Esteban Manchado Velázquez @estebanm@mastodon.social

Second day with my new keyboard.io. Big struggle to type at a decent speed, and shortcuts are a pain because there's no muscle memory... but it feels great to type on *and* I really like that my constant mistakes are mostly because I insist on moving my fingers *too much*. It feels that keyboard.io keys are closer and easier to reach than in a regular keyboard.

I meant the colours of the backlight BTW! It can simply change over time, or react to the software currently being run (I think), or whatever.

One of the default patterns is a rainbow that slowly moves to the left. It's just 😍

Today I received my keyboard.io. It looks amazing, but still very awkward to type on.

I'm looking forward to getting used to it, it feels like it will be great! And OMG how it looks! 😍

I'm also looking forward to playing a bit with customising colours and such...

I just wrote a blog post about my talk Listening to Music:

http://hcoder.org/2018/06/25/listening-to-music/

I think some things might be easier to follow in writing and with the ability to play/pause and repeat the music snippets at will.

Give it a try if you were a bit confused by the talk. For reference, the talk is uploaded here:

https://youtu.be/RiuLay4XaAc

The video for my talk Listening to Music is live! There's no editing and the voice has an annoying echo, but you can hear the music just fine:

https://youtu.be/RiuLay4XaAc

I'm afraid it wasn't as clear as I had hoped (based on people's feedback), but hopefully it's fun and somewhat inspiring.

The talk goes takes a "proggy" chorus, rewrites it in a very straightforward way, then iterates with changes to come back to the original. The point is to learn to listen to details in music, I guess. Dunno.

In case it's not evident, the point is that the original chorus is kind of weird/proggy.

If you want to listen to it before I publish the video, it's here: http://demiurgo.org/tmp/newsong.mp3

I gave another music-related talk at work today.

It was about... music arrangement? I have no idea. I took the chorus of a song I'm writing, I wrote a super straightforward version of it, and then I started changing/adding things until I got back to the original, explaining what I was doing at every step. I guess the point was to make people pay more attention to music or something.

I think it wasn't as understandable as my first talk, but I'll publish it somewhere soon.

I'm done with a rough draft of the song for #musiccollab!

I'll let it simmer for a couple of days and then I think we're ready to start playing with it, recording, tweaking, etc.

Excited!

I hope I'll finish and give the talk some day, and hopefully record it. If so, I'll share it here.

At the very least, I can share the different versions of the song and/or write a blog post about it.