My family has recently been drawn into the Masked Singer. After watching this episode of Only the Shit You Love I am not sure I can ever look at Günsberg the same way again.
Month: September 2021
I like Timeline JS. It’s a nice way to create multimedia timelines. I’d previously done some work that would take WordPress JSON API data and insert it into the Timeline JS view.1 It was nice for creating alternate and standardized views of blogs that might be useful for different reasons. It didn’t serve some other needs and while doing it through a generic URL was handy for many reasons it was odd in other scenarios. As a result I decided to make a new version as a plugin. If you don’t like reading stuff there’s a quick video of how it works below.
I finally got around to trying Tom Woodward’s plugin to displays posts using Timeline JS. My timeline can be found here. I am also intrigued by the different ways of representing data within WordPress.
There are endless arguments to be had when new ideas arrive. The challenge is in being clear that we’re about to take a side, and to do it on the effects, not on our emotional connection to the change that’s involved.
Trying to determine the best method to automatically remove HTML in all cells within a column in Google Sheets.
Example of cell data:
<span style=”color:#0000FF”>test</span>
I’d li…
After completing Ben Collins’ REGEX course, I wondered if it were possible to replace HTML with Markdown. I found the following REGEX formula for stripping out HTML:
=REGEXREPLACE(A1,"<[^<>]+>","")
I also found a ‘dirty’ converter code to run as a script.
However, I also found this post explaining why REGEX is not designed for parsing HTML:
Entire HTML parsing is not possible with regular expressions, since it depends on matching the opening and the closing tag which is not possible with regexps.
Regular expressions can only match regular languages but HTML is a context-free language and not a regular language (As @StefanPochmann pointed out, regular languages are also context-free, so context-free doesn’t necessarily mean not regular). The only thing you can do with regexps on HTML is heuristics but that will not work on every condition. It should be possible to present a HTML file that will be matched wrongly by any regular expression.
Emulation of the Roland Juno-106 analog synth. Contribute to stevengoldberg/juno106 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Collection of free online web synth for MIDI controllers
Playtronica collate some online synthesisers.
A testament to your dedication to education over time Cameron.
📝 Miles Davis
Miles Davis – Rare Interview (1988)
During his stay in Munich in 1988, where he played a legendary concert in the Munich Philharmonic Hall, Miles Dave gave this rare interview.
INTERVIEWER: So what I wanted to say is what when you make a wrong line, does it feel with you like when you’re in drawing the same as in music, the balance between the line and the notes or you hear it like that?
DAVIS: The line isn’t wrong until after you put the next one down, music is the same way. The sound, you don’t make bad notes. The note next to the one that you think is bad corrects the one in front. Only way you can do it is by experience, only you can take a line you are meant to draw is to draw every day.
Miles Davis live at Porin Jazz in 84′ with an interview
Awesome performance by Miles Davis live at Pori, Finland in 1984. This is unseen footage from the concert.
When you say jazz, you stop yourself … You want me to say whether it is growing or dying, it’s not like that, it continues to develop. I don’t know what you mean by jazz.
It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.
Marginalia is an experimental search engine that tries to celebrate the small web:
The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.
There is also a list of other similar projects on the site.
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“I have absolute curiosity and total commitment,” Tóibín, who is sixty-six, told me. He described his appetite for pickup work to me as a form of intellectual fomo. “You learn a huge amount by opening yourself to things that are going on,” he explained, offering as a case in point his new novel, “The Magician,” a fictionalization of Thomas Mann’s life. “I could not have done the book had I not foolishly taken on three biographies of Mann in 1995 that were all this size,” he said, spreading his hands far apart. There are many other demands on Tóibín’s time: he is a literature professor at Columbia University and the chancellor of the University of Liverpool (“You have no idea how beautiful the robes are”). He occasionally helps curate exhibits for the Morgan Library & Museum, in Manhattan, and, with his agent, Peter Straus, he runs a small publishing imprint in Dublin, Tuskar Rock Press. “I really enjoy anything that’s going on,” he told me, adding, “If there was a circus, I’d join it.”
So the Vinland Map is most definitely a modern forgery—and probably a deliberate one. According to Hark, an inscription on the back of the map appears to have been a bookbinder’s note on how to put together the original Speculum manuscript. But it was written over with modern ink. “The altered inscription certainly seems like an attempt to make people believe the map was created at the same time as the Speculum Historiale,” said Clemens. “It’s powerful evidence that this is a forgery, not an innocent creation by a third party that was co-opted by someone else, although it doesn’t tell us who perpetrated the deception.”
