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The Rouse by China Miéville, great read so far.
This list is missing Masayoshi Takanaka!
Marcovaldo, Cosmicomics, Difficult Loves are my favorite. Baron in the Trees too.
I'd definitely suggest starting with these. His short story work is beautiful.
Cool project! Is this only for discovering and sharing layouts? Or can I create new configs and download them to my Moonlander?
Oryx has always worked fine for me, although I haven't really done too much layout tweaking after initially setting up years ago.
I just finished rereading Lonesome Dove, again. Don't let the western theme fool you. It's quite possibly one of the best novels ever written. Every word, every character, every like of dialogue is crafted to perfection. It will leave you with a book hangover like nothing else.
Sad. The bassline on their song 'The One' is beautifully played.
As goofy as those books were, I did enjoy the Da Vinci Code series quite a bit, as a teenager.
They likely helped me discover authors like Umberto Eco and Robert Anton Wilson, which I'm grateful for.
Great to see CF sponsoring Ladybird! One of the most important projects out there right now.
I run vanilla arch/i3, so not super interested in Omarchy itself - but am curious to know how polished of a distro they can come up with. I may give it a try soon.
I use a zsa moonlander and a Kensington trackball, separately.
Just to be clear, I don't think ergo/split keyboards will necessarily help you type faster. They've been life-changing for me to help deal with nerve damage pain in my hands.
Although I do type noticably faster now, but that could just be due to reduced pain.
I don't write much Go anymore, but I deployed my last major go app on a hetzner VPS. Postgres and redis on other hosts with private networking. Nginx for reverse proxy, cloudflare in front of everything.
GitHub workflow for building the binary and copying it over. Script to restart systemd service. Occasional SSH to tweak config files etc.
It ran just fine. I'm deploying my rust web backends exactly the same way now.
I've enjoyed quite a few very well narrated audiobooks on LibriVox. The Jane Austen novels voiced by Karen Savage are phenomenal.
I learned about this a couple days ago. I have to admit, learning the guitar pre-youtube was a blessing in many ways.
Fake guitar playing aside, social media has definitely contributed to the "Instagram face" equivalent of guitar music - a style devoid of any melodic or harmonic authenticity. A whole lot of rhythmic wankery thrown in with bits of polyrhythm, all chopped together into a neatly fitting grid inside a DAW.
Not that early shred guitar didn't have its own gimmicks, but a lot of the guitar acrobatics from that era sounded great, and those guys could actually play it live.
Having said that, there are a ton of great young guitar players like Matteo Mancuso and Josh Meader who came out of the YouTube generation. Guitar in mainstream music might be dead, but there's plenty of innovation.
I like David Thorpe too. George Guidall and John Lee are probably my favorite narrators. Jonathan Cecil narrating the Jeeves books is wonderful. So is Stephen Fry, but he's pretty much amazing in anything.
Calvino is amazing. His short story collection Marcovaldo is just brilliant, it's my personal favorite. Cosmicomics is great too. Well actually, all his work.
It would be worth learning the language to read Calvino in original Italian. And maybe even Umberto Eco.
This is a beautiful book - his best work in my opinion. I haven't (re)read it in a while so this is a good reminder. There is a great audiobook version too.
I liked this quite a bit the first time I'd read it. A decade later, not as much.
Narcissus and Goldmund is my favorite book by Hesse - it's beautifully crafted.
If you want the Snow Crash version of Da Vinci Code, then you might like The Illuminatus Trilogy. Robert Anton Wilson is something else. Umberto Eco's book Foucault's Pendulum is a slightly different vibe, but very entertaining read.
There's an Iron Maiden song inspired by that show and features a voice clip from it. It's called The Prisoner.
> ...when the Athenian Democracy voted to condemn Plato to death.
That was Socrates, not Plato.
Socrates was allowed to choose his own punishment too, so he wasn't exactly condemned to death right away. He also had the opportunity to escape prison. He chose not to.
Ukridge by PG Wodehouse. I hadn't really ventured out the Blandings/Jeeves/Psmith collections that much. Ukridge may be the funniest book I've ever read. He's also featured in another book 'Love Among the Chickens' - absolutely hilarious.
Big fan of his work with Shakti/McLaughlin. RIP.
I believe those words are said by the elder Zosima in one of the early chapters when he has several visitors. Not Alyosha - although it's been several years since I've reread the book.
RIP to one of the greats.
Amazing album, not only the music but the recording/mix is just right - considering it's over half a century old at this point.
The long extended version of Whipping Post is something else!
Sad news. He wrote some of my favorite Allman Brothers tunes. 'In Memory of Elizabeth Reed' is beautiful. 'Rambling Man' is another classic.
RIP.
> Other than The White Stripes, what popular bands have had clearly unskilled drummers?
I want to joke and say Lars from Metallica but I'd be lying. He was a decent drummer in the first couple albums.