Pro jazz trombonist here. All there is to usefully say about piano roll notation, with or without colours has pretty much already been said. And if you want more (much more) detail, then Tantacrul (designer on MuseScore) has done a great video.
The only useful head's up I can give is the current position marker on your playback is quite a long way behind the audio, around 1-2 beats on the one piece I tried.
There's a reason why I call BDD a Billion Dollar Disaster. I've not yet seen a Cucumber or equivalent suite not permanently broken on a mature codebase. Typically a dedicated testing team will fight tooth and nail that this is what the customer needs, even though nobody from the business side has ever looked or wants to look at the test definitions or even the output. Then of course it can't match changes to app behaviour and some poor sod has to go in periodically to fix it up after the fact.
BDD in whatever implemenation is a gigantic waste of everyone's time.
Is it me or does the browser feel like the wrong level for this sort of helper? MS have the right idea in doing it at the OS level, it's just their implementation sucks becuase of the non-trivial security implications.
That said, they're mostly full training programs i guess, while what Workout.cool or the old Workout.lol project needs is more at the "individual exercise level" let's say. Videos, metadata, structure, etc.
If they ever open-source a library of exercise videos with clear licensing, that could definitely help yep
But I think that's my major issue with the app as I understand it.
Starting by choosing which muscle to work is a really odd choice. If you're novice enough that you don't know which movements to choose then you're also likely to not know which are the most effective muscles to target for your goals.
Then the app gives you a bunch of exercises to target that one muscle, but doesn't tell you which other muscles the exercise also targets. Or any clues on suitable weights or rep ranges, never mind progression. It also seems it's suggesting doing all the suggested movements. I picked barbell and pecs and it gave me three exercises. Then, even more weirdly, I came in again to write this comment and selecting the same options it gave me a different set of three exercises. First time around it didn't even suggest barbell bench press - the most obvious and common exercises for that muscle and equipment. That's all really confusing and un-obvious.
Being able to pick a template programme and tweak from there seems a much friendlier way of getting started.
> They resisted this change for years, but eventually gave in and fixed it.
I believe that one big reason for that is that it was not trivial to get with the quality they wanted. I respect the fact that they "resisted" instead of just adding some bad implementation for the sake of it.
I've been using it as my daily dev machine for ~5 years now.
As per the article, the usability tradeoffs are considerable. But the separation of domains into separate VMs is really lovely. If nothing else, having a separate VM per client just feels "right". No intermingling of code and, even more importantly, secrets or credentials or even comms. Being able to use the same physical machine for personal stuff as well as work is also a bonus.
If the consultancy takes off, I can indeed imagine my writing taking a back seat (I'm assuming Bile Blog just stopped writing and didn't sell out). Now that I pay rent through sales and engineering, taking time off to write is hard to justify. If we manage to hit our goals and I still have time in my week, the writing will continue. We're not going to scale indefinitely, though I think we may end up hiring a few people so that we can be eligible to fix government systems.
A friendly word of warning - I also re-implemented the GOV.UK design system for my form builder SaaS and stood up a demo form showing off the components in a real multi-step form. All the questions were literally "This is question 1" and "This is what a radio group question with a heading looks like" but Google's bots eventually found it and flagged my entire domain on the phishing lists because it thought it was trying to impersonate a real government service. It was an utter shit-show trying to get Google to undo their stupidity, all whilst my customers couldn't access their services.
I put up a dumb password prompt at the start of the journey (with the password given on the page) and haven't been flagged again since :fingerscrossed:
Oof, thanks, I'll bear that in mind! The docs page has been up for a year or so without any issues but if I put up a more fully-featured demo I'll be careful
https://youtu.be/Eq3bUFgEcb4?si=lcjA8fF4e3dINvmX
The only useful head's up I can give is the current position marker on your playback is quite a long way behind the audio, around 1-2 beats on the one piece I tried.