In Levi’s vision, the problem of loneliness can be addressed by adjusting the pragmatics of mutual dependence; at first, these changes are painful, but eventually everyone is better off—which is to say, better at achieving their goals. For Bergman, connecting is the goal, and it’s not clear that we can do it. It is when Johan and Marianne realize this that they become “citizens of reality,” a loss of innocence from which they cannot recover. Can any marriage survive an honest reckoning with itself? Can you get close enough to any person for life to feel real? These are Bergman’s questions; Levi doesn’t ask them.
Agnes Callard discusses the remake of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage. Another post exploring the reality of marriage is Caryn James’ piece exploring different representations within film. This encourages me to return to the short stories of Frank Moorhouse.
If relationships were valued it would be what schools were most inclined to measure and test. I don’t know of a parent who rushes to see their child’s relationship grade on the report card. On the whole, having a friend at school is the extent we concern ourselves with this area of knowledge and ability.
Early in the pandemic, readers in lockdown made Albert Camus’ novel The Plague a best seller because it helped to explain something about living in a plague, even though it was a novel that was really an allegory about Nazism and the French Resistance during World War II. If Camus was a good touchstone for the beginning of the pandemic, then Waiting for Godot seems like an excellent one for the era of the Delta variant.
The idea of ‘no no no no no yes to framework no no no yes’ presented by Steven Dennis as the way congress works reminds me of Kim Stanley Robinson’s description of change and time in The Ministry for the Future:
The world in their time. In all the blooming buzzing confusion of their moment, they would take stock and get some clarity on the situation, and act. And if Badim’s black wing had anything to it, they would act there too. The hidden sheriff; she was ready for that now, that and the hidden prison. The guillotine for that matter. The gun in the night, the drone from nowhere. Whatever it took. Lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, lose, fuck it— win.
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So, as a parent, partner, work colleague, boss or friend, whose opinion matters most to you? And what information or insights do you need from them that you’re not currently getting?
If you’re wanting to show up as the best parent you can be, whose opinion matters more? Your parents’, your partner’s or your child’s? (Spoiler Alert: It’s probably not your parents’).
If you aim to be the most effective team member you can be, who should you listen to? Your boss, your partner or your team?
Being able to ask these questions requires you to leave your ego at the door, and recognise that it really does matter what other people think of you if you’re going to show up as your best for those people around you in your professional and personal life.
For the most part, this produced the sorts of patterns you might expect. Individual island chains almost always clustered together and had ancestry that could be traced back to a single island source. The patterns also suggested that some island groups acted as hubs for expansions. Rarotonga and Palliser, for example, seemed to be the source (either directly or via intermediate islands) of the populations in all of Eastern Polynesia.
The big exception to this may also be informative. The Austral Islands in the south of French Polynesia were all settled by a single source—except the island of Raivavae. Its population seems to have arrived from Tuamotus and Mangareva, islands located much farther away in eastern French Polynesia. But this is also the population that settled all the islands where we’ve detected Native American DNA. All of which suggests that this group likely engaged in some of the longest voyages made by Polynesians.
[t]he precise problem with every head-mounted wearable computer created by big tech firms.
They’re rarely interested in exploring how these wearables could help you think.
They just want content, content, content — so they can sell ads, ads, ads.
With the release of Facebook’s Ray Ban glasses, Clive Thompson discusses some of the problems associated with cameras in glasses. This includes failure to encourage thinking and that people find them unsettling. What I find interesting is where they do work and that is where their use is clear and explicit, such as in the workplace.
the one exception to “don’t put a camera on that head-mounted computer” is in the workplace. The second generation of Google Glass was pitched at industrial workers who need a hands-free computer. In those situations, it’s not social, and not sneaky: Everyone in the workplace knows what the wearables, and the cameras, are for.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison made two decisions last year that defined his, and Australia’s, response to the pandemic and became a historic turning point for national politics.
First, he conceded leadership of the pandemic to the states to reduce his political risk. It was a momentous, unnecessary decision.
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Second, he tried to put local manufacturing first when sourcing vaccines, which meant the more expensive mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna, which can’t be made here, were ignored.