But let's not get ahead of ourselves. My top 14 albums of 2021, including
FOUR bands I've never heard of, three at 10, 9, and 8:
- 14. Sting - The Bridge
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Sting is back! He's always been all over the map, up and down: whether solo or with The Police, sometimes I can't stand what he's doing, sometimes I love it. This album is pretty good!
DRM-free FLAC
stream with Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and ads on YouTube - 13. The Neal Morse Band - Innocence and Danger
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Neal Morse and friends make their first appearance...
- 12. Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe
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#12 is... Neal Morse and friends! some of the same friends as #13. Some different friends. and they recorded TWO VERSIONS of this one! So that's actually... > 3 hours of Neal Morse and friends :)
- 11. Magnus Karlsson - Heart Healer: The Metal Opera
- 10. Wheel - Resident Human
- 9. Metalite - A Virtual World
- 8. Slizard
- 7. Gamma Ray - 30 Years Live
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This is also #3 from "Top 3 Live or Collections of 2021" is Gamma Ray's amazing new live album.
- 6. Helloween - Helloween
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The triumphant return of both Hansen and Kiske!
\m/
- 5. Joe Bonamassa - Time Clocks
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How does this man put out so many albums?! And why are they all great?!?!
- 4. Liquit Tension Experiment 3
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In any other year this would surely be #1. We had to wait 22 years for LTE3 but it was WORTH IT. >This is also Mike Portnoy's third appearance in the list!
- 3. Dream Theater - A View From the Top of the World
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Dream Theater actually produced a good album for the first time since Portnoy's long-ago departure.
- 2. Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
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Iron Maiden in 2000: Hell, we're Iron Maiden! We can have three guitarists from now on!
Iron Maiden in 2021: Hell, we're Iron Maiden! We can release double albums from now on!
- 1. Frost* - Day and Age
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Never heard of these guys before 2021 but this was ALBUM OF THE YEAR. (I had to make my own playlist for this one because youtube corrupted the official one)
Programming topics
- A Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup (2004)
- The C Family of Languages: Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling (2000)
- gsh - A POSIX shell for Windows
- GNUnet
- Meshtastic
- My old friend John Goerzen writes extensively on these topics:
- Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers)
- A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)
- Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now
- Roundup of Unique Data/Storage Hosting Options
- Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP
- Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network
- Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances
[A C hook] has been swinging back and forth for a very, very long time. How long was it rubbing against the hangar bracket? The answer is that we don't know. we think it is about 97 (!) years old, but we're not sure because PG&E (the electric company that owns the lines) didn't keep records about it. [PG&E] kept no records.
Programming topics
- FreeTechBooks
- FreeComputerBooks.com
- Real World OCaml
- The Killected Kode Vicious - just some book i came across... is it interesting?
- What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
- FlatBuffers
- Fleece
- Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction - May 12, 2016
- Rust and SPARK: Software Reliability for Everyone
- AWS Lambda as build cluster
- Solving the Generalized Streaming Iterator Problem without GATs - i think this talks about the problems i had with my iterator. i still don't have the answer yet. assuming just waiting for "GAT" isn't my answer, probably need to read this article a few dozen times.
- Higher-Rank Trait Bounds - more of that
- Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now
- Long-Range Radios: A Perfect Match for Unix Protocols From The 70s
- TCP/IP over LoRa radios
- serving email in 2021 - it's been over 5 years since i became mobile-only on personal email and stopped maintaining my own mail infrastructure. but with the gloves coming off of big tech it may be time to start thinking about it again
- External Addresses No Longer Use Gmail SMTP Servers - what the hell. Apparently this happened seven years ago, but i missed it. I guess it really has been a long time since I tried to add a "send-as" alias. I should count myself lucky my old ones are grandfathered in. And i should get off gmail ASAP.
- Fluence
- Vultr
- Migadu email hosting
- Liquid Web
- Stage0 Bootstrap
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GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the GNU System. Since version 0.22 it has again helped to halve the size of opaque, uninspectable binary seeds that are currently being used in the Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap of GNU Guix. The final goal is to help create a full source bootstrap as part of the bootstrappable builds effort for UNIX-like operating systems.
- mrustc - Rust compiler written in C++
- FreeBSD Handbook Ch. 20
- Tuning guide on FreeBSD wiki
- I want to be an American fun guy taking each day in high gear. --Vic Ferrari, 1981. I made an image macro on imgflip... need to find and link it
- "I love coffee", sings Jim. This seems to have been lost from various copies of this episode floating around, but this one has it intact.
Amazing! Some have even had OCR work.
- The Digital A.N.A.L.O.G. Project
- Computer Gaming World Museum
- Classic Computer Game Magazine Archive - a bunch of Atari magazines, including full archive of Antic
Still unpacked! And the screen door's already broken...
Owen and William were so excited we had a new set. They're exicted about any Lego set, though; this one has no special significance to them.
We build it tomorrow!