Don’t stress, use the right gear for the job

Whilst I consider myself an audiophile, I also like to think I’m a pragmatist i.e. best of both worlds: don’t go over the top with snake oil gear but at the same time recognise that sound quality plays a pivotal role on how I listen and enjoy music.

As developers, we use various ways to relax, in my case music plays ...

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Hierarchy of perceptions

I was thinking of the old conundrum of how we perceive the objective world or reality - it’s always through our limited sensory organs. Then is has to be processed: some small latency in the brain, maybe some evolutionary heuristics, our genetic background, etc. after all this we get a tainted fragment the world.

We ...

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Tips: macOS save screenshots as JPEG in a different location

I'm not really sure why taking screenshots in macOS defaults to PNG file format. I just googled this and the "answer" was:

>MacOS captures screenshots using PNG as the default image format, which provides lossless compression and preserves image quality while creating relatively small files.

OK - I can understand ...

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