peterhil

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Comment · 1 year ago

The third option is to install some Linux like Ubuntu or Linux Mint on it.

It is nowadays actually easier to install Ubuntu Linux than a Windows. Just be sure to back up your data to an external hard drive, and restore it from there after the install.

Comment · 3 years ago

I came here to recommend AwesomeWM also.

Here is my setup, written in Fennel Lisp: peterhil/awesome-ultraviolet: Awesome WM theme with dark violet colours https://github.com/peterhil/awesome-ultraviolet

Peter Pan on Twitter: "@app4soft @probonopd @MX_Linux Screenshot of my #AwesomeWM setup. https://t.co/2XMnDEdJfN" / X https://twitter.com/peterhil/status/1463914949491761164/phot...

Comment · 3 years ago

The bold point really resonates with me.

Lately I’ve been writing a CLI application in Python to analyse and generally handle possibly megabytes of DNA data.

At first I wrote the code quickly and in haste of inspiration using some Numpy constructs, some functional maps (with list) and an occasional list comprehension. It has took WAY too long to convert to code to use iterators, because the syntax and semantics are so different.

In Lisp I could usually just switch the kind of map function to be lazy, iterative, or whatever I would like without changing and carefully thinking about the rest of the code.

I think this is the kind of glue the article points to.

Comment · 3 years ago

I just compared and evaluated Hatch, Flit, Poetry and Pdm and found Pdm to be most robust and slimmest. Hatch was a good second option, and Poetry and Hatch are easy to use, but have too much bloat and magic.

Comment · 3 years ago

Numpy and Scipy are good reasons. Unfortunately Scipy does not even compile on FreeBSD lately, and I have opened three issues about it against Scipy and Pythran (and the fix was with xsimd).

https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/pythran/issues/2070

Comment · 3 years ago

I strongly agree with this, and I have been actively using Python since 2009.

Trying top keep a Pygame/Numpy/Scipy project working has been a real struggle. I started it with Python 2 and ported to Python 3 some years ago. The whole Python 3 transition is a huge mess with every Python 3 point release breaking some things. No other interpreted language’s packaging system is so fucked up.

On a positive note: Lately I've liked using pdm instead of pip, and things seem to work quite a lot better. I evaluated Poetry, Flit and something else also.

I just commented about this on Twitter, when someone asked “Which programming language do you consider beginner's friendly?” https://twitter.com/peterhil/status/1633793218411126789

Comment · 3 years ago

I used to think like this, but then I read this:

Troy Hunt: Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs...

Comment · 3 years ago

I can’t post, retweet or follow. Loading Tweets work.

Comment · 3 years ago

I have this exact same idea on my audio synthesis and DSP exploration project called Akasha, that I have developed on and off for more than 13 years. I have plans to open source at least parts of it, once I get to clean up the code. I was inspired by Julius O. Smith III's writings on DSP algorithms: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/

Unfortunately my web pages are not online, I have some video samples of Björk, Gotan Project and some classical and electronic music samples.

In the analytical audio signal, the musical intervals can sometimes be easily seen, and it is mesmerizing to look at.

On this video demo by OP, when the waveform appears stationary with loops, there are intervals in (at least close to) just intonation – meaning the frequencies have integer ratio relationships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_intonation

Comment · 3 years ago

I mean, I am inspired to create some music with the Reaper DAW software. :-D

Comment · 3 years ago

This is great! Some suggestions:

  - Add download links with download attribute:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#attr-download
  - Make the grid responsive with CSS minmax (and media queries):
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/minmax
  - Display a (visual?) score for closeness of match
  - Add link to similar sounds (by the vector database closeness)
  - Add query parameter so the results can be bookmarked
  - Use HTML5 History API
  - Show tags from freesound.org (and allow to filter by tags from search results)
  - Generate visual previews for the sounds (like in Soundcloud)

Comment · 3 years ago

I tried this with wonderful results – where is my Reaper now? cyberpunk pad "amiga game" "without beats"

Comment · 3 years ago

On Firefox you can right click and then choose "Save audio as..."

Comment · 3 years ago

I was going to suggest this. It's cool that you build a file based database (IIRC) and query language in the third chapter!

Comment · 3 years ago

I have already made one browser extension for easily adding bookmarks into the category (folder) you want to, or create a new subcategory while adding a bookmark. Try it out!

peterhil/spellbook: Spellbook is a bookmark extension for Chrome and Firefox https://github.com/peterhil/spellbook