Barnaby Walters • Notes

solarference: @BarnabyWalters which effect was it Barnaby? Saw your patch but couldn't work it out... -n #puredata

@solarference beat slicing sampler, divides the recording up into n chunks and plays them back randomly. There were some bugs in the version I screenshotted (e.g. mistaking sample number for millisecond delay) which are now fixed. I’m currently working on reproducing as much of The Three Sisters as I can figure out from the recording.

Enjoying @seriouseats’ series on pancakes so far! Any chance of a Kaiserschmarrn recipe? Tried making them after visiting Vienna but never quite got them right :(

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deray mckesson: The biker gangs have put out a call for retaliation on the police, who killed some of their members. And still no State of Emergency. Waco.

Reading @deray’s tweets about #whiteOnWhite biker violence in Waco and how it’s being reported, it took me a while to realise that “Waco” is a place, and not a denouncement of these events as “wacko”. Totally applies, esp. to the way the media is reacting :/

Just realised that increasing the dimensions of an element onscreen when it is hovered over creates a “natural”, visual schmitt trigger effect.

Visualising music with a spreadsheet:

Jeb: “It was you, Certrix, wasn’t it. You painted my visor. Again.”

Certrix: “hahahaha”

Gildon: “hahahaha”

EEEEEEVVVIIL genderize.io

There’s some fascinating discussion of absolute pitch in this old article+comment thread on languagelog: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1450

Very excited that the @astro_pi Sense HAT will be up for sale! @briansuda and I imagined a very similar board as our ideal “board with all the things the Pi needs” but never managed to build one.

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Roopa Gulati: Things I learnt last night: the dial on toasters has nowt to do with temperature. It's just a timer. I need to get out more.

@roopagulati any wisdom to impart about what the funny floppy wire things on the top of my toaster are? I have never been able to figure out what they’re supposed to do.

#puredata is so amazing! Recreated one of my favourite @solarference effects in about 20 minutes:

I was going to make a “death and taxonomy” joke but Cat and Girl got there first. No surprises there.

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Tom Morris: Gay marriage: strengthening straight marriage? https://tommorris.org/posts/9292

@tommorris strengthening het marriage, and dismantling right wing world views.

Google Translate’s statistical origins show themselves in interesting ways:

I’m 95% certain that the use of “ziehen” and “dem” in the first example rather than “marschieren” and “unseren” is due to “und ziehen mit dem Spaten” being a lyric in Die Moorsoldaten (the peat bog soldiers).

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG https://solarference.bandcamp.com/track/three-sisters

#wikipedia article of the week: List of nontraditional bagpipe usage

Anyone know who the #gurdy player heard but not seen in this Light in Babylon video is?

https://youtu.be/1GMFE1qriAE

Suspiciously tidy newstatesman.com page footer — how many of these staff were hired to make the columns line up?

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Emil Björklund: Thinking so far: accept the webmention, send a signal passing along the URL somehow, model listens to signal, looks up instance and checks.

@thatEmil Taproot works almost the other way round — a “mentions” module stores incoming mentions, noting their target path after resolving redirects. Then, each content module queries the mentions module for mentions of a particular URL. That way the two are decoupled, and I can keep track of mentions of static URLs and things not represented by a “model”. Haven’t figured out how to handle redirects well yet though.

New policy: refuse to make significant changes to systems built under time pressure until they are fully understood, i.e. have been refactored, have good test coverage etc.