I bet he made all of his commits in his garage.
It's where he feels safe,
And no one cares I commit on main
Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
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Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#102There'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.
This was me - made websites for my band, friends bands, made ticketing website for promoter friend, made websites for custom gear companies, ended up in a events startup then to the moon. Yes CS degree happened in the middle of all that too.
To think that (relatively?) small things like that could jumpstart a career... I'll be honest, I'm still young and I wonder what kind of journey is ahead of me
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#103Wait, 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. :)
TBH, teachning music is the general backup plan for all musicians, so there was another one.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s so great that musicians can have a backup plan that works lol. :)
My parents-in-law had an old friend who with her folk-singer husband ran a club in Montreal in the early 60s. Bob Dylan came through town before he changed his name. They were sitting around after the show and Annette said to him: "Kid. You better go back to college. You need something to fall back on." Dylan told her: "If I don't, you'll eat my hat." She had other great stories. Lenny Cohen played "Suzanne" for her…
I'd like to add the caution that songs might change a lot during their author's life, and the "suzanne" she heard might be different from the one we know.
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#106This is wild - looks like he's messing around with OpenAI to create setlists for a show: > base_prompt = """ I want you to act as a show designer for Weezer's upcoming summer tour. The show is divided into four segments of contrasting moods. 1. The Pop Party section will feature upbeat, cheerful songs with a more light-hearted message about love and relationships. It will be high energy and encourage the audience to…
> with no other test around it
A neat thing about LLMs is unlike code typos, prompt typos work just fine.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#107Wait, 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.
This is still being actively updated, just wow. Growing up on alt rock, it's so good to see most of these bands still kicking it. (RIP Chris and Chester)
RIP indeed. It still bums me out, especially Chester.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#108Interesting, 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!
This would be a good dbrand style marketing point; "Round down pricing: You're a rounding error, so why would we bother charging you!" :-)
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#109He's an extremely smart guy, so I'm not that surprised.
Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
This would be a good dbrand style marketing point; "Round down pricing: You're a rounding error, so why would we bother charging you!" :-)
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