Davidmade

Ending to a Film

Mar 20, 2013

Ending to a Film (mp3)

Music to sit and think about what you’ve done, and what might have been.

I’ve been taking a course on Cryptography and simultaneously working through Learn C The Hard Way with some coworkers. I’ve put together a small toolkit of C programs I’m calling OneTimer to help with encrypting and decrypting messages with the one time pad. Just being able to take a string of the hexadecimal representation of a message and turn it into a byte array has been super useful. Sample use:

> ./encrypt -k f00bd00b -p "Derp"
b46ea27b
> ./decrypt -k f00bd00b -c b46ea27b
Derp
> ./crack -p "Derp" -c b46ea27b
f00bd00b

That’s some serious spy shit, huh? Just like those guys in Cryptonomicon.

Solo Piano #21

Sep 9, 2012

Solo Piano #21 (mp3)

Blues progression in C minor, mixed meter (one measure of 6/8, one of ¾, repeat), with some sixths and sevenths for flavoring.

Spy Theme #5

Aug 27, 2012

Spy Theme #5 (mp3)

I’m proud of this song because it’s my first track in a long time with all recorded percussion (no GarageBand loops). Not sure about the harmonic minor key I went with here; sounds a little more Borat than I’d hoped.

Spy Theme #4

Aug 8, 2012

Spy Theme #4 (mp3)

Two new tracks in as many days. Blues in B minor.

Spy Theme #3

Aug 7, 2012

Spy Theme #3 (mp3)

Chord progression (Dm-C-Bb) I’ve been playing around with a little bit. Feels good to pick up the old electric guitar after a few years off.

The Entertainer

Jul 18, 2012

The Entertainer (mp3)

By Scott Joplin. One of the reasons I took up piano in the first place.

Gratitude as Currency

Jun 11, 2012

A little incident that took place last week got me thinking about gratitude on the web. Without getting too far into it, some people I know launched a site that was heavily inspired by a thing I made last year. Great stuff, except that they made no mention of my work on their site or the announcements around it. I’m not upset; the world is a slightly better place for both of these sites existing. But I am confused.

It seems so obvious to me that you’d link to the site that inspired you. For those of us who make free things for the web, gratitude is the only currency we have. And unlike other forms of currency, which you have less of after you spend, when you give gratitude, you wind up with more than when you started. A tweet mentioning my work would have earned a retweet to all of my followers and a congratulatory reply. Share the love is all I’m saying. Otherwise, what’s the point?

Beans from Counter Culture. Mug from GitHub. Inspired by “The Coffee Setup, 2010” by Marco Arment.