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"Super Switch" would've been pretty bad-ass.

a "quarter" means 1/4th -- it's a "quarter" turn of rotation on a physical clock, but 60/4 is always 15.

or were you making the distinction between "quarter past" and "quarter after", because I'd agree that the former is a lot less common.

This is a fair question. My youngest is 11 now, so the "Santa" days are behind me. It was part of my upbringing, it's fun, it's a big part of the culture, the share of kids who truly get nothing (which is absolutely heartbreaking) is small and invisible to those of us with any level of privilege.

Their mother and I didn't ask ourselves "should we do this?" -- we just did. Not everything in life is (or has to be) a rational decision.

isn't it? I know several people who opt to not carry healthcare insurance (since the penalty was dropped) because of the cost, but would carry if it were reasonably priced outside of the employer market.

To add to this, local production means that money can be moving through local financial institutions, with larger balances, which provides more liquidity to the community.

Those financial institutions hire local people. Other local businesses use the same financial institutions.

It's not about "simple economics". This isn't a supply and demand curve. It's about what a higher cash flow/economic output can mean for the subjective quality of life in a community:

- More jobs - Higher wages - Improved public services (schools, roads, healthcare) - Increased property values

Tons of people in these comments talking about the shitty rural experience while seeming to miss the irony in "big cities are so much better" -- big cities started as small cities.

This is consistent with my experience. We're far from a business analyst or product engineer being able to prompt an LLM to write the software themselves. It's their job to know the domain, not the technical details.

Maybe we all end up being prompt engineers, but I think that companies will continue to have experts on the business side as well as the tech side for any foreseeable future.

I was fortunate enough to see David Gilmour play live this past October at Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The energy when he played Comfortably Numb was absolutely indescribable.

I, too, think that Animals is a masterpiece. Also agree that it's "overlooked" (though some others in the comments seem to have a different assessment) -- most people I know can name tracks from Dark Side and The Wall but that's about it. The songs are too long for radio.

"Dogs" is my favorite Pink Floyd song of all time, both lyrically and Gilmour's playing.

"You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to. So that when they turn their backs on you, you'll get the chance to put the knife in."

Love this. Some feedback:

Not sure exactly what "Play Scale" is doing. Notes seem to be correct pitch but out of order.

I'd put a "Play Chord" button under each chord instead of at the bottom.

I'd like to be able to click/hover the notes on the fretboard diagram and have it focus on other fretboard positions for the same pitch.

For each key/scale, a list of a few example songs to jam along with would be super fun!

Thanks for sharing. Bookmarked and will be using.

I spent way too much time building with this at Cartegraph. We utilized the jQuery UI Widget pattern[0] for pretty much any UI we wrote from 2011-2013 when we started utilizing Knockout instead.

I have to believe most of those components are still in use in production today. They were when I left in 2022.

[0]: https://api.jqueryui.com/jQuery.widget/

are NFTs still a thing?

Not speaking for OP, but got the feeling they're looking for things that can will accept "messages" as input, enabling the "share" functionality of other apps to direct post.

I believe you're correct. The 1/4" pedal goes into the device, but anything emitted from there on should be an aggregation of any MIDI going out (provided they're on the same channel).

Fair point, but wouldn’t we rather they be spending their time doing that than actively abusing kids?

http://payloadcms.com -- I'm all in after 12 years on WP.

The only learning resource I have continued to pay for is O'Reilly Learning. I have been a customer since it was Flash-based "Safari Books Online". There's a ton of content and they've expanded slowly into online courses/video/audio books as well. Definitely worth a look.

"Prescribe" perhaps wasn't the right word. "Bundle" is probably better. Payload has no official i18n package/module/plugin/whatever.

Re: the NextJS custom endpoint thing -- you're right in that I wasn't comparing to Django but referring to my parent comment about Ghost, which I'd say doesn't really "support" custom endpoints even if it's "possible" -- plus the .yaml routing config is kind of a drag.

NextJS instead of templates. Full-featured admin area. I'd say Payload is more akin to Wagtail than Django itself. It feels ridiculously modern compared to other CMSes I've touched, Wagtail included. Payload doesn't prescribe i18n like Django.

When you need to, you can step down into NextJS and write custom endpoints and the like.

Payload has an e-commerce template, but it definitely pales in comparison to WooCommerce. I can't speak to specifics, but if I were looking to migrate away from WooCommerce, I'd look at MedusaJS (http://medusajs.com)

I've been using Payload for 18 months. They're only recently (with the upcoming v3 release) really piggy-backing on Next.js' server and routing. Before that, it was "just" a really nice headless CMS built on Node/TypeScript.

