grimmdude

I love Tonal.js, have used it for many personal projects including https://github.com/grimmdude/MidiWriterJS

Fun article, I'm reading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd right now.

Many older cars require you to hold the handle up while you close the door to prevent you from accidentally locking yourself out.

this is true

I've been using PHP for years and am a believer. It's just as good, if not better in many cases, as other languages used for similar purpose. Especially with the features PHP 7 brings; I particularly like the more robust type hinting. Just gotta write good code!

Ha very cool! I like that punctuation marks add some flair.

Same happens for me, realty.com -> realtor.com. However, explicitly typing https://realty.com works fine.

iOS 13.5.1

100% agree with the sentiment that client side rendering is overused.

Swipe right all day long

Very cool! Would be fun to add a MIDI export feature, could use my MidiWriter library https://github.com/grimmdude/MidiWriterJS

So does it have to boot up before you can use it?

Cool to see a guitar post on the front page of HN, I suppose it makes sense since many of the programmers I know are also musicians.

I'm a guitar player as well, been playing for about 20 years. Completely agree with all your points, especially that it's a "deep instrument". Many people think there's a progress bar for learning it which maxes out, but that progress bar's max is ever increasing (or it should be if you're doing it right).

Shameless plug for my guitar videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFFBlI__po2CBLrtynTNbIA

Submitted MidiWriterJS about a year and a half ago (https://github.com/grimmdude/MidiWriterJS). I think the majority of the stars and usage it gets came because of that.

I don't know, I think much of the web is much more readable now than ever personally.

I can see it now: "Stanford Grad Starts Brewery Specializing in Ancient Chinese Recipes"

Am I the only one who thinks Ja Rule's line in The Fast and the Furious: "Monicaaaaaaa!"

I feel like icons can encourage application exploration too, which could be a good thing.

One thing I've always found interesting is that technically, by definition, we're currently in an ice age:

  "By this definition, we are in an interglacial period—the Holocene—of the ice 
  age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, 
  because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist."

Good writeup. Ironic that this story is #1 on the front page now.

Looks cool, missing my go to language though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

Making an already troublesome day worse. Yeehaw

Would be nice to put this data in a chart.

After looking at this I just realized why maps showing airline routes always show arched lines.

I'll be using good old PHP

Cool, so does it blink for all http requests including js/css?

You could integrate https://github.com/grimmdude/MidiWriterJS for MIDI export

On the MIDI file export, you could probably use https://github.com/grimmdude/MidiWriterJS for that

I don't consider "compulsory" to mean involuntary. Something like a muscle twitch or spasm is involuntary, whereas something that's compulsory just means you feel the need to do it, not necessarily involuntary though. I do understand your point though, thanks for your comment.

I have mild Tourette's as well, mainly in the form of body and facial tics. While I had some challenges growing up (nobody knew why I did the things I did) I can't say it was as bad as this recounting. I am a bit younger though (33). I do agree that most people just think of Tourette's as uncontrollable swearing since that's mainly how it's represented on TV. It sucks, but I'm lucky that it's relatively mild and people I know don't seem to be bothered by it. I think it's very hard for many people to understand because it's so hard to put into words. Many people think it's involuntary, but when you tell them that it's in fact voluntary, but compulsory they tend to downplay it and wonder why you just don't stop. Anyway, great article cheers.

I drew these for like 30 minutes straight.