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

Tag: geekalhadas

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.

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 [...]

Dominic Wilcox’s iBookend

Dominic Wilcox is a prolific creative and he has created an accessory for iPad haters.

Cubase64

Beyond awesome.

iPad can be creative at many levels

Ever since the iPad was released it has been controversial. One of the biggest claims a lot of naysayers cling onto is that it is not a creative device: It is a device that dumps information/data on you, does not push you to be creative. I believe this idea has stemmed from two sources: (1) [...]

Love for Math

Software development

Until the iPhone arrived in 2007, software developers didn’t really care much about mobile applications. Sure, there were some, but the mobile computer in a pocket wasn’t a reality. With the arrival of the iPhone, the way users interacted with an application were fundamentally different, still tied to the mouse and keyboard paradigm. Even on [...]

Opposite of Education

This attitude towards testing plays into everything that – educationally speaking – makes Americans feel embarrassed about themselves. On first hearing Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn, the usual response of a young American is not to swoon, weep or ponder whether beauty is really truth, and truth beauty. It is to ask: “Will that [...]

iPad Bashing #2

According to Tim Brady, only his type of creativity is creativity, hence, he postulates: “For creative people, this device is nothing.“ I love when people believe only their type of creativity is really being creative. It’s like when scientists only believe what they study is relevant and only that will have a significant impact in [...]