donbrae

Great work. Will bookmark. I built something similarly no-nonsense and text-based for pro wrestling news: https://www.wrestle.buzz.

Made an HTML5/JS puzzle game: https://www.tripodsgame.com. No expectation of it making any money. (That said I do daydream of the NYT buying it lol.)

Indeed: the current Queen is Elizabeth II of England, but Elizabeth I of Scots as well as the United Kingdom.

I sit with a hot water bottle all day at my desk during the winter months. Really works well and is cheaper than running the heating all the time.

Looks like it’s using Tone.js[0] with a sample library called ‘Salamander Grand Piano V3’[1].

Tone.js is great. I’m using it to convert MIDI files and sync visuals on a jazz piano tutorial website I’m building[2].

[0] https://tonejs.github.io

[1] https://archive.org/details/SalamanderGrandPianoV3

[2] https://www.jazzkeys.fyi

Is BuzzFeed actually clickbait, though? If you mean that the headline makes you want to click to read the article, then I guess it is. But that’s no different to any website.

Looking at the home page just now, BuzzFeed doesn’t seem to make outlandish claims or promises in the headline or accompanying image that aren’t then delivered in the article.

It’s all pretty silly, of course, but the content seems to match the headline in the items I clicked on. This makes sense if the goal is to get folk sharing BuzzFeed content on social media: if the content was a letdown, it wouldn’t be shared.

I seem to remember Ben Thompson talking about this common misconception on his podcast years ago.

Is your phone muted? I assume this is using the Web Audio API, which doesn’t sound on iOS if the iDevice is muted (requires a hack of playing silent HTML5 Audio in the background).

I bought a few cool domains over the past couple of years for side projects: wrestle.buzz, scots.app, jazzkeys.fyi and jamieonkeys.dev. My favourite (joke) domain is Marco Arment’s bad.coffee :D

That is simply incorrect. I personally know people whose first language is Scots. It was the first language they learned and they use it every day.

Not a book but I run a blog written in Scots: https://makforrit.scot.

As a Scots speaker I would object vehemently to my language being classified as a dialect of ‘British’, or any other language for that matter.

Scottish English != Scots. The former is just English with a Scottish accent; the latter is a closely related (to English) but distinct language with its own vocabulary and grammar, not dissimilar to the relationship between Norwegian and Danish, or Czech and Slovak.

Scots being a language has nothing to do with suppressing Gaelic. Generally people who hate Gaelic hate Scots equally.

Looks like it does: “Students from Scotland are again the most positive, but there has been a statistically significant (6%) fall this year.”[1]

However fees are only paid by the government if a Scottish student (including those from elsewhere the EU, at least before Brexit) studies in Scotland; not if they study elsewhere in the UK.

[1] https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/student-academic-...

I did similar in Mac Mail a few years ago: it caused an out-of-office reply to be sent to every email I’d ever sent going back years. I was surprised Mail allowed for this scenario. Needless to say, my holiday got off to a stressful start!

I imagine the artist approved a (stereo) mix they heard on decent studio monitors and maybe stereo headphones too. I’m not sure how they’d feel about someone else then creating an atmos/spacial audio version without their involvement. Mixing is integral to the artistic part of making recorded music.

I’d be interested to know whether the tracks appearing on Apple Music are being created from the original tracks/stems (i.e. properly remixed), or whether an algorithm is being applied to the same stereo mixdown that would have created a standard (stereo) master.

I notice on macOS that Firefox now finally has the standard ‘rubber banding’/bounce effect when you scroll past the start/end of the page or text field content.

Wow, you can actually use iSH to install PHP, run `php -S localhost:8080` and view index.php or whatever in Safari. I had no idea this was possible on iOS. Thanks!

I used the latest lockdown to finally finish a puzzle game I started making a few years back. Feedback welcome! (If you’re interested the code is at https://github.com/donbrae/tripods-web, too.)

I work 31 hours over four days, which I guess is somewhere between part time and full time. For comparison, the standard, full-time working week here (Scotland) for private- and public-sector office-based jobs is 35 or 37.5 hours. (I choose to work less so I can spend more time on side-projects that make no money.)

Been a fan of his work for a few years now. He let me use a couple of his pieces as album art. Seems like a cool guy and it’s great to see his continued success.

Surely being literate is simply being able to read and write coherently? Whether you read books, the Economist, academic papers, Hacker News, or whatever, I don't see how it matters.

An educational website for jazz pianists: https://www.jazzkeys.fyi. The landing page is online to collect emails and meantime I'm working on content.

I'm also finishing a puzzle game I started a while back.

https://www.jazzkeys.fyi: a toolkit for jazz piano players. Landing page live; working on content in the background.

A Guid New Year tae ane and aw!

A shortcut to maximise the window: click the green icon while pressing Option.

Crap SEO content has been blighting the web for years now, of course, but I seem to remember it being worse in ~2008-10 with content farms like eHow and Mahalo spewing forth their garbage content in order to (successfully, for a time) game Google.

SubmitHub is awesome! Used it to promote my last couple of EPs.

I've not yet tried Tailwind, but I've found the utility classes in Bootstrap to be really useful. Over the years I've encountered a good number of instances on larger sites using traditional/global CSS where a change to a particular style ends up unintentionally affecting random stuff elsewhere. It's really irritating.

I often write in a mixture of Scots and English, and spellcheckers are nae guid for that use case. The problem is solved, however, on iOS and Android thanks to SwiftKey[1].

[1] https://dsl.ac.uk/our-publications/scots-predictive-keyboard...

Mainly for performance reasons I've recently gone from using hosted/local Google Fonts to just calling the system ones (some variant of `-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Segoe UI,Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,Open Sans,Helvetica Neue`).