Fron a while ago but still relevant [Wayback/Archive] Is it Pokémon or Big Data?.
It is a cool experiment to test your own knowledge or for fun to assess recruiters or candidates (;
And it is open source too:
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Is it Pokémon or Big Data?
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/03
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Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”/ Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/28
Food for thought: [Wayback/Archive] Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”
The full thread is at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @_Eric_Reinhart on Thread Reader App.
–jeroen
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Dan Hon on Twitter: “repost for posterity” (agile pitfalls)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/26
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For the USA, the TRS-80 PC-1 was the “The Trash Computer That Became Your Phone”; the rest of the world could enjoy the hardware identical Sharp PC-1210/1211/1212 years earlier
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/25
Earlier this year, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] The Trash Computer That Became Your Phone – YouTube which discusses the Tandy TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-1, . The video includes a lot of history about Tandy Corporation, Charles Tandy and Radio Shack including quite a few bits I didn’t know yet.
It was part of the Tandy Pocket Computer, and succeeded by the Z80 powered TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-2 (which was actually a rebadged Sharp PC-1500).
The TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-1 itself was also a rebadged Pocket Computer, this time a Sharp PC-1211 powered by a duo of 4-bit CPUs so totally incompatible with the PC-2. Actually none of the Tandy Pocket Computer line were compatible with each other (nor with the desktop TRS-80 which itself was incompatible TRS-80 Color Computer). With the PC-4 and on Tandy even switched to Casio as manufacturer, then back to Sharp for the final PC-8.
Anyway: this video was a trip down memory lane and reliving my 2012 blog post The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall), and I was glad that by now there are more videos covering the calculator I started with, for instance via [Wayback/Archive] sharp pc-1211 – YouTube:
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GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/22
A long, since 1989, tradition is the Quadrennial Dutch hacker convention.
A nice video summarising all of them is at [Wayback/Archive] GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube
The upcoming [Wayback/Archive] WHY2025 hacker camp convention is covered starting at 44:42.
--jeroen
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The Twelve-Factor App
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/21
Still relevant: [Wayback/Archive] The Twelve-Factor App and [Wayback/Archive] 12 Fractured Apps — Medium
Once Docker hit the scene the benefits of the 12 Factor App (12FA) really started to shine. For example, 12FA recommends that logging should be done to stdout and be treated as an event stream. Ever run the docker logs command? That’s 12FA in action!
Via
- [Wayback/Archive] David Fowler on Twitter: “Is
12factor.netstill the thing or is there a new thing?” - [Wayback/Archive] Kelsey Hightower on Twitter: “12 Fractured Apps“Many of the applications that are being packaged for Docker are broken in subtle ways. So subtle people would not call them broken, it’s more like a hairline fracture — it works but hurts like hell when you use them.””
–jeroen
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Un4seen.Bass Namespace – BASS.NET API for the Un4seen BASS Audio Library
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/19
A while ago, within a week time, I got reminded of a project I did some 15 years ago involving low-latency audio using the .NET platform on Windows XP Embedded.
For that I used the BASS.NET wrapper classes and P/Invoke methods around the Un4seen BASS Audio Library.
Back in those days there was not much documentation about this, but now there is more.
Some starting points are:
- [Wayback/Archive] BASS.NET API for the Un4seen BASS Audio Library – Table of Content
- [Wayback/Archive] BASS.NET Overview
- [Wayback/Archive] BASS.NET API
BASS.NET is a .Net wrapper for the BASS Audio Library and all it’s Add-Ons – available @ http://www.un4seen.com. The Bass.Net.dll release version is installed in the specified ‘install-directory’ and will be registered to the .NET Framework as a standard component (if you left all the installation options checked). Note, that there are various Bass.Net assemblies available (side-by-side): one targeting the .Net v4.8 Full Framework and one targeting the .Net v6.0 Core Framework.
The native BASS libraries (e.g. bass.dll) are NOT included and need to be downloaded seperately – so make sure to download the BASS library and the needed add-on libraries and place them to your project executable directory (e.g. place the bass.dll to .\bin\Debug).
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followed by an elaborate list of the Bass.net namespaces.
- [Wayback/Archive] Version History (back to the initial 2005 version; I used it from 2007-2009)
- [Wayback/Archive] Upgrading from Previous Versions
- [Wayback/Archive] Interoperating with Unmanaged Code was still in its infancy somewhere on the forums when I used the Bass.net library. Wish it had been in its current state, as it now is a set of wonderful guidelines.
- [Wayback/Archive] Un4seen Developments – Welcome
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Online samenspelen | rolfhoogenberg.eu
Maart 2021
Momenteel repeteer ik wekelijks met mijn muziekverenigingen realtime via internet. We kunnen echt samen muziek maken en dat is heerlijk!
