My journey to find a really good writing app has been a long one and while I still really like them There are some problems with it that just kind of keep me from using it for my daily job Just it's just not the perfect tool and while maybe I'm setting my expectations too high I'm really trying to find that application that does what I needed to do in As perfect a manner as possible Maybe like I said my expectations are too high But I'm trying and that has led me to try many different markdown apps over the last couple months Today I'm going to be taking a look at a markdown app called ghost writer and ghost writer is a markdown application That is astonishingly simple in that it does basically what you'd expect of a markdown editor and not much else And that's really good But if you're going to compare it to something like mark text which has a ton of features a ton of settings You might get a little bit disappointed because that's what happened to me So let's first talk about the application and what's good about it first. Let me show you So this is ghost writer and it's available on flat hub. There might be a snap of it I'm not sure but I downloaded this through flat hub and it is a fairly Good application for markdown. It does all the things that you'd expect markdown editor to do It has a preview pane on the side it has your writing area on the left hand side and then it has a By default table of contents along the sidebar over here And it does a few things that are really cool, especially if you are using this for long form writing Which is probably what you're going to use it for The thing that I enjoyed about it most and the thing that I miss about it when I go back to mark text Is this feature right here? It will keep track of from the moment you start writing to the moment you end writing It'll keep track of how many words you've written how many pages you've written your average words per minute How long that amount of words would take to read and how much time you spent idle? So as you can see since I've opened up the application I'm at a hundred percent all time because I've done no typing right and those statistics are Amazing and as far as I can tell this is the only application that does this type of thing built in I know there are other applications that can do this but built in this is the only one I've ever found like this now that like I said is something that I truly miss when I go to a different application because I always keep track of How many words that I've written if I'm doing writing myself and then I like the idea of being able to have an average word per minute Even if I don't know how accurate it is and I like the idea of being held accountable for how much time I've actually moved away from what I'm supposed to be doing and moved over to YouTube You know because that happens astonishingly a lot maybe not astonishingly It definitely happens a lot So those statistics are really really nice to have it also shows you right here How many words character senses paragraphs and stuff that are in in the entire document Which is which is something that almost every writer app has and if you don't know mark down all that well It has a little cheat sheet that's here 100% of the time so if you need to know how to create a bullet list or a block quote or Add a code block or something like that you can find out those things right here And you don't have to go anywhere to find those they're just right here by the click of a button So the sidebar is actually very very useful the place where this falls down a little bit is in the settings now When you open up the settings, you'll see that there's just not a ton of stuff here There's autosave and backup file on save which is very nice that that's definitely a very good feature to have It does remember your session So if you close the application the next time you open it up It'll take you exactly back to where you were and then there are a few settings for the editor itself So you can change the styling how it handles tabs and things like that and then finally there's a spell checker That's all there is in terms of settings other than theming. That's all you get now It's not right to judge a application based on how many settings it has because a Application can be fantastic and have very few settings, you know I mean, so I'm not really judging this based on how many settings it has It's just that I'm comparing it to an application like mark text that has a ton of settings and a ton of options So coming here to this one and seeing that it's kind of minimalistic was a little bit of a shock to the system It doesn't mean that it's bad It just means that I'm comparing the two and it was a little bit of a shock now Ghostwriter does have a distraction free mode So if you hit this button here It will take you into the distraction free mode and you can turn the preview off if you want to so if you Want to do just complete distraction free you can do that and Obviously, there's a full screen mode as well So if you wanted to go completely full screen even though my poly bar still shows up you can see that and down here at the Bottom it tells you how many words are in the document and you can see more statistics By clicking on that and it shows you the time and you can get to the sidebar and stuff as well By clicking this button over here. So there are those added features there One of the places where Ghostwriter does a really good job is actually with theming So if we go down here to this little gear icon hit themes We can see that there are two default themes that are already loaded And then you can create your own thing by just hitting the plus icon and then you can name it and do the foreground background create a dark and a light mode of them And it's really nice that you can create your theme right here with the application That's not something that is very common outside of a terminal like you can obviously do this in a terminal But if you wanted to do this in another application a lot of times you'd have to get into a config file somewhere And that can be tedious for people who aren't really interested in Splunking into a config file. This is a gooey way of creating your own thing Which is really nice now if you watched my video on mark tech to which I highly recommend you do I'll leave that link in the video description and probably try to put it in a card up there somewhere You'll know that I really really like that application And I'm still using that as my main writing tool today And it's not something that I'm planning on switching away from because I like having all those extra features that mark text offers and There's one big flaw to ghostwriter that I don't like and that is that white bar up there along the top I can't stand it if I'm in distraction free writing mode right here for whatever reason that white bar won't go away Unless you go to full screen if you earn full screen it does go away, which is okay, but I never go to full screen I always prefer having a clock up there all of my Bar stuff and maybe I should get used to using full screen It would get me to stop doing the whole distraction thing, but that's just not really the way I work so I'm always in this mode right here and That white bar up there at the top drives me bonkers. I keep it like stands out too much So that is a big downside now that is not really a ghostwriter problem That is going to be a window manager issue the screenshots that I've seen of this in KDE and Genome both of the show Ghostwriter looking fantastic, but in a window manager where there is no header bar No closed buttons or anything like that. All that's left is the file menu and as far as I can tell There's no getting rid of that. I've looked through the settings There is a setting to have it come and go in the full screen mode But there is no option to get rid of it in regular mode, which is very disappointing because otherwise This is a very nice little application. It's simplistic sure, but there's nothing wrong with that It would actually allow people who aren't really interested in doing all the tweaking and stuff like that to Just get in there edit a file and leave and that is what most people want to do So ghostwriter is a fantastic option for that I just wish that that white bar would go away and then maybe I could use it But again, I'm being very very nitpicky when it comes to that when I write something And I want to stay focused on something something that is a tune tone different color than the theme that I'm using It's going to drive me bonkers. And it's just that's the way it is So ghostwriter is a great application, but it's not for me I'm going to be sticking with mark text But I'm going to continue looking at other markdown editors If you have a markdown editor that you'd like me to take a look at leave that in the comment section below Don't leave a link YouTube will delete it. 