Links #163

Geoff Groberg’s MK1, a gorgeous, high-end, handcrafted MIDI keyboard. Those keys! I’m biased because Geoff is my friend and I’ve been to his workshop, but dang, it’s a thing of beauty. Several smart innovations, too.

Peter Saint-Andre on pair reading. I’ve been doing a form of this for the last year and a half and have really enjoyed it.

epub-merge, a tool I recently used to merge two EPUBs from Project Gutenberg. Worked great.

Matt Glassman on proportional representation in the House of Representatives. Ooh, I like this idea.

Blain Smith on the bare essentials of development tools. I’m not quite as minimalist as this, but the principles resonate with me. I’ve been working recently on slimming down my Neovim config (I’m planning to post about that sometime soon) and hope to move further in this direction. I also quite liked the posts on software engineering discipline and posture and humanities in the machine.

Sava on living in the terminal. (On one’s computer, that is, not at the airport.) I, too, find the terminal to be soothing and quiet, and using it sparks joy for me.

Ashur Cabrera on asking what you’ve tried, when debugging things. “Eventually I learned to compile this list before asking for help. And, reader, what a difference!”

Frederick Chan on setting up a free locality domain. “In the US, can get a domain name like somename.city.state.us for free.” Had no idea.

Riley Walz’s Empty Screenings, a little web app to show you which AMC theaters around you haven’t sold many tickets, for people who prefer their theaters on the empty side.