News: Ableton Push 3

About Ableton have just announced they have a new version of their Push controller Ableton Push 3 Standalone There are 2 configurations Push 3 Standalone Push 3 £1,669 £879 Use Push as a standalone instrument Connect Push to your computer 64 expressive pads 64 expressive pads Built-in audio interface Built-in audio interface Intel 11th Gen Core™ i3-1115G4 processor with 8GB of RAM Add a processor, battery and hard drive later using the Upgrade Kit - £879 (available late 2023) Built-in lithium battery with up to 2.5 hours play time Built-in 256GB SSD hard drive Replace processor, battery and hard drive as technology improves Full Comparison https://www.ableton.com/en/push/tech-specs/#compare-configurations-for-push YouTube Videos Introducing Push 3: An expressive standalone instrument 5 Cool Features of ABLETON PUSH 3

Speechify - best text to speech app

Speechify is a mobile and desktop app that reads text aloud using a computer generated text to speech voice. The app also uses optical character recognition technology to turn physical books or printed text into audio. The app lets users take photos of text and then listen to it read out loud.

OpenAI release ChatGPT app (iOS)

OpenAI have just released a new ChatGPT app which syncs your conversations, supports voice input, and brings our latest model improvements to your fingertips. Download on the App Store The ChatGPT app is free to use and syncs your history across devices. It also integrates Whisper, an open-source speech-recognition system, enabling voice input. ChatGPT Plus subscribers get exclusive access to GPT-4’s capabilities, early access to features and faster response times, all on iOS. ...

AWS Summit London (2023) - Agenda now available

The AWS Summit London agenda is now available Plan your day & get ready to explore technical sessions, hands-on workshops & keynotes https://go.aws/3OnFKZa

Worst User Interfaces

Sunday read. This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit. I think the winners are: 1/ Enter your phone number pic.twitter.com/944duji1Im — Aleksandr Volodarsky (@volodarik) May 14, 2023

Mac Homebrew packages

Essential bat - Linux “cat” command alternative with syntax highlighting glow - Markdown reader htop - Top clone with syntax highlighting and mouse support jq - sed for JSON data jupyter - JupyterHub notebooks k9s - Monitor Kubernetes resources pyenv - Python version management python - Python (3.11) terraform - Terraform tfswitch - Switch Terraform versions (warrensbox/tap/tfswitch) tree - View folders and files in a visual tree (tree -L ) wget - Download files yq - Lightweight and portable command-line YAML, JSON and XML processor Others django - Python Web framework glances - Console (and web) based server monitoring tool httpie - A curl-like tool to interact with HTTP servers lnav - Explore and troubleshoot cryptic log files midnight-commander - File explorer mtr - A package that combines ping and traceroute into a single tool with superpowers to isolate networking issues navi - Interactive cheatsheet tool ncdu - Disk space analyzer, find big files & directories npm - Node Package Manager pytorch - machine learning framework based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing ranger - Directory / file explorer providing an easier way to find files via the terminal snappy - compression/decompression library aiming for high speed speedtest-cli - Test upload/download speed task - A todo app tensorflow - free and open-source software library for machine learning and artificial intelligence tmux - Run multiple terminal sessions within the same window youtube-dl - YouTube downloader Related Pages Mac Applications & Utilities

Notion

Notion is a productivity and note-taking app which offers organizational tools including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, bookmarking, and more.

General Links

Technology Linus Tech Tips - Consumer technology & video production TED - Talks on Technology, Entertainment & Design Podcasts Joe Rogan - The Joe Rogan Experience podcast is a long form conversation hosted by comedian Joe Rogan with friends and guests that have included comedians, actors, musicians, MMA fighters, authors, artists, and beyond Lex Fridman - Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power PBD Podcast - The PBD Podcast is hosted by Patrick Bet-David where he discusses a wide range of topics from business to current events, politics and sports Personal Blogs Nicely formatted blogs ...

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China syncs monkey brain with a computer

Chinese researchers claim to have successfully conducted the “world’s first” brain-computer interface (BCI) experiment on a monkey https://interestingengineering.com/science/china-syncs-monkey-brain-with-a-computer

DevOps Books

A list of recommended DevOps books … DevOps The DevOps Handbook The Phoenix Project Containers Docker Docker Deep Dive Kubernetes Kubernetes: Up and Running The Kubernetes Book IaC Terraform Terraform: Up and Running: Writing Infrastructure as Code Linux Linux in a Nutshell Programming Bash Learning the bash Shell C/C++ The C Programming Language Golang Introducing Go Learning Go Perl Learning Perl Mastering Perl Programming Perl Python Dive Into Python SQL Learning SQL