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If you’re an EndeavourOS user and were ever surprised why your system update is suddenly pulling in a ~126 MB webkit2gtk-4.1 package that nothing you consciously installed seems to use, then this is for you. I found myself annoyed by this particular dependency enough to rewrite reflector-simple , the GUI for reflector shipped with EndeavourOS. Even though I’m generally comfortable using…
An attempt of a properly styled animated badge prompted by @jsiepkes’s comment on HN: 
 
 
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 This is yet another release post, this time for Catalay — a free software suite designed to automate the layout of image catalogues made with Adobe InDesign, using simple, declarative, human readable and editable configuration files in TOML or YAML formats as input. The main feature is not just automatically laying out the images in a grid, but adapting the grid layout itself. Catalay…
When it comes to tech, I view myself a “ generalist ”: a person not excelling at anything specifically, but striving to grasp a wide spectrum of different things and looking at a general picture. Seeing the progress of the large language models, I believe people like me are going to be totally wiped out. Soon. Or, perhaps the 95% will, and the rest will be those lucky ones who managed…

 This is a release post for Rearchiver — a little command line program for preparing your Reaper projects for archiving. 
 Rearchiver: 
 
 Scans the project file for all used WAV files 
 Finds them in the project directory and converts to FLAC 
 Changes the links to the successfully converted source files in the RPP file accordingly 
 Optionally deletes processed…
Hi! My name is Kirill and this is my blog. Isn’t it quite OK-ish? 
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 I run a studio. Let’s work on your music! thirdhemisphere.studio 
I consult on recording and sound processing and can help you with your streaming or podcast. 
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 Check out my band The Grand Astoria , it rocks. 
 If you don’t mind mellower stuff in a…
This is a release announcement for Tetronimia : an implementation of a famous game mechanic for you terminal written in Nim. 

Just in a couple of days one of the biggest software events FOSDEM 2021 will take place, for the first time completely online. Hundreds of talks will originate from behind laptops, phones and workstations. Realization of this fact was the last link in the long chain of events leading to me writing this reference. Being a sound engineer by trade I, presumptuously, hope to attract attention of the…

 I’ve drawn a bitching logo for #mixing:matrix.org room. There’s so few people there yet I needed to share somewhere else. 
 I rarely dig my own ideas but this came together nicely. 
 Join the chat, it’s chill.
This year is something special! As you’re probably being a witness of, most of the humanity is stuck on self-isolation or even in strict quarantine, which led to unprecedented media consumption. Streaming services usage spiked so high Netflix had to cut their quality to unload their servers. People binge on movies and series and I’m not an exception here, finally watching some classics…

 Post updated for v0.2.0 release at 2023-04-18 
 ffmpeg-loudnorm-helper is a new ultra-simple helper utility for performing loudness normalization using ffmpeg’s loudnorm audio filter. This awesome filter provides EBU R128 loudness normalization, but it requires two passes to linearly normalize audio, measuring input file on the first pass. The only thing ffmpeg-loudnorm-helper…
Once you hear there’s a new Unix shell on the block, what do you do? Probably, glance over syntax and try it in your VM. But when this new shell is called Elvish you do this: 
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 “Friendly and expressive”, indeed.
zrtstr is a small command line application for detecting faux-stereo WAV-files, that is, files with two identical channels that should have been saved as mono. Such files are sometimes generated by some audio-editing software and DAWs (I’m looking at you, old Cubase 5). Gotten tired of receiving such files from clients for mixing, as they are using twice the necessary space and require twice…
Update: This tutorial is out-of-date. 
 Since release of Firefox Quantum and subsequent changes to the extension API, launching external commands from Firefox requre installing some additional software, since WebExtensions have no OS level access. If you’re not opposed to this idea, you can still adapt the following instruction to the new WebExtension addons, such as Open With or Send To…
Reaper is a digital audio workstation that gained a lot of devoted followers since its appearance. What is special about Reaper, apart from its enormous functionality and customizability, is two things: Community and Extensibility. You can check the former on Reaper forums , which is a thriving place, but the latter is achieved via user-coded scripts and open API . Since I’ve started using…
Architect Linux is an installer for the glorious Arch linux . It is distributed as a live-cd ISO, which boots into pseudo-graphical mode and allows installing Arch via comprehensible script which is updated prior to installation from Architect github-repo.
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