Joel @cincodenada@cybre.space

Also: I am always weighing how to balance jargon vs overexplaining, because I am wordy as-is, and jargon is useful for expressing common things within a field concisely.

The problem is jargon is also exclusionary, and I want anyone who is curious to be able to understand. I firmly believe that it's not about being "smart enough", it's about having the necessary context, and I can help with that!

So, If my posts don't make sense because of jargon or whatever but you're curious, please ask! I'm happy to elaborate, I love sharing understanding starting with whatever level of familiarity folks are coming from 🤗

*rubs hands together, cackling maniacally*

Haha yes....YES!!!!

This is what happens when you make a kid take weekly piano lessons between the ages of 5 to 17, and then 15 years later that kid turns out to be an engineer with a predilection for data analysis and a knack for software.

Let this be a warning to you all!

Today's mission: turning a spectrogram into some really fucked up sheet music

#music #transcription #spectrograms

Having a very archetypically-me kind of morning: went to fill out some PDF forms for work, found out that pdf.js (Firefox's in-browser pdf handler) had some broken validation logic and wouldn't let me fill out the form...long story short, I filed a bug, submitted a PR with a fix that's currently being reviewed and it sounds like the actual bug is higher up the stack, so I might be digging in some more.

Still haven't filled out the form, which is literally the only thing I _have_ to do today, but I just caught up with PR comments, so let's see if we can actually get that done.

Anyway, this is the video I set up the shortcuts for, it's a little peek at my latest hyperfocus side project that I sent to a friend. This project has been my excuse to play with Rust some more, this time diving into GUIs. It's nothing exciting yet, but it's been fun!

#rust #programming #spectrograms

My home directory was unexpectedly full, so I went hunting for large files, and found a bunch of OBS recordings I didn't remember making. Upon investigation, they were all just of the OBS interface itself faithfully ticking up the "time recorded" counter, the longest of which was a 10-hour overnight extravaganza taking up several gigs.

I *had* recently set up keyboard shortcuts to start/stop recording, but I was still unsure how I had been accidentally hitting Ctrl+[ a bunch.

Fast forward to today, and it dawned on me as I went to search backwards in a tmux buffer that if I was a little too hasty with Ctrl-a [, I imagine it would look an awful lot like a Ctrl+[ to OBS 😆😅

It's either that, or I left OBS up and my cat kept stepping on the living room keyboard 🤷

Broke this down a bit, and found a nifty regex syntax highlighter for Vim that worked decently enough:

Today's absolutely terrifying Vim regex:

% s/\v([^a-z_\.&\?'"\=]@<=[a-z_]+)_([a-z])([a-z_]+([^a-z_:]@=|$))/\1\U\2\E\3/g

Any guesses as to what unsuitable tasks I am applying this hammer to today?

#vim #regex #abominations

Making me a silly chart and find myself wondering: is there a name for the inverse of price? That is, the measure of how much of a thing you can get per price unit, rather than the price per unit of thing?

More concretely: what do I call a metric that is mg/USD? For lack of a better term I'm calling it "cheapness", but that doesn't seem very proper, and it seems like it's something that is economically useful enough that it should have a real name!

#economics #units #charts