This was obviously posted in the wake of the WordPress drama, but I landed on Payload while feeling stagnant after 10+ years building on WordPress. Everything else I was doing was 100% TypeScript, my entire professional career had been working with metadata driven data structure, I felt right at home with Payload.

It's just enough structure (full admin area, API, GraphQL) to make scaffolding a basic site (with authentication) quite easy. I had built an app using Next 13 before Payload began integrating directly and using the local API (versus making HTTP calls to a server endpoint) is very clean. It feels like WordPress (i.e. you're editing "client" code on the "server") but with a LOT less cruft.

Because it's headless, anything goes on the front end. One big reason that WP got so big was because of the theming capabilities. Payload has extensibility by way of plugins, but it's (obviously...) not as robust as what's available in the WP plugin repo. It'll be interesting to see how these alternatives fare against the more prescriptive tools like Ghost (which does support theming, but does not support custom fields in any way, shape, or form).

That being said, I'm all in on Payload moving forward. If you're curious, go straight to the v3 beta -- it's very close to release and plenty stable, in my opinion. Happy to answer questions.

(Not affiliated with Payload, just a big admirer of their work)

Biggest value prop of Pro (for me, anyway) was the Repeater field, which lets you add a collection field.

I don't think GP's distinction of "websites that make money" == "online stores" is accurate or meaningful. I use ACF on every website, my clients are money-making businesses. Only a couple of them are running WooCommerce (and those are running ACF as well).

Nothing about running a business on WordPress makes WooCommerce and ACF mutually exclusive.

That's correct. But not if you were using ACF Pro.

Agreed. I'm going all-in on Payload from here on out. Easier to declare custom post types than WordPress and without the need to explicitly disable any legacy cruft. I built my first app on it last Winter and it's only gotten better. v3 is incredibly easy to use, plus it's all TypeScript which is a huge plus for me personally...

12 years building sites on WP... not anymore.

Uhh. I am. I've launched probably 30 websites using WP over the last 10 years, a couple for household name brands. WordPress stopped being "cool" awhile ago (because "PHP sucks" and the like), I've defended my usage of it in plenty of past comments, despite it being long past "cool". The way MM talks about enforcing the trademark, the licensing distinction (i.e. the commercial use of "WordPress" to Automattic only) -- am I allowed to call myself a "WordPress" developer and charge people money for it anymore? Or do I have to worry about a trademark troll?

I'll admit that I'd already been looking for a modern alternative. I'm a web developer, I almost exclusively write in TypeScript, something running on Node just makes more sense for me. I recently built a project on PayloadCMS and NextJS -- Payload has since integrated directly into Next's server and has a really nice "website" template to get started. I'll be using that from now on.

He's completely unhinged. The threats that he made that are outlined in this document... how is this NOT extortion? Any lawyers around?

I'm working on a system to help guitar/instrument shops post their products (by way of importing listings from Reverb.com) on social media to increase visibility to drive sales and followers.

Very interesting. When my buddies and I started playing in Ableton after years in Adobe Audition (circa 2010?), we immersed ourselves in Session view for writing and piecing everything together, building songs top-down instead of left-to-right. It completely changed our entire workflows, and that seemed like the point.

I'm only ever in arrangement view when I'm finalizing the order of the sections before final mix down.

To add to that: it also can't be "banked" (and thereby paid out after departure). Companies give free PTO because real "paid time off" has to be tracked as a liability on their books; if you haven't "earned" anything and they don't "credit" you, you aren't "owed" you anything when you leave/are terminated.

To an extent, yes. In my case, I've done a lot of WordPress consulting over the past 10 years and I'm grandfathered into a very inexpensive shared hosting plan from Site5 that gives me WHM access and the ability to create as many sites as I want.

Works fine for static sites. Works fine for anything PHP. PHP versions are kept up to date.

But the cost of an additional site is effectively cost-free, so I'm hosting several small sites for small organizations and individuals.

Total legend. I never got the chance to interact with him, but I played with a couple of midwest USA bands/musicians who had. Each of them had a different story and perception of him, but everyone agreed he was a kick-ass dude.

For me, much like him, the production side of things was always just as, if not more, alluring as the writing and performing and his no-bullshit approach was a big factor in helping me believe that you could "hack" your way into creating an album with the equipment we already had.

RIP

As someone who plays around in the pro audio space, it's crazy how much you can spend on an interface. Especially "back in the day" (~20 years ago), most on-board stuff was pretty much trash and PCI sound cards (from Creative Labs and the like) were very common.

But you still can't charge it while you've got your headphones in.