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andy-landy/traceback_with_variables

github.com

Adds variables to python traceback. Simple, lightweight, controllable. Debug reasons of exceptions by logging or pretty printing colorful variable contexts for each frame in a stacktrace, showing every value. Dump locals environments after errors to console, files, and loggers. Works in Jupyter and IPython. Install with pip or conda.

Computer Music

inessential.com

I’ve been promising myself for years that I would allow myself to start making music again — only this time on a Mac with GarageBand. And so I did, just a few weeks ago.

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Also: it sucks. I know the song sucks. It doesn’t matter! I was 16 when I wrote it, and now I’m learning GarageBand and having fun.

I love what Brent is doing here. Never stop learning.

Foo Fighters Wanted to Rule Rock. 25 Years Later, They’re Still Roaring.

nytimes.com

Dave Grohl has done so much throughout his career — drummed for Nirvana, arguably the biggest band of its generation; led Foo Fighters, one of the most successful acts of the last three decades; sold out Wembley Stadium, twice; played on the White House lawn; interviewed the sitting president of the United States; broke his leg during a show and finished the show with the broken leg; entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, with another induction likely on the way; recorded with both living Beatles; appeared on “The Muppets,” also twice — that when you ask him what’s left, he takes a moment.

“That’s one of those things that I think of every morning when I wake up,” Grohl, 52, said during a recent interview, his long, brown hair streaked with gray and tucked behind his ears. “What have we not done? What could we do today?”

The Simtel.Net MS-DOS Collection

lanet.lv

A mirror of the original. From Wikipedia:

Simtel, sometimes cited as Simtelnet, was an important long-running archive of freeware and shareware for various operating systems.

The Simtel archive had significant ties to the history of several operating systems: it was in turn a major repository for CP/M, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and FreeBSD. The archive was hosted initially on the Incompatible Timesharing System, then TOPS-20, then FreeBSD servers, with archive distributor Walnut Creek CDROM helping fund FreeBSD development. It began as an early mailing list, then was hosted on the ARPANET, and finally the fully open Internet.

The service was shut down on March 15, 2013.