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Steve Rubin
Personal blog · ssrubin.com/postsprogrammingsystems
Steve Rubin's personal blog at ssrubin.com covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link posts on fixing macOS Bluetooth headphone audio, which one commenter cites as a possible fix for low 8kHz sampling on Macs. Another links an image of iTunes album colour analysis.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Personal website of Steve Rubin, software engineer and CS PhD.
What Hacker News says?
Even if the OP had gotten the headset working with bluetooth they'd be disappointed. On Macs at least, using a headset with mic via bluetooth you get 8khz sampling, even if the headset can do more. Sounds terrible. Tried a bunch of esoteric plist changes to fix it. I switched to a USB wireless setup which works much better. Supposedly there are fixes ( http://ssrubin.com/posts/fixing-macos-bluetooth-headphone-au...…
Comment linking /posts/fixing-macos-bluetooth-headphone-audio-quality-issues-with-hammerspoon.html
on “Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops”Submitted A fast and powerful iTunes replacement with mpd, ncmpcpp, beets, and Alfred as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBTW the feature I most-loved from iTunes was when they added the colour analysis to albums, it made each album feel more unique. http://ssrubin.com/img/musiclibrary/iTunes.png https://www.tech-recipes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/itun... https://cpng.pikpng.com/pngl/s/556-5568070_flower-boy-itunes...
Comment linking /img/musiclibrary/iTunes.png
on “Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS”
