aaronparecki.com
It’s been fun to be able to “speak” at conferences in a highly edited format instead of winging it on stage!
I like this. Might have to think about this more as COVID-19 wears on and I’m having an itch to speak at conferences again.
shapeof.com
She’s shaping the notes around each other, hitting each tone at just the right moment, and blending everything together in a way that should be impossible. The sounds aren’t just more than the sum of their parts, it’s an order of magnitude more than the parts. The music is made out of the atmosphere.
hea-www.harvard.edu
If you sometimes find yourself with so many tabs in Safari that you can’t find things and end up opening them again in a new tab, this script can help.
It asks for a search term, which it matches against the name (title) of every open tab, as well as the URL. If it finds one match, it raises that window to the top and switches to that tab. If it finds multiple matches, it offers you a list of matches that you can select from.
daringfireball.net
I’m also curious how they ensure they don’t package up the puzzle with a piece or two missing, which is surely a recipe for driving someone mad.
Indeed. We did a pretty tough puzzle some time back which ultimately had one piece missing. I ended 3D printing a replacement.
scuttlebot.io
Scuttlebot is an open source peer-to-peer log store used as a database, identity provider, and messaging system. It features global replication, file-syncronization, and end-to-end encryption.
scott.j38.net
Volotic is an experimental nonlinear sequencer for iOS. What does that mean? It means a fun way to create songs for everyone, with no musical experience required. To compose a song, populate the grid from a library of towers to create, modify and route beats into melodic and percussive instruments.
wweek.com
We believe that the time has come to greet each other not with our heads down, staring at our hands and begging for the permission of the minds that oversee our networks," reads part of the lengthy mission statement, “but proudly, standing tall, with our eyes open and aware of our surroundings.
sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu
We engineered a wearable microphone jammer that is capable of disabling microphones in its user’s surroundings, including hidden microphones. Our device is based on a recent exploit that leverages the fact that when exposed to ultrasonic noise, commodity microphones will leak the noise into the audible range.
I love this project so much—the research & concept, the 3D printed parts, the off-the-shelf components, and that it’s open sourced on GitHub.
schneier.com
The idea behind Solid is both simple and extraordinarily powerful. Your data lives in a pod that is controlled by you. Data generated by your things – your computer, your phone, your IoT whatever – is written to your pod. You authorize granular access to that pod to whoever you want for whatever reason you want. Your data is no longer in a bazillion places on the Internet, controlled by you-have-no-idea-who. It’s yours. If you want your insurance company to have access to your fitness data, you grant it through your pod. If you want your friends to have access to your vacation photos, you grant it through your pod. If you want your thermostat to share data with your air conditioner, you give both of them access through your pod.
This sounds awesome, but it’s both a technical challenge and a business/political one. Then again, that’s right where Bruce sits. I’ll be watching this with great interest.
github.com
Self-hosted, super simple photo stream