Through 10/23/22

Video/audio transcript

0:00 - hey guys right now I’m going to be making the ministry progress summary video here uh for events through October
0:06 - 23 2022 so this video is coming out a little bit late I just got really tied up with stuff this week and I’ll go over
0:12 - that in just a little and how I want to keep myself more consistent but uh long story short still kind of in the setup
0:19 - phase of things still making more work or sorry rather making more progress on the workflow and uh continuing to get
0:26 - things set up on the discussion pages so that I can organize more content now we’ll jump right into things here in a
0:32 - second with the outline but you know just going to show my face here on screen I’m pretty happy with the way
0:38 - things are going you know I’m hoping that I only have like a week or two more here I mean I know I kind of said that
0:44 - last time too but uh you know we’ll get into a little bit of that as I go over the things I got done but uh you know
0:50 - you may notice that the recording Locale has changed here I just kind of did decide you know I mean even though the
0:55 - lighting was good in the bathroom um you know right now I am actually in the math master bedroom so I’ve got the
1:01 - windows open and I played with the color balance and stuff on the inside profile here and I think this is like a little
1:09 - bit less strange than recording videos in the bathroom probably and so I actually do have the wireless microphone
1:15 - going too as well it’s why I’m standing a little bit back here um so I have the lapel mic on my collar here and then
1:20 - it’s hooked up to the wireless receiver on the GoPro so some of the video recording stuff starting to stabilize a
1:26 - bit but I certainly won’t bore everyone with the details on that I will go ahead and jump right into the actual content
1:33 - that I got done here in this two-week cycle all right so these are the things here
1:39 - in the outline first I’m going to go over kind of why this video is a bit late and kind of how I want to do better on this in the future uh just keep
1:46 - myself very consistent making these videos every couple weeks to keep the progress going so I’m recording this uh
1:52 - probably like six days late here you know I had intended to actually record it over the weekend but I was really busy and then stuff came up at work this
1:58 - week and so you know I’ll go over that a little bit I’m going to talk about how I continue to kind of change things with
2:04 - the video quality I just mentioned that a little bit here you know recording out in the bedroom with good natural light rather than artificial inside lights
2:12 - here I set up more stuff with voice recognition people may get kind of tired of me continuing to go over this but you
2:19 - know it is kind of a big deal how I want to make things moving forward this one’s big dragon which is the voice
2:25 - recognition software that I use kind of only fully integrates with a few programs and Microsoft Word is one of
2:31 - them and because I write most of my content in markdown I have to figure out how to be able to write my markdown in
2:37 - Microsoft Word so this was something that I was working on for quite a while here I got the wireless microphone
2:43 - system set up I’ll mentioned that a little bit at the beginning of the video as well I also completely tested out the
2:49 - portable dual 24-inch monitor setup I mentioned that in a previous Ministry progress summary but I actually took it
2:56 - to the library set up the full system it takes a little bit to set up and tear down but uh you know lets me be very
3:01 - productive if I do decide to go work out in a public place I got the documentation written up for the
3:07 - discussion Pages this was one of the big outstanding to Do’s I had for this phase I did get blocked on some stuff and that
3:13 - was because of path limitations in Microsoft Windows so I’ll get to that you know maybe kind of explain this in
3:20 - over much detail here but you know I was going to make even more progress organizing things this cycle but ended
3:26 - up getting kind of blocked because of this issue I was having naming things and then finally we’ll go over what the
3:33 - upcoming work that I’d like to get done is so starting out here we’re going to be going over kind of why this video is
3:39 - coming out a little bit late so the last one which I did release on like a Friday that one was late because I was actually
3:45 - having a full technical problems you know I was having issues with the video editing process that I had I worked out
3:51 - some of the Kinks You know I was having video audio sync issues having set up a new video profile on the GoPro which was
3:57 - causing the audio to drift relative to the video and uh you know it was kind of quite a chore to get it all ironed out
4:03 - last time although I think I’m kind of on a better path here so this time it wasn’t so much that I was strictly
4:09 - prevented from making the video earlier as I was a bit of perfectionism here on my part
4:14 - oh I kind of had a certain order I wanted to complete tasks in but kept like not finishing things and then that
4:20 - ended up pushing everything else back so I could give kind of a bunch of reasons you know I had to get my house inspected
