Weinberg's Standardized Drumset Notation in Musescore

Here is a Musescore drumset file that configures the drumset engraving in Musescore to conform to Norman Weinberg's Guide to Standardized Drumset Notation:

• Full drum set

While in drum note entry mode, this file can be loaded by clicking Edit Drumset → Load.… »

Diagram of important Steven Universe episodes

Steven Universe is a critically acclaimed Cartoon Network animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar.

Spoiler warning: No major spoilers, but some discussion of plot progression and foreshadowing.

The diagram below shows all 160 episodes of the main series classified by importance, showing the main… »

Review: Kmart/Anko CM5013-SA espresso machine

The Anko CM5013-SA is a home brand manual espresso machine from Kmart Australia, which caught my eye for its low, low price of AU$89. The machine has made somewhat of a splash online, with consumer affairs magazine CHOICE reporting that it outperformed a $949 machine… »

Using selenium to scrape/import bank transactions for ledger-cli

Ledger is a powerful command-line plain-text double-entry bookkeeping system, with the capacity to import transactions from CSV files. In America, many banks provide APIs to access transaction feeds, which can be then directly imported into Ledger. However, in Australia, this is not the case.

Some… »

A review of Australian parliamentary drafting styles

Thank you to Toby for enabling my bad ideas (viz. writing this post), and thank you to COVID-19 for giving me the time to follow through.

As someone who winds up doing a lot of legal-adjacent¹ drafting,² I spend a fair amount of… »

LMMS MIDI percussion base note table

The table below shows LMMS instrument ‘base notes’ such that setting the base note will cause A4 (the default ‘percussion’ note) to play the corresponding General MIDI percussion sound. This is of particular relevance to soundfont synthesiers set to the percussion bank.