Oh here is a fun one. Youtube provides creators with a list of "copyright free" songs they can put in their videos. Turns out, one of their "copyright free" songs has a sample from a song from 1956 owned, in part, by Warner Brothers, Sony, and three other record companies:

I deeply appreciated this clear set of ten guidelines to help new contributors get started in any open project. Seems there's a lot of wisdom here for software teams in the workplace as well.

 

Rule 1: Be welcoming [...]

Rule 2: Help potential contributors evaluate if the project is a good fit [...]

Rule 3: Make governance explicit [...]

Rule 4: Keep knowledge up to date and findable [...]

Behind every complaint is a desire, and so the name of the game is my attention is this magic wand, and whatever I put it on grows. And that’s like friendship and love and music and fashion and exercise and consciousness and strength and beauty and sex and flowers and nature and traveling and family and honesty and…

One thing I have been trying to do this autumn is stop and appreciate every leaf that catches my eye. I mean, I'm not taking photos of every one. Instead, just stop and be thankful for this little transient miracle that fell to earth.

Tonight I finally got my first prototype filter mocked up for the 8 bit VCO. Okay, technically that's not true, I've made four separate output filters so far. But they've all had problems one way or another.

The first one, a passive filter, was just too rough. Second one was alright but I lost my paper with the component values on it. Easier to just design it all over again.