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179 from 6 Jan 2012 to 29 May 2025
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2025 1

  1. MERT Vamp Plugin, and a Lossy Encoding Detector

2024 2

  1. A new bit of software… and mugs!
  2. Three cameras from around 1960

2023 1

  1. On picking up the cello again after 30 years

2022 3

  1. Performance improvements in Rubber Band Library
  2. Rubber Band Library: a thrilling new release
  3. A note on the paging behaviour of more(1) in util-linux 2.38

2021 6

  1. Note on “Explorations in Time-Frequency Analysis” by Patrick Flandrin
  2. Can you swap the keyboards between a Thinkpad T40 and an IBM SK-8845?
  3. Films by Aki Kaurismäki
  4. “I Am Not As Well-Suited To This As I Had Hoped”
  5. Hayao Miyazaki and work
  6. On macOS, arm64, and universal binaries

2020 8

  1. A few pictures from 2020: 4. Deepest black
  2. A few pictures from 2020: 3. The living
  3. A few pictures from 2020: 2. Cinefilm
  4. A few pictures from 2020: 1. Keep Going
  5. A Note on a Revox A700 Repair
  6. Notes on the Minolta SR-1 (Model B)
  7. On macOS “notarization”
  8. MIREX 2019 submissions

2019 3

  1. Notes on the Minolta SR-1 (Model A)
  2. Repairing a Minolta XG-9 camera
  3. MIREX 2018 submissions

2018 6

  1. EasyMercurial v1.4
  2. Sonic Visualiser v3.2
  3. Rubber Band Library v1.8.2
  4. Repoint: A manager for checkouts of third-party source code dependencies
  5. A film camera
  6. What does a convolutional neural net actually do when you run it?

2017 10

  1. Notes on Idris
  2. MIREX 2017 submissions
  3. Notes from the Audio Developer Conference
  4. C++17 destructuring bind
  5. Learning to read Arabic writing: one of my better ideas
  6. Sonic Visualiser 3.0, at last
  7. Yes, there’s a fourth beta of Sonic Visualiser v3.0 now
  8. A third beta of Sonic Visualiser v3.0
  9. A second beta of Sonic Visualiser v3.0
  10. Help test the Sonic Visualiser v3.0 beta

2016 9

  1. Mp3 decoding with the MAD library: We’ve all been doing it wrong
  2. MIREX 2016 submissions
  3. Why I will be voting “in” this Thursday
  4. Naming conventions in Standard ML
  5. Console games and local multiplayer
  6. F♯ has possibilities
  7. Fold: at the limit of comprehension
  8. Zero-based indexing
  9. Bowie

2015 18

  1. Perl 6
  2. MIREX 2015 submissions
  3. Chordino troubles
  4. … and an FFT in Standard ML
  5. FFTs in Javascript
  6. New software releases all around
  7. Rosegarden v15.08
  8. Rubber Band Audio v1.9.0
  9. Replacing the GNOME Shell font in GNOME 3.16
  10. Standard ML and how I’m compiling it
  11. SML and OCaml: So, why was the OCaml faster?
  12. Feedback on “Four MLs (and a Python)”
  13. Four MLs (and a Python)
  14. Another release! pYIN v1.1
  15. A release! Tony v1.0
  16. So much for that
  17. Unreleased project pile-up
  18. How to change your friend’s OS/X Yosemite system font to Arial

2014 13

  1. More on the 2015 EU VAT changes
  2. Small software businesses and the 2015 VAT regulations
  3. MIREX 2014 submissions
  4. Alte Schönhauser Straße
  5. Comparative advantage
  6. City pigeons
  7. Single-key menu shortcuts with Qt 5 on OS/X
  8. Undergraduate programming languages
  9. T40p, T60p, T540p, go!
  10. Proprietary Unix
  11. Small phones will rise again!
  12. SoundSoftware tutorial at AES 53
  13. On Vodafone

