Each page of this document contains a small text, words to use for replacement, and a possible answer for self-check. Feel free to use them for your preparations and good luck at your exam!
Each page of this document contains a small text, words to use for replacement, and a possible answer for self-check. Feel free to use them for your preparations and good luck at your exam!
mkdir which I found a bit surprising.
As you know, -p makes mkdir ignore if directory already exists:
-p, --parents
no error if existing, make parent directories as needed
it works fine for symbolic link too as shown here:
$ mkdir target
$ ln -s target link
$ mkdir -p link
$ echo $?
0
$ ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 sergey sergey 4096 Jan 6 18:35 .
drwxr-x--- 15 sergey sergey 4096 Jan 6 18:34 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 sergey sergey 6 Jan 6 18:35 link -> target
drwxr-xr-x 2 sergey sergey 4096 Jan 6 18:35 target
$
however, and that is what surprised me at first, if a link happens to be a broken link, the -p stops working:
$ rmdir target
$ mkdir -p link
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘link’: File exists
After some thinking, I realize that there can be no way to ignore existing directory as the only object we have is a link pointing nowhere, is it a directory? Or a file? So the fact that it fails should not have been so surprising. On the other hand, the error message could have been a bit more informative.
]]>As a regular Spotify user, I was always a bit frustrated by the lack of the way off seeing “what’s new”. Yeah, they have “new releases” section, but it shows either something similar to what I have seen before, or some popular stuff. What I do sometimes want to have is just a raw stream of stuff being released, including the one from producers like me.
I remember the time when Yandex Music had something similar, but now it’s gone. Spotify seems to be not willing to provide this raw feed either. But why? I guess it goes against their goals of having an “average listener” spending as much time on the platform as possible. Sadly, it means that a lot of lesser known producers hardly get a chance to get heard.
So, this new service, which I named, hopefully aptly enough, “Unknown Music”, through the use of Spotify API, maintains a small (a few thousand) selection of albums and randomly presents 8 of them to the user. It is by no means a complete feed, but, rather, a hopefully representative sample of new stuff.
Is it actually useful? Well, for me it is, I have already enriched my playlist with quite a few gems that I would have never discovered otherwise. Thus let me invite you to have a look as well!
Feel free to have a listen on Spotify, YouTube or any other platform.
]]>The three songs are “Passers By”, “Closure” and “Talk To Me”.
I started working on the album in December 2023, made 6 drafts, 3 of which ended up as masters. The release on the platforms happened on the 29th of June. Two mics were bought and adjustments had to be made to my room to ensure adequate recording environment.
All in all, I’m reasonably satisfied with the results. Which means that I find them quite reflective of my current level.
Feel free to search for ClipsAndPatters - Passers By on the platform of your choice, below is the link to YouTube. Follow, like, subscribe or do any other buzzy thing of your choice.
]]>This is how you solve it:
git clean -f -d
this little beast removes all untracked files, including directories, forcefully.
Importantly, it works in the scope of your current directory (which is not necessarily the root of your repo). Therefore, to make the untracked files removed from every corner of your repo, you run it while being in the repo’s root.
If it sounds a bit too scary, run git clean -f -d -n (the -n means “dry run”, makes it only print out what it would remove). Example:
$ git clean -f -d -n
Would remove 2022-07-19-vega-visualization-performance-benchmark.md_upd
Would remove 2024-02-20-how-to-clean-your-git-working-directory.md
Would remove 2024-02-20-how-to-disable-permission-tracking-in-git.md
What about staged but not yet commited files? If you have a file in staging area, it’s already considered “tracked” and therefore will not be removed. Proof:
$ touch example_to_hide_in_staging.txt
$ git clean -f -d -n
Would remove example_to_hide_in_staging.txt
$ git add example_to_hide_in_staging.txt
$ git clean -f -d -
$
Have fun!
]]>Enough goggling, this is the command that makes my repo chmod-resistant:
git config core.fileMode false
After you’ve run it, you will not see the changes in permissions of files (i.e. after chmodding) as modifications recognized by Git.
]]>Basically, it allows you, with one midi source, make several sounds played. In my case, I find it rather useful with synths like TTS-1 and Roland Sound Canvas.
Feel free to get the plugin here: https://github.com/hq9000/reaper_tools/blob/master/js/midi_copy_to_channels.js
More on that in the video below.
]]>It’s a massive 512 pages book, downloadable as pdf, composed of 95 “stories” highlighting parts of the german vocabulary corresponding to B1 level. Used chatGPT for that, and it was fun, though annoying at times, when it was randomly changing its responses to very similar prompts.
One possible way to work with this book is to study 1-2 “stories” a day. The stories come with tables highlighting the necessary words with translations into english and russian.
Feel free to download this german b1 vocabulary trainer.
Also feel free to check the github project.