As much as I rail against the tyranny of Autotune, I confess that I secretly adore it — in certain contexts. It’s a clever tool for making new sonic textures or for twisting a singer’s voice into ways that are not physically possible. But if it’s used to make up for a singer’s lack of …
Category Archives: Technology
Red Light Rover
Million-dollar idea: Assemble a set of 8 highly-directional speaker panels (electrostatic phased array type), with a pair positioned in a right angle at each corner of an intersection, high on the pole. The speakers point down at the heads of pedestrians across the street. Instead of indecipherable beeps to alert pedestrians (specifically blind pedestrians) when …
Back Dat NAS Up
Things I have learned this weekend: mysqldump is an important part of your backup workflow, but be sure to flush. CRON WILLS IT, but only if you incant the ancient prayer with “-e“. NFS root_squash is not a vegetable, but it can turn a capable man into one. ZFS listens to xattr and ACL, but …
Car Windows
Since getting my smartphone, I’ve seen the horror of the mobile web — not the boiled-down, large print version of the web customized for mobile devices with small screens, but the regular web shrunk down to render in tiny fonts on small screens. This is what happens when site designers don’t update their HTML and …
Substandard Compliance
The erosion of academic writing continues: “Several media queries can be combined in a media query list. A comma-separated list of media queries. If one or more of the media queries in the comma-separated list are true, the whole list is true, and otherwise false.” Source: W3C Media Queries Come on, World Wide Web Consortium, …