4:26 - by the termite inspectors you know to maintain the termite warranty I have other practical stuff like that I also
4:32 - worked uh like three and a half hours overtime one of the days this week because we were really busy deadlines
4:37 - and stuff at work and so the basic gist though is that I just didn’t prioritize getting this video out on the Sunday or
4:43 - the Monday this week uh you know I didn’t push everything else aside to keep that schedule and kind of in the
4:49 - future here I’m going to try not to let this happen again where the video is coming you know quite a bit later in the
4:54 - week because I’m trying to hold myself to this two-week pattern here to maintain that consistency and so I’d
5:00 - like to have that consistency I’d like to maintain that schedule you know both for me to hold myself to it and then
5:05 - also for people who follow these updates so that they can maintain that kind of consistent status
5:12 - on what’s going on in the ministry so moving forward the goal uh may not exactly be every single Sunday that’s
5:19 - where the boundaries for things are you know I’m doing things every other Sunday uh is kind of where I cut off the content boundaries for uh the tasks that
5:26 - I I talk about in these updates but it might roll to the Monday just because sometimes I have to process the video
5:31 - and things like that but either the Sunday or the Monday every two weeks that’s when I’m hoping to have these
5:37 - videos out by so I’m saying that being a little bit hypocritical here um that means that the next video from the time I’m actually recording this is only
5:43 - going to be in about a week I mean I have gotten some stuff done this week too which I will talk about in that video but you know all this to say
5:49 - they’re going to try to actually hold myself a little bit better to that time window of Sunday or Monday rather than
5:55 - letting it slide back later in the week so if I need to I will bump other things on my task schedule to make sure that I
6:02 - maintain a bit better consistency with these videos here so that Preamble aside going to go over
6:07 - just a couple more of the things that I’m trying to do to improve video quality here so uh just going to really
6:13 - go through this quick like I mentioned actually recording in the master bedroom right now uh I had recorded the last
6:19 - video in the bathroom one of the advantages of using like inside artificial light is that I don’t have to
6:24 - only record videos when it’s bright outside but I could do it you know later at night once the sun has gone down but
6:30 - you know even so it’s just kind of odd recording in the bathroom so I thought better of it a little bit just decided
6:35 - you know what uh probably just seems a bit more natural to record in a room you know I’ve got like the bookcase in the background here and things like that and
6:42 - so that’s what I’m going to try to shoot for it just means that I have to record the videos when it’s bright outside basically and so I fiddled around with
6:48 - some GoPro settings still uh you know made sure that I got the profile I’m shooting with the inside light here uh
6:53 - you know with natural light coming in through the windows make sure all of that is working well things like that but basically uh for now gonna probably
7:01 - try recording in this setup here in the master bedroom for the foreseeable future because it’s a room where I can
7:07 - kind of be closed off you know not bother my roommate or anyone else who’s over and things like that now in the
7:12 - future I might kind of get a more formal like portable standing desk something that has wheels because I would want to
7:19 - actually take that out to go if I have people over for Bible studies we have the big projector out in the living room
7:25 - and I’d want to have my presenting set up there as well with the portable monitors the the Dual 24-inch monitors
7:31 - that I’ve mentioned for now I kind of just like zip ties and duct tape put together like a platform assembly and
7:37 - then put the tripod on that so I’ve actually got some like sheaves of printer paper like three of them to to
7:43 - raise it up a little bit and I think it’s going to work okay in the short term but maybe longer term going to try
7:49 - to get a standing desk with wheels there to make it a little bit more of an official presenter platform so I think
7:54 - that’s all I’m going to say about this you know I’m continuing to try to improve the video quality and the audio quality here with the mic as well just
8:01 - to make sure that the quality of the content it’s as good as I can make it you know given my somewhat limited set of skills
8:07 - and knowledge here you know I think I’m getting better but uh you know it’s certainly not something that I have a lot of formal training in so self-taught
8:13 - for the most part but I do think that things are better now than they were at the very beginning for example so kind
8:19 - of keep trying to leverage that make sure that the content ends up as good as I can make it next going to talk a little bit about
8:25 - the things with respect to voice recognition that I got done this time so I did add some custom vocabulary entries
8:31 - more things for punctuation also continuing to practice here to get that speed up and get my comfort with uh
