Something of a music theme in this issue. My interview is with Sefi Carmel of Spheretrax, a new take on selecting, synchronising, and licensing music for TV, films, and games. I also look at what “noise” really is, ancient music software, the continuing sage of Terraform, the end of Google, and maybe one of the most famous Rock and roll fights of all time.
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The end of the Googleverse →Is Google’s business model coming to an end? Or are they just changing?
Is Terraform still open-source? Yes, but… →OpenTF promises to fill the gap now (maybe) left behind by Terraform. But what are those gaps?
“I made my first album on that actually,” he reveals. I used it long after I should have stopped using it.” →Turns out I wasn’t the only one to use an obscure piece of music software on an Amiga. I have famous company.
A Well-tempered History of Noise →What is noise? Different cultures make music differently, and different genres have different concepts of “good”. As always, it’s in the ear of the beholder.
"Never call me your drummer again": remembering the time Charlie Watts punched Mick Jagger in the face →A year on from Charlie Watts’ sad passing, the world fondly remembers the late Stones drummer’s shy, slightly retiring nature: never one to give interviews unless absolutely necessary, and - for the most part - unimpressed by the trappings of the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle.
Paul Kuijf of learned.io, Wine, filter bubbles, and what is meat?
The Tactigon, academic scandal, and gaming colonialism
Responsible AI with Shlomi Hod, the weird web and fax on the beach
Kin Lane the API evangelist, Linux revisited, and the lost story of Wolfenstein
5GTechritory, Y2K, BitTorrent, Monopoly, and future gazing
Chronosphere and fixing the internet, air conditioning and calculators
Raj Dutt of Grafana, Brave, WeWork, and Football manager
A fantasy Greek perfect for your eyes
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The Apache Software Foundation, UNIX at 50 and the story of a floating hotel
Leemon Baird of Hedera Hashgraph, Wendys Horror, and GNU Start
The Vermont Remote Workers Grant, Docker, Boeing, ICE and Thomas Jefferson
The nerd legacy
Xinshu Dong of RockX, Unix, the history of commuting and words
Sky Guo of Cypherium, loss in the age of the cloud and fantasy islands
Product Hunt award winner Krisp.ai, Ctrl+Alt+Del and HarmonyOS
Putting Blockchain in hotel rooms with Réda Berrehili of the Ki Foundation
Quantum Jerks - Brilliant Puppies, Pompeii, and what's so good about Medium?
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IOST Blockchain, downplaying air travel, computer sound design and JPEG joy
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