John Turner

@breaking.computer

Music, code, and cooking enthusiast. Staff engineer making developer tools at a reasonably well known tech company/podcast sponsor. Occasionally writes at breaking.computer

I was very much on the “nurture“ side of the nature/nurture debate, and believed—quite erroneously, I came to find out—that parents who said things like “they were always like that” were underestimating their role in who their child became personality wise. My eldest disabused me of that one.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?

It took 7 years of self-funded work, but Sonic Pi is finally at a place I'm happy with. It's even easier than beginners and even more powerful for pro users - and just way more polished in every way. It's also a (friendly) technical trojan horse for SuperSonic. www.patreon.com/samaaron/pos...

Sonic Pi v5 Release Candidate 1 | Sam Aaron

Hey there, happy Friday and huge love to you wherever you are in the world. Today, it's time to open the vaults and let loose something that

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my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

This is just vibes, but on name alone J-space feels like it has the potential to do one of those leaps from science to popular pseudoscience, like “quantum manifestation“

Plaits is the greatest invention humanity has ever cooed up. I could spend the rest of my life making lazy glitch music by just slapping an LFO onto oscillator selector. Thanks forever, Émilie. And thanks Ternär Music Technology for this lovely free port (Flechtwerk)