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Discoveries of the Month – January/2017

You may have noticed the lack of posts. It has been a very busy month and when I  got some free time I focused on some personal projects. But I got tons of drafts being worked and some experiments to show.

Web Development

Flexible Boxes by Will Stone: One of the dozens generators/playgrounds for CSS3 Flexboxes.

Tech

Landell de Moura: Priest and scientist. Studied, along Marconi, Popov, Hertz, Brandy, Lodge, and many others, radio transmissions.
Music Macro Language: A music description language used in sequencing music on computer and video game systems.

Music

Velvet Acid Christ: Electro-industrial band from Colorado that mixes a bunch of genres.

YouTube Channels:

wingsNpaws: Teaches and gives tips of how to train parrots and dogs.
Michael New: Lessons on music theory and how to write music.
I Like To Make Stuff: Woodworking, welding, 3d printing, electronics… this guy works with every sort of thing.
Idea. Sketch. Build.: Small and new channel about woodworking. This guy has some neat solutions for those who don’t have a fully equiped wordshop.
Bisqwit: C++, ASM, Chiptune, Game password crackers. This guy codes everykind of nerd stuff.

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Discoveries of the Month – December/2016

Greetings! The time for that post for the last day of the month. Also the last day of the year, hope you guys have a happy new year!

Web Development

CSS Grid: CSS Grid is going to become supported-by-default in Chrome and Firefox in March of 2017. Checkout the link for more information.

Tech

ShellCheck: Find bugs in your shell scripts.
mdless: A utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in Terminal.
bropages: Similar to man pages, bro pages are concise examples of using command line programs.
commandlinefu: Command-line snippets repository with rating system.

Music

Wendy Carlos(Walter Carlos): Well known composer of A Clockwork Orange soundtrack. I never took time to listen to her albums. Switched-On Bach and The Well-Tempered Synthesizer are wonderful pieces, a must for classical music and analog synthesizer lovers.
Saturndust: Brazilian Space Doom band.
Isao Tomita: Inspired by Wendy Carlos and with similar work. Another Moog grinder for analog synthesizer lovers, his early works consist on covers of rock artists.

YouTube Channels:

Professor Leonard: This guy is doing for Math (Advanced) what Stephen Hawking did for Physics – Make it accessible to the average person.
Adam Neely: Bass lessons and deep music theory researches.
Grant Thompson: DIY, lifehacks, explosions and useless stuff. Expect anything, he honors his name “The King of Random”.

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Discoveries of the Month – November/2016

Wow! My second DotM post!
Turns out that the biggest discovery of this month is that NaNoWriMo is not easy at all. Next year I will prepare myself and try again.
Well, let’s get to the point of the post:

Web Development

Microjs: A selection of small footprint JavaScript micro-libraries and micro-frameworks for all sort of things.

Tech

PythonTutor: Visualize your code in execution, kinda like a debugger. It now has support to Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, C, and C++. Fun project and may help you understand how programming languages work.
Detexify: Struggling to find a symbol for LaTeX? Just draw it!

Music

Paranoia: Crossover/Thrash Metal band from the late eighties. They released just one album though.
Hellbenders: Stoner rock band from Goiânia/Brazil.
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult: Industrial rock band from the late eighties. Been listening to industrial since my teenage years and, strangely, never heard of them before.
Eloy: (German) Progressive Rock band. Underrated in my opinion.
Shackles: Death/Thrash Metal band perfect for headbangin’. It’s a shame they split up.
Electric Octopus: Psychedelic/Jazz/Experimental… there is not enough genres to tag these guys.
Brunt: Instrumental stoner rock with a mix of trippy clean tones and heavy fuzz guitars.
Lee Van Cleef: (not to be confused with Lee Van Cleef) Psychedelic acid rock from Italy.
Sasquatch: Another stoner rock band. Great sound and they are really a bastardized version of GFR as they claim. Should be on the regular playlist of any fan of the genre.

YouTube Channels:

The Art of Weapons: An U.K. teenager run this channel since he was around 13 years old. Focused on crossbows and slingshots, but has a lot of DIY information for HDPE plastic, wood lathe and even forging aluminium.
Stoned Meadow of Doom: Channel posting albums from underground stoner/sludge/doom bands. Some of the bands presented here I found on the channel.