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gilesdring

@gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk

Works: dringtech (making IT work for small businesses) and Open Innovations (putting data on the web). Code #javascript #typescript #python #html #css

Home: playing #guitar and tinkering with #audioEngineering.

Live: #HebdenBridge

“Moderately well assembled human”

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gilesdring, to random
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It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to it, but Clear by Bomb The Bass stands up supremely well. Not only for Bug Powder Dust (which absolutely SLAPPPPS!) but the rest as well…

gilesdring,
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@pikesley I mean, that’s the classic line. I realised only now that I actually knew about 50% of the lyrics, and most of those were wrong. The wonders of streaming services with integrated lyrics…

ldodds, to DOOM
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If we're sending copies of Earth culture into space, lets do this galactic shareware properly.

DOOM can be freely distributed to all carbon based life-forms.

gilesdring,
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@ldodds What have you got against silicon-based life forms, eh???

danhon, to random
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Software and finance

  • killed the radio star
  • started the fire
  • will let you down
  • will make you hurt
gilesdring,
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@danhon

go together like love and marriage
This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other.

gilesdring, to random
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Via another thread, I just came across this transcript of a talk comparing website sizes to works of literature. https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

gilesdring,
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Attn @slowe

heydon, to random
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How hard is it?? My name is spelled H[e|a]yd[o|e]n.

gilesdring,
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@heydon just go with Hæydœn.

garius, to random
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In the Sweden
The mighty Sweden

gilesdring,
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@pikesley @garius Oh deer me.

gilesdring, to random
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20 Years Of Dischord 1980-2000

For my tastes (which are admittedly not for everyone) this is one of those albums which brilliantly encapsulates the development of a significant portion of American DIY music. Sobering that this 20 year retrospective is now 23 years old.

gilesdring,
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Disk 1 / 29 tracks down...

onwards to disk 2...

gilesdring,
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It's genuinely exciting to speedrun one of the wellsprings of US hardcore and notice the exact time that movements like grunge spawned, and how the trajectory of Dischord bands just carried on ploughing their own furrows.

gilesdring,
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Still on this jag…

Outstanding tracks, each of which stand head and shoulders above their peers and represent a huge leap forward

Rites Of Spring
Dag Nasty
Embrace (no, not that one)
Shudder To Think
Happy Go Licky
Fugazi
The Nation Of Ulysses
Smart Went Crazy

gilesdring,
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Currently listening to Wig Out At Denko’s by Dag Nasty, which was an album I “discovered” (i.e. bought at the local indie record shop) and introduced to the gang of school friends who were listening to DC hardcore in Worcester (Worcestershire) (UK) in 1987 or so. It still sounds like the future. Sadly I no longer have my original vinyl LP. I re-bought it on CD in 2004 from a record shop in Chapel Hill North Carolina, which is possibly the closest I ever got to the source.

heydon, to random
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I don't claim to be a JavaScript expert but I did just redesign a 200KB+ slider component into a 1.18KB component, making it progressively enhanced and accessible in the process. 200KB is an outlier size, mind, extraordinary.

gilesdring,
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@andrewt @heydon Outstanding!

gilesdring,
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@andrewt @heydon Well… incredible scenes… Thank you for taking the time to explain that!

hotdogsladies, (edited ) to random
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"If you called your Dad, he could stop it all."

https://youtu.be/yuTMWgOduFM?si=Ket_3CXn9H76xFne

gilesdring,
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@hotdogsladies Yes. Such a tune! I once sung this in a choir. https://youtu.be/VDPCgAJHrk8?si=mY_ufGVoELF-nRYB

heydon, to random
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📝 What Is Utility-First CSS?

https://heydonworks.com/article/what-is-utility-first-css/

(this was going to be a video, but it got pretty long, plus I think there's a small chance this could appear high in organic search if shared enough)

gilesdring,
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@stvfrnzl @heydon Would anyone like to invest in a complicated customisable CSS reset and pattern library I’m thinking of developing. Working title: Hindgust

heydon, to random
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Okay, okay, I'm scripting a briefs.video on utility-first CSS.

gilesdring,
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@cwilcox808 @heydon .a[wonderful]:life

gilesdring, to random
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"With the first generation of Starlink, we can expect about 2 tonnes (2.2 tons) of dead satellites reentering Earth's atmosphere daily." 😱

https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-reentry-ozone-depletion-atmosphere

apike, to random
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I love the failure examples from OpenAI's new Sora video-generation model.

Like, it knows what a spilled drink looks like – but isn't exactly sure how a drink goes about spilling.

video/mp4

gilesdring,
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@apike @adamgreenfield watch the legs of the fellow in the bright blue shirt on the right of the picture. That is some crossing action.

pikesley, to python
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I have a question: I want to stream audio through a (USB) microphone and do some FFT magic for beat-detection (I'm aware that Python might be a poor choice here but humour me please). I'm in way over my head so I've been trying to pick-apart whatever's out there, but most of the solutions I've found are deeply entwined with visualisations and whatnot, and I really don't want to have to install Qt or pygame or what have you

gilesdring,
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@pikesley not experience to speak of, but could you bandpass filter the frequencies before using onset? Is there a way of having multiple signal chains?

gilesdring,
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@pikesley yeah. FFT would be a potentially better avenue. Basically makes a histogram of frequency components. As long as you could do it fast enough it ought to be possible to pick out movements in particular frequencies. There is maths that has escaped me on a Saturday night relating bin size to sampling rate.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Fifteen down; one thousand sixteen to go.

Bookmark courtesy of Mei's corn.

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gilesdring,
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@hotdogsladies That is excellent. Having just seen the amazing stage production of My Neighbo(u)r Totoro for the second time last night, I am annoyed they weren’t selling this as merch.

gilesdring,
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@hotdogsladies proof…

gilesdring, to random
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I just had a cheese, lettuce, tomato sandwich with mayo on Gail’s wasteless sourdough and it was approximately the best thing ever. I might have another.

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