donbrae

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by donbrae 5mo ago
What a hero. Rats are so smart. I previously asked what I think was an official account on Instagram and was relieved that the rats are apparently too light to set off the mines.
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by donbrae 7mo ago
I use ScreenFloat[0] in a similar way to catch differences between GUI settings, like the cPanel PHP extensions selector, which has tons of checkboxes. Position a screenshot of settings for site A over the settings for site B, adjust the tr
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by donbrae 8mo ago
I hope the CLAP plugin open standard[0] will lead to more VSTs being made available for Linux. My favourite synth, Diva[1], has already been ported over (its maker, u-he, co-developed CLAP.) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by donbrae 8mo ago
https://www.jamieonkeys.dev Mostly posting about web development.
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by donbrae 8mo ago
You can get all the nutrients you need, easily, from a vegan diet, with the exception of B12 (a cheap supplement will cover that). Also, human ‘canines’ are pretty pathetic. They’ll do the job in getting meat off bones, sure, but are nothin
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by donbrae 9mo ago
Pigs are amazing animals: intelligent, sociable and empathetic. The way we treat them – confining pregnant sows and nursing mothers to weeks or months in gestation/farrowing crates, and gassing them underground in slaughterhouses – is
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by donbrae 9mo ago
Also in the genre of animals playing video games: ‘Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find’ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56023720
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by donbrae 1y ago
A few of my favourites: brr.fyi, sheep.horse, timeflies.buzz, pudding.cool and bad.coffee.
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by donbrae 1y ago
This is great. I’ve already been using `text-wrap: balance` on headlines. Before, I was concatenating certain words with ` ` to try to avoid bad wrapping at certain viewport widths. (Doing so is still a useful trick in edge cases.)
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by donbrae 1y ago
Or as the developer you can play some silent audio in the background via an `<audio>` element: https://github.com/donbrae/onscreen-piano-keyboard/blob/main... . This will ensure the Web Audio API produce
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by donbrae 1y ago
I wonder whether AI being the new and shiny thing will lead to a reduction in ‘innovation’ in front-end frameworks. Front-end dev seems to me to have been a solved problem for years now, yet there are still new ways of doing things for marg
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by donbrae 2y ago
One of my favourite tips is to hold down Command while dragging important apps, files and folders to the Finder toolbar in order to ‘pin’ them. You can then drag files to ‘Open in…’ (eg, images to ImageOptim) or just launch apps.
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First lab-grown meat for pets goes on sale(theverge.com)
2 points by donbrae 2y ago|0 comments
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by donbrae 2y ago
If I’m on headphones (usually wired) I’ll choose the Dolby Atmos mix pretty much every time. As the article notes, it’s great for classical and jazz recordings. But I prefer the Atmos mixes for other genres and styles of music, too. The var
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by donbrae 2y ago
The background does give a slight dizzying effect on scroll. His logos are good, though, and I like his no-nonsense attitude.
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by donbrae 2y ago
I normally find that stuff I build for the web just works in Chrome and Firefox and it’s Safari that requires hacks and workarounds, even when I’m using standard APIs that are widely supported. I’d have to go out of my way to have something
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by donbrae 2y ago
This is a great resource. Used it to research writing in the Scots language in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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by donbrae 2y ago
Ah, you also did the Transmit 3D truck for the Panic website. Nice work!
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by donbrae 2y ago
The actual page at suno.ai: https://app.suno.ai/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0... .
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by donbrae 2y ago
Impressive! Quite a nice song, too.
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by donbrae 3y ago
Interesting, as most jazz is not freeform and typically follows an agreed chord sequence. Certainly, jazz improvisation tends to feature lots of notes, often played at fast tempos, but ‘messing around’ it definitely isn’t. Jazz improv requi
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by donbrae 3y ago
And soon to be a film: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20414360 .
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by donbrae 3y ago
Things are a bit healthier elsewhere: I was in a WHSmith here in Scotland about a month ago and there were three Linux magazines on the shelf. There are others, too, like Computeractive and Retro Gamer.
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by donbrae 3y ago
His new film, ‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial’, will premiere at this year’s Venice Film Festival.[0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/movies/william-friedkin-v...
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William Friedkin, Director of ‘French Connection’ and ‘Exorcist,’ Dies at 87(nytimes.com)
12 points by donbrae 3y ago|3 comments
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by donbrae 3y ago
These are really impressive. Providing the ‘prompter-composer’ can generate high quality, stereo mixes — these all appear to be low bitrate, mono files — you could probably use them right now for various ‘wallpaper music’ purposes, where or
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by donbrae 3y ago
Does that mean you ban users from using browsers that are not Edge?
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by donbrae 3y ago
I’d been using Spotify since 2009 and switched to Apple Music last year. The Apple Music UX is worse, but Dolby Atmos makes it worth it. As someone who listens to a lot of jazz with headphones, it’s a significant improvement over standard s
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by donbrae 3y ago
This cites its source, though. Some of the content I’ve written[0][1] has appeared as a citation (in Perplexity, Google snippets etc.) and this is exactly what I want as a content creator. It answers the user’s question directly and provide
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by donbrae 3y ago
I occasionally see websites made with this tool and appreciate the aesthetic. A pleasant change from the usual corporate web design. Examples at https://cargo.site/In-Use .

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