Where I say things that are mostly wrong.
A quick bootstrapping guide to get users new to Fractal Audio’s superior hardware for musicians up and running. This guide focuses on the older II-series of units: the MkI, MkII, XL and XL+.
Software you’ll want to download:
Slack. Love it or hate it, it’s here and you’re likely using it in your day-to-day work if you’re Silicon Valley illuminati.
Want to take your Slack to the next level? Treat it as an asynchronous communication protocol!
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Over time I’ve come to realize that how you tackle problems matters more than what you know before you start tackling a problem. Having a system for subdividing a problem and addressing its issues in smaller, manageable pieces can make...
“One hour. Give me one hour and I’ll listen to it.”
And thus the challenge was set. One hour to introduce Phish to someone who, despite a sophisticated taste in music, had never sampled the wonders and joys that are...
I don’t really like using a mouse. I vastly prefer to use a keyboard to navigate when using a computer. I use things like LaunchBar and vim because they’re really good at accelerating things with keyboard shortcuts.
The current...
The 1.3.0 release of packer-config is live on rubygems.org.
This release adds support for the VMWare ISO builder courtesy Matasano Security.
packer-config is a Ruby interface to the Packer project from HashiCorp. Packer...
I use Macs. I have for a while now. I have a short list of things I need to do when faced with a fresh OS X install. This isn’t the comprehensive list of all the apps I touch in...
The 1.1.0 release of packer-config is live on rubygems.org.
This release adds support for the VMWare VMX builder courtesy Greg Poirier.
packer-config is a Ruby interface to the Packer project from HashiCorp. Packer...
Time for an update to my Trey Anastasio patch for the Axe-Fx II! We got some crazy new realism with the 18.03 firmware release and the G3’ification of the MkIII Clean and Shiva Clean amp models meant it was time...
Apple’s March 9th keynote unveiled the incredibly thin, slightly more powerful, and beautifully Retina-display’ed MacBook. It also came with a new design twist: it has one port, and only one port. And it’s not a port we’ve seen...
The 1.0.0 release of packer-config is live on rubygems.org.
packer-config is a Ruby interface to the Packer project from HashiCorp. Packer lets you build different kinds of virtualized machine images (Docker, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Amazon AMI,...
I ride BART every day. I get on in the mornings at the second stop on the line. In spite of being so close to the start of the line, it’s always very full. BART likes to brag that it...
Pushed a new Ruby Gem today that lets you apply Gemfile-like expectations syntax to command line tools: lowered-expectations. It’ll check to make sure you have the tool in your environment, query it for the version and then compare the...
I beta test snazzy, high end guitar gear for Fractal Audio and one of the occassional perks is we get early access to third party IR packs. This week we got Mikko Hypponen’s (Clark Kent on the Fractal...
I wrapped up the discover feature on the development branch of the Keybase Python API last night. It’s a pretty neat feature. It lets you look up Keybase users by other things: their Twitter handle, a Github username,...
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I had this chemistry professor in first year university who was, for lack of a better term, a real stickler for perfection. Perfection being defined as “his way of doing things” of course. He was adamant you write your name...