8:38 - dictating sentences rather than typing things out a little bit faster I also added a couple custom commands or
8:45 - shorter forms of commands that Dragon already has so like one for adding new lines uh you know their their command
8:51 - for it is new line but you know again that is ambiguous possibly with things that you would say normal speech so I
8:57 - came up with my own brief for it then another one for deleting the last word um you know their command for it is
9:03 - delete last word that’s just a little bit wordy and so I came up with a single syllable thing that does the same thing
9:09 - you know just deletes the last word so kind of like control backspace now this was important especially towards the
9:15 - future here as I start dictating full time and trying to do a lot of my editing with the dictation software as
9:22 - well is there’s a lot of commands that you can do with Dragons so there’s like commands to navigate around in a
9:28 - document so that’s like between paragraph sentences beginning the file into the file things like that you can
9:33 - select things you know select arbitrary words in the sentence or phrases you know like this word through that word
9:40 - the entire sentence you’re in the next sentence the last sentence the next paragraph the last paragraph the current paragraph all of those sorts of things
9:47 - and then correction commands which is if mu are dictating something a dragon gets it wrong because it for example makes up
9:54 - hominins or something you can actually correct it and then in the future it will remember that so it’s smart machine
9:59 - learning type thing you know it will kind of correct itself over time as you train it and so all of these things very
10:06 - important for you know getting faster with doing things with voice now something that’s important about all of
10:12 - this and this drove a much of the other workflow stuff that I did this cycle is that these things can only happen in
10:18 - very specific applications where Dragon can fully track cursor position so Mike Microsoft Word is an example also like
10:25 - open office and wordperfect and a couple other programs but the supported application list is actually pretty
10:31 - small it’s mostly like word processors the kind of programmer text editors or Ides that I’ve been using like vs code
10:37 - and IntelliJ not on the list and so if I want to be able to navigate by voice
10:43 - commands or select text by voice commands and do the corrections so dragon learns over time I have to be in a program that actually supports drag
10:50 - and tracking cursor position and so Microsoft were definitely the biggest program um kind of like the one that is you know
10:56 - the most feature Rich and well supported um I mean I think it works about equally well in all of them you know Microsoft
11:01 - Word just has a lot of features that might make it more attractive over other options so that’s what I decided to go
11:06 - with and so for that reason I actually needed to get word so far I’ve kind of squeaked by just using the online form
11:13 - of the Microsoft like office thing so Word and Excel you can use them online
11:18 - for free and so I’ve just been doing that because I don’t really edit files that much all right most of my stuff in
11:24 - markdown at Google Docs but you know decided that you know if I need this for Dragon well then I’m gonna have to buy
11:29 - it so I got an Office 365 subscription I got the dragon add-in enabled there and
11:35 - you know tested it out here and then I tested out all of these commands that I was mentioning the navigation commands
11:40 - the selection commands the correction commands all of these things for Dragon uh to kind of unleash the full power of
11:46 - the voice recognition when I am dictating text here so pretty happy with how it turned out actually I definitely
11:51 - need to practice a lot more before I’ll kind of be able to do it more fluidly and and uh and kind of without pausing
11:58 - to think about what things I need to say to make it happen uh you know kind of get that that it’s not muscle memory I
12:04 - guess because you’re talking but the the talking memory uh very equivalent to muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts and
12:10 - stuff but I am pretty happy with how it turns out um I think once I do practice and once I get this speed I think it
12:16 - will work very well so this was the things that I was setting up on the voice recognition front now big problem
12:21 - caused by this is that all of my stuff for static side generators you know the content that I write for my website it’s
12:27 - written in markdown and Microsoft Word but usually does not use markdown it
12:32 - usually use uh you usually edit Word documents in word so uh things with the docx file extension but because all of
12:40 - my content is in markdown um that’s not going to change either because the static site generator so
12:45 - like not just the one I use but almost all of them uh you know use markdown as what you write your content in and so if
12:52 - I want to completely Unleash the Power of dragon with all those types of commands I mentioned the navigation
12:58 - commands the selection commands the correction commands I will need to work in Microsoft Word or one of the other
