Mt. Fuji in the distance during our roadtrip from Mishima to Gujo.
Mt. Fuji in the Distance
Roland JV-1080 and XV-5080 in the Cloud
I’ve been out of the music scene for a while now. Since moving to Tokyo a year and a half ago, I’ve started a new career path, and I don’t have much time to pay attention to the music industry anymore. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a keyboard programming project for a school in Taipei, which required a few classic rompler1 sounds.
How to Sample Virtual Instruments in MainStage with Auto Sampler
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to sample virtual software instruments with Auto Sampler in Apple MainStage and Logic Pro X. Auto Sampler allows you to recreate virtual instruments inside EXS24, MainStage’s native sampler plugin. Compared to other resource-heavy plugins like Native Instruments Kontakt and Spectrasonics Omnisphere, EXS24 offers a stripped-down experience that is perfect for live performance where system stability is critical.
The Best External SSDs for Music Production
In this post, you’ll learn about the best external SSDs for music production. These fast and reliable solid-state drives are well-suited for streaming large sample libraries, real-time recording, project archival, and more.
How to Automate File Uploads to Google Cloud Storage with Python
Recently, I decided to move my blog’s images off of GitHub. I enjoy sharing photos from my travels, and my uploads folder was close to hitting GitHub’s repo limit of 1 GB. Since I had some free time over the holidays, I challenged myself to come up with an easy way to upload images to Google Cloud Storage using the Python SDK. Please keep in mind I only started learning Python two months ago, so the code shared in this post isn’t perfect, but it works.
Switching from WordPress to Hugo
I started this blog six years ago, and except for a few short months where I migrated to Medium (all the cool kids were using it), WordPress has been my CMS of choice. Back in 2013, I was still in university, and had no idea how to start a blog. I just knew I wanted to start a blog, and I wanted to own the content. After a few Google searches, I found WordPress, and the rest is history.
ICON Governance, Vote Distribution, and Reducing I-Rep
Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen several P-Reps use I-Rep as a marketing tool to attract more votes. The pitch is always the same - ICX inflation is spiraling out of control, and lowering I-Rep to 40,000 will solve the “problem”. This situation is an extremely slippery slope, and I urge all ICONists to think about the side effects of lowering I-Rep at this time.
The Dangers of P-Rep Reward Sharing in the ICON Ecosystem
Recently, there have been many discussions regarding P-Rep reward sharing in various ICON discussion channels. Specifically, ICONists are concerned about P-Rep teams offering high reward shares that augment the protocol-level rewards, in exchange for votes. In this post, we’ll discuss why P-Rep reward sharing and voter bribery are detrimental to the ICON ecosystem. Before we discuss additional rewards, let’s quickly go over ICON’s protocol-level reward structure. In exchange for staking and delegating ICX, ICONists can receive a 2-12% reward per year per category.
Zerononcense Thinks Substratum "Deserves a Break From the Crypto Community"
Earlier today, James Edwards (a.k.a. Zerononcense, ProofOfResearch, CryptoMedication, etc.) released a statement titled “$SUB Deserves a Break From the Crypto Community” on his Telegram channel. Similar to Edwards’ previous inaccurate accusations regarding my affiliation with Torque Ventures (there is no affiliation in reality), his latest round of nonsense is also, unsurprisingly, littered with inaccuracies – once again, laughably ironic for someone who calls himself “ProofOfResearch”. Below is Edwards’ statement about Substratum.
Seoul Is Going All in on Blockchain
Earlier today, CoinDesk published an article that highlighted the upcoming establishment of Seoul’s “first blockchain-based administrative services” later this year in November. According to CoinDesk, “three priorities were set for completion by the November deadline” - a blockchain-based reward system that utilizes “S-Coin” for payments, a blockchain service for “submitting qualifications without paper documents,” and an enhancement of the ICONLOOP-designed blockchain-based citizen card to “enable digital authentication for the use of public services”.