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Hello and welcome back to the craft box my name is Brenton today. We are in parrot 101 doing a wee little Miranda So yeah, probably not what you would expect, but we are doing a Nice wee little update video today since it is basically the end of December So yeah, that should be fun. We'll see how that goes I decided we'd just hop on the witch to do some Miranda just because we'll probably only do one run in this video Or like you won't even see all of it, but you know in fact I might actually just Move audio down even more because I don't need it for anything Okay, there we go fantastic So yeah, basically this month was a huge month December A lot happened We managed to reach a hundred subscribers, which is fantastic I was away when that happens So I didn't and I didn't have like a video planned because I wasn't actually expecting to hit it this year Like I'm pleased that I did it was like one of my goals for the year But um, I didn't actually think I would be hitting it this year so Yeah, I was I'm actually really happy about that. It's Yeah, it like words can't describe how excited I was when I saw that but yeah anyway, um Ha, we also managed to Get into Chrysalis this month. Yeah, I think so Thank Well, we're in Chrysalis now on the death walk-through which will be continuing on in January Oh book pages, that's fun one Yeah, we did manage to get into Chrysalis. We finished off as take her with Shibuba and we managed to get into Chrysalis, which is cool and that will be probably finishing in a while Maybe not next month, but early February middle of February maybe I'm not 100% sure there's none there. Why would I even go there? Good job um Not even sure when but something along those lines Yeah, so that was fun definitely watch Some of those videos if you haven't already if you are interested in pirate 101. I mean, it's basically the same except less cool Is a good way to describe it um? But yeah, that is What's going on with that? We also in the privateer walk-through managed to Do quite a bit as well. We are nearly finished with cool ranch about two episodes left I think they were originally going to be we were originally going to be finished it finished with it um this month, but I Went away and um things happened and plans changed So yeah, that will be finishing will finish cool ranch early next month like in the like first couple of days probably Because there's only two videos there one's Miranda, which I've nearly recorded and the other one is The final dungeon which is also fun and those videos will be out soon. I'm recording them probably today and tomorrow But yeah, so that's basically what's been happening. We also managed to Find all of the new Badges for the Christmas event that was in pirate I've been defeating more cookies and I've got the cookie crunch a badge which is defeating a hundred. Yeah, I really have no life I know But there was also the frosty Voyager Wrangler and Oh, I can't remember the last one What was it we'll find out frosty Voyager Wrangler and Finder so the Avernus Skyway the cool ranch haunted Skyway Which is where we are now and the Voyager which was in between Mushu and Valencia, so if you haven't checked that one out and You want to find them before the event finishes, which will be really soon I'm guessing probably in the next couple of days you go watch that and find them Well, it doesn't take long the longest bit is getting the cookie crunch a cookie crumbler and cookie crusher badges Which I've only got the cruncher and the crumbler crumblers for ten crunchers for a hundred and then the next is a thousand which Yeah, I'm not doing that one Maybe next time but not this time. I don't have Enough patience to do a thousand because there's not many of them and it's not like easy It's not like the easiest thing to do because you have to like find the ship first and there's only one that spawns out of a whole bunch of other ships and then blah blah blah blah blah and Then you have to defeat all the things inside it, which isn't hard It's just annoying because it's like such a big battle board and like it's annoying, but yeah, that's some That's how you do that one So where are we going all mutiners? I remember this bit when you just get you over here and the other one So yeah, that was kind of basically a wrap-up of this month. Oh, we have to do one at a time. Do we? Oh Okay, then I forgot that bit So yeah next month the schedule will probably be It will be very similar. I kind of just Like finished doing it a couple of probably an hour ago Kind of where I'm kind of planning to be which is I mean if you don't know I kind of plan out all of the videos that I do be beforehand, so Yeah, just so I kind of have like a brief guide of where I'm going each month We'll probably end up being on like episode 210 ish of the Death walkthrough and we'll be probably episode 50 of the private area for those to plan which will be cool We won't be finished with the private area. I don't think because we do have We'll finish a cool ranch on episode 45 and then we go back and then we go to Mushu which is quite a long one and that would probably be about 10 episodes I'd say I Mean it's kind of hard to judge because like it kind of depends on the day because I don't actually plan that series out as much as I Do the death and the musketeer walkthrough that I finished Don't where are we going hot clear good job Brent? Yeah, it's just kind of how much I feel like recording on a day which is usually between 15 and 40 minutes So yeah, not often 40, but sometimes Um So you'll see how far we get through and probably I don't think we'll be in Mali bone what we might be You never know, but essentially they'll be I think for death walkthrough and for privateer walkthrough a week, so Yeah, there'll be a video every day and two on Tuesday and Friday and Possibly on Sunday it depends and if you have any ideas of things you want me to talk about in videos on like a Sunday Which is when I'm planning to do another video of like discussion he sort of thinks things that you ask for Let me know because I'm open for whatever Yeah So I've got a couple of things that people have already asked now We're doing those ones like a year set up for my death so far So pre level a hundred basically from level 50, you know level 60 to like a hundred and then also Another discussion about something else that I can't remember off the top of my head that someone asked in the comments So yeah, if you have any ideas for that go leave them in the comments below. They'll also be a Secretly little extra sort of thing that I'm doing that you'll find out on the Second week of January So that should be fun I don't want to give too much away because I'm not 100% sure if it's gonna happen yet Which I hope it does it should but you just never know things change so Yeah, we'll see how that goes, but I'm not gonna give it away. You'll be It's very different to what I've done in the past. So Yeah should be good He's nearly dead. Oh so close Yikes he got his starfish boys. Oh, he's got okay, that's fine. Please. Can you block? Thank you? Yeah, these guys aren't too bad They just have a bit of results apparently What are you doing? Okay, I've never seen you do that before.  