just-intro

chicks-net/presentation-notes/just-intro

I want to make a nice intro video about just.

ToC

• Snippets - copy and paste snippets for the recorded demo
  • Snippets 1 - the snippets used for the youtube
  • Snippets 2 - the snippets used for subsequent live demos
• Slides
  • Opening - title slide
  • Features - intro/features slide
  • Conclusion - closing slide

Links

• https://just.systems/man/en/ - the good view of the docs
• https://github.com/casey/just - the git repo for just
• casey/just#2357 led to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgNN2wOE7lc
  • Awesome production values
  • Comparison is mostly to Taskfile, which I don’t care about at all.
  • He whines about tabs in source code, this seems silly.

Recordings

I had 3 practice sessions in private repos before recording with these public repos:

• https://github.com/chicks-net/just-demo1
  • Zoom overlaid a clock and my delivery was very weak so I didn't try to edit the video.
  • I was pleased with how easy Zoom made it to share the video with all partipants in the call.
  • The Conclusion slide didn't fit well in the terminal window during recording.
  • Played with the window size and ended up with 109 col x 37 rows which caused odd 1224x810 frame resolution.
• v1.2 Friday -- https://github.com/chicks-net/just-demo2
  • Fixed Zoom clock issue. The setting lives in the client and in the cloud interface.
  • My delivery was acceptable, but I skipped a few things and ~20s needed to get edited out.
  • I tried editing in iMovie, but it doesn't look like it was happy with the 1224x810 frame resolution.
  • The youtube studio editor worked for clipping.
  • I also tried to add annotations for the docs link and the other video
• v1.3 Saturday -- https://github.com/chicks-net/just-demo3
  • Let's try to not get lost or forget much or this will be another dress rehearsal....
  • Add card for link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgNN2wOE7lc
    • I wanted to make the card stay up longer, but I couldn't find an option for that.
  • Copy description from v1.2
  • Set languages to US English
  • Add keywords from v1.2
  • Edit captions (aka subtitles)
  • Set category to "Science & Technology".
  • Edit out initial dead air. (4s)
  • Pick thumbnail
  • Picked https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj1L6ffGFWPvMJL57qmMZ1ntcdS2h6xwa as first item for end screen.
  • Picked https://youtu.be/3-Jrp6it9Ss?si=G_IL3xUgMcvk2L9X as second item for end screen.
  • ↪ Add end screen.
  • Add chapters
  • Verify end screen after it is public.
  • Post comment on github issue.
  • Post comment in other video since replies are not a feature of youtube anymore.
  • Sorry for all of the coughs and "ums".

Title

I went with:

• Using just to speed development

Outline

• Introduction
• Features
  • Doesn’t require YAML, XML, or JSON.
  • Agnostic about tabs versus spaces.
  • Support any scripting language of your choice.
  • Run the same code locally or in a github action
  • Just scripting looks very similar to shell scripting, but the defaults are safer.
• Demo
  • Changing directories or not
  • Make-like dependencies
  • Documenting recipes
  • Tabs or spaces are fine
  • Extracting data from TOML
  • Creating a pull request
  • Inline Perl or LUA
  • github action
• Conclusion
  • Reduces developer toil without creating new problems.