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Harmonics: Learn about additive synthesis and play with interactive string modes

wlll — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:46:11 +0000

Article URL: https://melatonin.dev/additive-synth-comic/what-is-a-harmonic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237451

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by wlll in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

wlll — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:49:30 +0000

It's time for sending HTML rendered on server with CSS, and JS for enhancement only to kill the SPA.

I'm not talking about this from a technical standpoint, though there are many reasons that in most cases this is the best technological fit.

I'm talking about this from the position of "what I want to use". I'm sick of loading and navigting overly JS heavy, overly styled, fragile "apps". When I encounter a "proper" website that loads fast, and I can understand easily it's like a breath of fresh air.

New comment by wlll in "Doom Didn't Kill the Amiga (2024)"

wlll — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:19:43 +0000

Were they? I had an Amiga 1200, a friend a 500, both of which were around long before games consoles became mainstream.

New comment by wlll in "Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170"

wlll — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:10:43 +0000

If I earned ~50 million dollars per year then I think I'd just pay for Internet.

Maybe .1% was a bad choice, should we only post articles that are relevant to people on a global average yearly wage of ~$12,000? How are we defining relevant? People earning $2000/year might be /interested/ in a thing, but not able to afford it (eg. a Mac computer or a large hadron collider), where do we draw the line?

New comment by wlll in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)"

wlll — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:25:02 +0000

  Location: UK (though have worked for US companies remotely coast to coast since 2008)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No, but will travel
  Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Aurora, Go, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Linux Sysadmin, heroku, Nginx.
  Résumé/CV: https://willj.net/about/hire-me/march-2025-ahx4i/
  Email: will@willj.net

Hi, I'm Will Jessop, currently the now part time CTO of Impactive looking for new opportunities in Rails application scaling and performance or technical leadership. Technically I have a huge amount of experience in scaling and optimising Ruby on Rails applications, Postgres database performance and scalable application architecture. I also have a lot of experience managing a team of 19 people, mostly engineers. I'm product focussed, and among other successes re-orged the product pipeline at Impactive to improve delivery reliability and quality outcomes, while drastically improving staff morale.

New comment by wlll in "3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec empire"

wlll — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:45:13 +0000

There's a podcast I really enjoy that has an episode on the rise and fall of the aztecs, highly recommended:

https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/12/16/episode-9-...

New comment by wlll in "Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease"

wlll — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:03:17 +0000

I use Go a lot and I completely disagree. I have also used Ruby a lot and even though I prefer writing Go most of the time (it depends on the task) bundler is far better.

go mod is the second best I've used for sure, but if someone releaed bundler-but-for-go I'd switch to it in a heartbeat.

New comment by wlll in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

wlll — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:02:11 +0000

I think I'll wait for the GTI model myself.

New comment by wlll in "Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce"

wlll — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:47:23 +0000

I'll pick up a pack if I see it. The top quality the supermarket we go to has is Rummo, it's the next step up from De Cecco (in the supermarket at least) and I buy it sometimes, but to me there's not a hell of a lot of difference between the two for the price difference.

New comment by wlll in "Why was there a wall near runway at S Korea plane crash airport?"

wlll — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:37:26 +0000

Standards are the minimum, not the maximum.

Planes sometimes overshoot the runway, building an unecessary wall at the end of it might comply with a standard, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

New comment by wlll in "Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce"

wlll — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:19:59 +0000

I use kitchen tongs to pick up and jostle the noods as another commentator mentions. It starts out parallel as you say. Flour would add a flavour I didn't want and I don't have an issue with uneven cooking or clumping so I don't need to.

New comment by wlll in "Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce"

wlll — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:17:48 +0000

I live in the NW England, De Cecco is "middle" quality where I live and affordable, the brands you mention aren't available.

New comment by wlll in "Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce"

wlll — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:17:35 +0000

I make fresh tomato pasta sauces this way as well as the cheese based ones sometimes. A bit of butter and olive oil in the sauce, minimal water in with the pasta (I really like orecchiette) and finish the pasta off in the sauce with a bit of the minimal remaining water. Very clingy, very silky.

New comment by wlll in "Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce"

wlll — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:14:42 +0000

I don't get clumping. I use an adequate quality pasta (De Cecco mostly), stir it when I put it in the water, and a few times after that, cooking to al dente. If I'm making a Caccio e Pepe or Carbonara I cook the spaghetti or (my preference) Buccatini I'm aiming for the minimum amount of liquid left, ideally just enough to put in the sauce. I use a frying pan so I can lay the noods out flat to minimise the water.

As I said I don't get clumping, it is absolutely possible to cook noods in minimal water without clumping because I do it so try switching some thing up if it's happening to you.

New comment by wlll in "Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce"

wlll — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:04:34 +0000

By the time you reduce the liquid the pasta is going to be pretty cold. Just using less water takes less time.

New comment by wlll in "Networking issues on our custom AWS EKS Workers, and how we worked around them"

wlll — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:02:48 +0000

Title edited to fit, I tried to maintain the meaning of the original:

"A few weird issues in the networking on our custom AWS EKS Workers, and how we worked around them"

Networking issues on our custom AWS EKS Workers, and how we worked around them

wlll — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:59:41 +0000

Article URL: https://jon.sprig.gs/blog/post/8078

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42306062

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by wlll in "Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke"

wlll — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:32:26 +0000

Also British ones, though to be fair to them a fair number do actually have it turned on in the areas I'm in.

New comment by wlll in "Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke"

wlll — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:31:24 +0000

Yeah, I have experienced this as a sailor.

New comment by wlll in "Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke"

wlll — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:14:16 +0000

AIS is required for large ships in many if not most jurisdictions, to have it turned off is suspicious in itself. If you turn it off then re-appear later on somewhere else having had to traverse the area where the cables where at the time they got damaged, that's suspicious. You could turn it off in port, head out, cut the cables then return and turn it on again, but the window of time you had it off would straddle the cable damage time, and there's a high chance you would have been documented (video, radio traffic) leaving port in that time, and depending on the departure port it may be hard to leave without AIS on as the authorities may notice.