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Hermeto Pascoal is a fantastic Brazilian musician and composer. Maybe this Youtube video will serve as an introduction for English speakers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=461qtZq…

I found this on the Emacs Wiki [1]. It seems to work: (defun sort-symbols (reverse beg end) "Sort symbols in region alphabetically, in REVERSE if negative. See `sort-words'." (inte…

Since we are celebrating 30 years of FreeBSD, I thought some people would be interested in this highly entertaining talk by Kirk McKusick.

Maybe that's the book? (by Jim Carlton): https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Jim-Carlton/dp/0887309658

Link to the manual as it has more information: https://spwhitton.name/doc/consfigurator/

I'm very excited about this direction (I'm no JavaScript expert, but I didn't like the huge node_modules directory). I think this is noteworthy: "We've been running a version of HE…

I didn't know much about it, so I googled a little bit: Robert Strandh is also the author of McCLIM, the free implementation of the Common Lisp Interface Manager. [1] I found this …

HN discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8284835

It's an interesting presentation by Jan Krutisch at the 2019 European Ruby conference. He shows how to generate electronic music with pure Ruby. There's a related web site [1] and …

You can use different ways to enter pitch [0]. A common way is to use the "octave.pitch" format, such as 08.04, where 08 is the central octave (if I remember correctly) and 04 is t…

I didn't know about: {A..C}{0..3} "This sequence creates every combination of A to C and 0 to 3—i.e. A0, A1, A2, A3, B0, B1, etc." And: echo {a..z..2} a c e g i k m o q s u w y "Th…

A nice article to quickly understand Tcl defining features is "Tcl the Misunderstood": http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html And some previous HN discussion on the arti…

> Clicking on links in the terminal is a nice feature. If you press cmd + click it opens your browser or finder. I occasionally enjoy this convenience. On Terminal.app you can cmd …

The Jekyll team is listed here: https://jekyllrb.com/team/ I'd contact the project lead.

"The Evolution of Lisp" by Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel is also a good related paper: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf

Shameless plug: I wrote a book a couple years ago that people in this thread may find interesting: "Music for Geeks and Nerds". It's a short book that uses Python to teach music co…

I wrote something similar (but using Python), on how one can generate music using mathematical sequences such as Fibonacci's: http://pedrokroger.net/pascals-triangle-sound/ I used …