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Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by spondylosaurus »

freedomben wrote: post #30

Interesting, he seems to primarily work on a Discord Bot. This is at heavy risk for confirmation bias, but I believe that writing chat bots is one of the best ways for people to get into and enjoy coding, because it's fun and rewarding, and simple enough (with an existing framework to use) that just uses strings. For a large generation it was MySpace and the ability to customize your page heavily with HTML. I know a…

Definitely agree—Discord bots got me into JavaScript! (For better or worse, lol.)

To anyone who wants to build and host a hobby bot, I've had a good experience with using fly.io to host mine. They don't charge you for any monthly billing periods whose total cost would be less than five dollars (USD), so for small projects that would never get close to meeting that threshold, it's free ninety nine. Hard to beat that!

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by bredren »

He’s been at it for a while. He was a guest on this kind of buried 2021 episode of Talk Python to Me.

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/327/little-automation-to...

IIRC, he had not started using source code management at the time. When he says this, the other guests describe why he might want to start using git.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by jerrysievert »

I was a musician that has tracks on most of the popular music stuff, was a successful professional dj, worked with other semi-successful musicians, authors, and others successful in other careers, heck even I have a musical effects company. it shouldn't be shocking that some of us have more successful careers than me - music leads to ideas and invention, why should that not include software?

(says someone who writes postgres extensions for a living)

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by 65 »

dtaht wrote: post #31
burgerrito wrote: post #25

There's pretty good amount of programmer that are musician I think. _Correct me if I'm wrong_ but I think there's an interview with Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead that says he obsessed with computers and played around with BASIC when he was younger.

There are a lot of programmers that dabble as musicians, and vice versa. Licklidder was a pretty good guitarist, I am told.

There are also a lot of visual artists who dabble in programming, and vice versa. Programming is an incredibly creative activity so I can see why there is overlap.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by happytiger »

amagitakayosi wrote: post #35

Wait, no one remembers now? He once released a mobile app to stream Weezer songs, all written by himself. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weezify/id1598140531 I'm glad he's still writing code so hard.

It’s so great that musicians can have a backup plan that works lol. :)

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by nchase »

burgerrito wrote: post #25

There's pretty good amount of programmer that are musician I think. _Correct me if I'm wrong_ but I think there's an interview with Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead that says he obsessed with computers and played around with BASIC when he was younger.

Lots of folks are on this list!

Todd Rundgren said “If it weren't for my musical career, I probably would have ended up attending college to become a computer programmer.”

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by AutumnCurtain »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #12
kazinator wrote: post #7

Over twenty years ago I discovered Jens Johannson's* site, where he revealed he was into programming. He hacked on someone's Phase Vocoder code: https://www.panix.com/~jens/pvoc.par I built Jens' version and used it for cleanly slowing down some audio tracks. -- * Keyboard player of Stratovarious, formerly with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Johansson

> formerly with Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force Which made me remember that Cuomo is also a pretty good guitar shredder, not long ago there was an interview with him shredding along his favorite lines from Malmsteen

He has said, although i can't recall where, that "far beyond the sun" is his favorite piece to play

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by mp05 »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #27
RajT88 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cuomo can play

I say this as a guy who’s been playing electric guitar for over 25 years - Rivers is certainly competent on guitar. He’s not some virtuoso and he’s definitely no Yngwie. His real superpower, however, is songwriting. He’s one the best who has ever lived.

Yeah you're right, who can forget such classics as:

"Goddamn, you half-Japanese girls/Do it to me every time"

"Everyone’s a little queer/why can’t she be a little straight?"

"When I'm away, she puts her makeup on the shelf."

"I wonder what clothes you wear to school/I wonder how you decorate your room/I wonder how you touch yourself and curse myself for being across the sea" (sung about a 14 year old when Rivers was certainly an adult)

Yeah that's some real National Archive level creepy content, I'll give you that.

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