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Bish Bosch My Favorite Albums of 2012 list omitted what was probably one of my most anticipated albums of the year.

MPD + Quicksilver on OS X I don’t know about you, but I let iTunes manage my music on Mac OS X and have done so for years, since when it was only kind of bloated and annoying instead of incredibly bloated and annoying like it is now.

Mapping Grief By Reflections I mostly grieve second-hand.

Poison Season : Kaputt :: Trouble in Dreams : Destroyer's Rubies I’ve mentioned the analogy in this post’s title to a couple hard-core Destroyer fans — my brother, and my best friend I’ve never met in person Jeff Hume — and both had an initial reaction th…

Spacemacs A Vimmer’s Emacs Prerequisites In a previous post I explained why Vim and Sublime Text ultimately disappointed me; in this one, I’m going to describe how I finally found at least temporary respite in Emacs and what it took to get me there.

Pi Day Curmudgeonliness Happy Arbitrary Number Of Convenient Yet Also Arbitrary Time Units Elapsed Since The Death of a Historical Figure— Whose Divinity, If You’re Reading This, You Probably Don’t Even Believe In— Happening to Match Our Physiologically-B…

My Own Personal Editor War I’m a stickler for dev tools, in particular text editors, almost to a fault.

My Best Bug Fix of the Year If you don’t know what UTF-16 surrogates are and how they work, consider my Unicode essay required reading for this post.

Generating Level Maps for Tone Poem Tone Poem needs to have areas to navigate.

Music in Tone Poem In my last post about Tone Poem I was struggling with being able to use MIDI files as background music.

The Prescriptivist's Dodge A work friend and I were talking about this unfortunate piece of ad copy on Apple’s iOS 8 QuickType web site. iOS 8 predicts what you’ll likely say next.

MIDI in Python Python prides itself on having “batteries included”, which means it comes with a bunch of well-tested modules that can handle most use cases for a wide variety of common tasks.

2013 Music's Best Lines “Q: Do you fall so short of all that’s in your heart / When your friends, who you should pull up, you instead pick apart?

Thoughts on Yeezus Yeezus makes me uncomfortable.

Julia Holter, Loud City Song; Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, UZU Sonically, these two albums couldn’t be much more different.

Woodkid, The Golden Age The musician who records under the name “Woodkid” is a Frenchman whose first full length album The Golden Age is thoroughly lushly orchestrated but doesn’t skimp on the percussion.

An Amendment to an Android Widget Tutorial I’m trying to make an Android widget, and Google turned up a pretty straightforward and well-presented tutorial that I decided to follow to get a feel for things.

Cuisine Cascades For a while in high school my mom and I went to an Indian buffet every Sunday, which had good and bad effects on my ability to cook for myself.

Does Python Cuddle?

Notes on Haskell I have a fairly deep background in pure math, and Haskell appears to be the purest and mathiest of the many functional languages that are getting more and more fashionable of late.

Compiling Textual Okay, I’m sure that by the time I need this again it will be defunct in some way because such is the nature of XCode, but nevertheless I’ve done this twice and struggled for way longer than necessary with what I think was more or less the

Converting a Module to a Package It’s happened often (well, twice) that I’ve had a Python module that started to get a little too big for its britches: maybe approaching 1000 lines, maybe just including several subclasses which are related but really ought

2013 Music Halfway Point It’s over halfway through 2013 so I’m taking a second to jot down my potential favorite albums so far this year.

StringIO I recently discovered the StringIO module and have been using it surprisingly often.