13:03 - programs uh you know but I picked word and so I need to work in Microsoft Word but I need to figure out how to handle
13:10 - markdown files in Microsoft Word and by handle them I mean like not just opening them up so that they’re plain text but
13:16 - I’d like syntax highlighting or something similar enough to it for the markdown headers and the ability to like
13:22 - open links um you know either control clicking them or things like that and uh so uh you
13:29 - know I basically decided I want to be able to actually use markdown uh edit markdown in a fluid sort of way using
13:36 - Microsoft Word where I have all of this uh Power using the dragon uh voice recognition commands and so I actually
13:43 - did a bunch of research and found this uh add-in for Microsoft Word it’s a third-party paid extension that kind of
13:50 - does the heavy lifting to Auto convert between markdown and word when you’re opening and saving files and so if you
13:55 - have a markdown file you can open it in Microsoft Word and then basically when it’s opening it in word it will like
14:01 - convert it to word behind the scenes so you work at it you work with it like it’s a normal Word file then when you save it it auto converts it back to
14:07 - markdown so pretty neat this is basically exactly what I wanted so I bought it you know it was you know not
14:13 - super cheap it was more than twenty dollars but one time a licensing fee or whatever it’s called writeage so there’s
14:19 - a link here you know I’ll go real briefly open this and so so uh you know
14:24 - it’s this this plugin for Microsoft Word that basically lets you uh do markdown stuff in Microsoft Word uh now of course
14:31 - me being me I did have some issues with it um it actually completely removes HTML
14:37 - which kind of puzzling to me since that was one of markdown’s big selling points was that you can just kind of mix HTML
14:42 - with the text that you write but regardless of this plugin removes it I guess it’s probably just because it was
14:48 - designed kind of for normal people in mind you know uh you know for me I would have been more liable to kind of do
14:55 - things with pandok which is a command line converter for various file types but you know that’s not completely
15:01 - automated I suppose I could set it up with like things that track if you save something and then Auto convert it but
15:06 - this is more seamless it’s just that the parser isn’t very flexible so it strips
15:11 - HTML which is annoying and um kind of Auto backslash escapes number signs that
15:16 - aren’t part of headers so for example I use them for anchor tags when I automatically generate headers with the
15:22 - preprocessor application and then the angle brackets as well automatically escapes those and so basically every
15:28 - time I run something through this plugin to work with something in Microsoft Word and then I save the file it kind of
15:33 - messes up my markdown file now it’s kind of a limited set of ways that it does this it’s not like it it screws
15:38 - everything up it’s just these few things and so I’ve decided that once I set it up and get it working I’ll be able to
15:45 - actually kind of write additional functionality in the preprocessor
15:52 - application that I’ve been writing in Python to after I have been editing these files in Microsoft Word I’ll just
15:57 - have to rerun the preprocessor which I do anyway to build the subject index and I just have to be smart and kind of undo
16:03 - the ways in which this plugin messes up my markdown files now it’s not awful it’s just that because their parser
16:10 - doesn’t have any customization like I can’t tell it hey I don’t want you to do this you know I can’t check some check boxes and say turn off this feature you
16:17 - know basically I would just rather it doesn’t mess with my files that much but it kind of does these things and I guess probably just because because it’s
16:23 - trying to be user friendly and stuff for people who aren’t familiar with markdown whereas for me I’m very familiar with
16:29 - markdown and I’ve used it almost exclusively for the last five years or so it’s just I now I need to do it in
16:34 - word and so I think it’s kind of going the other way and that’s why it’s kind of frustrating for me but you know I think I’ll be able to you know write my
16:41 - application to kind of undo the things that are supposed to be helpful so that it will actually work for my use case
16:46 - and that way I will be able to write markdown files in Microsoft Word where I can use all of the Dragon commands now
16:53 - one other thing to note I was actually pretty delighted that it supports tables and footnotes exactly how you have them
17:00 - in word and so you have wysiwyg tables and footnotes on the bottom of the page and honestly these things actually work
17:05 - better in word than they have been in the text editors that I’ve been using so there are like keyboard shortcuts where
17:10 - you can like tab between cells in tables in things like vs code or the markdown
17:16 - plugin for IntelliJ you know so it’s not like they’re awful in those but uh you know the the what you see is what you
17:22 - get that’s what wysiwyg stands for tables in uh Microsoft Word definitely better you know it’s just a little bit
