Using NVDA, I can't hear what the default colours are in Firefox's built-in "color picker" (that pops up on an <input type="color">). I can use cursor keys to move between the default colours (👍) but it won't tell me what each one actually is. It could use the CSS names for the 48 default colours. #accessbility#firefox
Do you get frustrated by all the talk of coffee and #scales? Don't have a 0.1g scale of your own?
Here's a handy tip: a slightly rounded tablespoon of #pourover ground coffee is 7g of coffee, +/- .2g. A flat tablespoon of espresso ground coffee is 7g.
If you have a measuring cup, start with the ratio of 1tbsp coffee per 100ml of water used. That puts you in the 1:14 ratio for brewed coffee, our preference at CoffeeGeek.
Where Triumph over Time distilled the ideas of “professional” (read, sold to businesses) #ProjectManagement, #Agile, and #PersonalProductivity without getting into a tactical system, this book seeks to be a pragmatic and practical way to apply the ideas in Triumph over Time.
Not the system, but a system.
Would a book like that interest you?
And, what one thing (or question) would you like to glean (or ask) of such a book?
Finally got around to updating #mastodon to the latest version after....far too long! Bad me.
I'm also thinking of migrating it from my #cloud#VPS provider to a Dell OptiPlex 7040 in my office which has a more reliable internet connection than our #rv!
It's not the beefiest server, but is more powerful than my little 2 vCPU 8GB #hetzner box. Could do with some more memory though - will bump the 7040 from 8GB to 32GB before I migrate.
@steely_glint oh, no issue whatsoever. As with anything like this, there's a fixed overhead to just running the various services, so at least on small servers, your load doesn't scale proportionally to the number of users.
I should also add that I'm sure you could get away with far fewer resources than I'm using. I've deliberately tuned it to make it maximally performant and learn about how it #scales - e.g. multiple #sidekiq processes, multiple #mastodon processes, more memory for postgres etc
There are 12 notes in an octave, separated by half-tones. Say you choose 7 of these notes to be in your scale. Then there are 792 possible scales. But a lot of them are pretty goofy.
So suppose the space between consecutive notes in your scale is never bigger than a whole tone. Then there are only 21 allowed scales!
These scales must have 2 consecutive notes a half-tone apart, and 5 a whole-tone apart. For example the major scale has spaces like this:
w w h w w w h
This is why there's a group of 2 black keys on the piano and then a group of 3. By cycling this pattern around we get a total of 7 scales, called the modes of the major scale.
But the melodic minor scale is not among these, because it has spaces like this:
w h w w w w h
If we designed the piano with this scale in mind, it would have a group of 1 black key and then a group of 4. By cycling this pattern around we get 7 more scales, called the modes of the melodic minor scale.
There are also 7 scales where the two half-tone steps are right next to each other, like this:
w h h w w w w
But these are more awkward, and less commonly used.
The 7 modes of the major scale have standard names, listed here. Ionian is just another name for the major scale itself.
The 7 modes of the melodic minor scale have lots of different names, and in some cases I'm not even using the most common names! For example, nobody ever talks about "Ionian ♭3" - everyone calls it melodic minor, or 'melodic minor ascending' to be precise. But I'm using names that emphasize how you can get these modes by slightly tweaking the modes of the major scale. You get melodic minor by flatting the third note in Ionian.
Weird #scales aren't usually in my #MusicTheory wheelhouse (they're way more popular among the hardcore jazzers and theorists) but by accident I happen to know an example of the scales you're asking about!
They're modes of so-called "Locrian Major" (which wikipedia says is sometimes called the "Arabian Scale", but I would avoid that terminology since I've also seen people use it to mean "Double Harmonic Major"). Here C Locrian Major is (up to enharmonics):
C D E F F# G# A# C
Though it's probably "more correct" to write
C D E F Gb Ab Bb C
to view it as an altered locrian.
They also come up as modes of the "Leading Whole Tone" scale, which (as you might guess) is a whole tone scale with the leading tone thrown in:
C D E F# G# A# B C
Back before I realized that this kind of modal experimentation wasn't really for me, I tried to write a piano piece in locrian major, and I remember it being really hard for me to handle how closely related it was to the leading whole tone scale -- it made my sense of tonic really hard to maintain.
I would volunteer to share it, but I've shared almost none of my music online, and I'm not sure a piece from 6 years ago that I thought was bad when I wrote it is the first impression I want to have :P
Regardless, hopefully you find this interesting! If nothing else it's a keyword to google ^_^