2012 for me is an Open Source year. This is the year I wean myself of all my crutches. There’s no reason not to. Linux is desktop ready. I code open source in a federated collective where that is expected (not just the norm).

So it’s time to start looking at what I can cut back on. The first on my list is the OS. Ubuntu or gNewSense is my natural first choice. Problem solved. The second on my list is music.

I just canceled my Spotify and Rdio subscription. That’s a good step. now I need a replacement.

I like the idea of federation. I’m looking for a federated source of music that I can in turn help add to. These sources would have to provide their base code as open. Barring that I would be open to music services that simply are open source. If all else fails I will have to try and start something won’t I? At least I can encourage those in my immediate circle to try such a project.

And the other part of note is that I want to only support artist willing to put their music out there for free or donation funded. On top of that they must license under the creative commons or some such clause that allows share alike access. If they want to post the actual studio source of their tracks I would be even more pleased (thanks NiN for doing so)!

 So that’s that. Let the revolution begin! All the tools are in place. Ciao!

I took the audio from the video, cleaned up the pops, and trimmed it a bit so that I could listen to it more.

I’m coding today and remembering what it was like to code as a kid. It’s not possible to approach it the same way now. The documentation is crap at it’s best, IDE’s overblown, and there’s only a few things geared towards teaching children. It makes me wonder, where have all the basics gone. On the bright side though, the community was no where near as strong 20 odd years ago as it is now!

My new sounds:

This reminds me of the remote pairing setup I’ve been doing: a cloud server running the latest Ubuntu, screen, and vim. The benefit of this is that multiple people can have accounts and log in  to the computer remotely, you can share keyboard control, and all is well in the world using a very light connection. You can use skype for chat or simply use built in console messaging.

yieldthought:

On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started developing exclusively on an iPad + Linode 512. This is the surprising story of a month spent working in the cloud.

It all started when I bought my first MacBook a couple of years ago. Frustrated by the inconsistent…

Sarah Christenson Thanks for the invite. It’s appropriate that you got invited first since you turned me on to Diaspora so long ago!

Mo master hop | m 0-chap town

A new favorite

Mr.B’s Chap-Hop mix1 | gentlemanrhymer

A new favorite

Anarch - Dead of the Nite | AnarchMusikz

A new favorite

Acsending | m3talsmith

Back to playing my DAEEAB tuning :)