Video
I love when snares don't keep time
In the majority of music you’ll hear after 1960, the drummer does most of the time keeping with their snare. On 100% of Bruce Springsteen songs, time is kept entirely with the snare. I listen to a lot of The Boss; it’s a little surprising when I don’t here a consistent 1/3 or 2/4 snare keeping time.
That makes the drumming on most jazz albums pretty delightful. For example, Cannonball Adderley, “Games” (Roy McCurdy on drums):
Tinkering with Kinto
Here’s a thing I want to experiment with. Short videos talking about what I’m currently tinkering with. Here’s one!
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More notes in the repo, if you want to play along at home. Let me know what you think!
This is how you chalkboard
By pal Brandon Keepers, who I had no idea had that kind of talent. Well done!
It's all made of maths
Math: humans mostly have a love/hate relationship with it. And yet, even if you’re challenged by the continuous maths like myself, it’s hard to argue that there isn’t something magical to seeing the commonplace of our world in mathematical terms.
How to Jerry Seinfeld
How Jerry Seinfeld writes a joke:
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Very different from how I approach it. But, I love knowing how much goes into his craft and the degree to which he is particular about how he does it.
AC/DC writes robust songs
AC/DC writes songs that are fundamentally very strong. They aren’t the most touching, artistically composed songs. But they’re very solid songs. They hold together well, you can sing along, they don’t ramble on longer than they should.
How robust is AC/DC’s songwriting?
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You can throw bagpipes into one of their songs and it still holds up just fine. That’s solid songwriting.
How I use vim splits
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A five-minute exploration of how I use splits in vim to navigate between production or test code and how I move up and down through layers of abstractions. Spoiler: I use vertical splits to put test and production code side-by-side; horizontal splits come into play when I’m navigating through the layers of a web app or something with a client/server aspect to it. I haven’t customized vim to make this work; I just use the normal window keybindings and a bunch of commands from vim-rails.
I seriously heart this setup. It’s worth taking thirty minutes to figure out how you can approximate it with whatever editor setup you enjoy most. Hint: splits are really fantastic.