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Plasma UI – liquid panels for React that fuse on contact(cruxgarden.github.io)
1 points by willstepp 10h ago|1 comments
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by willstepp 1mo ago
To add some further details, the AM-1 is a performance arpeggiator. It allows you to quickly get up and running with a three-part harmony, based on a chosen key/scale/degree. But once you have your arp running, that's when th
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by willstepp 1mo ago
I appreciate you taking a look and giving some honest feedback. To answer your question, the AM-1 is more of an instrument designed to make playing layered arpeggios (and sequences to an extent) immediate and fun. This is a machine that is
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Show HN: Am-1 Arpeggio Machine – A Love Letter to Berlin School Music(crux.garden)
5 points by willstepp 1mo ago|3 comments
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by willstepp 1y ago
I took it down as it was fairly rambling and didn't do a good job to explain (confused people). I'm building the MVP atm. If you're interested to learn more, you can write me at keeper@crux.garden. I'd like to find colla
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Crux – a new structure for human knowledge(crux.garden)
1 points by willstepp 1y ago|2 comments
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by willstepp 2y ago
If there was a valid reason to write software that efficiently, besides idealism, I'm sure developers would do so. But there isn't in the vast majority of cases, so we don't. iow computing resources are cheaper than labor.
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by willstepp 3y ago
I love seeing all these helpless billionaires and business owners flail trying to get people back in the office, with increasingly BS reasons. The world moved on and they can't stand they lost a tiny bit of control over workers.
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by willstepp 3y ago
The world has moved on from your viewpoint. Either catch up or get left behind.
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by willstepp 4y ago
Sure, if you want your best developers to leave. The question "Should I force...?" should always be met with the utmost skepticism. That's not the way to lead.
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by willstepp 9y ago
Every program you will ever write: Input -> Transformation -> Output. That may sound annoyingly simplistic, but internalizing that one concept gives you a foundation to break down any problem you encounter.
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by willstepp 9y ago
Mines great. I'm sitting at it right now.
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by willstepp 9y ago
You can distill it even more than this. All we ever do as programmers is take some kind of data as input, process that data, and return new data as output. This is true for all software: websites, mobile apps, video games, AI, operating sys
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by willstepp 9y ago
That sounds bizarre, what restaurant was playing the Ultima theme song?
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by willstepp 10y ago
The Swimmer by John Cheever and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula LaGuin are my favorite short stories. So much depth and feeling packed into such tiny packages!
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by willstepp 10y ago
Do understand you'll need to use Compile-to-JS languages to achieve this since browsers can only understand JS. You have some options given the recent popularity of Compile-to-JS. I personally know about ClojureScript and ScalaJS, whic
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by willstepp 10y ago
I interviewed to be a Gigster about a year and a half ago, and was accepted, but the more I considered it and saw how gigs were distributed (at that time mostly via Slack messages) I got a bad feeling, like I was a dog in a pack, fighting o
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by willstepp 10y ago
There's a valid point being made in this blog post, about doing your homework and having a deferential attitude when learning a new skill set, but its couched in so much angry self-righteousness that its a bit hard to take in.
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by willstepp 10y ago
Really excited about learning Elixir+Phoenix, possibly React too.
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by willstepp 10y ago
In some ways, I think so. To appeal to wider audiences, game makers have added a lot of hand-holding features over the years that in my opinion make the game world itself less immersive, since you're constantly being reminded what you
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by willstepp 10y ago
So you charge for your courses but expect others to provide services for free? Don't be that guy.
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by willstepp 10y ago
Are you familiar with HTTP cache headers? Better to focus on your application and let the browser think about that stuff, if possible.
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by willstepp 10y ago
Video Platform Software Developer | Atlanta, Georgia | ONSITE | techjobs@playonsports.com PlayOn! Sports is a rapidly growing startup and the nation's largest producer and distributor of high school sports events. We are hiring a Softw
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by willstepp 11y ago
Taoism has good advice for this kind of situation. You have to come to the realization that you can never control the outcomes of what you do in life. If you base your happiness on outcomes alone then you are setting yourself up to be disap
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by willstepp 11y ago
Some really good stuff to be found here. I recently listened to What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy, read by David Barnes ( https://librivox.org/what-i-believe-by-leo-tolstoy ), and both the reader and the recording was as good, if
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by willstepp 11y ago
I hope Eric Raymond doesn't read your comment!
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by willstepp 11y ago
There's something hollow about this kind of art. It's too much of the intellect. I prefer the writing of someone like Cormac McCarthy - done with real craftsmanship and exploring the moral dimensions of life through plain storytel
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by willstepp 11y ago
This is meditative and not scientific, but still a thought experiment: To consider, who am I between two thoughts?
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by willstepp 11y ago
Really funny, this feels like a real episode. Good job.
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by willstepp 11y ago
I come to this as a self-taught programmer and I think like most Ford-Chevy arguments the reality is somewhere in between. After working as a professional software developer for eight years on desktop apps, web apps, and mobile apps, I can

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