Reading List
- The First Hacker
It’s hard to ascribe “firsts” in history. Did Ada Lovelace write the first computer program? Does it count if it is a mechanical computer? Are Bombe and Tunny really computers in …
- Functional, Declarative Audio Applications
Nicholas Thompson
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30 Jun 2021
This is an article that has been a long time coming, and one that I’m really excited to finally write. Today I want to introduce a project that I’ve been thinking about and working on for years: Elementary Audio. Elementary is a JavaScript runtime for writing native audio applications, as
- Measure with Music: How to Read Analog Sensors Using a PC Sound Card
Ruslan Nagimov
This post describes a simple method of reading resistive and capacitive sensors using a standard PC sound card. Virtually any desktop or laptop could be turned into a simple data acquisition system using this method. Thanks to moderate system requirements, even the very old computers can be repurposed for this application.
- Building my own web analytics
I’ve built a simple website analytics tool for this site, you can see it at /analytics. It has the following metrics: Page views per day, Unique IP addresses per day Views per page per day. I compare the different results from CloudFlare Analytics, CloudFlare Web Analytics and my own tool in this f…