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erik_pon Show HN: Audio plugin for circuit-bent MP3 compression sounds

Love what OP has created and is releasing free (thank you!)

Did want to point out some other cheap/free bitcrushers out there for people to try (in addition to MAIM)

https://www.deniseaudio.com/plugins/my-crush is currently free with newsletter sub and was super cheap when I first purchased it.

Some other free vst of note https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012/03/09/bpb-freeware-stu...

I also like https://camelcrusher.com/

erik_pon I bought a CO2 monitor and it broke me

If only there was something you could keep in your apartment that consumes CO2...

erik_pon Guitar Effects Guidebook, Vol. 20 [pdf]

Wouldn't that environment be VST?

erik_pon How to write a hardcore punk riff [video]

Totally worth seeing live

erik_pon Steerable discovery of neural audio effects

That was brilliant, thanks.

erik_pon Steerable discovery of neural audio effects

While I'd like that to be true, I'm skeptical of that outcome from streaming normalization alone.

All I see in production forums is how can I make my mix louder?

You can blow by Spotify's lufs recommendation, the normalizing just knocks you down, thereby squashing your mix further (even less dynamic range)

erik_pon Steerable discovery of neural audio effects

They should nickname this "clone-a-tone"

erik_pon I resigned from Twitter

Coincidence? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/29/paul-sing...

erik_pon Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player

Glitch musicians would like a word.

Maybe you mean digital. As electronic toys can still be modified/screwed with.

erik_pon Show HN: Low-latency jamming over the internet

Well you get that there a need for it, and people are trying to find solutions to overcome the issue of latency, that's the whole point, isn't it?

erik_pon Trevor Moore has died

Why did they change it?

erik_pon Google Workspace for everyone

This makes me miss Google Wave... Are they iframing in spreadsheets with a slack clone?

erik_pon Goodbye IFTTT

I'm still annoyed they don't support facebook groups :/

erik_pon Ask HN: How Can I Learn Music Theory?

Andrew Huang's Music Theory in 30 minutes is a pretty good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgaTLrZGlk0

erik_pon Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file?

It can do a pretty impressive job, it does help to use high quality source material. Using mp3 rips from youtube might get a little more artifact-y. sometimes, vocal like instruments will get pulled into the vocal rip instead of the "karaoke" instrument part of the extract.

erik_pon Cassettes Are Back, and It’s Not About the Music

A e s t h e t i c

erik_pon Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?

/me nope ;)

erik_pon The Organ of the Universe: On Living with Tinnitus

wait, what's the ATA warning about tinnitracks? On the surface seems like a good idea to me... but couldn't find reference to it good or bad on the ATA site.

erik_pon How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman and Nginx

my recollection is that it decompresses fine/performantly, let me see if I can dig up an article.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-...

https://blogs.akamai.com/2016/02/understanding-brotlis-poten...

one more: https://medium.com/front-end-hacking/reduce-your-javascript-...

erik_pon How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman and Nginx

what about Zopfli/brotli?

Gzip compression benefits taper off in benefit after the "7" setting, IIRC. Brotli at higher settings compresses better, but you'd want to do it static as opposed to on the fly (at higher/highest settings)

erik_pon Website load and speed analyzer

Many of these recommendations are at odds with HTTP/2 recommendations, practices.

erik_pon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)

GreatSchools | Oakland, CA | ONSITE | Full Time Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails & React)

GreatSchools is a national non-profit that reaches half the families with children in the US.

GreatSchools is looking for a talented and passionate software engineer with a focus on web development to join our team.

http://www.greatschools.org/gk/careers/#software-engineer

erik_pon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)

GreatSchools | Oakland, CA | ONSITE | Full Time Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails & React)

GreatSchools is a national non-profit that reaches half the families with children in the US.

GreatSchools is looking for a talented and energetic software engineer with a focus on web development to join our team.

You need to be able to produce high-quality, maintainable code and mobile responsive web interfaces. If you can do that and want to work on a team of passionate engineers who enjoy finding creative solutions to problems together, then this is the job for you!

http://www.greatschools.org/gk/careers/#software-engineer

erik_pon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)

GreatSchools | Oakland, CA | ONSITE | Full Time Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

GreatSchools is a national non-profit that reaches half the families with children in the US.

GreatSchools is looking for a talented and energetic software engineer with a focus on web development to join our team. You need to be able to produce high-quality, maintainable code and mobile responsive web interfaces. If you can do that and want to work on a team of passionate engineers who enjoy finding creative solutions to problems together, then this is the job for you.

http://www.greatschools.org/gk/careers/#software-engineer

erik_pon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)

GreatSchools | Oakland, CA | ONSITE | Full Time Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

GreatSchools is a national non-profit that reaches half the families with children in the US.

GreatSchools is looking for a talented and energetic software engineer with a focus on web development to join our team. You need to be able to produce high-quality, maintainable code and mobile responsive web interfaces. If you can do that and want to work on a team of passionate engineers who enjoy finding creative solutions to problems together, then this is the job for you.

http://www.greatschools.org/gk/careers/#software-engineer

erik_pon Show HN: CloudRail – API Integration Solution

Any plans to add reddit's API under the social category?

erik_pon Performance and Speed Optimizations of WordPress [pdf]

There is still a need for a ucache (in addition to built in opcode cache)... although a lot of high traffic WP sites are turning to redis over memcache for this.

erik_pon Wait ages for a bus and then two come along at once

At least with SF Muni the bunching of busses issue is more human/contractual/process related.

When the bus runs late (because stuff happens) and thereby completes it's route late and turns around, and is basically right up against the "next" bus... they send them both out BECAUSE the thought of paying a muni worker to wait for 10 minutes to create a sane space between busses is unthinkable in a penny wise, results foolish budgeting process.

erik_pon Pegleg: a Meteor app that crowd-sources full-length movies from YouTube

there's always: http://www.reddit.com/r/fullmoviesonyoutube/

erik_pon Do the harlem shake on youtube

I shook your shake

http://hsmaker.com/harlemshake.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yout...