Hi, I'm De Wet
I'm a software developer. I'm a big fan of hiking, computers, acronyms, and Oxford commas. Not so high on the list are shortsighted policies, mean people, and meat.
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Intellectual Home
This is an incredibly pompous title, but bear with me. It’s a fun story about an old-timey telephone. I have several lights plugged into wall sockets in the living room, and while the ritual of turning them on and off one by one has its own charm, I decided it was time to centralize control. The end goal: a rotary phone that turns the lights on and off when certain digits are dialled. …
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Fakesplit: a splitter for fakebooks
Carolyn plays in a couple of amateur jazz bands. We’re fortunate in BC to have fairly low COVID case numbers, so socially distanced practice sessions have started up again, and the bands have been choosing new songs to work on. To find sheet music, jazz musicians invariably have a collection of dodgy PDFs called “fakebooks.” For some arcane reason, many of these are titled “Realbook Vol. N.” In any case, these PDFs contain transcriptions of a variety of jazz standards, and are usually scans of photocopies or something, and thus have no bookmarks. You could just remember what page “Girl From Ipanema” is on, but it’s often easier to have individual PDFs of each song, or to somehow introduce bookmarks in your score-browsing app. It’s probably not too onerous to do manually, but there’s a variety of clever tools to help. …
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New website
Since Carolyn recently moved her website to Wix, I’ve been wanting to try something other than WordPress, and entirely get rid of our LAMP hosting. Time for the static-hosted goodness of Jekyll on S3! …