Like what squeeze me and what are you doing? I don't put I see it to these There should kill them Actually, wait, no, we need to kill the other guys as well. I was get like a bit too like carried away How much does that even do? Oh, we're gonna see you there. 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Thank you. We're here at HP for the special coverage, SiliconANGLE.tv's exclusive coverage of Project Moonshot, which is a comprehensive architecture around technology, low power. We heard from a true or false question, instrumental to cloud, true. Absolutely cloud computing is about data centers at the end of the day. It's about systems level view. It's about power. It's about every... I said John, they're one big ATM, right? Cha-ching, man. I mean, this is like that. What's the analogy of the frog sits in boiling water and then the water boils and they boil to death? That's the enterprise. These data center guys, powers that always had power. But it's the Facebooks, it's the Amazons who know that power, they're screwed if it is not backed into the equation. So, you know, web companies that have web presence, critical that they have a power and efficiency program. So are we doing news now? Okay. All right, great. Let's see, so I don't know what's going on in the news. Mark, you want to come in here and... Well, let's just first talk about where we are. We are here at Hewlett-Packard's famous building one in Palo Alto, California, my hometown where I live now. And building one is the original headquarters on Page Mill Road, and it's the place where the founders had their offices. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard behind me is Bill Hewlett's office. Behind Dave Vellante is Dave Packard's office. And this is where the magic happened. This is where they did their business. This is the history of HP. They actually have doors on their office and it's an open door policy here. And the CEO, John Young, at one point would sit right where we are in the cubicle open bullpen here in the cube farm. But Dave, this is the office. They got a walkway in between the two founders' offices and I'll see a restroom in there. They collaborated. Bill and Dave did their magic here, built their company. Founders of Silicon Valley did this here. So it's very historic. I work here. Yeah, John, as you know, this used to be a big open field, right? It was farmland, really, Silicon Valley back in the 70s. They were at the top of the hill right now. This is like the top of the hill on Page Mill Road looking down. And then Sand Hill Road became the shadow of Page Mill, which is that's where all the venture capitalists are. And obviously, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard from Stanford University, famous story, really the birthplace of Silicon Valley was because of the garage on Addison Avenue, which is in Palo Alto. They moved to Page Mill Road. And then ultimately, when they started growing, this was their first big building and building one. So we're here covering HP's special event, Moonshot, is their architecture. And it is about, they call it the HP shapes, the future of extreme low energy server technology, HP server and infrastructure innovations, advanced computing at massive scale. They talk about hyperscale processing, which is essentially hyperscale data centers, things like Facebook, Amazon, those big data centers they call web 2.0 companies, which is really more web applications. These are environments, Dave, where they own the stack, as they mentioned. And it's also where the elements of processing needs to be managed, where you can turn off cores on and off, and that's going to require some programmability. It's not going to be static, and they need to have that kind of capability. And also open source, we heard from the folks here at HP that said, if you're doing open source programming, you're really not compiling, it's really runtime and or interpretive software, and you can run on any platform. So, in those workloads and use cases, this technology is superior to anything on the marketplace, according to HP. Most interesting, you know, we were at Oracle Open World about a month ago, I guess, and we were doing a segment on the new data center, data center, the high performance data center, and we put up a slide at the time that showed all the horses on the track. Obviously, X86 was in the lead, and you had, you know, Aetanium and Oracle Spark and IBM risk, but on there, David Floyer actually had us put ARM, and his point was, you know, we had a little fall as to the analogy. His point was, ARM is definitely going to come into the data center. Here we are a month later talking about ARM, Calzada, low power, low energy ships. David Floyer has made a lot of right calls over the years, and, you know, I love going back on the wiki at wiki bond.org and looking at some of his earlier research, and if you guys aren't following David Floyer out there at wiki bond, you got to follow his work. He's amazing. He's got his hand on the pulse, and he's on the cube all the time when he's in the office, we get him on, and at Intel, at the Oracle Open World, that interview was fantastic, and we actually had Intel in the hot seat. I don't even think they knew they were in the hot seat, so it was interesting to hear them talk about Adam, and you had a comment. We asked them about ARM, and Pauline's response was, what's your take on the Intel situation? Well, so we asked Pauline specifically about Adam, or rather ARM. Do you think ARM is going to challenge you in the data centers? She says, well, we have Adam with her response. Now, we're here at HP today, Intel's not here, although Adam is on the roadmap. HP's been very careful to make that clear, but let's face it, John. This is the starting team. Put your best team in the field. The team that could be in the field, Intel hasn't had their helmet on yet. They're putting their cleats on it, tying their shoes. Yeah, so it's ARM, today it's ARM, it's Calzada, it's the ecosystem around them. Intel's clearly playing catch up here. Intel's got to be embarrassed. I mean, if I'm at Intel right now, I've got to be like, this is weak. If I'm Pauline, I've got to whip some people around. That's a big announcement. HP, the number one server vendor, 97% market share, I mean, come on. We're going to lead this trend toward low power. We've all seen this coming. This is not new, it's not freaking people out like it's came out of the blue. People have been talking about low power in the data center for a long, long time now. Now we're starting to see products that are real. I think Intel's going to have their act together pretty quickly, I mean, my guess, and again, this is just my guess, I have no inside information. Don't talk to many people over at Intel other than some of the data center folks we talk to, but this is an area they've been working on. I mean, this is quarter of them. The question for Intel is, as Pat Gelsinger said, ex-Intel executive on theCUBE at VMworld, if you're not out in front of the next wave, you're going to be driftwood. So the question for Intel is, can they move outside the x86 into more of a robust programmable system level view of the data center? If they can, they'll be successful. If they try to hold on and clutch on to the old ways, they are going to be driftwood. So it'd be very interesting to see the Intel response around Adam and some other things, Dave. So, John, some news real quick here. IC SolidFire did a raise, another 25 million, bringing the total up to 37 million, and interestingly, a few angels that they had involved in it. Frank Slutman, who was the former CEO of Data Domain, and his VP of Worldwide Sales, David Schneider, and then Greg Papadopoulos, who's the CTO at Sun, all put dough in, and then NEA and Valhalla. Yeah, I'm really disappointed by those guys not asking me if I want to kick in some cash on that deal. I mean, Solid State is on fire, Solid Fire, Pun intended, Solid Fire, great company, honestly the calendar. Clearly an up-round, you were saying, off-camera, right? Yeah, we had a briefing with them as an up-round, although no new outside investors institutionally. It's NEA and Charles