It's not free, but it's the best thing I've found for being able to quickly take screenshots & annotate them - it's got better annotation tools than anything else I've used. It can also record video clips & save w/ relatively small file size (to give a quick walkthrough of a software feature or plainly show replication steps for a problem).
ie print screen for ss and upload vs shift+ctrl+print screen for just a ss
https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle#important-note
A common alternative mentioned is Rectangle.
When the time of year came, you'd be put into a group. Groups would be staggered across a series of days so as not to overwhelm the system. Very early on your group's morning (like 5am I think?), the floodgates would open and it was a mad (online) dash to grab slots so that you could hopefully get good times (avoiding 8am's, etc, or at least getting the credits you needed!). This all happened through a web portal, and in a matter of minutes you could miss your chance for some of the more popular classes. It was like trying to buy a PS5.
To go more quickly, you could type in an exact course number instead of browsing through the listings. So people would look up the numbers for the courses they wanted ahead of time (as well as for some backups, in case one or two of them filled up).
Well, I learned about AutoHotKey from another student. I hardcoded each of my F-keys to type in the course IDs on my list so I could fill them out rapidly, and was fairly successful getting the classes I wanted :)
There's only so many ways of assigning scarce resources to a number of participants. And none of them are perfect.
FIFO is one. Lottery is another. Bidding money (auction) is another, where applicable.
There are more complex schemes like ranked choice, but that becomes increasingly complex to implement, requires goods to be somewhat interchangeable, and also requires education (not everyone knows what ranked choice is, but everyone knows what 'first come first serve' means)
An underappreciated amalgamation of java robot, opencv and Jython has literally automated away thousands of inane man hours for me and some clients.
- Regular expressions
- vim
- sed
- imagemagick's convert/mogrify