brynedwards | 8 years ago | on: Open source modular synth software lets you create 70s & 80s electronic music
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brynedwards | 8 years ago | on: How the Web Became Unreadable (2016)
For those complaining about the appearance of the article: it looks like the original link [1] now redirects to the wired.com version but used to redirect to medium.com [2], at least that's what happens when I enter it into archive.org. Also, previous discussion [3].
1. https://backchannel.com/how-the-web-became-unreadable-a781dd...
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20161019173808/https://backchann...
brynedwards | 8 years ago | on: A Critical Analysis of the Subscription Economy
One I know is Bitwig who recently changed their licensing model so you get 12 months updates with your perpetual license and can pay to continue receiving updates after 12 months[1].
brynedwards | 8 years ago | on: Django vs. Flask
There is a list at the bottom of this page: https://www.djangoproject.com/start/overview/
Disqus
Instagram
Knight Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
Mozilla
National Geographic
Open Knowledge Foundation
Pinterest
Open Stackbrynedwards | 8 years ago | on: Browse Against the Machine
There are also patches for Chromium that remove Google integration and improve its privacy features:
inox-patchset - https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset
ungoogled-chromium - https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Iridium Browser - https://iridiumbrowser.de/
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: Stephen Fry under police investigation for blasphemy in Ireland [video]
The reason this law still exists is because blasphemy is included in the
Irish constitution and so to remove it would require a referendum which
"would rightly be seen as a time wasting and expensive exercise" [1];
the law is effectively a dead letter. With this becoming popular, we'll
probably get a referendum moved forward with the result being overwhelmingly in favour of removing it. The person who reported him claimed he/she was not offended[2]; it wouldn't surprise me if it was done just to highlight the silliness of the law.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_the_Republic_...
[2]: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/garda-launch-blasp...
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: Tmux and Vim – better together
Having switched to Kak recently, I've found this painful since I sometimes SSH into machines with only vi installed and so have to switch back and forth between kak and vi; it's a real headache...and a real shame since kak's selection method is much nicer IMO
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: Tmux and Vim – better together
I think Kakoune is particularly interesting here because it integrates window splitting using tmux and a client-server model instead of re-implementing it which is what vim does. This is part of Kakoune's design philosophy: to be composable with other unix tools. Other examples of this are file browsing[1] and fuzzy finding[2] using ranger and fzf, or even just piping a selection to `fmt` to reformat a paragraph.
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity
Good point, I guess detecting something as e.g. showing child abuse would be much more difficult.
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: The Human Toll of Protecting the Internet from the Worst of Humanity
There's this by Yahoo:
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: Embedded Python/NumPy in MonetDB
The list seems out of date, InfiniDB has been open-sourced since Calpont went bankrupt, and Greenplum is open-sourced under Apache 2 license[1]. There's also MariaDB Columnstore, a fork of InfiniDB[2].
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: Mastering Time-to-Market with Haskell
There's also a document maintained on GitHub that gives a rating of Haskell's support for different domains:
https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md
Which backs up your statements; many of the sections under "Common Programming Needs" are rated immature: Databases, Debugging, IDEs...
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: How Anxiety Warps Your Perception
Found this on Google Play store, looks like another one: http://www.mindhabits.com/mobileapps.php
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer?
Interesting idea. Also, DuckDuckGo can do the same:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21ducky+inurl%3Aen.wikipedia+%s
brynedwards | 9 years ago | on: Blizzard Exempt from iOS and MacOS Security Sandbox
Probably SimCity, there's a bit about Microsoft adding a workaround for a bug in the game in this article http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html
Edit: Maybe not this since it's unrelated to virtual memory but it's along the same lines, going to some lengths to keep software compatible
brynedwards | 10 years ago | on: RoboBrowser: Your friendly neighborhood web scraper
I recently wrote a browser-driven scraper using Nightmare[1], which uses Electron under the hood. Another option for those who prefer python is dryscrape[2], although I haven't tried it.
brynedwards | 10 years ago | on: Have Software Developers Given Up?
Reminded me of the Interface Hall of Shame[1], which, now that I think about it, might be evidence against his claim that software is getting worse...
brynedwards | 10 years ago | on: Neovim public release 0.1.0
The idea is that the plugins themselves implement asynchronous functionality. Neomake is a new plugin that checks syntax just like syntastic, but does so asynchronously. Another popular async plugin is vim-plug.
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The software itself is a bit pricey and only runs on Mac or Windows but I've found it very helpful for getting an intuitive sense of what the different synth options actually change.
1. https://www.syntorial.com/