Curran over at Valhalla, two great firms, really hot in the storage area. Up-round and valuation, obviously the demand for Solid State is putting these guys in a great position. The service provider business on the web-based companies, Solid Fire is selling directly into that environment. And that's a key point. There's a lot of action right now going on in the Solid State space. Obviously we've been tracking Fusion IO and the IPO for a long time. But what's different about Solid Fire is they're exclusively targeting the cloud service provider. And the cloud service provider has different requirements. And the Solid Fire strategy is to bring to that cloud service provider the ability to pin quality of service by application. That means they can start charging for it. That's different. I'm a big believer in the cloud service provider business model and I was a little bit skeptical at first, but as I start to look at it, and from my view, is when you hear about these types of announcements from HP, it ties directly into the Solid Fire value proposition, which is you're going to see a new breed of provider who could put it all together. You're seeing a couple trends. Obviously software's a service, we all know about. Platform as a service has been hot. We saw Cloud Foundry and those guys doing some stuff. Infrastructure as a service is essentially converged networking. When you add the HP story of converged networking, it simplifies the programmer's life. You add open source on top of that. You're going to see some really creative entrepreneurs cobble together some really high commercial grade applications that are going to be cloud specific. What the use cases are will be determined by the entrepreneurs in my opinion and the marketplace. It's still open book in my mind, so we'll see. I mean, but I'm bullish on it. You'll see. What this announcement says is it's basically solidified, saying, look, we're going to put all of our 37 million into that cloud service space, so for those of you thinking about getting into this space, you might want to rethink it. Now, of course, guys like EMC with project lightning are going to get into that space, but some of the smaller guys, maybe that's a message to them to rethink it. Again, the big guys at EMC HP. The Solid Fire is in perfect position data. Like you and I were talking about off-camera, they're in perfect position on the racetrack, because either way, they can go it alone, go public and dominate the market and build an ecosystem around them and their partnerships, or they can get bought out at a very, very high number. So I don't think that they're selling. I mean, my take on the company is, it's not built for a flip. It's built to build a viable business. The founder is from Rackspace, he knows that business code, but what's going to be interesting is the ecosystem that develops around the cloud service. I think there's going to be some consolidation, and you're going to see a lot of people become service providers within that space. So it's going to be some interesting consolidation, but either way, it's a growing market. Yeah, well, Dave Wright has came from Rackspace. That's his deal. He's a smart guy, Colorado-based company, one that we're following, along with others, Pure Storage, Nimbus is another one that we're tracking. I mentioned FusionIO, so it's the hot space, really is. Okay, so we are here at HP Labs. We're at the Cube, the flagship telecast. This is siliconangle.com, siliconangle.tv's exclusive coverage. Come to our site, wikibon.org is the research group. They have all the research covered there. We got the publishing, we got the data, Silicon Angle, the reference point for innovation. We are here at the historic Founder's Office of Hewlett-Packard. Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard, behind us. Some of the stories that Silicon Angle is following today, female CEOs on the rise. We're talking about, so there's two really, Ginny Romity and obviously Meg Whitman, we're here at HP. The two largest computer companies are now run by women. I've met Ginny Romity, Virginia Romity, a couple times. Jay Shrew, Al, Arista. We love Arista networks. 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Once you have found a dataset that is potentially suitable for your project, you will need to evaluate its usefulness. You can find most of the necessary information to do this from the catalogue entry. To find this page from the catalogue search, simply click the name of the dataset you want to evaluate or explore. This will take you directly to the catalogue page for this dataset. Once you have found the catalogue page, here are a few suggested steps you can take to start to get to know your data. Firstly, make a note of the full name of the study and the study number. You can use these to easily refind your data in the catalogue and to navigate back to this page at any time. Next, you should read the first few sections of the catalogue page to get a general overview of your data. The details in this section will tell you the full title and any alternative titles of the study, the study's access level and information on who created, collected, deposited and sponsored the data. A couple of key points to check for in this section. Is the year that the data relates to clear in the title? And is the data collection part of a series? Scrolling further down, the topics section helps indicate the general topics covered, whereas the abstract provides more detailed information about the data collection, such as how the study was run and its aims. The contents of the abstract may vary between different datasets. You'll also need to take a look at how the data was collected. The coverage and methodology section includes detailed information about this. The dates of field work tell you when the data were collected. If unclear before, check the data is from the right time period. Now look at the country and population sections. Does the sample relate to the population you're interested in? For example, is it the whole of the UK or in England? Are any groups excluded? Next, does the data have the right observation unit? That is, the unit of analysis, and is this useful for your work? For example, this may be individuals or households. The number of units section tells you the sample size. There are no set rules about what sample size will be sufficient, but a larger sample will generally give more precise results and you'll need a larger sample if you're examining small population subgroups such as ethnic minorities. What data collection methods are used? You should consider how methods of data collection have different strengths and weaknesses and how these relate to your project. Time dimension. Is there any time dimension to the survey and is this suitable for your needs? For example, if you wanted to look at change over time, you would need a study that took a longitudinal or repeated cross-sectional approach. Sampling procedures. This section tells you the sampling method for the data. If you are looking for data to make inferences about a wider population, you will typically need data collected through random sampling. Finally, what kind of data? The UK data service provides access to varied forms of data, including data from smaller-scale qualitative studies. Most data collections can be fruitfully used in secondary data analysis, but may require different methods. Finally, you'll also need to think about whether the data set contains variables that are suitable to help you address your research question. Does it contain variables that measure your key concepts? To think about this, you can examine the documentation, which can be found under the Documentation tab. This tab usually contains the user guide for the data, as well as other useful files such as the interview schedule. Again, this varies by data set, but a good place to start when examining your variables is the data dictionary, which lists all variables contained in the data set. This video has shown you some of the ways you can evaluate data and its suitability for your project. For further guidance with this, please see our dissertation pages on the UK Data Service website.


