Solo Piano #3 (mp3)
Arpeggios over vi-IV-I-V. I need to start switching up the left-hand parts a little more.
Cantankerous plus wankery. Think about it!
I know what you’re thinking, and I’m three steps ahead.
Solo Piano #2 (mp3)
Playing with some similar themes as last recording, but with some sevenths to lighten it up a bit.
Solo Piano #1 (mp3)
Simple Am-Dm-Em thing I was playing with this afternoon. My first live recording with my new piano.
Often when I’m at work, I’ll think about something I’d like to download from BitTorrent, but when I’m home, I never wind up doing it. Transmission, my torrent client of choice, has the option to watch a folder for new files and automatically begin downloading them. I could install Dropbox on a media server under my TV and then put torrent files into a designated folder that the server would automatically pick up and begin downloading.
I’m always trying to figure out a system for making new habits stick. My latest approach is a piece of paper with dates down the left side and verbs across the top representing things I want to do consistently, currently read, practice (piano), exercise, create, and meditate.
I’d like to create a simple version of this list on the web. The default view would be a list of the five verbs that you could check off as you complete them. There would also be a historical view, displayed in reverse chronological order. Each entry would be constrained to a single word, and the list capped at five.
I think this could be a great app to play around with lazy registration. A user could create their list without entering any info and would be identified for subsequent sessions using a non-expiring cookie. They could later enter an username and/or password if they so desired.
I wanted to post a new idea when I was walking to the metro, but didn’t have any way to do that. It’d be great to have a mobile posting interface, but I’d hate to have to wire up a web form to create a new post, add it to the repo, and then rebuild the site.
It’d be great if I could use Elements to create a new post in Dropbox and have a process looking for new posts via the API which would do all the heavy lifting.
In attempting to create an Atom feed for this site, it’s become apparent that there’s no great way to see what the contents of a feed will look like in a feed reader. Google Reader aggressively caches feed content, making it useless for debugging purposes. I’d like to create a simple web app that takes the URL of a feed, parses it, and displays the content roughly as it will look in a feed reader.
This seems like a good case for a Node.js app written in CoffeeScript. Another alternative is a Ruby app using Sinatra, which would allow me to use a proven feed parsing library like Feedzirra. I’m concerned that most existing libraries are too permissive with regard to malformed feeds, when we’re really attempting to highlight problems.
For version two, we could tie into the W3C feed validator.
A simple app that lets you record information about work sessions, including:
The goal being to help identify patterns about what makes you maximally productive and secondarily to serve as a sort of what-I-did log.
I want to speak at the Ruby on Ales conference in late March. I want to finish To Mock a Mockingbird. I will propose a talk about applying the concepts in the book in Ruby, using code samples and real-world use cases.
This post by Reg Braithwaite seems like a good place to start, but it’s over my head at this point.