i keep this handy.

#chatgpt

i bought a blair digital chanter about a year ago and i still love it. the finger holes are holes and trigger when light is blocked, which imo works better than the contact-based alternatives. headphone support is the killer feature, of course (ask the family). and it travels well—i typically bring it along in my carry on bag when flying. it supports midi—some day i need to actually try that out...

#bagpiping

TIL org-indent-mode

#emacs

before emacs lisp package archives were a thing, i learned a lot about emacs and elisp because reading the code was a natural part of installing, configuring and using a package. i like the automation and ease of installation, but i feel like something intimate is lost...

#emacs

i'm always happy when i see a new release of #crystallang

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/tag/1.11.0

awesome work!

i'm on hold on my cell phone and the on hold music is distorting and clipping, and in my mind there's a small, physical speaker in the loop somewhere, which is being over-driven, and a little telephone handset on its side that's picking up and transmitting the on hold music... vs. you know, technology from the 21st century...

sometimes i wish crystal had type based control of i/o. (not necessarily non-strict evaluation and the io monad a la haskell, though...) i'm looking at a boatload of code and wondering, "does this all just compute a result, or do i have to scan for the side-effects..."

design
print
fiddle
re-print
tweak
re-print
tune
...hours later...
print
finish

#3dprinting

i just discovered midnight syndicate—though i'd probably heard their music before—via their cover of tchaikovsky's dance of the sugar plum fairy from christmas: a ghostly gathering... which explains the holiday timing...

#MidnightSyndicate #halloween #christmas