Raphi Rambles

Je suis tombé il y a un mois un deux sur cette chaine musicale francophone qui m'a pas mal plu, et vu que ca fait un moment que je me dit qu'il faudrait que je fasse plus de liens vers d'autres contrées du web, la sortie de sa dernière video me donne un b…

I've been working on and off on a guitar version of Norman Blake's Bright Days for more than ten years now.

I never liked biopics movies, and for a while I couldn't quite put my finger on why.

So I messed up a few days ago and accidentally published a draft that got picked up by various RSS aggregators and I felt pretty dumb about it.

Yesterday was music day in France.

I spotted this article a couple days ago, which shows some alternative places to list files you want to exclude from being tracked in a Git repository beyond the usual .gitignore.

A while ago, the great library of Alexandria burned to the ground, and most agreed that it was a crying shame.

J'ai commencé à m'intéresser aux enjeux autour du web et de sa concentration aux mains des "GAFAMS" aux alentours de 2012.

Daddy's Drunk Again, my bluegrass duet, has a gig booked in my hometown at the beginning of next month.

I've been willing to share links to other places a bit more on here for a while, reflecting that hyperlinks are the essence of web and that the more of those, the better.

De tous les géants qui ont pourri le web, Google est peut être celui pour lequel j'avais le plus de respect.

Like many, I got into programming by making small games.

Wanting to remember how recording1 even worked, I decided to cover this canadian tune at some point during last fall.

Je repense souvent à cette vidéo qui a fait un petit buzz il y a déjà pas mal d'années.

Having fooled around off and on for a little while, it's hard to tell exactly how long I've been playing the mandolin by now.

I hate to pass for a boomer, but [insert a benign comment about whatever has been going on lately] I heard this phrase about a million times, and it always irks me.

TL;DR Il n'y a pas si longtemps, n'importe quel village avait son, et souvent ses bistrots.

I've had an itch to rewatch Galaxy Quest for a while, which I finally scratched a few days ago.

Dennis Ritchie passed away on October 12, 2011.

According to the file's metadata, I wrote this in August 2019.

Jeudi dernier, Amnesty International a publié un rapport (accompagné d'un résumé en français pour les anglophobes) sur les dégâts causés par les géants de la tech, notamment, Amnesty oblige, en termes de droits humains.

While writing yesterday's article, I was bound to remember the days I first got interested in clawhammer banjo, a little more than ten years ago.

About a year ago, I started using a banjo on a few tunes with a duo I'm currently playing in.

J'ai beau me la jouer vieux con cynique que plus rien n'étonne, la mort récente de Jean Pormanove m'a pas mal secoué.

A few months ago a friend of mine lent me a mandolin.

TLDR: Backlash against the AIfication of all the things is good.

So yesterday I published an article about a markdown extension I'm fooling with.

Kept hacking on my lilypond markdown extension which is now out on Github.

I've heard of lilypond1 for a while now and never gave it much more than a passing look.

Apparently, Django turned 20 two days ago.

So, I started fooling around with a django app since the last time, and noticed the debug toolbar1 had added a theme switcher (this may be old news.

Allright, here's a dark mode switch.

L'aversion des réseaux dits sociaux pour les liens externes n'est pas nouvelle.

I stumbled on this article the other day.

Really.

So, the (very) rough draft of my RSS aggregator is up and running.

Getting this blog started reminded me about RSS feeds.

Bluegrass music can get pretty flashy, and while you don't need to aim for those levels of virtuosity, this can make getting into lead playing (an already scary task in and of itself) all the more intimidating.

If asked to name a blogger whose work I've enjoyed, the first one that would pop into my head would the the great (and sadly, late) Shamus Young.

#include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { printf("%s\n", (char[]){ 72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100, 33 }); } So here we go.