2013 26

  1. Vodafone’s fiction of customer service
  2. QM Vamp Plugins in MIREX
  3. Release Week ahead
  4. Repairs
  5. The extraordinary success of git(hub)
  6. How I developed my git aversion
  7. Rules of thumb for functional APIs
  8. A quick update on Firefox OS
  9. How the Lenovo Yoga 11s compares
  10. Suggest a Laptop
  11. Helios
  12. So, the cloud
  13. “It didn’t violate the First Amendment because Americans weren’t among the people targeted”
  14. Firefox OS on the Geeksphone Keon
  15. What is Firefox OS all about?
  16. Can the American be trusted?
  17. Performance Practice as Unanticipated Pit
  18. Conversing with the author of the Yeti programming language
  19. Looking at the Sonic Visualiser user survey (part 1)
  20. Yertle: an RDF/Turtle library in Yeti
  21. What are, or were, Nintendo good at?
  22. Did you know? Some people like Helvetica
  23. “What’s the difference between Mercurial and git?”
  24. Compiling a program is a strange thing to do
  25. Functional programming and the joy of learning something again
  26. What laptop, tablet, or smartphone to buy? It’s a complicated business

2012 73

  1. Linux
  2. Windows Phone: a bit like BeOS
  3. Can you develop research software on an iPad?
  4. I quite like the Surface RT. It must be doomed
  5. Windows 8: A bit like OS/2
  6. Porto
  7. How Much Legacy Code Have You Written This Week?
  8. The Great North Run
  9. A batch-processing system replies
  10. A Watery City
  11. iPads in schools
  12. Good and bad of the Olympics, so far
  13. Updating into oblivion
  14. Late Adopter
  15. Hyvästi, Sibelius
  16. Journalist’s First-Person Plural
  17. Video format failures
  18. Windows Phone 8 and Nokia
  19. SoundSoftware 2012 Workshop
  20. What will Microsoft announce tomorrow?
  21. Repairable laptops
  22. Nokia: “You know, we might be in a spot of bother after all”
  23. Why is “password” such a popular password…
  24. 2880×1800
  25. “Various nifty functions”
  26. More on Apple TV and games consoles
  27. This could be bad news for games consoles
  28. Small conclusions about APIs and testing
  29. Details of the Dataquay v0.9 API changes
  30. Dataquay
  31. SkyDrive: OK, let’s face it, it’s a bit pants
  32. A Good Time Not to Get Sick
  33. Speaking of learning to code
  34. Software Carpentry
  35. Phew
  36. Tapering
  37. A Marathon
  38. Breakfast Post on Twitter
  39. Unit testing: Why bother?
  40. “Papermill” and paying for apps
  41. Japan
  42. Running around London
  43. New 1.2 release of EasyMercurial
  44. At last, a PC with a decent screen resolution
  45. Spare us humans from XML
  46. Wrapping a C++ library with JNI, part 4
  47. A dot com is an American domain
  48. Live Passport Net
  49. No Refunds
  50. Comfy headphones
  51. Sad Lion
  52. The Third Pad
  53. Hard edges, small keys
  54. Wrapping a C++ library with JNI, part 3
  55. Operating system updates
  56. Wisława Szymborska
  57. The other Internet
  58. I had been thinking of praising SkyDrive too
  59. Was Windows popular?
  60. Buy Our Superior Celluloid Cylinders
  61. Wrapping a C++ library with JNI, part 2
  62. We Profit For You
  63. Wrapping a C++ library with JNI, part 1
  64. Wrapping a C++ library with JNI – introduction
  65. The Apple textbook
  66. Open source licences explained
  67. Why the proposed US copyright regulations should worry UK citizens
  68. Marmalade!
  69. Is music recommendation difficult?
  70. End of the laptop line
  71. My first conference paper
  72. Windows 8: Mixed metaphors
  73. How come Windows Phone 7 isn’t a big hit?