Hello everyone and welcome to the Circuit Python weekly meeting for August 2nd, 2021. It's the time of week where we get together to talk about all things Circuit Python. And of course, it is Circuit Python week all week. So I'm Jeff and I'm sponsored by Adafruit to work on Circuit Python, a version of Python designed to run on tiny computers called microcontrollers. Circuit Python development is sponsored primarily by Adafruit, so if you want to support them and Circuit Python, consider purchasing hardware from Adafruit.com. The meeting is hosted on the Adafruit Discord server. You can join any time by going to adafru.it-discord. We hold the meeting in the Circuit Python DevTex channel and the Circuit Python Voice channel. The meeting typically happens on Mondays at 9 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific, except when it coincides with the U.S. holiday. We have calendars online that will keep you up to date with any changes to the meeting time or date. We can also add you to the Circuit Python Easter Discord role, and then you'll get a small number of notifications each week, most of them about the date and time of the meeting. This meeting is recorded. We record the audio from the voice channel and video of the text channel. If you prefer not to have your voice recorded, for whatever reason, you're still welcome to participate by providing notes in the notes document. The video is posted to YouTube and the audio is released as a podcast. If you don't find us on your favorite podcast service, please let us know. There is a notes document to accompany the meeting and the recording. If you wish to participate but can't make it to the meeting, that's where to leave your hug reports and status updates. After the meeting, we also add timestamps to the notes document so you can use it to skip to the parts of the broadcast that interest you the most. The meeting tends to run 60 to 90 minutes, so it's good to have the option to skip around. Before the meeting, we post a link to the notes document and pin it in the Circuit Python dev channel, so if you're looking to add your notes, that's where to go. This meeting is held in five parts, not counting this one. Next up is community news where we take a look at all things Circuit Python and Python on hardware in the community, and it serves as a preview of the Python on microcontrollers newsletter. Next up after that is the state of Circuit Python, the libraries and Blinka, where we take a primarily statistical overview of the entire project, looking at the numbers as separate from what we're each individually doing. The next part after that is hug reports, where we take a moment to highlight the good things folks are doing and recognize the awesome people all around us in the community on Discord, GitHub, Twitter and beyond. Next after that is status updates, an opportunity to sync up on what we've all been up to. We invite everyone to take a couple of minutes and talk about what you've been doing since we last met and what you'll be up to over the next week until the next meeting. And then the last part, if we have topics, is called in the weeds. It's an opportunity for longer form discussions. These can either be identified during status updates, a sign that is a little long for that format, or something you've identified ahead of time. And that covers how the meeting will go. And with that, I will take my first time code and we will start off with community news. I said it is Circuit Python week all week and Circuit Python day 2021 is this Friday. So on the Adafruit blog and beyond, we're featuring Circuit Python all week. And on Friday, we've got a number of events planned. So check the notes document for the schedule. And if you know of more, let us know with the hashtag Circuit Python day 2021 on Twitter. Let's see. And it says here that Rick Leander is offering 75% off his Kindle ebook 10 games for the Circuit Playground Express all weekend from the sixth to the eighth. And there's a link to that on Twitter as well. A part of the Circuit Python week is a special Adafruit show until Wednesday, inviting everyone to demonstrate their Circuit Python projects as part of Circuit Python day 2021. Moving from headlines to projects. First up, we have a Twitter post testing code for turning an Adafruit macro pad into cruise control for Kaikad rotary encoder under thumb for layer trace width or grid size. And then next become Obi-Wan with an Arduino Nano RP 2040 Connect. Easy to get Circuit Python running with sound and an Adafruit Stema QT gesture sensor. Again, we've got a link to Twitter. And last up for this extract, but not for the newsletter itself. Tinkersteller is an iPad app that helps one learn coding and data science with interactive tutorials or labs where one can edit and run code examples like Python straight away. No need to configure environments, download data sets or rely on networking connection to execute code. And there is a link there to tinkersteller.com. The Circuit Python weekly newsletter is a community run newsletter emailed every Tuesday. The complete archives are on adafruitdaily.com slash category slash Circuit Python. We like to highlight the latest Python on a hardware related news. From around the web, including Circuit Python, Python and Micro Python developments, you're invited to contribute your own news or project by editing next week's draft on GitHub and submitting a pull request with the changes. You can also tag a tweet with hashtag Circuit Python on Twitter or email cpnews at adafruit.com. That wraps it up for community news and we will move over to the state of Circuit Python, the libraries and Blinka. So to dive into the statistics, overall, in the last week, we had 31 pull requests merged by 19 authors, some of the author names I didn't recognize right away were Andre Blue, Lucas Hadfield, Ed Rigg, Tarop, and thanks to them for their contributions, whether you are a new contributor or regular contributor, you are helping improve everyone's Circuit Python experience. Next up reviewers, we had 11 reviewers. Reviewing is the machinery that lets us take in these changes from authors. And so it's important to grow those numbers as well. I haven't seen Carter on the list for a while, I feel like, and Deshapu. So thanks for coming around and spending some time with us. And finally, on the front of issues, we had 25 issues closed by 13 people, and 17 open by 12 people. So it's nice to see the issues numbers trending down, but good activity on both sides in terms of number of people. Next, I will pass the baton to Scott to tell us about the core. Thank you, Jeff. For the core, we had 13 pull requests merged from nine different authors. Shoutouts to Evil Dave 666, CD Wilson, Ed Rigg, and Cam Tom Ford 80 for those new authors. Thanks you to our five reviewers. And I'd like to give a quick shout out to micro dev for doing more reviews. We have we have 10 open pull requests, nine of the 10 are less than 10 days old. So that's awesome. We do have one last one that is for an ESP set of boards that I know folks are still working on. So thanks for them for continuing to take a look at that. Issues wise, we had 12 closed issues by six people and seven open by five. So we're net down, which is awesome for a total of 439 open issues. We have this says 31 open issues for 70 but I just looked in it's actually 29 at this point. So we have still 29 open issues for the 70 stable release. So please take a look at those if you want to help out and test the skip to the end. We're fixing some bugs and 7.0 we're making lots progress on the polish. Please keep testing the pre release versions. And if you do find things that you think should block the 7.0 stable release, please file those issues and we'll mark them as the 7.0 milestone as well. We want to make sure it's in a pretty good shape by the time that we get it out as stable. Alright, thank you, Scott. I've been putting the 7.0 alpha five on a bunch of my boards and it's working really well for what I'm doing. So appreciate like