joebergeron

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by joebergeron 2mo ago
> I could learn. We all can learn. That’s the neat thing about technologies. They’re what we can learn to do. What a wonderfully humble sentiment, and so plainly said. It's disarming to hear an idea stated so precisely which you&#x2
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by joebergeron 5mo ago
Aleene's tacky glue (standard gold bottle) is basically the best there is for this kind of work. I used to build some very intricate and involved papercraft models, and at least for precise and detailed work, tacky glue (and in particu
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by joebergeron 2y ago
My father is an electrical engineer. Growing up, he had countless components in the basement, including a whole slew of 7400-series DIP chips, as well as a bunch of (powered) breadboards and spare wire. In highschool I had so so much fun bu
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by joebergeron 2y ago
I read the title of this paper and thought to myself, “What are the chances this could be Erik Demaine?”. And sure enough!
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by joebergeron 2y ago
Came to the comments to look for this! I was immediately taken by the idea after reading about the author’s experience.
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by joebergeron 2y ago
I actually really enjoyed the latency, unintentional or not. There are a million tools I can use to create a groove exactly as I intend. I enjoyed the aspect of surprise, of recording something and it not coming out exactly as intended, som
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by joebergeron 2y ago
I thought the copy was fun and don't mind a good soapbox every once in a while, but yeah, wouldn't hurt to slip in a few words about what exactly the product does earlier on. I'll definitely be trying this out on my decks bef
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by joebergeron 2y ago
This is tangential to much of what this article discusses, but I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a while, that, to some degree, the artificial imitation of acoustic instruments using synthesizers is to music what skeuomo
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by joebergeron 2y ago
Scrolling this website on mobile made me think I’d installed malware.
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by joebergeron 3y ago
I configured fortune to spit out a random oblique strategy in my .bashrc every time I open up a new terminal; it’s great fun, and a gentle reminder when I’ve been working too long that I should spend more time pursuing the art that I love.
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by joebergeron 3y ago
I wonder if there are parallels to be drawn here against the industrialization of other, physical, goods, and how their production evolved over time. If you look at something like, say, printing (I'll use the example of woodblock print
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by joebergeron 3y ago
I’ve been reading “Deschooling Society” by Ivan Illich while slowly working my way through Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”.
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by joebergeron 3y ago
I've been writing and recording music for a long time, and I've internalized a lot of these pieces of advice. I work completely solo, so it's nice to see that some of the techniques I use are also useful to others. Lyrics hav
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by joebergeron 3y ago
Fantastic - I love seeing new tools in service of chipmusic, and this one looks real sleek. The platform agnosticism sort of feels like MML[0] but with a GUI, in that it has the appeal of "one tool, all platforms". I wonder -- wha
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by joebergeron 3y ago
https://www.joe-bergeron.com The writing is mostly about software projects, but I also document art stuff here as well. Had some fun with the actual site design itself, modeled after a pseudo-file-browser with windows that you c
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by joebergeron 3y ago
I wrote an article on writing a tiny pseudo-bootloader a while back[0] that got a bit of traction on HN at the time; you may enjoy it as an accesible and fun stepping stone into the space. There’s an accompanying GH repo[1] with all the res
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by joebergeron 4y ago
Hey, I know exactly where this is :) I lived around a ~30s walk from here until I moved to Boston proper a year ago. I lived in Somerville for ~6 years during school and after graduating, and I miss it sorely. Great little neighborhood. Wou
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by joebergeron 4y ago
Do standards organizations tend to release/sell/provide any sort of “test harness” that vendors can use to validate their implementations against? Some coworkers and I recently authored an open API standard to be implemented by ex
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by joebergeron 4y ago
I used Milkytracker for many years, graduating from LSDJ and Famitracker. I eventually got my hands on a proper A500 and tracked on that for a while, before going back to the comfort of a modern PC running Renoise. These days it’s all Ablet
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by joebergeron 4y ago
Very beautiful. Seems to take a lot of inspiration from the likes of RAMA but with a design language entirely your own. I personally love when design choices in products like this (read: mechanical keyboards) are highly opinionated and styl
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by joebergeron 5y ago
The author of the parent post is expressing an emotion commonly referred to as “surprise”.
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by joebergeron 5y ago
n-gate sprung a leak again
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by joebergeron 5y ago
I love Dostoevsky; for those interested in him, or in Russian literature, but who might find the "genre" hard to breach, I can't recommend Dostoevsky's "Notes From Underground" enough. It's a very quick re
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by joebergeron 5y ago
I strongly disagree. Long, unbroken chains of "hi" have been a fixture of my IRC experience for as long as I can remember.
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by joebergeron 5y ago
(Shameless self-plug incoming…) For those curious about what metaclasses actually are, I wrote up an article with some motivating examples about this a little while back. Might be worth a read if you’re interested! https://www.jo
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Interfaces and Metaclasses in Python(joe-bergeron.com)
2 points by joebergeron 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are some good personal blogs/sites with RSS feeds available?
3 points by joebergeron 5y ago|0 comments
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by joebergeron 5y ago
> RadioShack, and RadioShack alone, can bridge the gap and "cross the chasm" of mainstream usage for Cryptocurrency. This is it, folks.
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by joebergeron 5y ago
Preface: I have been using Emacs as my only editor for over ten years. This article is at once extremely funny to me and extremely frustrating. Funny, in that it reads like a tabloid magazine article from an alternate reality where the goin
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by joebergeron 5y ago
Interesting -- I was just in Woods Hole earlier today, and in fact saw this article pop up on Hacker News while walking by the Steamship Authority. Always strange to see your small slice of the world crop up in places like this. On that not

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