Om succesvol samen te kunnen spelen via internet begruiken we 2 programma’s:
- Zoom – dit gebruiken we voor het beeld, de video.
- Jamulus – dit gebruiken we voor het geluid, de audio.
Op deze pagina vindt u een handleiding die ik schreef voor de installatie en het instellen van deze 2 programma’s.
Let op: Er is een aparte handleiding voor Windows en een aparte handleiding voor MacOS.
Verder kun je via deze pagina de installatieprogramma’s downloaden die nodig zijn om Jamulus en ASIO4ALL te installeren.
Dit is Open Source software die je ook kunt downloaden van www.jamulus.io en www.asio4all.org.
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@lucasmeijer It’s been a long time ago, so just to check that we are talking about the same thing: I was using the BASS .NET wrappers around ASIO audio back then.”
Related:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jamulus ‒ Play music online. With friends. For free.
- [Wayback/Archive] Jamulus – Internet Jam Session Software download | SourceForge.net
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jamulussoftware/jamulus: Jamulus enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – grundic/jamulus-docker: Docker image for online jamming software Jamulus
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jamulussoftware/jamuluswebsite: This is the GitHub Pages repository for the Jamulus main website. For the jamulus application source code, please visit jamulussoftware/jamulus.
- [Wayback/Archive] ASIO4ALL Official Home – Universal Windows ASIO Driver
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dechamps/FlexASIO: A flexible universal ASIO driver that uses the PortAudio sound I/O library. Supports WASAPI (shared and exclusive), KS, DirectSound and MME.
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Among other things, this makes it possible to emulate a typical Windows application that opens an audio device in shared mode. This means other applications can use the same audio devices at the same time, with the Windows audio engine mixing the various audio streams. Other universal ASIO drivers do not offer this functionality as they always open audio devices in exclusive mode.
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- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – L4ZZA/ASIO4ALL.NET: A simple C#/C++ Interop project upgraded to modern frameworks. Credits @robinvierich
--jeroen
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Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/13
Using generative AI for your work can very likely result into your work not being copyrightable, at least in the USA: [Wayback/Archive] Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections.
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Now, in an ironic twist, Allen is upset that his work—which was created via a platform that’s been accused of ripping off countless copyrighted works—cannot, itself, be copyrighted, and is thus getting ripped off. In March of last year, the U.S. Copyright Office ruled that work derived from AI platforms “contained no human authorship” and therefore could not be extended copyright protections. Allen has been trying, since late 2022, to register his painting as a copyrighted work.
Links from the above quote:
- [Wayback/Archive] DeviantArt and Midjourney deny wrongdoing in copyright infringement lawsuit over in AI image generators
- [Wayback/Archive] Federal Register :: Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence
Via [Wayback/Archive] Fefes Blog: Not the Onion.
Wikipedia:
--jeroen
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GitHub – src-d/hercules: Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history.
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/12
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – src-d/hercules: Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history.
This project, with the command-line tools hercules and labours is on my research list as it can get pretty good long-term insights on project health (the tool is programming language independent).
Especially the half-life of code is a good measurement, as well as the existence of code bursts (hello major version increments!).
This research part is important: [Wayback/Archive] Change Bursts as Defect Predictors – Publications – Software Engineering Chair (Prof. Zeller), by Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmermann, Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy
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If you sunset things, at least remove references: Finding information (IDE Tutorial) – RAD Studio
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/30
The sad thing about sunsetting useful resources is that usually a proper cleanup is not being performaned.
Take for instance QC: it died 7 years ago (Embarcadero QualityCentral is dead; man-decades of customer work down the drain) and is still mentioned in dozens of places including this prominent one: [Wayback/Archive] Finding information (IDE Tutorial) – RAD Studio.
This is just an example from a product I still love, so I know what is lost, but plenty of other companies forget they are the custodians of their own sites and leaving things rotting makes for a bad feeling of their overall behaviour.
It’s not hard to be not sloppy. Here are some 20+ more links to fix: [Wayback/Archive] “qc.embarcadero.com” site:embarcadero.com – Google Search
Note the next will be CodeCentral, which was annouced to get sunset 5 years ago:
- [Wayback/Archive] The Future of CodeCentral
- [Wayback/Archive] GM Update as part of a link to what looks like a positive message “GitHub The Future of CodeCentral” (which points to the above link, which in turns summarises to “it’s up to all the folks – even the ones already dead – that put their stuff on codecentral in the first placce”).
People want to save this (see for instance [Wayback/Archive] EMBT: Code Central is going away – Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]), but regrettably companies aren’t going to do themselves it despite they owe it to their customers and their legacy.
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 