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Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by lexlash »

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…

I teach software engineering to grad students. Discord bots specifically have been fantastic:

1) auth/identity is built in

2) the UX is highly constrained (having students lose a month to CSS issues is perhaps good prep for the real world but feels awful)

3) all of the tooling is free*

*With the restrictions on free Heroku and the removal of free orgs on fly (it seems) I’ve had to retool a bit but codespaces cover a lot of what students need.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by mp05 »

elliotec wrote: post #58
mp05 wrote: post #43

If you've paid any attention to the lyrics from the past 12 or 14 Weezer albums you'd not be surprised that he's quite adept at Markov chains.

Can you enlighten those of us who haven't? Or is it just the repetition and pattern-nature of the songs?

Sure:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-weezer...

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by robust-cactus »

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.

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.

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by LouisLazaris »

nateburke wrote: post #5
pimlottc wrote: post #3

He was also on an episode [0] of the Song Exploder podcast where he talked about how he uses a spreadsheet to catalog all his song ideas, with columns for key, tempo, mood, etc. So when he has an idea for a song, he can search for riffs and phrases that might work together. 0: https://songexploder.net/weezer

[insert mild grumbling about his post-Pinkerton artistic risk aversion]

Haha, I’m definitely more of an early Weezer lover, but I find it sad how unappreciated the Green Album is. Might be their best melodies, but the overall vibe is not as good as Pinkerton (especially without Matt Sharp).

Which reminds me of this legendary SNL skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5WvwfLuLM

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by nocoiner »

dang wrote: post #60
gonzo wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

She’s not wrong

Aw come on. It's Suzanne by Lenny Cohen.

I don’t know how exactly we got on this topic, but there’s also an excellent Weezer song called “Suzanne.”

Edit: I guess it’s actually spelled “Susanne.”

Re: Rivers Cuomo is an active developer on GitHub

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Post by dabber »

mp05 wrote: post #63
elliotec wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you enlighten those of us who haven't? Or is it just the repetition and pattern-nature of the songs?

Sure: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-weezer...

Wow, that read made me feel a little sad. It works for them obviously, but sounds a bit like everyone besides Rivers may as well be a session musician that he happen to be predictable enough for him to work with.
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