17:28 - easier to work with I think and so I was happy to see that it just kind of supports it out of the box it uses the
17:34 - GitHub flavored markdown tables and so I’m not like unhappy with this plugin I just wish that there was a bit more
17:39 - customization so that it didn’t break things in my workflow so much but I think it’ll be fixable the one thing
17:45 - that won’t be super fixable is the stripping out of HTML that’s just kind of like tough I will have to refactor to
17:52 - use make my own comment short code in my static site generator to get around that so A few pain points of frustration here
17:58 - but this was something that I spent time on so that moving forward in the future I’ll be able to draft all my content
18:04 - with voice recognition in markdown so you know maybe not very interesting for most people but will be very important
18:11 - in the future as I continue uh chipping away at this voice recognition stuff to try to be faster and faster in how I
18:17 - draft content um you know one other thing I did after I got a word set up initially I did a
18:23 - bunch of a customization type stuff so I set up custom styling for the headers and I kind of reduced the font size so
18:29 - that headers were just color coded rather than being really big so they take up less space on the screen and
18:34 - then keyboard shortcuts for navigating the menus and the the file outline then
18:40 - voice commands for changing between the header formatting so I’ll say something like header three and then that will apply the header 3 styling or normal
18:47 - text and that will change the styling back to normal text things like that so uh voice recognition command specific
18:53 - for how I’m setting things up in Microsoft Word and then you know just a bunch of other workflow details and am I
18:59 - going to try to bore everyone with the technobabble here but there’s like a lot of configuration uh more things like
19:05 - that you know and I I’m not even completely done um you know I I mentioned that I will be able to fix some of the problems that
19:11 - this plugin causes in my markdown files but I didn’t actually do that this time I just kind of like reasoned my way
19:17 - through it figured out it would be possible so that this actually will be a solution to being able to write markdown
19:23 - in Microsoft Word I’ll just have to go do that at some point before I start doing this kind of more full-time so
19:28 - I’ll stop uh rambling there um this also real quick I did get the wireless microphone system set up again
19:34 - I’m actually using it to record this right now um it did take me a while to get
19:39 - everything set up and figure out how it all connects together and the wireless signal and I did also do a good bit of
19:45 - research here uh kind of figuring out how to adjust gain settings properly so kind of the balance between getting
19:52 - strong input signal levels while leaving enough headrooms so that you don’t clip so that you leave enough ceiling here
19:58 - that you don’t exceed the zero decibel threshold where you start getting clipping in your audio so you know I
20:03 - again not uh pretending to be professional here I’m learning as I go although I do think I am gaining enough
20:10 - knowledge in these things that hopefully the content quality will keep improving over time but um so you know it’s worked pretty well
20:16 - I’m happy with the purchase I mean it was expensive enough but the Wireless receivers they work with the GoPro and
20:21 - in fact right now the wireless receiver is plugged into the GoPro which in turn is plugged into the computer so I’m
20:27 - using it as my webcam and the audio is actually coming in through the capture card interface and I even that’s working okay so kind of complicated but happy to
20:34 - get this system set up too um also with the portable 24 inch monitors again you know did mention not
20:40 - the most interesting content week again I promise guys I’ll get there eventually but uh still doing all of this setup
20:46 - stuff here I did get the all of the components for the portable monitor setup here the Dual 24-inch monitors
20:53 - came and finally I tested everything out and made sure it all worked together um it did which I was happy about you
20:58 - know I didn’t have any real hiccups in the process here I had the drivers for the displays installed on my computer a
21:04 - so-called display link lets you hook up these uh kind of displays over USB with
21:09 - like a USB hub that I have so I set up and tore down the setup a couple of times you know it takes me like
21:16 - somewhere between four and five minutes to set it up and take it down and say you know that’s like a reasonable
21:22 - reasonably large amount of time investment so it kind of makes it worth my while if I’m going to be somewhere for like several hours working having
21:29 - all of that extra screen real estate rather than just my puny tablet screen really does help me be more efficient
21:34 - and so I did actually test it out in the real world situation I went to the public library on one of the Saturdays
21:40 - in this cycle and I was actually pretty happy with how well would let me work you know I put my headphones on in that
21:46 - environment and really knocked some stuff out with the two monitors letting me kind of work without taking a big
