jira #Webinars

Shorts helping my channel grow

Submitted by ravisagar on Mon, 08/21/2023 - 10:35

I have noticed a growth in my channel ever since I started making shorts.

#ffmpeg #shorts #whisper

Jira Cloud Automation - Your first webhook

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/18/2023 - 07:46

Let us learn how to create a webhook in Jira and yes let us also receive it in another instance. This can be super useful when you want to trigger something outside Jira.

#Automation #Webhook

Org-mode - 20 Use Cases

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/18/2023 - 07:44

Let me share 20 uses cases of Org Mode that might help or motivate you to use it.

#Emacs #UseCases

iPhone 4S is beautiful

Submitted by ravisagar on Thu, 08/17/2023 - 17:08

I own an iPhone 4S, although I never used it apart from developing an app but it is a beautiful phone.

#iPhone4S

GetAnswers - Announcement banner alternatives

Submitted by ravisagar on Thu, 08/17/2023 - 17:01

It is not possible to have hyperlinks in the Announcement Banner on Jira Cloud and I know it is annoying. Let me share some workarounds.

#GetAnswers #AnnouncementBanner

Do your own SEO, it is easy

Submitted by ravisagar on Mon, 08/14/2023 - 18:26

You should learn how to do your own marketing and that means having a website but you should also promote it yourself. Let me share some SEO tips.

#SEO #OwnYourData

My simple mpd configurations

Submitted by ravisagar on Mon, 08/14/2023 - 18:25

If you are not using Music Player Daemon also known as mpd then you should. It is extremely simple to setup and configure it. Let me show you my mpd.conf file.

#Linux #mpd

Atlassian Updates - JSM Assets, Import Customers, Confluence Public Links

Submitted by ravisagar on Sun, 08/13/2023 - 08:10

Let us go through the update from the @atlassian ecosystem. #TeaWithRavi #Assets #ImportCustomers #ConfluencePublicLinks

3 Million Objects, Asset Templates, Integration with Forge and Customer Context

Wow that is a lot. There are significant updates to Jira Service Management. You can check this page to know more. We knew about some of it in recent updates but Atlassian has summarised it for this quarter.

OpenAI Whisper is amazing

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/11/2023 - 17:20

OpenAI is amazing, I have been using it for a week now and it is super accurate to generate subtitles.

#ffmpeg #shorts #whisper

Canon 200D great in 2023

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/11/2023 - 17:19

I have been using Canon 200D for almost 5 years now and even in 2023 it is a great option.

#Canon #200d

Career Advice - Humble Jira Consultant

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/11/2023 - 17:18

When working with other try not to be arrogant, learn how to be nice to others and be humble.

#AtlassianCareer #CareerAdvice

Jira Career Path

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/11/2023 - 17:17

Want to build your career into the Atlassian ecosystem?

#JiraTips #AtlassianCareer

GetAnswers - Hierarchy per project

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/11/2023 - 17:16

You cannot have hierarchy define per project in Jira when using Advanced Roadmaps.

#GetAnswers #hierarchy

Bitbucket - Comments navigation

Submitted by ravisagar on Mon, 08/07/2023 - 17:44

It is not much easier to find all the unresolved comments in Bitbucket.

#Bitbucket #CommentsNavigation

I will make Magit videos

Submitted by ravisagar on Mon, 08/07/2023 - 17:41

I will start making videos on how to use Magit in Emacs.

#Emacs #Magit

ffmpeg - I created 10 shorts in 1 hour

Submitted by ravisagar on Sun, 08/06/2023 - 10:17

I was able to create lots of short videos with burned subtitles in short amount of time, thanks to ffmpeg, whisper and a shell script.

#ffmpeg #shorts #whisper

Jira admins should not update issues

Submitted by ravisagar on Sun, 08/06/2023 - 10:14

If you regularly receive requests from your users to bulk update issues in Jira on their behalf then you are encouraging them to be lazy.

#JiraTips

GetAnswers - Don't hard code configurations

Submitted by ravisagar on Sun, 08/06/2023 - 10:13

You can check and get rid of a configuration like project role which is not being used anywhere, however if you hard code the project role somewhere then it could be a problem.

#GetAnswers #HardCodeConfigurations

Confluence Cloud - Whiteboards look amazing

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/04/2023 - 15:38

After a long time I have seen a really nice feature from @Atlassian and that is whiteboards in Confluence.

#ConfluenceCloud #Whiteboards

ffmpeg - Generate perfect shorts with subtitles

Submitted by ravisagar on Fri, 08/04/2023 - 15:35

Finally I was able to write a script to generate a YouTube short with subtitles which I generated using whisper. It is really cool.

#ffmpeg #shorts #whisper

Arch stuck on Lenovo screen

Submitted by ravisagar on Wed, 08/02/2023 - 07:49

Today my entire day was wasted because after upgrading my Arch my laptop was stuck on the Lenovo splash screen.

#Lenovo #Arch

Kdenlive - Custom profile location

Submitted by ravisagar on Wed, 08/02/2023 - 07:48

Custom profiles that you create in kdenlive are stored in ~/.local/share/kdenlive/profile but I couldn't find a way to modify it.

#kdenlive #customprofile

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