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Hey everyone, I've been working on a collaborative audio, MIDI, and video editing web app for the past few years and I'm excited to show you what we’ve built so far. Sequencer Part…

same experience. the only person who used it in earnest was the head of HR. For lower tier employees it was much worse than a given X number of days - they had to request the time …

If you ever took the fur off a furby you'd know it was pure sky net underneath

hey just saw this, sorry - I think I watched the most recent full course for CSS and then the 2 or 3 hour course on flexbox. As well I watched the start of a few courses on website…

I experienced 2-3k employees on a slack server. it was terrible. 99% of the traffic is noise, 1% was critically important information for me to do my job.

Same can be said about every company, acquired or not

I took a few courses from Lynda.com to learn more css. It helped immensely and was free with my library card.

The WebMIDI standard has a problem, which is that only the main UI thread can talk to the WebMIDI devices directly. So even if you schedule your MIDI messages in the audio thread, …

Around 2012-2015 we had someone on-call over the holidays do a redeploy every few days because of Rails memory growth at our now-IPO'd ecommerce giant. This growth impacted every r…

This is simply not true, because Twitter algorithmically pushes content you did not subscribe to in order to drive engagement. You do not have control over what you see, and are su…

OP don't listen to this unless you care more about your employer than yourself.

.. which was the only feature set when litestream was released. Replication was added later and now removed.

It's always in the last place you would think of looking

So, I don't have a source to back this up, and without a source this will be worst of the rumour mill, but I'll say it anyways in case someone has a source to back it up or refute …

Hey, this is me. This is extremely privileged advice, but the only thing I managed to do to help was to have a second place to go to where I didn't work - in my case a little cabin…

Robin sends out a weekly(?) newsletter with a variety of topics.

I rewrote the main loop of this a few years ago to be re-entrant, so you can render N samples at a time. Synth projects wanting to use SAM should start somewhere like that probably…

Can you explain this more? I've been getting into home automation and my wife would like programmable irrigation for when we're not at home. Did you interface with existing wifi va…

Probably a sort of crunchy effect, but hey it's high in minerals

When I learnt about how the Texas grid was a disconnected electrical island I thought maybe there is now a market to charge transport-trailer sized batteries out of state, drive th…

Sorry where's the downside? That all sounds pretty good, especially for the environment.

iOS notes!! hit the camera button from a note, scan multiple pages, turns it into a PDF

Same, iOS Notes all the way. Adding this because I didn't know about it for awhile and maybe someone reading doesn't know - iOS notes includes a pretty good document scanner with t…

Yes yes yes!!! I had these in elementary school in Northern Ontario. The blog doesn't mention it but it also had multiplayer games. I remember a few.. - a horse race game where peo…