Inklings: 2016-09

Keep a CHANGELOG

🕑 2016-09-04T18:25:00+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

How to Stop Confusing "Por" and "Para"

🕑 2016-09-04T18:27:32+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Toggling mute on the default source (e.g. microphone) in PulseAudio

🕑 2016-09-15T19:22:01+00:00 | edit

This isn’t very well documented, but if you want to toggle mute on your mic, run this:

pactl set-source-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle

Render the Mandelbrot Set with jq

🕑 2016-09-17T13:13:53+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

All tools expand in functionality until they’re Turing complete.

MarkeyJester’s Motorola 68000 Beginner’s Tutorial

🕑 2016-09-28T00:58:34+00:00; via news.ycombinator.com; try the Wayback Machine | edit

Ah, memories! Recall writing a simple emulator for a subset of the 68000 instruction set once upon a time. Certainly one of the less sucky 16-bit processors.

abc notation tutorial

🕑 2016-09-28T11:29:35+00:00; try the Wayback Machine | edit

I was looking for some way of quickly dashing out melodies on the command line for playback similar to the old PLAY statement in GW-BASIC, but there doesn’t seem to be anything like that.

The closest I’ve been able to come to is using abcMIDI to accept a melody in abc notation and generate a MIDI file, and then having timidity play it back.

That means I have to learn abc notation.