estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
"Now, for the first time, [Larry] Katz’s interviews with some of the most famous musicians and other cultural figures in history—many of them now deceased—are available for the public to peruse. Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Miles Davis, Lou Reed, Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono all spoke to Katz during his career, and all of their interviews are now a part of Northeastern University Library’s digital archive of what’s known as the Katz Tapes." https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/01/10/rock-star-interview-tapes/
My Amazon review of _I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist_ by Kirk Douglas
An interesting overview about how creativity happens... under duress
You're familiar with wedding registries. Introducing divorce registries. https://www.thecut.com/2023/02/divorce-registries-fresh-starts-registry.html
How to Boost Mastodon Server Performance with #Redis
A default #Mastodon installation is fine for a tiny server, but it takes work to make it scale. @meheller explains what to know before you get started.
https://thenewstack.io/how-to-boost-mastodon-server-performance-with-redis/
How do we learn to say “no” gracefully? Below are a few guidelines as well as some specifics for delivering the graceful “no.” https://www.andycleff.com/2022/12/doing-no-better
The Jazzomat Research Project, hosted at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, aims “to investigate the creative processes underlying jazz solo improvisations with the help of statistical and computational methods.” https://jazzomat.hfm-weimar.de
What happens when you mess with compiler optimization flags? A significant performance boost, that’s what. #Redis #Intel #compsci https://redis.com/blog/optimizing-redis-compiler-flags/
Folks in the Netherlands love to get from A to B by bike, which can lead to issues when it's time to park. Underground parking garages are one way to go, and a huge project has just opened in Amsterdam that puts thousands of parking spots under water. https://newatlas.com/bicycles/amsterdam-stationsplein-ijboulevard-bicycle-parking
Maria von Trapp teachers her film self Julie Andrews the proper way to yodel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6j376yOlm4
Whatever happened to K-Tel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inELQz2pl60
Of course that's a thing. https://catgpt.wvd.io
This is a delightfully early-80s clip about how electronic music legend Suzanne Ciani created the soundtrack and sound effects for the Xenon pinball game. Xenon was the first talking Bally pinball game and the first pinball game voiced by a woman. https://kottke.org/23/01/creating-the-soundtrack-for-a-pinball-machine
"Honestly, a lot of it comes down to some simple fixes. Some of the movie’s plotlines hold up much better than others, and the 2022 versions of these wouldn’t need anything more than a cast update."
https://www.polygon.com/23498584/love-actually-problems-fixed-recasting-2022
"The most historically significant of the three is Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt, and Marcus Antonius (known today as Mark Antony), Roman consul and triumvir. The other Cleopatra, if you will. While considerably less well-known than her infamous mother, she was arguably a more successful and ultimately more effective Roman client queen."
https://aeon.co/essays/there-was-another-more-successful-queen-cleopatra
The art of decorative Spanish leatherwork https://snobb.net/2021/05/the-classic-art-of-cordobese-leather-1000-years-in-the-making/
"White chocolate became weaponized, besmirched as an eye roll."
For the record, I won't reject any white chocolate you give me. I simply prefer it dark.
https://tastecooking.com/youre-wrong-about-white-chocolate/
The Marketing Buzzwords That Developers Hate
Nobody is motivated to buy a development tool when the marketing pitch is “leverage synergy,” I wrote.
Yes I WROTE A THING.
https://redis.com/blog/the-marketing-buzzwords-that-developers-hate/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017