21:51 - efficiency hit even though you know I didn’t have my full uh you know 4K TV as my monitor display that’s normally what
21:57 - I use at home but you get the idea you know happy to test out the setup and see
22:03 - that it worked more or less how I had designed it and intended for it to so you know more things on the setup here
22:09 - now actually as to uh things kind of making more forward Ministry progress
22:14 - itself I did get the documentation for the discussion Pages written up uh not a
22:20 - lot to say here you know maybe that sounds pretty simple um I actually had kind of a tricky time figuring out what I wanted to say to
22:26 - help explain what discussion pages are and how they work on the site now this first pass I did kind of leave to Do’s
22:32 - uh for adding screenshots for a lot of the things that I’m talking about um so you know screenshots showing how
22:39 - various bits of the discussion page process work on the site that’s because I wanted to be able to show that you can
22:44 - have more than one discussion page and right now the only thing that I think I actually have more than one discussion
22:50 - page is actually the third lesson in the sr4 series and so far I only did the first one and so I decided that I wanted
22:56 - to you know get a couple more lessons processed so the second lesson the third lesson in the discussion pages for all
23:02 - of those so that I’d have this example with multiple discussion Pages for the same content page because that’s something that can happen and you know I
23:08 - just wanted to show it was possible and explain how that worked but in the process of actually trying to get the rest of that content processed I ran
23:14 - into a roadblock that’ll be one of the last things we talk about here for this cycle because this really blocked me for
23:20 - like several days here but that’s kind of what I was doing I was getting the documentation Pages written then I was
23:26 - going to organize several more of the lessons in the sr4 series so that I’d be able to have this example with multiple
23:32 - discussion pages and then when trying to do that got blocked by pathlink limits so this was a configuration issue that I
23:40 - really beat my head against the wall for a while on um I was struggling through issues with path length limitations on Microsoft
23:46 - Windows so I use Windows 10 on my tablet it and then Windows 11 on my desktop at
23:53 - home and it turns out that Windows only lets you have full file Paths of up to 260 characters by default and a file
24:00 - path is like not just it’s not just like the name of the file is this you know
24:06 - like my C drive user Steve Dropbox projects etc etc so the complete length
24:11 - of this cannot exceed 260 characters because if it does it just won’t let you it won’t let you exceed that and so if
24:18 - you if you go above that um I I take it for backwards compatibility reasons some stuff breaks in like the windows kernel apis or
24:24 - whatever and so it just it doesn’t out of the box support it and so I think the
24:29 - reason why this hasn’t been a huge priority to fix is that many people don’t have an issue with this so just as
24:34 - an example for me uh the first discussion page that I had done that actually worked so discussion pages are
24:40 - highly nested because so this is the kind of content organization you can see that I have my website currently set up
24:47 - in my Dropbox folder here so it’s automatically backing up to the cloud um so you know my my user path and then
24:54 - Dropbox projects bibledocs.org this is the website and then within the site
24:59 - directory we go to the content directory then the content type which is longer topical studies then the name of the
25:05 - study which is the sr4 study so if this is sr4 Satan’s World system and then
25:10 - after that the name of the content page in the study so this one was the introduction uh this first this first
25:16 - lesson was the introduction so introduction to sr4 savings world system and then this right here is the name of
25:22 - the discussion page so level of depth is calling many deceive too harsh why God allow Satan control those were the
25:29 - discussion topics that we went over in this video and so this entire path is actually 224 characters long you know I
25:34 - put that into like a character counter on the internet and that’s less than 260 and so that’s why I didn’t have issues here now for this one uh you know same
25:41 - general path you know we’re still in the same same study a different content page this time so this content page is
25:47 - actually a lot longer and so the reason why I was having issues was because I just wanted to make uh the folder
25:52 - structure here just match the titles I find that very intuitive um even though it leads to like long paths
25:59 - um I I don’t see a great way to do that otherwise like I find this the most intuitive
26:04 - um you know it matches the titles and the paths uh you know like why wouldn’t you do that aside from the length limits
26:10 - that we have here so the title of this one uh the lesson was purpose in this
26:15 - dark world only comes by faith which makes us Outcast here but chosen by God right an important spiritual concept for
26:21 - us and then the discussion page here uh is called against monasticism and the