Dan's work getting it out there and everybody's putting the bug fixes in so anyway, but it's not hug reports. It is time for Katnita to tell us about the libraries. Thanks, Jeff. So this applies to all of the Adafruit Circuit Python libraries, which is everything that begins with Adafruit underscore circuit Python underscore, along with some fun extras like the community bundle, the Adafruit Circuit Python bundle and our cookie cutter. So across all of these libraries, we had 17 pull requests merged by 10 authors and nine reviewers. The oldest of those was 94 days old, which is excellent to see that we're still plugging away at the older PRs and most of the rest were four days or less, which leaves us with 42 open pull requests. And that's again across all of those repositories. We had 12 issues closed by eight people and nine opened by seven people leaving with us with 328 open issues. If you are interested in contributing to Circuit Python on the Python side of things, consider going to circuitpython.org slash contributing. You'll find all of this information and more including the open pull requests and open issues. You can search the issues either by searching in the page for keywords or you can search by label. For example, bug or enhancement is a good place if you're looking for something more complicated, we need to get better at curating the good first issue label right now there's only three. And I bet there's probably many more that would apply. There is a guide on contributing to Circuit Python using Git and GitHub. So if you're new to that, don't let that intimidate you or keep you from contributing. And we're always available on Discord to answer questions. In terms of library updates, we had one new library in the last seven days, scd4x, and a number of library updates that I won't read off. Overall, we're still continuing to work through updating all of our code examples, etc, to work with the breaking changes. Early, thank you to FOMI guy and Lee Sam or I per pray for all the work that they've been putting into this project. We're still slowly making it through older PRs. And as usual, if you're waiting on anything, waiting on us for anything, please ping. There's always a lot going on, but we want to make sure that we can enable you to contribute. And that's what I have. Thank you. And to round out this session, maker Melissa will tell us about the Blink of Stats. seem to have lost the window here. Just a moment. Sorry for the dead knuckles here. Okay, for Blinka, which is our circle Python compatibility layer for Raspberry Pi and other single board computers and micro and micro Python. Thank you. We had one pull requests merged this week by one author and three reviewers. There are two open pull requests. And there was one closed issue by one person and went open by one person, leaving a net of 59 open issues. There were 9,815 pi reels downloads in the last month. And there were 75 boards supported. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. All right, that rounds out the state of circuit Python, the libraries and Blinka and brings us to hug reports, which is the first of our two round Robin sections. I will start out and we'll go down the list alphabetically from the notes document. If I accidentally skip over you, please call my attention to it in the text chat and I will come back to you. And if people are not present or don't have a mic, I will read their notes. So getting to my own hug reports, I had a big hug for Ketney for taking the time to catch up with me in a chat last week to Ketney and Dan in anticipation of our YouTube stream on Friday, a big hug to everyone moving the court towards being ready for 7 0 0, especially Dan. And everybody fixing up examples and guides for seven, especially foamy guy and the Samurai Pupre foamy guy, in particular, went above and beyond by actually trying to run the examples. So we found an interesting problem. I think that was on Saturday and sat down together and fixed it. So that was fun and just appreciate you doing that work very much. And with that, I will pass it on to Jerry. There's Ed, but hi. Let's see. Yeah, Jeff, to you for the new camera toys. I'm looking forward to checking them all out and group hug to everybody else. Thank you. All right. Next is the hug report from Ketney. So the first hug that I have is for you, Jeff, for an excellent chat last week. Next up, foamy guy for help with figuring out vector IO and an alternative with display IO dot shape. And for troubleshooting a bug in vector IO with me, also to K match for helping figure out getting vector IO to work again to foamy guy and the Samurai Pupre for continued work on getting the example code and learn code updated for breaking changes. And finally to Dan for fighting the good fight with RP 2040 audio. Thank you. Next up is Melissa. Hi, I wanted to give a hug report to Dan for the Blinka keypad review and for commenting the code will, which made porting easy and hug report Ketney for the macro pad liper and a group of different ones. Thank you. And now at the bottom of the alphabet, it is Scott, town, newt. Hello, two hard reports for me. I want a combined one for the Samurai Pupre and and for going through all the guides and getting rid of the max size keyword arg that we no longer need. And a hug report to micro dev for doing more reviews. Indeed. All right. And next we loop back to Dan at the top of the alphabet. Hello. Echoing what Scott said, I'd like to thank micro dev for doing PR reviews and also working on some existing bugs and issues and narrowing things down and submitting fixes. That's really helpful. Thanks to Katney for testing my tenet of audio fixes, which I put out there last week and finding some problems and the particular problems that you found are very helpful in narrowing down to figure out what the actual bugs are. And then I'd like to thank all the helpers and discord again, which I do periodically because they are really, really, really helpful to the people having the new people and the not so new people having trouble with circuit Python and various. Okay. Thanks, Dan. Next I have notes from David Goud, who is not attending the meeting today, who has a hug for micro dev for fixing the use of all four RGB LEDs on the mag tag. And to foamy guy for the work on updating the learn guides for circuit Python seven. And now I need to interrupt foamy guys. He finishes up his hug reports to finish the section for us. Alrighty. Thanks, Jeff. First report goes out to you. Definitely appreciate the help with some of the issues that popped up with the ULAB examples or micro lab examples over the weekend. Echoing what a couple of folks have said, definitely hugely appreciate Lace Samurai for help continuing to help with updating the learn guides and library example codes for the changes for CP seven to Kevin Thomas, who put in a bunch of hard work on a DEF CON badge that turned out super neat and that they shared. I'll drop a link for that in a moment. Also, they helped me by fixing or by pointing out a couple of things that needed to be fixed in my tile map game guide to worry of wire for looking into the potential issue with Vectory vector IO and then proposing a fix for that in a PR. And then lastly to Dan for helping me get an issue fixed up on macro pad advice that I had. And that's what I got this week. Thanks. All right. Well, I've got one last hug report that I skipped over a hug to higher effect. It was great to have you working with us here in the circuit python community but best wishes as you start your new job, which I think you had told me was today was the day so big day for you. Now we move on to status updates in status updates. We want to hear what you've been up to since we last had a chance to get together and what your plans are for the future. So it is also a round robin just done in just the same way as hug reports. And once again, I will lead off. So last week feels like a bit of a blur, but I added more camera functionality and a little bits to other guides here and there. I don't know if it was now two weeks ago that I added the hidden stuff. I