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I dunno whether "good" really applies to this, but I've gotta say I've been loving the cost, portability and reliability of the Numark DJ2Go Touch ($AU120):

https://www.numark.com/product/dj2go2-touch

I've got a cute little portable setup using it, a Raspberry Pi 5 with a 1TB m.2 SSD, 15" portable USB-C monitor and a Keychron low-profile keyboard and bluetooth mouse. Works amazingly well.

I'm betting that just about any controller would be worth a shot.


Not a course, as such, but reading “Measurement” by Paul Lockhart, of “A Mathematician’s Lament fame.

I’ve never read anything that so clearly communicates and leads you into a state of mind that COMPELS you to prove mathematical conjectures from first principles.

I found myself furiously sketching geometric proofs and simplifying algebraic conundrums with an enthusiasm I haven’t experienced in decades.

And a course on sewing for beginners and continuing Japanese.


“Measurement” by Paul Lockhart, of “A Mathematician’s Lament” fame.

This was recommended by the delightful and talented Tibees YouTuber.

A few pages in and I was absolutely hooked and ready to start proving geometric conjectures…

A truly amazing communicator and educator.


Interesting stuff.

Would be VERY interested in having visualizations of Apple Music data. I've had 20+ years to build up pretty significant play history.

Certainly being able to look into every type of health data would yield interesting insights.

One minor thing that does bug me: US date format. Probably be better to default to whatever short-date format is the user's preference in iOS. Same goes for metric/imperial.

Looking forward to seeing more visualizations!


This is gonna sound a bit corny, but it impacted me for reasons that will become clear: "1984", by George Orwell.

I was 13 at the time, and I was lucky enough to have a passionate English teacher that gave us challenging books to review. I chose "1984". It was the first book I'd read, up to that point, that didn't have a "Hollywood ending". The hero didn't save the day and get the girl… just the victory of tyranny over individualism. Admittedly, I had read a lot of crap, up till then.

As the leader directly tells Winston (i.e. you, the reader): "If you want a picture of the future, think of a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

I was gripped by the writing up till the very last words, then a panic set in… I thought that there were pages missing… I literally checked that someone hadn't torn out the last chapter where everything is made right again. No. There was no liberation. I sat stunned for the better part of an hour.

"The Dispossessed" by Ursula le Guin: never have I experienced the idea of a working anarchism described in such a genuinely coherent form.


My immediate thought after reading the question was also the very last sentence of 1984. It was the first time that a book caused me to feel a deeply visceral, lasting emotional response. Reading through the first 99% of the book, I found it a well written and engaging book, but all of that just lead up to the very last sentence. It absolutely hit me like a truck. I also just sat stunned after finishing the book.


This is remarkably similar to Calca.app, which I still use occasionally. http://calca.io/

I love that yours is web based! Can see it being much more reusable in a number of use-cases.

Calca was originally MacOS/iOS, but has since been ported to Windows.

I think that the notation in Calca to use a `=>` to display results maybe adds a bit more clarity to the math expressions, but your display style seems to work pretty well too.

The only advantage Calca seems to have is they’ve had almost a decade to add things like extra functions (compound interest, trig, …), constants, operators, etc.

I’ve always thought that style of simple but highly visible calculation is a far superior alternative to spreadsheets. Jupyter, LiveBook, Mathematica, etc… have shown that it works, but the world is still enamored with Excel, despite its propensity to hide mistakes.


My body is a temple: old, crumbing and full of unspeakable horrors.


Mexican proverb: Every revolution eventually becomes another government.


A squib is what they use in movies to make something look like it’s been shot with a bullet. Kinda a little flat firework that ejects “stuff” explosively. Actors wear them under their costumes. They’re usually remote controlled


more generally, a squib is a low-power explosive


If brute force doesn’t work, you’re not using enough of it.

There are only 2 hard problems in computer science:

1. Naming things 2. Cache invalidation 3. Off-by-one errors 0. Asynchronous callbacks 7. Buffer overflowA203FE11980018900000


"There are two hard problems in computer science: (1) We have only one joke, and (2) it's not even very funny."


Ah, but it’s an idempotent joke, so it’s funny no matter how many times you tell it!


Every tome I try to learn what idempotent means, it’s as though I’m starting from scratch.


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