Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python
Note: all the code for this article can be found here as a Github gist. There’s also a nice discussion on Hacker News with lots of comments that might be of interest. I’m a self-taught guitarist of many years, and like a lot of self-taught musicians, am woefully inept at (Western) music theory. Read more
Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?
I’ve been using AWS lambda a bit recently, mostly as a way to glue together various bits and pieces. Maybe I’m doing this wrong but does anyone else find the experience to be really frustrating? Read more
如何看待计算机科学几乎渗透到所有学科的研究当中？
自从香农提出信息论以来，信息技术不断发展，逐渐吞噬世界。所有的科学研究、商业分析都可以抽象为对信息的处理。而计算机作为信息处理的工具，成为了信息技术最佳的代名词。 Read more
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages
I was writing a tiny website to display statistics of how much sponsored content a Youtube creator has over time when I noticed that I often write a small tool as a website that queries some data from a database and then displays it in a graph, a table, or similar. Read more
Robin Hobb’s Infrequent and Off Topic Blog
The animal is aging. Not surprising; I knew it would happen eventually, but I didn’t make any provisions to deal with that eventuality. Somehow the reality crept up on me. And now it must be dealt with, day after day. Read more
Weeknotes: Vaccinate The States, and how I learned that returning dozens of MB of JSON works just fine these days
On Friday VaccinateCA grew in scope, a lot: we launched a new website called Vaccinate The States. Read more
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages
(via) I’ve seen the trick of running SQLite compiled to WASM in the browser before, but this comes with an incredibly clever bonus trick: it uses SQLite’s page structure to fetch subsets of the database file via HTTP range requests, which means you can run indexed SQL queries against a 600MB dat Read more
Plot & Vega-Lite
Plot & Vega-Lite. Useful documentation comparing the brand new Observable Plot to Vega-Lite, complete with examples of how to achieve the same thing in both libraries. Read more
The details of Apple’s new podcast program agreement
Gathright notes, as I did, that Apple says it can provide transcription—according to my Rebound co-host and podcast industry bigwig, Apple already does this to an extent to enable search and sometimes automatically detect hosts. Read more
How KFC Was Made from a Gas Station Chicken Recipe
Making the perfect fried chicken as we know it — juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside — used to be a luxury. But a man named Harland Sanders changed that after mastering his own recipe – inside a gas station. Sources: [KFC] https://ift.tt/3bzqT6I https://ift.tt/2PhupO9 Read more