I've used the RYTM for the past five years and I feel like I know its synthesis engine inside and out. The one thing I always wish it had was a digital synth voice. I pretty much stick to the first row of RYTM pads: bass drum, snare, rimshot and clap. If I use the Dual VCO for melodic elements then I lose some drum sounds on that first row. Looks like the Syntakt will open up all of this flexibility that I've been desiring.

One correction: the ALGOBABEZ project should be attributed to the duo of both Shelly Knotts and Joanne Armitage.

Not seeing any comments here about the music itself. I enjoyed it: a soothing soundtrack for the beginning of my work day.

I agree with invoicing everyone. Invoicing a client from your own business also helps distinguish you from being an employee, should that ever come into question.

I bill by the hour and agree with a client up front about an invoicing schedule: usually the 1st of each month, and sometimes on the 1st and 15th of each month.

I ripped off an invoice template for Excel and I just use Google Sheets. I send the invoice via email. This has worked for me for 10 years. As a single-person corp I don't need anything more complex.

I also view invoicing as a completely separate activity from time tracking. I log time every week either in my client's system or in my own independent time sheets. I reference those numbers when I create the invoice.

Nice and simple! I’ve recently started and was thinking to get Xero but then thought why pay $$ each month. With only one client, I want to save every penny

I work about 8 hours every day. Sometimes less. Sometimes more, but never more than 40 hours in a week.

After work, I balance hobbies with family time. To be honest I have a harder time balancing hobbies with family time than I do balancing work and family.

Family mealtime in the evening is critical. It's the one constant every day, and it's a chance for all of us to talk and laugh together. It's usually the best time of the day for me. I try to persuade my daughter to help me prepare the meal too, which is fun to do together.

So for hobbies + family, on a work day it's anywhere between 3-6 hours.

I am generally healthy but should get more exercise. I play ice hockey about one day a week, every week of the year. At times I have felt like quitting, but I force myself to keep playing because without it I wouldn't get any exercise. I've learned that this 90 minutes of playing a sport is very therapeutic for my brain. I forget about everything in the world and just play. Nothing melts away a hard day at work like skating hard for 90 minutes and trying to pass and shoot (I'm a beginner).

My productivity tips: stop using social media, close/remove anything on screens that show popups or alerts, and get at least eight hours of sleep every night.

I grew up in the U.S. We were taught to use the metric system throughout my schooling and used it (metric) for all science courses in university.

But in my university engineering labs on machining and machine tools, it was all taught in inches and feet. Not sure if that's because that's what industry used. I never entered my career as a manufacturing engineer.

For some odd reason, a lot of mechanical engineering and machining in the US is still done in inches and feet, though I think most of it is related to the defense sector. If you get into the automotive sector, for instance, you won't see that any more; they finally went all-metric in the 90s or so. Anything where the product is going to be sold internationally is probably metric.

In other engineering disciplines (except maybe civil), it's all metric. You won't hear EEs talking about semiconductor feature sizes in fractions of an inch.

I attended a performance of Four Organs in April 2017. There was an incredible amount of tension in the room because the performers looked like they were at their limit of being able to successfully pull off the performance. They did succeed, and the audience roared with applause and cheers.

Facebook can't be the only app that has collected this data, can it? What about every other app that requests permission to see that data?

> What about every other app that requests permission to see that data?

Of course they'll collect and save it somewhere as well.

I'm always curious why non-gaming streamers would choose Twitch over YouTube or other services. Does Twitch just offer the best features?

I'm definitely not Twitch's key demographic, but a large part of it is that YouTube feels like a negative place, whereas Twitch is largely positive in my book.

YouTube comments/chat are notoriously awful, probably worst than /b/ at times. Then you look at the events surrounding YouTube as a whole: Jake Paul, the ad-pocalypse, Pewdiepie being labeled a Nazi, racist and sexist hiring practices.

By comparison, the last time Twitch made the news was because Amazon bought them. Chat moderation is in a pretty decent place: each channel has enough freedom to dictate what the community around it is like. From the gaming end, Twitch is very well integrated with your gaming profiles to the point where you can get in-game rewards for watching. Relevant content is incredibly easy to find thanks to how things are structured, whereas in Youtube I have to "search" for things.

Twitch has a big racism and sexism problem, too.

That tends to happen when people are given anonymity.

Twitch at the moment has a better community and better spam detection. YouTube, on the other hand has an awful spam problem in live chats, plus the community interaction seems to be lacking a bit. I greatly prefer to watch live streams on Twitch over YouTube, even though YouTube has transcoding for every stream and easier DVR capability. Twitch provides much better interaction, plus their bits and subscription plans are nice.