I just finished V1 of https://wd.gt/ and was thinking of doing a ShowHN today. Basically it's RSS for widgets. You define some json and host it and then you have a dynamic, web-powered widget with no additional app required besides a generic viewer. Rendering these images would be a perfect fit for widget.json.
A couple years ago we ordered an "on-demand" printed book from Amazon for an old public domain book. It came misprinted, with a book on "Mobile Solar Power" right in the middle of it.
I took a look through it cause I thought it would actually interesting, and found it to be this type of fake book that looks to be instructional on the surface, but in reality is not actually educational in the least, and in fact dead wrong in many places.
Steve Jobs and Tim Cook have both stated that they don't hesitate to cannibalize their own products, and Apple has proved that many times over.
Especially at the scale in which iPad having developer tools could ostensibly cannibalize Mac sales — there's no way this would be a factor in the existence of those tools.
There’s also the `;`, which repeats the last movement! So if you did `dft` and didn’t see the extra “t” in the way in the first place, you can then just do `d;`. It’s like `.` but for movement!
I think that’s right anyway, no vim terminal at hand to check myself.
Not worth it. That remap has saved me more keystrokes than I can reasonably count. But adding the opposite remap for good measure isn't the worst idea.
I’m a musician who went to a music school that had a lot of nice pianos. I love playing piano but I don’t consider myself a pianist.
My wife is a pianist who studied piano performance. We own a refurbished 1924 Steinway and we love it.
I’ve gotten the chance to play and hear many Steinways and a few Mason and Hamlins. My favorite piano I’ve ever heard was a 1920s Mason and Hamlin that was owned by my wife’s piano professor.
For us it seemed like the only way to get the kind of piano we wanted to own was to find one of the “golden era” pianos from the 1920s and refurbish it or find one that had been refurbished. It’s a lot of work so it’s expensive to do, but still a ton cheaper than buying a newer piano, and the sound and quality of the 1920s pianos can be excellent.
There is a notable lack of great piano technicians and tuners. We have an amazing one, but everyone else we have tried cannot make the instrument sing like he can. Some have been downright terrible. There is such an art to really getting the individual strings within a note in tune with each other to the level where the sound waves line up and sustain one another rather than canceling each other out and killing off the note quickly. My tuner says that most tuners don’t even know the difference or that it’s even a thing, and I believe him.
I hope the art of piano tuners and technicians doesn’t completely die off. It would be easy to see that happen.
I would highly recommend that you check out the documentary ”Pianomania” if you haven’t seen it already. It follows a Steinway piano tuner as he tunes instruments for a few famous pianists doing exactly the kind of thing you mentioned.
Relatedly, the book "Grand Obsession" tells the story of one pianist's truly obsessive search for a piano with a particular sound. I found it fascinating, moving, and a little terrifying.
Glad they're doing this, though I think there's a place for globalization too.
I bought a couple USA-made Milwaukee carpenter squares a couple years ago and found the quality (accuracy) wanting, unfortunately. I hope whatever strides they make with manufacturing in the USA keep quality at the forefront and don't just end up eroding trust in the idea that USA-made means it's going to be a quality product.
I ended up trying a number of bad squares from them at the hardware store and finally found a couple I was willing to buy because I like them and wanted to make it work.
I mean that’s literally where the money ends up anyway. I have a small amount in Wealthfront to check it out. With my “10/10” risk allocation, my money is all in vanguard funds.
45% VTI
20% VEA
19% VWO
14% VIG
2% VETB
They do also offer some services such as “tax loss harvesting” that you can’t really do on your own, but I don’t really know if it’s worth their fee.
Really, I think one of the best investing strategies is to buy and hold a variety of Vanguard funds and stop thinking about it.
I'm seriously considering making one if there isn't one already...