O Crominho do Técnico



Bruno Afonso's babbling and seldom refreshed views of the world

Famous last tweet: I personally prefer the term postdoctoral slave

Category: trivia

Goodbye insane connectivity

Now I want to see the internet at a distance. By separating myself from the constant connectivity, I can see which aspects are truly valuable, which are distractions for me, and which parts are corrupting my very soul. I know what this means Paul. This is why I decided to shut down my Facebook account [...]

Posting frequency

The word on the street is that if you’re applying for faculty positions or jobs people look at your blog. What they are looking for is how much time you’ve spent on it. The rationale is simple. If you’re posting a lot, this is time you could have spent thinking and writing fellowship/grant applications. In [...]

Coffee Porn

From the Home Barista Titan Grinder Project.

Simply great

Simply as in, one single mic to record the trio.

Weblog writing

Great writing can’t be taught, but atrocious writing is entirely preventable. Interesting read.

Tempo

A urgência do tempo é melhor demonstrada pela sensação dos livros que obrigatoriamente temos ainda que ler.

Bocas da reacção

Bed time reading

Overengineering what?

CultureCode’s Things has been trying to implement cloud syncing for many months now, maybe a year (by now, who cares anyway). Their last post on the subject can be read here. It seems the company is unable to hire an expert in the matters at hand instead of wasting an entire team’s months of work. [...]

TouchOSC and MainStage

If you are wondering how to use TouchOSC/OSC with Osculator to get a two-way connection between MainStage or anything else that does not want to send back midi data through the OsculatorOut port, here is the solution: You need to use the IAC Driver as an in between helper. Setup IAC by going to Audio [...]