Dec 28, 2021 from bearblog My IDE Broke Last week my IDE broke. I tried to fix it and failed, and then I realised I was a failure as a software developer.
Dec 27, 2021 from Max Brenner Moving from utterances to giscus Why migrate? I added the ability to leave comments on posts of this blog around a year ago. Back then I was looking for a privacy friendly, open source, free and easy to setup solution. When I came...
Dec 27, 2021 from micheal@ecliptik.com Forwarding gpg-agent Over SSH Intro Basic notes from setting up gpg-agent forwarding between a MacOS and Debian Linux system. Client System Assuming system is running MacOS install gpg and pinentry (GPG password prompt tool) us...
Dec 26, 2021 from Anirudh Oppiliappan Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via vmm(4) X11 forwarding to the rescue Early this year, I completely switched over to Signal and I’m fortunate enough to have everyone that I talk to switch over as well. I know I wrote what some might view ...
Dec 25, 2021 from bearblog You block ads in your browser, why not in your city? There are defences against badvertising on the internet, and you should use them. But there are defences against bad advertising in real life too, and you should use them too. Put badvertising in i...
Dec 23, 2021 from bearblog Searching for Nothing, Finding a Surprise Search engines are a fact of daily life for most of the population nowadays. Google (sub your preferred provider) is an extension of the brain, imagined as giving you access to the sum of the world...
Dec 23, 2021 from Max Brenner Why newly created AWS Route53 records may not resolve So there you are with your newly created Route53 hosted zone, ready to assign some DNS names to your hosts. A simple click on the “Create Record” button and you want to check if it works immediatel...
Dec 22, 2021 from bearblog Drinking From the (Musical) Firehose on YouTube YouTube provides a great experience for music discovery, but sometimes it's nice to break out of your filter bubble and be the first ever person to listen to a brand new song.
Dec 21, 2021 from bearblog No, California Is Not Going to Take Your Generator Away It's time to read the docs and learn what the law really says, before getting in a huff about your generator losing its puff.
Dec 21, 2021 from Brian Stadnicki Face Brain: Password stealer with vm detection Today I’m taking a look at a password stealer filled with obfuscation and some virtual machine detection. The sample can be obtained from malshare, with an automated analysis report on joesandbox. ...
Dec 18, 2021 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog A Twitch bot to create memes and show them live During the dark side of quarantine, I had to keep my hands busy, and instead of writing on this blog (sorry!) I started streaming on Twitch instead. To add some interactivity with my viewers, I mad...
Dec 16, 2021 from Changelog Developers: you might be a Product Manager if... This is a fancified excerpt of Liana Leahy from JS party #203. Liana spent 20 years as a developer before transitioning to product, so she knows what she’s talking about here. To get the full exper...
Dec 11, 2021 from HunterDavis.com Johnny Castaway Text Edition I’ve been enjoying and porting Johnny Castaway to new systems for many years now. Today though, is the first time I’ve actually added a fundamentally new feature to Johnny. I was working on my clos...
Dec 09, 2021 from HunterDavis.com 15$ for Direct HDMI Input on Oculus Go I’m going to come out and say it. The Oculus Go is my favorite VR headset of 2021, maybe ever. Yes, that Oculus go, the cheap one they don’t sell anymore. I’m currently playing through Magnesium 17...
Nov 30, 2021 from Renfei Mao on flujoo My Early Music Here are some of my early compositions. Most of them are for practice purposes excerpt for the first one “Wind Is Ring”. The audio files are generated by MuseScore or Finale, so they may sound a li...
Nov 28, 2021 from Renfei Mao on flujoo Generate Accompaniment Progression Given a harmonic progression and the first accompaniment motif, how to automatically generate an entire accompaniment progression? In this blog, I will tackle this problem with R language and R pac...
Nov 25, 2021 from Hugo’s Blog You should use Tailscale I recently installed Tailscale on my Umbrel node, so I can access it remotely without going via Tor, because Tor is so slow. It’s one of the few services I’ve used that I can say just works. They a...
Nov 23, 2021 from Renfei Mao on flujoo Three Types of Music Analysis Music analysis is not a single method, framework, or theory; it has many different kinds. However, most kinds of music analysis can be put into the three categories I put forward in this blog. Belo...
Nov 15, 2021 from Hugo’s Blog Theme updates I’ve made a few changes to this blog’s theme over the last few weeks, and I thought it would be nice to summarise them in a post. Here’s what has changed: Add support for post translations* (sideno...
Nov 14, 2021 from PRBS23 Building A Picture Frame From Mars This whole project started when I happened across the NASA Perseverance Raw Image Library one day. Something about the constantly varying combination of images: some with scientific purposes, some ...