think it was so maybe it was just camera stuff. Anyway, this week is more of the same. I'm going to send a new one page guide about using the camera with Adafruit IO to review and then I am going to be looking whether there are any interesting things that we can adapt out of I believe it's open MV in particular. Maybe we can get some kind of rudimentary object detection or QR code decoding. So just getting a feel for what's in there and what we can lift to use for our own stuff. And fun stuff, I think I mentioned this after we started recording, but there's a long overdue fence replacement going on right outside my window. So there's been a little bit of rattling noise from that, but it hasn't been too bad. They were right by my window two hours ago and now they're halfway down the backyard. So progress is being made. And with that, I will pass it to Jerry and then after that, Catney. All right, thanks, Jeff. Yeah, last week was all fun stuff. I spent the week being being grandpa. So that was that was productive and exciting. Here comes the cat again. Right on cue. This week I just got to try and figure out what it was I was doing before last week and get back to trying and test and break things as much as I can. Sounds like fun. All right, Catney, go ahead. What are you up to? So last week I added the new library to the bundle. Lamar wrote that up and so I took care of the final getting it ready for folks to use. Made a decision following a discussion with Jeff on his LED animation PR and we closed it. Documented the macropad library in the main macro pad guide. There's six, I want to say, but there might be seven new pages with demos, etc. I started some template cleanup which involved getting more code bundle-flied, creating embedded code for the analog in-page instead of using a code element directly in the template page, updating rainbow code, neopixel rainbow code to use rainbow IO if available and fall back to underscore pixel buff or eta fruit pi pixel buff if necessary, and then updating the templates that used rainbow code to remove the individual examples and use the single template embedded example and deleted all the individual examples from the learning guides repo. Basically what I had done because to import color wheel, you either used underscore pixel buff or eta fruit pi pixel buff and we want the code to be tailored, is the word I'm looking for, to that particular board. So basically I had a starter example that was pseudocode that you would then update the pixel buff version which meant every time I made that template I had to make an example and submit it to the learn repo and then embed it in the individual template inside each individual board guide which was not a lot of work for four guides but it's definitely going to be a lot of work for a hundred. So I updated that to use a pretty gnarly looking import statement that's got to try and accept but it will no longer be necessary when seven stable is released so it's going to be gnarly for a little bit and then that'll be able to be updated. So less work because you only have to update it once and it'll use rainbowio in the end so that's good. So this week finalized the template cleanup. The last thing to do is there's links to other versions of pseudocode in the template descriptions which is what you start with like for example an example that uses a button and it says you know choose the button pin. So the rest of the example is there you just put the button pin in and then submit it to learn. So stuff like that I can't put inside the template page it has to go in the individual guide and I when I was doing the cleanup moved a lot of the examples into folders. So I just need to redo the links because the links that are in the template descriptions are invalid now. I need to think of what I want to do with my macropad in terms of shortcuts. I took some previous code and got it to where the macropad is rotated 90 degrees and the each row of keys the shortcut for that is displayed on the screen in a section with a line between them. It's a little bit like it takes a little bit of getting used to because you know when it's upright you can just put the example put the shortcuts in exactly the same for like layout as the keypad and that's not possible when it's rotated 90 degrees but I really like the look and feel of it in 90 degrees. So I have the basis for it I just need to decide what shortcuts I want to do. Also it lights up the it highlights the shortcut when you press the key so that's super convenient. I need to add the two new Stema RTC boards to the current guides for each one once I have the hardware in hand should be here tomorrow. In this case normally when we do Stema updates we kind of wipe the original from the guide and say like hey there's two versions of this you know there's like this old version that you might have but here's the new version but in this case both of these boards are still highly well and the Stema ones are new but like the old one is highly used so it's not a replacement it's actually a new product. So the guide will be a little bit different because it'll still have all the references to the original version for both of those and then also updates for the Stema stuff. I need to work on some new templates and also getting current templates added to guides. I will be prepping for a CircuitPython day chat with Jeff and Dan on Friday. I think I'm going to cover the macropad library and stuff you can do with that and in terms of to echo the fun stuff our AC is dying and so we have someone out for an estimate and also it is very warm so we'll see how long it takes to get that fixed and that's what I've got going on. Yuck. All right next we have maker Melissa and after that Scott. Hello last week I wrote the keypad module for Blinka uh reported that over um and I started working on a guide that uses remote procedure calls from the macropad to the computer to interface with Home Assistant and I'm just trying to get the Home Assistant settings tweaked so it does what I want and then there will be lots of writing. Uh I also worked on some small fixes for the web serial ESP tool that we're preventing and from working with the nvm generator code that I wrote and um this week I'm going to finish working on the macropad guide uh make sure that nvm generator code is wrapped up and then working in state and then I also need to look into an issue with the latest Raspberry Pi kernel breaking things again and that's it. All right and what do you have for us Scott? Hello uh so I'm diving back into the BLE workflow stuff um as folks who watched my deep dive on Friday saw I'm like I've got these really weird assertion issues that happen when I do debug builds with link time optimization on as well um I think I was doing that because I was trying to figure out issues with non-debug link time optimization builds um so I'm going to take a look at that with fresh eyes today and see how far I get and if if I'm not able to make some progress my plan is to like take a step back figure out where I'm at what I have to work on and and see if I can't get going forward some other way I know Dave Dave P was kind of looking at this stuff too so maybe uh maybe he saw some things there that to make some sense um I also found this issue using the code.circuitpath.org uh on android over web BLE where it's getting extra serial characters sent from the device um that are like garbage characters so it's a bit weird and I'm not sure why that's happening so I'm going to take a look into that uh because I'm trying to get back into this BLE workflow stuff um Antonio who we work with on iOS this should be back this uh month so we're really going to try to hit that hard this um so that's kind of where my focus is all right back up at the top of the alphabet we have Christian Walters so good to see you haven't it's been a little while I think um would you like to unmute and read your notes or did I need to read them hold on just a second you may need to be added to you know you're in the correct group um I don't know what's going on why don't you try leaving the audio