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For example `rails generate ...` built into the Rails CLI.

Love this! Patterning the theme is such a great idea.

As a counter-point to streaming services and to try and provide an alternative, I'm busy building https://jam.coop - the intention is to be a music store owned collectively by arti…

What evidence do you have for that? I was involved in adopting a code of conduct for a local tech meetup and we did that because a couple of incidents that weren't handled very wel…

> nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR, period. I do! I find it the easiest way to review code when the author has taken the time to structure it in that wa…

Or is peak British comedy Stuart Lee satirising that scene as a quaint village folk tradition? https://youtu.be/7J1J_iHC2Qw?si=kUy3aQvZ4p2PjLG8 Or maybe both?

Really exciting to see this manifesto. There's already some existing co-operative music store/bandcamp alternative projects that are selling music and accepting new artists. https:…

Trains?

There's also https://jam.coop (aiming to be a co-operatively owned/run bandcamp alternative)

This was fun to play with. I was initially expecting to be able to search for single notes or instrument sounds, e.g. I tried "warm synth tone single note C4" but afterwards I real…

Fair enough. I think the sentence I quoted is a very good summary of what I understand the term to mean.

Simple Wikipedia has more "eli5" appropriate writing?

Since the 1990s the term has been consistently used in academia to imply the move from welfare state to laissez faire economic management, particularly associated with the promotio…

A gentle introduction to scratch and python from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

On the About Us page: > Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. https://jacobin.com/about

Vital[1] is fantastic, I've been using it a lot. https://vital.audio/

There's a scripting interface[1] which might help you do some of what you want, but I'm not sure if patches can be run headless. If you haven't seen them already, SuperCollider, Ch…

I'm not sure it does make any practical difference, but I could be wrong. But as someone who has been a little bit involved in the process since 2010 it's an enjoyable personal mil…

AudioWorklet (which allows you to work with audio sample-by-sample in a dedicated, high priority "thread") is available and works well in Firefox and the latest Safari. I haven't t…

The API is already available in all the major browsers, so nothing really changes with this announcement. The API itself lets you generate and manipulate audio data in a way that w…

Folks interested in this may also be interested in a new book from James Coglan "Building Git": https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ It also takes a ground-up "build it yourself"…