This is a rewrite of Gilles Peterson’s biography, using material found in an interview at the Red Bull Academy, a profile on the BBC’s page, a profile in Le Monde, and his own blog. …

Below is a rewrite of Karizma’s biography on RA, using various materials found on Wikipedia, an interview on RA, an interview on SoundCloud, an interview with Gilles Peterson on MixCloud, and an article in the New Yorker. …

Below is a rewrite of Honey Dijon’s biography as found on SoundCloud, complemented with information found on Wikipedia, an article on Crack Magazine, and another article in the New York Times. …

Below is a rewrite of Theo Parrish’s biography as found on NTS and RA, complemented with information found on Allmusic; an attempt at improving the basics — using the active voice, removing clichés, putting the emphasis on the right places, fixing punctuation and spelling, and generally shortening things — it…

I always have been a relatively fit person — over the years I took part in crossfit, jiujitsu, and strength training. I never focused on fat loss per se because it never had been a problem. And then came 2020, the pandemic, and an awful lot of beer. And let’s…

In a chapter of his book “Spring cannot be cancelled” entitled “La vie française: French Life in the Bohemian Style ”, Martin Gayford takes us back to the first French period of David Hockney, when the artist settled in Paris during the mid-70s. Hockney recounts the time he lived in…

“A Hard Rain’s A‐Gonna Fall”, Christopher Doyle brings up the Bob Dylan lyrics, and continues: “how do you say that in Chinese?”. But it’s 杜可風 that answers: “there’s just no way to translate that properly!”. …

One of my favorite writer on distributed systems lore is Martin Kleppmann. His lectures on the topic are, in my opinion, some the best introductory material available. I’ve also enjoyed reading, and more importantly, re-reading, his article “How to do distributed locking”. As I am currently learning TLA+, it suddenly…