As I’ve written before, I use this weird keyboard which has helped greatly with my carpal tunnel issues. While this odd keyboard is great for normal typing, certain key combinations are unwieldy. So for the past decade I’ve used an external gaming keypad to the left of my keyboard with custom macros set up for […]
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A DM’s guide to Roll20
Since the start of the pandemic, our regular D&D game — which has always been in person — has shifted to online. We use Zoom to chat, and Roll20 to simulate the tabletop. I’m comfortable using Roll20 as a player, but when it came time to begin planning my own campaign as a DM, I […]
Let’s make a Fountain block for WordPress
Way back in 2008, I announced a plugin for WordPress that made it easy to insert short bits of screenplay-like material into a blog post. EXT. HOUSE -- DAY Max is checking his mail when he spots neighbor FRANK crossing the street, heading his way. Shaking his head... MAX I thought we talked about this, […]
How We Record Scriptnotes, 2020
Many listeners have asked how Craig and I record our weekly podcast. I wrote about it in 2013, but a few things have changed. So here’s an updated look at our standard operating procedures and gear. When and what Scriptnotes producer Megana Rao and Craig’s assistant Bo Shim figure out when we’re going to record. […]
Getting TextExpander and WorkFlowy to play nicely
We use WorkFlowy to outline Scriptnotes before we record. After 462 episodes, I finally decided to make a template for it so that I wasn’t typing it all from scratch every time. So I made a skeleton outline, which you can see here. Excited for the all time I was going to save, I copy-pasted […]
Hiring a coder
We’re bringing in a new person to help us update some of our older Mac and iOS apps.