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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • I had a bass teacher early on that recorded about 4 notes onto a cassette, played very slowly and repeated several times. He then sort of coached me through guessing a note on the neck at random while he played it back and I would adjust higher or lower from there.

    These days I mostly do the same thing, but after memorizing the line enough to hum it out loud or in my head. I can usually play most of not all of a song of mediumish difficultly (most popular rock songs) within a single playthrough, assuming the parts are straightforward and repetitious. More involved tunes might require a few playthroughs.

    I will sometimes go to YouTube for really complicated stuff or when the bass part is harder to make out.


  • I generally use ‘count’ for a counter and ‘idx’ for index.

    I’m not using C or Java languages though - if I were I would probably go with the more classic terse approach.

    Also, if I’m reviewing a PR and I have to load more of the diff context to understand what a variable represents, then that variable has the wrong name.