I recently found that the number one search result on Google for "muppet balls" alternates between this blog and my tumblelog. I've read many times that the key to success in marketing is to target a niche and own it. Between this blog and my tumblelog, this is what I've done with "Muppet balls." Having tasted the sweet nectar of market segment domination, I can tell you, it's a worthy endeavor. Yes. Sweet nectar. From balls. Whatever.
Determined to leverage this incredible power, I extracted some useful code from a post on live-coding music with Ruby and set about my plan for world conquest. Behold the terrible power of Invader Giles:
Update: Nicolás Sanguinetti clues me in. Apparently you can in fact just do this:
say "muppet balls"
and get the same result. (But now you can also do it programmatically, without system() calls or backticks.)
Are you a hacker who likes to make music? You know how you feel precise control when you write code you understand, but you have to filter your understanding of your music through oversimplified GUIs which sometimes have terrible UX? I made a series of videos which teaches you how to write music sequencing software in Node.js and CoffeeScript. When I do it, I experience a clarity which makes it easy for me to make more exciting sounds. You may have the same experience. Upcoming episodes will also teach you how to use simple probabilistic artificial intelligence to write code which writes its own music (which I've already done in Ruby).
