Readit Newskmewhort commented on Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician the.scapegoat.dev/turning... · Posted by u/larve
I've been making music for 20 years, just noodling mostly. I've made some tracks that friends of mine love, but I don't want to do it professionally. I just enjoy the relaxation involved.
In about 2003 I tried something very similar, except I time boxed a song. I had to spend an hour and a half and each song could only take 15 minutes. That ended up being incredibly fruitful.
You don't have time to think, you just go stream of consciousness through whatever comes to mind. Drums are weird? Too bad, there is no time, go with it. Throw in a 8 bar synth or piano loop. It's not good? Well, there isn't much time so on to the next thing.
This ended doing a few things for me. For one, there was no second guessing anything. You just made what you made. For two there was no pressure to do a good job. You can't do a good job you are just rushing through. That lets things just flow. Thirdly it allowed me to try a ton of things that I wouldn't normally try. There was no wrong answer. All three are kinda related.
I made some of my favorite songs that way and they are songs I still love. I later applied this to writing a technical book. I forced myself to write for 5 minutes a day, everyday. Sometimes it'd be 2 hours and other times it'd be 5 minutes but I got the book done and it became pretty popular. (also had a monetary penalty if I couldn't write on any particular day).
I really love this way of working. Just time box and go.
How did you apply a monetary penalty to yourself?
kmewhort commented on Show HN: I wrote a children's book in 1 day using DALL-E 2 drive.google.com/file/d/1... · Posted by u/kmewhort
Thanks for sharing, hope it's okay that I wrote about it on my blog! https://robotspaint.com/this-guy-wrote-a-kids-book-with-an-a...
Absolutely, and thanks!
kmewhort commented on Show HN: I wrote a children's book in 1 day using DALL-E 2 drive.google.com/file/d/1... · Posted by u/kmewhort
Very neat! I was thinking about this the other day and waiting eagerly to get my Dalle access :)
btw, curious about your revenue from amazon ebook. Can you share any details about that?
It was just released yesterday and I've only sold a few copies -- so not much to report on the overall revenue front yet!
In terms of the profit margins though, Amazon KDP lets you choose the sale price for each region, and they take a royalty and deduct the printing cost.
This book costs $3.65 USD to print (which I believe is on the high side...I'm making it available as a largish 8.25x8.25", on glossy paper). I'm selling it for $8.99 in the US. Amazon takes a 40% cut. At first glance I thought this would mean I get a royalty of (8.99-3.65)0.6 = $3.204 per copy; but, alas, it's actually calculated as (0.68.99)-3.65= $1.744 per copy.
kmewhort commented on Show HN: Git.Green – Deep analysis of your code and contributors git.green... · Posted by u/kmewhort
My aim is to provide lot's of ways to dive into the amount work that has been done on a project, and it's overall health. This tool also analyses the authorship and the libraries/licenses.
In sum -- Git.Green tries to give you a ton of useful for an audit, due diligence, contractor check-up, or general project health check.
kmewhort commented on License now displayed on repository overview github.com/blog/2252-lice... · Posted by u/joeyespo
This is nice, but the way they gather license data has
serious limitations if it hasn't improved in the last year.
This is tough problem to solve given how many different ways projects have to declare licenses. I run a project called git.legal and we do ALL of the following, but still don't quite a get a 100% hit rate of finding a project's license:
1. Check for a license declaration in package manager metadata (eg. package.json)
2. Check for a license.txt file or try to parse out a readme's license section, and do a full-text diff against known licenses
3. Check the readme for an extensive set of regular expressions matching known license identifiers and common declarations such as "licensed under ...".
4. Check for a consistent license declaration in project source file headers
This gets about a 97% hit rate, but even for "hits" it's sometimes unclear what specific license version a project is under. For example, many projects just say "licensed under MIT"...but "MIT" isn't a specific license. There are several versions of it and there's no way to know which version the author intends to use for the project. That might be a minute point, but this all adds up to a lot of uncertainty around licensing.
So, project authors, please use metadata and include a specific version :)
I then destroyed it all. Then restored from a backup pocket universe...that was my favourite...a snippet:
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