Parker Davis
@parkerdavis.dev
Web developer, birder, musician, sound enthusiast https://links.parkerdavis.dev
I made a web app for editing recordings before uploading to eBird. It is a fast and easy way to do common editing tasks: - Trim the beginning and end of the recording with fades - Apply a light high-pass filter to remove low-frequency noise - Normalize gain to -3dB Check it out at peep.parker.town
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Update: the folks who were sailing along the southern coast of Australia birding and using RainCrow last week are now headed to Africa! So cool to see.
introduce yourself with ten bands you've seen live - Bill Frisell - Of Montreal - Sunn O))) - Lightning Bolt - Colin Stetson - Sufjan Stevens - Refused - Horse Lords - Tatsuya Nakatani - Ensemble Signal
Bill Criswell@crswll.dev · 3mo agointroduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live Rancid Bad Religion Against Me! Dead Kennedys Gorilla Biscuits No Use For A Name Minor Threat NOFX OutKast Descendants
For anyone else who feels conflicted about AI and afraid to talk about it: I wrote this for you. Obviously these are just my opinions, but I hope this helps at least one person. annies-brain.offprint.app/a/3ml6zdf5f5...
Stuck in the middle: Being an engineer & artist in the AI era | Annie Sexton | Offprint
I'm an AI skeptic, through and through. But I also voluntarily use AI nearly every day. So naturally, you might be asking: what the heck?
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I’d like you to know that 100 times a day, Monday through Friday, I am singing Refused - Bruitist Pome #5 in my head. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UjQ... Why, you ask? Google Calendar notification sound. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N_0...
Refused - "Bruitist Pome #5" (Full Album Stream)
YouTube video by Epitaph Records
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📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript date system. piccalil.li/blog/date-is...
Date is out, Temporal is in
Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript...
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you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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Saw a Short-tailed Hawk, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, *and* just now: heard Goose puking under the couch but when we went to clean it up, there was no puke. Good day!
A couple of weeks ago at @perfnow.nl I gave a talk called "Fine-grained everything". It's about @svelte.dev (obviously), and the new frontiers of framework-land, but it's also about some stubborn misconceptions in web performance circles Gift link: conffab.com/presentation...
Fine-grained everything
<p>Modern frameworks like Svelte are fast thanks to signal‑based fine‑grained reactivity, but performance is more than 60fps. This talk covers new approaches to build fast, reliable, data‑efficient ap...
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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In case this somehow missed your feeds a couple months ago, Listers is worth a watch! 🪶 parkerdavis.dev/blog/2025-10...
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching • Parker Davis
Arizona-based developer blog and portfolio
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...
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This is what the web is for. If you ever ask yourself, "why did all those people in the 1990s stop watching TV and start typing things on the open web?" this is why. Utterly niche shit that could only exist in a free, collaborative space without ads. rickiheicklen.com/unparalleled...
Ricki Heicklen
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@posit.co Maybe I'm missing it, but there ought to be an RSS feed for the posit blog!
Shout out to the Quiet Posters feed. Tends to be where I find the most value on here. bsky.app/profile/did:...
I know 2025 is in full swing, but I finally posted a look back at 2024 in my little corner of the world. parkerdavis.dev/blog/2024-ye...
2024 Year in Review • Parker Davis
Arizona-based developer blog and portfolio
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Pleased to have completed Day 6 part 1 of #AdventOfCode. Instead of doing part 2, I figured out how to animate the guard walk in the terminal. fun!
Day 4 of #AdventOfCode was a doozy. Diagonals...nested for loops... phew github.com/parkerdavis1... #typescript #javascript #deno #d3
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Successfully wrote some off-the-dome regex today. github.com/parkerdavis1... #AdventOfCode #typescript #javascript #deno #regex
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Getting @deno.land dialed in for #AdventOfCode. Learning and appreciating some of the standard library functions, especially in the collections module. My solution: github.com/parkerdavis1...