As if it mattered.

Background: There are a couple of excellent posts on Stack Overflow that explain why “error: externally-managed-environment” is thrown when trying to execute pip install -r requirements.txt – in modern Python one must always create a virtual environment for each project so as to install it’s dependencies locally and avoid clashing with Linux’ own package manager. […]

As many others have discovered, I find that background music can be an excellent way to get into ‘the zone’ whilst working, where what you’re doing flows effortlessly from your fingertips and everything just clicks. The only issue I’ve run into is that selecting an album becomes a whole thing in itself, and the fact […]

Just a  quick note to say props to Bandcamp.com (the pre-eminent musicians-selling-their-wares-direct-to-the-fans site), who’ve just published a note to show that they’re significantly profitable and have been for four years. This is the context of a music industry of diminishing sales, shrinking margins and even Apple suggesting that they’re going to get out of the […]

Well well well. In Chrome (Version 27.0.1453.110) just go to google.com and type “fouad el ” into the search field with autocomplete enabled (the default). You’ll find you cannot type anything further nor can you delete and in Chrome’s Activity Monitor window you’ll find that tab taking ~98% CPU. Only route forward is to kill […]