Performance Musings. #unix

Enjoying music curation again (via O. Valadares’ Blog).

Linux Boot Partitions and How to Set Them Up. #unix

Before we embark on yet another defense of the language along the lines of: parentheses in Lisp are great, but only insiders can understand them. Let’s notice a second element that often confuses those who learn the language: in Lisp everything is prefixed. — Why Lisp

♪ Joy Division · Transmission

♪ Melanie De Biasio · Your Freedom Is the End of Me

Shell Script Best Practices. #unix

On the one hand, the hardware is great and so is the performance. On the other, getting a new Mac today means it comes with Ventura or Monterey preinstalled, which is unfortunate, and of course there is no downgrade path. — My next Mac might be the last

Little shell script to listen to some free internet radios:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# sources
jazz="https://jazzradio.ice.infomaniak.ch/jazzradio-high.mp3"
misc="https://www.lemellotron.com/stream"
piano="https://pianosolo.streamguys1.com/live"

case "$1" in
  jazz)
    src=$jazz
    ;;
  misc)
    src=$misc
    ;;
  piano)
    src=$piano
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Unknown streaming source..."
    ;;
esac

mpv --no-video $src

♪ Clan of Xymox · A Day