Useful

Stack: What’s in my toolbox?

Regular check-in

• Tech news for the enthusiasts
  • The Verge
  • Hacker News
• 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.”
  • r/Piracy megathread and fmhy.net
  • Library Genesis and Anna’s Archive
  • Sci-Hub

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

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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
  • Abstruct by Hampus Olsson “the artist behind the official Oneplus wallpapers”
  • Backdrops by Kxnt, an old time favourite
  • Resplash — Unsplash for mobile
• Scrobblers for maniacs of digital archives
  • last.fm
  • trakt.tv
  • goodreads