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by adrianh 3y ago
Shameless plug: have a listen to my new album “Melodic Guitar Music.” It’s 10 original guitar instrumentals. Sort of a mashup between Django Reinhardt (gypsy jazz), Chet Atkins-style fingerpicked guitar and Beatles melodicism. https:/
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by adrianh 3y ago
Hi, one of the creators of Django here (and of the admin specifically). It was definitely not intended to be ugly — the first version was designed by Wilson Miner, a great designer. In fact, an argument could be made that a key reason for D
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by adrianh 3y ago
Very cool! Have you tried it on old 78rpm recordings, or is that a different type of noise than you’re aiming to remove? [update] I've tried it on an old 78rpm recording and it successfully removed the hiss — but it was a bit too aggre
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by adrianh 3y ago
You are not alone! It’s indeed very bad UX on the part of Apple. I run a website with music education tools and we had to make a dedicated help page for this particular annoyance: https://www.soundslice.com/help/en&#x2F
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by adrianh 3y ago
(Former Chicago resident here) Higher parking rates means fewer people driving, which is a long-term win. I highly doubt this was the top priority for the people who set the Chicago parking rates, but it's actually a good thing for the
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by adrianh 3y ago
Hello, I lead the creation of the Soundslice music scanning tool! My biased opinion is that we get much better results than other tools, even though it's still in beta and doesn't support the full range of notations we aim to supp
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by adrianh 3y ago
This is called Guitar Acquisition Syndrome in guitar culture. :-)
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by adrianh 3y ago
This is excellent. The path from "George Barnes (Musician)" to "Django Reinhardt" somehow managed to pass through Hysterectomy, 5-Bromouracil, Glucuronidation and Port Bannatyne (Scotland). Kudos for some creative coding
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by adrianh 4y ago
I stopped doing this when a person here in Amsterdam bluntly responded: "You Americans! That's all you ever talk about is work!" Haven't asked anybody an open-ended "So what do you do" in the five years since,
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by adrianh 4y ago
We just launched a beta music scanning feature at Soundslice a few months ago: https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/ It’ll accept images and PDFs of music, extracting the notes, rhythms, etc., so you can play
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by adrianh 4y ago
In 2004, the website All Music Guide did a horrible redesign. I was so irritated that I created a Firefox extension that did only one thing — it made All Music Guide a bit more useable. To my knowledge, this was the first "site-specifi
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by adrianh 4y ago
For those interested in a more modern approach: my company Soundslice ( https://www.soundslice.com/ ) makes web-based sheet music software. Here's a talk I gave about building its music graphics engine in client-side Jav
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by adrianh 4y ago
On the other end of the spectrum: here in Amsterdam some of the canal houses deliberately use smaller windows for the top floors, to give the impression that the homes are taller (and more prestigious). The way it was explained to me is tha
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by adrianh 4y ago
Yes, Soundslice does indeed support drums. Lots of people use it for that!
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by adrianh 4y ago
Check out Soundslice ( https://www.soundslice.com/ ) — I founded it 10 years ago and we're a team of three people. It's a world-class learning and practice tool for music, with a built-in notation/tab editor, a
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Infinite AI Array(ianbicking.org)
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Thoughts on my first machine learning project(holovaty.com)
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by adrianh 4y ago
Yes, for two reasons: * The software: Medium somehow managed to make majority-plain-text articles slow to consume in modern web browsers, negating decades' worth of web browser optimizations. * The culture: Medium is overrun with self-
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by adrianh 4y ago
This is a seductive notion, but it's indeed possible for a tech company to understand how a single piece of data goes through its systems. It might take a while, and it might involve weeks of code spelunking and dozens of conversations
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by adrianh 4y ago
This argument can be applied to any hobby. :) "You need a job to support yourself so you can play piano as a hobby." "You need a job to support yourself so you can do rock climbing as a hobby."
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The solution here is for the company to make a proper help page explaining that, then respond to all the support emails with a link to the help page. No need to poison the well for everybody else due to wanting to avoid a "support burd
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by adrianh 4y ago
Related: the Well-Sorted Version ( https://www.wellsortedversion.com/ ) does this for the King James Bible. It's each word, alphabetized.
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by adrianh 4y ago
This was done 10+ years ago by Translation Party ( https://www.translationparty.com/ ), though they simply converted between English and Japanese.
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by adrianh 4y ago
Sorry, I’m not seeing how this overengineered solution adds any benefit…? If it’s a mostly static site, just use Django or Rails and be done with it. SEO becomes a non-issue and your code stays in a single (server-side) language.
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by adrianh 5y ago
Nintendo did the exact opposite with its subsequent mobile game Mario Kart Tour. It's free to play but has tons of optional paid upgrades plus an optional monthly subscription.
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by adrianh 5y ago
Interesting — can I assume you're not on a high-pixel density (aka "retina") screen? We've experimented with forcing staff lines to start on a new pixel, but that can result in an overly digital look.
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by adrianh 5y ago
I’ve written a sheet music rendering engine from scratch in front-end JS, and here’s a tech talk I gave on it: https://vimeo.com/304099149 This is part of the music-learning software Soundslice ( https://www.sound
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by adrianh 5y ago
I’m one of the creators of Django and I’d personally never write a class-based view. It requires too much knowledge on part of the developer and is generally an abstraction for the sake of abstraction. Simple functions are much clearer!
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by adrianh 5y ago
You might also be interested in MNX, which is the new format being developed by the W3C Music Notation Community Group as sort of a next-generation MusicXML: https://github.com/w3c/mnx/
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by adrianh 5y ago
This is exactly what we do on https://www.soundslice.com/features/ (the minivideos below the main hero section). Would definitely recommend using MP4s instead of GIFs, for the bandwidth savings.

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