Source: Making Music – MakingMusic_DennisDeSantis.pdf
An interesting book on the process of starting, working on and completing a piece of music. In the conventional sense, using conventional tools.
Source: Scripting News: Biden can make a difference now
I talked through the same idea with Shelley a few days ago. The guy has the opportunity to show what leadership should look like, as a contrast.
Source: Absolute scale corrupts absolutely · Tailscale Blog
Tailscale is interesting. They’re pushing auth into the networking level, using WireGuard, so all connections of any type across the net are secure and restricted (if appropriate), and identity is associated with IP. As one of the founders says, it’s like going back to working on LAN: you can do arbitrarily insecure things, because it’s locked inside a building that only a few people can muck with. But it’s a LAN you can get to from anywhere and anything.
They also like to build things that are simple to use, by design.
https://twitter.com/racheljulie/status/1245114069339852802?s=20
46.1% of the voting public think this government is doing a good job and should be returned to power. Meanwhile, here’s what they are actually doing.
from my friend Douglas, entertainment in a time of lock-down:
Some of that candor he’s known for. Discussing Democratic proposals for ensuring that the election in November goes ahead, things like universal vote-by-mail, he said
“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus
YouTube found all the good ones and published them as a playlist
https://boingboing.net/2020/03/21/furloughed-sports-commentator.html
Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. Give him a couple of pounds on buymeacoffee.com if you like it.