26:27 - idea of complete separation from the world so that’s not a very short file name either right these are the names of
26:32 - the folders that contain the index files that have uh the actual content in them but all said and done all of these paths
26:39 - together come out to be 273 characters which exceeds the 260 that’s the limit on windows by default now it wasn’t like
26:47 - I got a message that hopefully popped up and said hey you can’t rename this file because it exceeds the link limitation it just didn’t work and so for a while I
26:54 - was sitting there scratching my head figuring out you know why isn’t it letting me rename the file I don’t understand and now thankfully I have a
27:00 - lot of experience debugging stuff because I’m a software engineer that’s my full-time job my day job and so I
27:07 - have reasonably good instincts because I have to do this sort of thing a lot at work and so you know I figured out
27:12 - pretty quick oh it must be because of the file length now after I figured that out actually resolving the problem it
27:17 - was not that easy um so it took hours and many hours at that um there wasn’t any simple system
27:23 - setting that I could check that said yes I would like to support longer files thank you very much and it does not just
27:29 - work and so part of the reason why I think this took me so long to iron out was I was just incredulous that this
27:35 - wasn’t easier to do you know like we’re in 2022 now not the dark ages of the internet so uh you know like why can’t
27:41 - we why can’t we just have file names that aren’t really short like or sorry not file name file paths that aren’t
27:47 - really short like this stopped being a technical problem a long time ago is what I’m saying uh you know not when computers were very new and memory was
27:53 - expensive and things like that um you know I kind of see the case for it then but the fact that this is so
27:59 - complicated to set up on like a modern Windows computer is what puzzled me so I kept thinking that like I was just like
28:04 - not looking in the right place I wasn’t using the right Search terms or whatever and then if I just searched a little bit harder I’d find like the actual real way
28:11 - to enable this because I was like sir certainly it can’t be this hard right um and it actually was that hard so the
28:16 - thing that I actually had to do to enable this was I had to go manually edit a registry value to turn this
28:23 - support for long file paths on it the operating system level and so once I’ve done that I could rename files on the
28:29 - Powershell command line to whatever I wanted basically I mean I’m sure there’s an upper limit probably like the thousands of characters or whatever but
28:35 - you know plenty long enough for me you know I was just a little more than 260 probably going to end up being like under 300 most of the time but more than
28:41 - 260 at any rate and so if I could rename stuff on the command line and then it was actually working fine now the
28:47 - problem was I still couldn’t rename stuff in file explorer and so again another black hole of research here
28:53 - going down being like certainly certainly if you can enable it at the operating system level you can have it
28:59 - supported in the file manager right so file explorer is the default file manager on Windows and I figure if they
29:05 - support it in the operating system it wouldn’t make any sense for them not to support in the file manager right but um so I asked you know who would design
29:12 - things that way so that the operating system supports it but the file manager the chips with the operating system
29:17 - doesn’t well micro yourself apparently because here we are in 2022 and you
29:23 - still actually cannot it’s officially impossible for you to deal with long paths in Windows like natively you just
29:29 - can’t do it um so even though the operating system supports it if you go dig into the bowels and you change the
29:34 - registry vowel or sorry the registry value uh file explorer just will not it
29:39 - cannot and they have no plans of making it in the future because there’s stuff that relies on file explorer and uh for
29:46 - backwards compatibility reasons and stuff I mean I was reading some of this it doesn’t even sound like they’re going to support it in the future and so after
29:52 - all of this research I was kind of put out I was disappointed because I’d spent all this time and then I had to go
29:58 - actually research file managers myself because the file explorer can’t do it I have to get a different one because I do
30:04 - want to have the longer paths again because they match the titles of my content and I think that makes sense and
30:09 - so after all of this I had to go research file managers because you know I’m going to be using this a lot and you
30:15 - know I have other requirements too I use Dropbox and so it needs to integrate with with the smart sync functionality that’s a part of Dropbox for example it
30:21 - needs to let me support the longer paths and stuff and so a long story short after all that research I settled on a
30:28 - free option it’s called free Commander I’m pretty happy with it you know I played around with it for a while and got it set up but now after all of this