and returning and see if you can unmute then and meanwhile I will go on to Dan and if that doesn't work I'll read your notes for you so go ahead Dan okay so I'm working on um two major things for 7.00 um I'm revising the HID API to be a little simpler and also to support some more things some more kinds of HID devices and there is sort of an issue we discovered in the past about uh I can't remember iOS or macOS whether they support devices without with the report ID when there's only one device they seem to be persnickety about that so I have to test that again to see if the code the workaround code that I put in is still needed and otherwise I'm working on a lot of things having to do with RP2040 and to some extent SAMD51 audio issues um we've done some testing with that and I've made some changes which improved some things but there's still some very odd things going on uh which aren't not necessarily directly audio right now but for instance background tasks stop running after playing audio twice which is really strange so I've got to debug that okay all right uh Christian any luck unmuting or shall I read your notes all right uh well hopefully you'll come back and we can give it another try soon anyway Christian writes last week attended Europe Python online conference there was one talk about circuit python I gave a micro python related lightning talk myself and there is a link to a pull request into the newsletter if you're interested in the details and this week apparently my get previous traceback editions broke writing of bootout.txt we'll take a look at that and that is issue number 5062 and uh now to round out the section we will finish again with foamy guy all righty thanks Jeff for last week I worked on updating learn guide code knocked out all of the micro lab changes which was a lot of fun because I hadn't run a bunch of those examples before so it was really cool to see the way some of those work also got in a few more of the max size and on disk bitmap updates as well and there will be some more of those coming this week and we still have a decent list but I'm hopeful that we can maybe knock the rest of those out this week I also started working on some sample code for vector IO and display IO shape with the hope being to get it refined and add some supporting text to tell folks how to use them and maybe we can get that put into the display IO guide for this upcoming week I'm going to be testing the vector IO PR tonight there's PR to fix rotation so I'm interested to see how that's going and then I'd like to look into an issue that I've noticed with the turtle library that is possibly related to the on disk bitmap updates or possibly just revealed by those changes I'm not not sure the root cause yet but I'll be digging into that a little bit this week and then the last one for me is on circuit python day I am going to stream on that morning so 11 a.m eastern if folks are interested in watching while I work along on some libraries or projects I'll be streaming that day and that's what I got thank you all right that wraps up status updates and we will head to in the weeds where I have the one topic and I think catney has already responded to it so I want to write a driver for the PCF 8563 real-time clock as found on the seed we know Xiao expansion board and I wanted to know whether to contribute it to the community bundle or the circuit python bundle and so I there's the Adafruit bundle and there's the community bundle but I thought we kind of created this third thing which was a bundle within the circuit python organization and that was the alternative I was not sure about so I'm not sure catney if you want to respond to that and maybe I'm calling things by their wrong names so I didn't realize we had to to third third party for lack of a better word bundles I thought it was just the community bundle and the Adafruit circuit python bundle which is what I thought you were referring to I know we were planning to move the community bundle to the circuit python org is that that happened and that's what you're referring to maybe I'm confused no I think we I think we talked about having a circuit python bundle as well the the distinction that I was hoping to draw was that the circuit python org bundle is for things that more than one person is supporting right that's what I thought it had nothing to do with yeah like week we collectively want to support like the graphics team that we have kind of under the circuit python org is an example of that yeah if there's multiple people who are like on the who want to collaborate on supporting something then I would put it in the circuit python org bundle otherwise I would just put it in a community bundle all right it probably makes sense to put this in the community bundle then based on that because I don't have like a co-collaborator or anything like that I mean ideally seed we know would have their own bundle that they supported their products on but you know well I'm not here to fight that fight I'm here to make a board that I picked up work I think we've all been there all of that said I still think it's worth just if you do it Ping Lamor on the off chance that she's like oh yeah we're totally gonna I'm planning on buying a thousand of those anyway well I think this is the one I kind of mentioned in the meeting and yeah I know she didn't say anything but like you also didn't really commit to writing the driver you were sort of I was thinking about yeah yeah so if I'm saying if you do it right let's find out whether because we do have a few things in the Adafruit circuit python bundle that are either stuff we may eventually support or stuff that Lamor doesn't mind supporting well right like the OV cameras there's no Adafruit product with any of these cameras in them so that's that's why I'm just saying like it'll take you two seconds to ping on slack that's all I'm getting at is if you do this before you pop it into a particular bundle just ping and say hey do you want this in the Adafruit bundle if not I'm tossing in the community bundle done yeah although we could also move it after the fact and it would disrupt me the one person who's installed it ever to do right but I'm just I'm just saying that would be my that's my suggestion all right that's no that's a very concrete and helpful thing to do so all right anybody else have questions about the three or more bundles in the world or shall we go ahead and wrap it up there's a discussion of the draw protocol going on in the text chat with warrior of wire and foamy guy do you want to move any of that into voice in the weeds warrior of wire is not in the warrior of wire is not in the in the chat all right well if you're interested in that I guess read the text chat so in that case I will wrap things up for the official meeting this has been the circuit python weekly meeting for August 2nd 2021 circuit python week words the next meeting is on August 9th at the regular time of 2 p.m eastern time and I suppose that's 10 a.m pacific or something boy um thank you for everyone who participated if you want to support Adafruit and circuit python and those of us who work on circuit python consider purchasing from the adafruit shop at adafruit.com the video of this meeting will be released on youtube at youtube.com slash adafruit and the podcast will be available on major podcast services it will also be featured in the python for microcontrollers newsletter visit adafruitdaily.com to subscribe the next meeting will be held next Monday as usual at 2 p.m eastern 11 a.m pacific thank you scott the meeting is held on the adafruit discord which you can join by going to adafruit.it slash discord this meeting is at a particular time each week but uh there's chat going on 24 7 no matter your time zone or when you prefer to be awake to be notified about this meeting though and any changes to the time or day you can ask to be added to the circuit python east is roll on discord we hope to see you all next week and we hope to see you throughout the week for circuit python week and circuit python day on friday thank you everyone thanks everyone