Launch the rhythm visualization demo Continuing from my first iteration on a visual metronome, this is an improvement to simplify things while providing greater control in the UI for: tempo, cycles (bars), beats, and emphasis highlighting (nth). My intention is for this to evolve toward a metric modulation visualization. I moved from the traditional European [...]
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Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
Listen to “Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me”
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Command finished notification with Ruby
I wanted a visual notification in Ubuntu when long running commands finished in Terminal. My solution, run the command and pipe it into notify. $ a-long-running-command | notify notify.rb Make it executable add an alias to it in ~/.bashrc Requires: ruby, rubygems, and libnotify. Similar solutions: “alert” alias (I’ll be switching to this in Maverick), [...]
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nomad
A little flavor of Tinariwen. Tuned D G D G A D. Listen to “nomad”
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Ruby Duration
Download ruby duration lib Duration.new recieves a string describing a duration of time, and converts it into: seconds, and a standard readable format. Or, you can pass Duration.new an integer representing seconds, and receive the same standard readable format. Usage: Passing a String Passing an Fixnum (of seconds) Example valid input strings: “2 weeks”, [...]