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Dont waste time using powerpoint or google slides to make simple presentations

present github repo: github.com/sayan01/present youtube video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ns4rMnR5A4 I was frustrated with the likes of microsoft powerpoint and google slides for making simple presentations. Presentations are always supposed to be simple and easy to follow, with no unnecesary decorations.  Reference:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY  [How To Speak - MIT] For this reason I dislike apps like slides and powerpoint which spoil the user with too many choices. This forces them to take bad design decisions, as well as waste their time. creating slides should take 5 minutes. preparing for presenting those slides should take the rest of your time. If you spend all your time making the slides (which are just tools to aid your presentation) then you are wasting your time and not practising your presentation itself. For this I made a presentation software that is very simple and fast to use. You dont need to work on proprietary project files l...

Search and Play Youtube Videos from the Terminal - yt

yt For a long time I've been searching for a command-line utility to search YouTube for videos and play them with mpv (or any other video player) without having to open the browser and the slow and bloated YouTube web-page. There exists many such tools like mps-youtube and youtube-viewer, but all of them require you to have a YouTube API key. Although using API makes the tool much more useful and adds many features, it has a major flaw, that is you cant search use it anymore if you exceed your daily API quota. Also, getting an API key and setting the tool up is a pain.  To combat this, I wrote a script myself that uses simple web-scraping using  grep. As it uses web-scraping, it doesn't need any API key to work, and can work out of the box perfectly. You dont even need to be logged in to use it. ...