Useful
Stack: What’s in my toolbox?
Regular check-in
- Tech news for the enthusiasts
- Blogs and personal feeds
- xkcd “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”
- borretti.me and Matcha Monday Webring Interesting blogs
- Asu’ya Tüyolar (Turkish)
- Social media experiments
- lemmy.dbzer0.com
- ekşi sözlük (Turkish)
- Piracy cause “Piracy’s not a money problem, it’s a distribution problem.”
Professional Interests
- self-hosted, open access, decentralized (The New Stack, 2024)
- cryptography, blockchain, digital ownership
- signal processing, inverse problem, machine learning
- spatial audio, acoustics, encoding standards
- complex systems, agents, open world
- notebooks, information systems
Introductory MOOCs
- 6.312 (Acoustics). Amar G. Bose, MIT. Teaching Excellence at MIT.
- Audio Signal Processing for Music Applications. Xavier Serra, MTG, UPF; Julius O Smith III, CCRMA, Stanford. Coursera.
- Careers in Media Technology. Jay LeBoeuf, CCRMA, Stanford. Kadenze.
- Inside the Music & Video Tech Industry. Jay LeBoeuf, CCRMA, Stanford. Kadenze.
- 6.094 (Introduction to MATLAB). Danilo Šćepanović, MIT. MIT OCW.
- 6.189 (A Gentle Introduction to Programming Using Python). Sarina Canelake, MIT. MIT OCW.
- BerkleeX: OHARM100x Introduction to Music Theory. Berklee Online. edX.
Interesting Stories
- Randomness, Black Swan and Antifragility by Nassim Taleb
- Debt and Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Theories
- information theory
- incompleteness theory
- evolution theory
- compression theory
- scale theory
Dualities
- compression V expansion
- form V function
- tree V forest
- public V private
- quantum V wave
- cycle V chaos
- string V knot
Software Frameworks
- Audio Programming: Pure Data, ChucK
- VST Programming: JUCE/C++
- Audio Processing: Librosa, Essentia
- UI Programming: Qt, Streamlit, Textual
- Configuration Management: Hydra
- Experimentation Tracking: Weights & Biases, MLFlow
Hardware
- Android for mobile
- Apple for computer and tablet
- Linux where not applicable
- Microsoft never again
- Raspberry Pi + old laptop as a personal server
Services
- TickTick — to-do manager, some features just make sense that missing on others, flexible
- Raindrop — managing bookmarks and read-it-later’s, love the flexibility for view layouts
- UpNote — note-taking app, cross-platform, fast, sharable, markdown, easy import/export, not the best but most fitting to my needs
- Ventusky — weather, most detailed and comprehensive for free
- Bio Link — create a personal permalink for your socials and ever-changing links, fits my needs, simple user stats, more avail on upgrade
- Github Pages — for my portfolio
- Bitwarden — password manager, seamless cross-platform experience including auto-fill
- Zotero — research organiser, i mean, c’mon…
- Wallpaper apps for Android
- Scrobblers for maniacs of digital archives