tekstar

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by tekstar 4y ago
Hey everyone, I've been working on a collaborative audio, MIDI, and video editing web app for the past few years and I'm excited to show you what we’ve built so far. Sequencer Party is a collaborative audio / midi / vide
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Show HN: Collaborative live-coding MIDI sequencers in JavaScript(editor.sequencer.party)
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by tekstar 4y ago
same experience. the only person who used it in earnest was the head of HR. For lower tier employees it was much worse than a given X number of days - they had to request the time off from their manager and could (and were) denied taking t
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by tekstar 4y ago
If you ever took the fur off a furby you'd know it was pure sky net underneath
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by tekstar 4y ago
hey just saw this, sorry - I think I watched the most recent full course for CSS and then the 2 or 3 hour course on flexbox. As well I watched the start of a few courses on website design.
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by tekstar 4y ago
I experienced 2-3k employees on a slack server. it was terrible. 99% of the traffic is noise, 1% was critically important information for me to do my job.
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by tekstar 4y ago
Same can be said about every company, acquired or not
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by tekstar 4y ago
I took a few courses from Lynda.com to learn more css. It helped immensely and was free with my library card.
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by tekstar 4y ago
The WebMIDI standard has a problem, which is that only the main UI thread can talk to the WebMIDI devices directly. So even if you schedule your MIDI messages in the audio thread, to emit them on the hardware device you need to pass them t
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by tekstar 4y ago
Around 2012-2015 we had someone on-call over the holidays do a redeploy every few days because of Rails memory growth at our now-IPO'd ecommerce giant. This growth impacted every rails app back then, the popular ones more quickly is al
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by tekstar 4y ago
This is simply not true, because Twitter algorithmically pushes content you did not subscribe to in order to drive engagement. You do not have control over what you see, and are subject to the controversial subject of the day regardless of
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by tekstar 4y ago
OP don't listen to this unless you care more about your employer than yourself.
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by tekstar 4y ago
.. which was the only feature set when litestream was released. Replication was added later and now removed.
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by tekstar 4y ago
It's always in the last place you would think of looking
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by tekstar 4y ago
So, I don't have a source to back this up, and without a source this will be worst of the rumour mill, but I'll say it anyways in case someone has a source to back it up or refute it. A few weeks ago it was explained that Facebook
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by tekstar 4y ago
Hey, this is me. This is extremely privileged advice, but the only thing I managed to do to help was to have a second place to go to where I didn't work - in my case a little cabin in the woods. Going there on the weekend forces me to
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by tekstar 4y ago
Robin sends out a weekly(?) newsletter with a variety of topics.
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by tekstar 4y ago
I rewrote the main loop of this a few years ago to be re-entrant, so you can render N samples at a time. Synth projects wanting to use SAM should start somewhere like that probably. https://github.com/boourns/SAM I th
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by tekstar 4y ago
Can you explain this more? I've been getting into home automation and my wife would like programmable irrigation for when we're not at home. Did you interface with existing wifi valves or are you doing the circuit yourself? I re
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by tekstar 4y ago
Probably a sort of crunchy effect, but hey it's high in minerals
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by tekstar 4y ago
When I learnt about how the Texas grid was a disconnected electrical island I thought maybe there is now a market to charge transport-trailer sized batteries out of state, drive them into Texas and drain them into the grid.
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by tekstar 4y ago
Sorry where's the downside? That all sounds pretty good, especially for the environment.
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by tekstar 4y ago
iOS notes!! hit the camera button from a note, scan multiple pages, turns it into a PDF
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by tekstar 4y ago
Same, iOS Notes all the way. Adding this because I didn't know about it for awhile and maybe someone reading doesn't know - iOS notes includes a pretty good document scanner with the iphone camera. Open a new note and press the c
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by tekstar 4y ago
Yes yes yes!!! I had these in elementary school in Northern Ontario. The blog doesn't mention it but it also had multiplayer games. I remember a few.. - a horse race game where people raced horses by answering math questions - a fish
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by tekstar 5y ago
The entity that is referred to in the article as shutting down is 'Solidly'
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by tekstar 5y ago
I mean, aside from the noise torture they shut down a city's downtown core for 3 weeks, continually threatened, harassed, and assaulted it's residents, released multiple statements and videos calling for overthrowing and arresting
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by tekstar 5y ago
> 100db noise seems pretty mild I'm done arguing with you. Bye.
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by tekstar 5y ago
> and it's something you must tolerate to have a democracy. It's not for 21 days straight at noise levels capable of permanent hearing damage. It's really not.
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by tekstar 5y ago
Yeah the municipal government and police force were first to completely drop the ball. They didn't do their job and let our downtown become a parliament hill autonomous zone. Heck, they gave the convoy participants access to a city p

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