Notices by rem (rem@front-end.social)

My boy wants to get into music making. No specifically how to plan an instrument, but build a track, understanding adding beats, bass, lead, etc - using midi and software.

Any beginner guides you would recommend? (I love music, but we Sharp's aren't entirely musically minded!)

@aral there's a good number of riddle-like bits in there, but - when you say "ones" - any chance of ellaborating? (I'm guessing you count yourself in that list, but curious who else you're including…)

This is bit of a stretch ask, and, possibly very vague, but - I've been trying (and struggling) to find potential speakers for #ffconf that can talk on the subject of "how to think critically / being sceptical".

Ideally wanting UK based, but can stretch to Europe.

Any suggestions?

At some point I'm going to need a thermal camera because the chips on the boards I'm messing around with are getting very hot and the way I keep finding out is by randomly burning my fingers on them.

Observation: I absolutely wouldn't build a long term project using Nextjs without having full time development resource able to perpetually support the project.

Why? The API surface changes way too much and often.

A project like JS Bin, 16 years old, would have required constant support ALL of the time to keep it running.

Instead, it used express, which is a relatively "basic" pattern, but the complexity hasn't changed.

I enjoy Next for quick and dirty, but decade+… I don't think so.

Wrote and released this update to the "fix Spotify" aka: eject the shows and other shit from my music player: https://remysharp.com/2024/02/02/removing-episodes-audiobooks-and-more-from-spotify

Also talks about ideas for future proofing and mobile support (one day).

My personal projects:

"Oh, I built that with Next. That's nice…[a hour or so later], ah better, now with 11ty".

I used Next to generate static sites, but the underlying tech "disrupts" so often that it's borked in 12 months.

11ty, even if I stick on "old" 11ty, it's stable. It'll rebuild.

I do love me a static site (usually cheaper too!)

If anyone is looking for a Christmas present for an (oldie) loved one, or perhaps for yourself (something I tend to do these last few years) - I've got 5 or so Gameboys looking for homes - https://retrobyrem.uk/tag/ips/ (prefers UK buyers) (I do also have two GBAs, but just "enquire" to get photos and price)

This is mine (pic) 😍