Why do all records sound the same / Studio tour (with braille display) / The traveler.
Last weak I discovered a terrific Linux/OSX organ emulator, Aeolus. In the words of the author, Fons Adriaensen, the aim is “to arrive at a synthesised (i.e. not sampled) pipe organ sound that should be good enough to make an organist enjoy playing it.”
I can vouch for both the “good enough” and “enjoy playing it” parts. I tested the synthesis playing a small choralprelude by Walther on a single midi keyboard (errors mine):
The Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter (Max Richter has disassembled them and fashioned a new composition from the deconstructed pieces. Using post-minimalist procedures to extract fertile fragments and reshape the materials into new music.).
Super Kaiju Dunk City, if you love guitar-hero-likes.
When you are braingstorming and your teammate sends you this mockup.
Putting <3 back into RogueLikes!
The unique properties of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) make it possible for
digital information to spread easily even in the absence of Internet
Service Providers (ISP) and the internet’s backbone.Colur me interested! Scuttlebutt: an off-grid social network.
Riding in Shikoku / Assembly line
Two bits from Chiesetta di Nosedo.
Pity I didn’t note down the words from the ephigraph on the right, but it is a funerary inscription of someone named Car…: apparently very famous in his time, apparently dead in 536 A.D..
Always nice to visit something fascinating nearby you were not aware of.
Haskell day, exhausted & happy as only an Haskell day could get me. Thanks to Mikamai and LinkMe for hosting this!
Bonus, I snatched some dark green ink.
Daily reminded of what happens when you trust websites with your data (full bug report / affected websites):
The examples we’re finding are so bad, I cancelled some weekend plans to go into the office on Sunday to help build some tools to cleanup. I’ve informed cloudflare what I’m working on. I’m finding private messages from major dating sites, full messages from a well-known chat service, online password manager data, frames from adult video sites, hotel bookings. We’re talking full https requests, client IP addresses, full responses, cookies, passwords, keys, data, everything.
London Cross : “If you walk across a great city such as London in two straight lines, south to north and east to west - a cross-section - what do you find?”
by enviable friend / by William Blake.
More birches, too.
Boris Vasilievich Smirnov (1881–1954) was a Russian artist who in
1904 traveled by prisoner transport from western Russia across
Siberia. Along the way he created a series of drawings and watercolors
of the people and places he encountered.Novosibirsk State Museum of Regional History and Folklife.
Also: Most of the web really sucks if you have a slow internet connection and Six works of Computer Science-Fiction.
edit: nostalgia vibes with Using the (Commodore 64|DOS|Amiga|Atri|etc.) as main PC in $CURRENT_YEAR.
The world’s greatest online anthology of diary extracts is a public diarist resource maintained by Paul K. Lyons. Just pick a day and start reading or subscribe to The Diary Review for weekly digests.
Eye in the bloom by Paula Branconnot.
Wintry sundries, by North Star Nature.
Paradise, by Jan Brueghel the Elder.
New year’s resolutions by David Cain (as my connection is extremely shaky, I guess mine could be “no net for 4 months”).
edit: I've 300,000+ messages and it times out after downloading 150,000 (+/- a few 1000) due to Googles max session limit of 24h.. Yes, it is true.
Spent the best part of this morning fsck-ing the drive of my laptop, which refused to boot with an ominous unrecoverable error. Quite distressing, considering the most recent file on my external backup HD is 2016-11-03.tar.gz.gpg.
2017 can be year where we get into the habit of backing up data early and often, let’s do this together!
On a related topic, the cliff, by Joey Hesse. Every outage has a silver lining, and for sure my 2017 resolution is to minimise time spent online.
Today a book I ordered some weeks ago finally arrived. Apparently it was part of a public library:
And the last date someone checked it was -2 APR 1960.
You’ll be fine here, buddy.
In the Walls of Eryx, a lovely ZX Spectrum game inspired by Lovecraft and Sterling’s short story.
Play it with your favourite Speccy emulator (don’t have a Speccy emu? check this online one).
Controls:
QAOP to move,
<Space> to fire.
Use gems to open doors, collect fuel to shoot, don't run out of oxygen!Enjoy!
Today I went running:
AskMeFi user on their life mission + retail community poetry.
edit: Castro is dead, what better time to replay Hidden Agenda.
Also, work in progress:
Tired of “please unsubscribe” messages sent listwide (like this)? Or if you are on the other side, frustrated by a flood of messages and no clear instruction on how to turn it off?
Suffer no more, as those friendly bunch at Mailman accepted my merge request (amazed I am the first one to propose such a simple UI default change – amazed at the smoothness of getting a patch approved, it shows Mailman team really cares about contributors).
Bonus: why can’t we be friends.
Still no idea what I am doing (as this proud beast).
