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Only Solutions Tuesday Music
Time to code like it's 1985, all fucked up on soda1 and listening to movie soundtracks:
- TRON soundtrack, by Wendy Carlos & Journey
- Real Genius soundtrack
- Heavy Metal soundtrack
- Lost Boys soundtrack
- St Elmo's Fire soundtrack
- Pretty in Pink soundtrack
- Breakfast Club soundtrack
- 1985, by Bowling for Soup
- Pepsi, which is now ugh. I also drank (still do) very strong tea, just steep breakfast tea until it's undrinkable, then drink. I didn't switch to coffee, Jolt, and Coke until college. ↩
Lessons from 6 Software Rewrite Stories
My take-away is this:
Even at the best case, you burn a giant pile of money and months or years of time to keep customers who were generally happy with your existing product. If you spent half of that cleaning it up step-by-step, you'd have a better product.
PowerSolo Sunday Music
It's super rare to hear a new-to-me band (duo) that just plays good rock 'n roll/rockabilly, and their video/stage act is astounding, like David Byrne all over again:
- Boom Babba Do Ba Dabba (video), by PowerSolo
- Got No Fear (video), by PowerSolo
- Tornado (video), by PowerSolo
- Frantic (video), by PowerSolo
Albums:
- It's Raceday, by PowerSolo
- Egg, by PowerSolo
- Bloodskinbones, by PowerSolo
- Buzzhuman, by PowerSolo
- The Real Sound, by PowerSolo
- Bo Peep, by PowerSolo
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Bookmarklets
I just fixed a bug and re-uploaded these. They're little scripts that sit in a bookmark, like on your favorites bar, and do something useful to the web page. Monochrome Dark & Light change the page style; View Source puts source and plain text in boxes you can easily view and copy-paste from.
Cyberpunk Wasteland Wednesday Music
You Can't Take the Sky from Saturday Music
- Firefly soundtrack, by Greg Edmondson
- Serenity soundtrack, by David Newman
- Stargate soundtrack, by David Arnold
- Best of Stargate SG-1, by Joel Goldsmith
"We're still flyin'. It's enough."
What's Good About Tuesday Music
Life is Short and Love is Always Over in the Morning Monday Music
- Some Girls Wander By Mistake, by Sisters of Mercy
- First and Last and Always, by Sisters of Mercy
- Floodland, by Sisters of Mercy
- Vision Thing, by Sisters of Mercy
- Word to the Wise, by Ghost Dance
- Gods Own Medicine, by The Mission
- Children, by The Mission
- Burning Oil, by Skeletal Family
- The Essential Leonard Cohen