This post explains how to create a picture of palindromic years.
Tags: ImageMagick, palindrome, rev, reverse, shuf, shuffle, random, permutation
Normally, it is quiet easy to convert video files to a different format. However, now and then you need some extra parameters.
Tags: linux, video, youtube-dl, ffmpeg
Harmalysis is a command line tool used for harmonic analysis based on the roman numeral notation system used for interpreting chords and chord sequences.
Tags: music, harmony, chords, harmalysis
Markdown is a lightweight markup language which makes web page editing more flexible than html editing. However, this comes with a price: markdown does not support complex html structures. In some cases, post processing may help.
Some people feel understandably very annoyed when their name is misspelled. Eliot is just one example of a spelling frustration clarified on the internet.
If you want to print a long list of words, it is better to format the word list into columns, otherwise you will print out one column pages, thus wasting a lot of paper. The command pr can be a helpful tool.
Tags: linux, pr, expand, soffice, pdf
The Unix tool comm is an interesting tool to compare list files. You can show the lines common to both files, or the lines appearing only in one of the two selected files.
There are many major, minor and other types of chords in Western music, but there are only three diminished chords.