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dave yarwood · Making MIDI Sound Awesome in a Clojure Program

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Music : flash chorus. Making MIDI Sound Awesome in a Clojure Program. June 25, 2015. I wrote a couple months ago about MIDI and the JVM. I explained that Gervill. Has been the JVM’s built-in soft synth since Java 7, and I mentioned that there are two ways that Gervill allows you to load SoundFont. Files, changing the way the General MIDI instruments sound on your computer. You can replace your default ( emergency ) soundfont by replacing. If you’re using Leiningen. If you’re using Boot. My music programm...

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dave yarwood · Vignettes: Vimwiki, HTTPie, jq

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Music : flash chorus. Vignettes: Vimwiki, HTTPie, jq. May 13, 2016. I tried this once before. And it was pretty fun. I continue to find and use awesome things (the internet has many of them), so here are a few more things I’ve been enjoying lately. I think keeping a personal wiki. The hello world example in the HTTPie documentation does a nice job of illustrating the relative ease of using it instead of cURL:. Curl -i -X PUT httpbin.org/put -H Content-Type:application/json -d '{"hello": "world"}'. I’ve b...

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dave yarwood · Alda Has a Bunch of New Features

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Music : flash chorus. Alda Has a Bunch of New Features. November 28, 2015. Three months ago, I wrote a blog post. Introducing the music programming language Alda. And walking through the basics of using it to write a musical score. To my amazement and delight, my blog post went mildly viral on Reddit and Hacker News, bringing about a spike in activity on GitHub. I’m thankful for this not only because it brought a handful of new contributors. There is now a. Vibraphone: b8 c d e f g a b. As an alternative...

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dave yarwood · Alda: A Manifesto and Gentle Introduction

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Music : flash chorus. Alda: A Manifesto and Gentle Introduction. September 5, 2015. A music programming language for musicians. Conveys its goal of being useful to non-programmers. At the time of writing, Alda can be used to create MIDI scores, using any instrument available in the General MIDI sound set. In this blog post, I will walk you through the steps of setting up Alda and writing some basic scores. But first, a little history. I can trace the origins of Alda back to 2004. At the time, I was s...

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dave yarwood · Something Cool That Happened Every Month of My Life: 2010

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Music : flash chorus. Something Cool That Happened Every Month of My Life: 2010. October 12, 2015. Thanks to the eerily archival nature of social media, I am able to go back and re-experience the moments of my life that I considered at the time to be most noteworthy. So, here is one cool thing that happened for every month in the year 2010. (I’m not sure if I’ll ever do 2011 and beyond, but this was fun, at any rate.). When my friend Ryan Dean. Antibubbles played an acoustic set at Schoolkids featuring m...

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Music : flash chorus. Alda: A Music Programming Language Built With Clojure. Alda Has a Bunch of New Features. Alda: A Manifesto and Gentle Introduction. Making MIDI Sound Awesome in a Clojure Program. Making MIDI Sound Awesome in Your JVM. Alda: A Music Programming Language Built With Clojure. Making MIDI Sound Awesome in a Clojure Program. Clojure character utilities, now available as a clojar! Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby in Clojure: Part 7. A character utility library for Clojure. Alda: A Manifesto...

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dave yarwood · Vignettes: Vim, Fish Shell, Amethyst

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Music : flash chorus. Vignettes: Vim, Fish Shell, Amethyst. June 12, 2015. I’ve been exploring all sorts of awesome things lately. I feel compelled to share the magic of these things with you, but to be fair, there are already a ton of great blog posts and tutorials out there about each of these things, and I’m not sure there’s much more that I could say that hasn’t already been said. So, this idea occurred to me of doing one blog post divided into several. Keyboard layout), and it served me well for qui...

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dave yarwood · Getting Your First Programming Job: Not as Hard as You Think

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Music : flash chorus. Getting Your First Programming Job: Not as Hard as You Think. November 17, 2015. Today marks my one-year anniversary of working at Adzerk. Which also means I have now been working professionally as a software developer for one year. I could not be happier to be programming for a living, and I’m still not really over the fact that it was as easy as it was for me to break into a career that I had no prior work experience in, without a computer science degree. Moar no love videos!

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dave yarwood · Alda for Clojurists

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Music : flash chorus. June 15, 2016. A more FP-friendly Alda. Just recently, I rewrote a big chunk of the Alda. Codebase; the result is something I’m a lot happier with, as a Clojure. Programmer. Clojure is a language that encourages programming in a functional. Style, minimizing the need to keep track of the state of variables and reliance upon unpredictable side effects. This first cut of Alda used to work like this:. There were a bunch of dynamic vars. Event would add some note data to. FP in a nutshe...

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dave yarwood · Archive

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Music : flash chorus. June 15, 2016). Alda: A Music Programming Language Built With Clojure. May 24, 2016). Vignettes: Vimwiki, HTTPie, jq. May 13, 2016). Moar no love videos! May 7, 2016). Alda Has a Bunch of New Features. November 28, 2015). Getting Your First Programming Job: Not as Hard as You Think. November 17, 2015). Something Cool That Happened Every Month of My Life: 2010. October 12, 2015). Alda: A Manifesto and Gentle Introduction. September 5, 2015). June 25, 2015). June 12, 2015). March 19, ...