30:34 - I can properly name my folders for the discussion Pages what I want them to be so you know with the name of the content
30:39 - page and then the name of the discussion page I can have it all match the title so that it’s intuitive but it took me
30:46 - like two or three days you know going through all of this on top of my my job you know I actually sacrificed an entire
30:51 - Sunday to this and it just took me a long time to figure out how to actually get this all to work and I’m still kind
30:56 - of disappointed that it’s so hard to enable this it just seems like it’s something that ought and be that hard given that we live in the modern day but
31:03 - apparently it is and so you know this was something that sucked up a bunch of time and this is one of those reasons why I didn’t make as much progress on
31:10 - the content front as I wanted to all right so that was the cycle you know a lot more on the workflow stuff I did
31:15 - write up the documentation for the discussion Pages you know that did give me close are here and so now that I fixed this issue with the paths the file
31:23 - paths so that I can actually name the folders what I want and I kind of got myself unstuck the next thing after this
31:28 - is going to be organizing those early lessons in the sr4 series so that I can get through the third one that has two
31:35 - discussion pages so that I can finally take the screenshots so that I can finally finish the documentation page so
31:40 - that I can finally publish it to the website so that’s going to be priority number one here in the short term and then after I finished that I’m going to
31:46 - turn my focus to finishing the full Organization for all the rest of the content in the sr4 series and so once I
31:53 - do that I will be done with phase two and the plan that I’ve had kind of for
31:58 - moving forward here in the ministry I explained this back uh I think like two Ministry progress summaries ago so here
32:04 - we are talking about what’s in phase two that was going to be fully coding support for discussion Pages writing the
32:09 - documentation for discussion Pages what I just did and then catching up on all the organization here
32:14 - um after this I will start making new ministry content again you know this is kind of one going to give myself permission to be you know a little bit
32:21 - more proactive about making new content again because I will caught up on some of the old stuff then I’ll mix uh you
32:27 - know catching up on the rest of the peripatology series that’s already up on YouTube with making new stuff so I don’t
32:32 - burn myself out um and then I’m also probably going to start getting a little bit more involved in local stuff you know once I’m kind of
32:39 - making new stuff again on a consistent schedule I didn’t want to go uh you know kind of start getting really involved
32:45 - and really busy until I kind of started making stuff again I got that process set up and uh you know saw what my time
32:52 - commitments were like and things like that but hoping to start making new content as well as getting involved in local stuff maybe even starting up the
32:59 - local Bible study here at the house you know my roommate and I have organized our house for this pretty hyped about it
33:04 - I hope it turns out well again if we can find people who are interested in this but all of this can kind of start once I
33:11 - finally get that content uh once I finally start making content again consistently which is going to happen as
33:16 - soon as I finish the organization here so I why I said I am close you know I am getting ever closer to this as I keep
33:22 - going here but looking forward to hopefully being able to finish that so that I can start making new content
33:28 - again so that all these other things can happen so um now that I finally finished the path issues I’m gonna get the rest of that
33:35 - content organized for the first few things then publish the documentation page and then get all of the other Pages
33:40 - organized too so I have probably like 15 videos or so that I need to do this for I’m going to try to do like one a day or
33:46 - something make sure that I split out the work so that I don’t burn out from it and then after that that’s when I’ll get
33:53 - to the other things all right well uh closing out here um I
33:58 - know again this one maybe not the most interesting ever um but I do hope that anyone who’s
34:04 - interested in following some of the things that goes into uh you know building the the websites and the
34:09 - content and everything uh you know it really is a process that takes some time uh you know again especially for those of us without lots of audio and video
34:16 - experience and so I’m learning a lot as I go here but I am hoping that once I set all of this sort of thing up for the
34:22 - first time once I get the process worked out then moving forward in the future uh things will just kind of happen more
34:27 - naturally I’ll be able to make new content in a much faster pace and kind
34:33 - of turn my focus to content generation rather than some of these configuration matters that have taken my time so far
34:39 - so um thanks for watching this video and I hope this was helpful in explaining uh
34:44 - kind of where I got to up through the 23rd of October and I will pick up in the next video in two weeks time