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Lovely article about Mahjong and its role within one family, and one man's life. Really good games writing. (Also, god, I miss playing Mahjong. I never got quite good enough, and still really want a set… and the the friends necessary to go with it).
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Wonderful short fiction from Saxey.
Marcus Fischer plays for Datachoir
24 January 2017
Beautiful live performance from Marcus Fischer, captured by Datachoir (whose other videos I must clearly check out). I particularly enjoyed the way the pinecone bed anchors the piece, and the drone ebows on the miniature zither. Gorgeous; a style and manner I aspire to, but that’s clearly emerged from a lot of careful practice and listening.
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"SendMIDI is a multi-platform command-line tool makes it very easy to quickly send MIDI messages to MIDI devices from your computer."
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Nice look at Del Casher and the history of wah; music seen through a technological lens.
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"Once the programming went wonky on me and Trico refused to jump up to that first waterfall for a solid half hour. But I suspect that any software sufficiently advanced to do what Trico does at some point becomes indistinguishable from a cat." Tim Bray on The Last Guardian
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Compare PCB fabrication around the world and get the cheapest for your precise needs. Useful!
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Really fast digitalwrites inside Arduino code on Atmel chips.
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Somewhat annoying website. But: really impressive new Markdown app – its view/hide source mode is in some ways nicer than Macdown/Mou, and it has detailed support of the Markdown 'spec'. Going to keep trying this whilst it's in beta.
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I've loved Alan Warburton's work for a while, but this is superb: a talk, and a film, and it made me laugh and it's really on-point and just this, yes.
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Marc's list of portable music apps for the end of the year. Filed away.