I wonder if the same book recommendations are happening because people might just be buying products like these for gifts. Something like I liked this book, so you should read it to.

Looks great. Personally, I have been using a "cache" function to cache output of expensive commands. This has helped me iterate faster on pipelines that call into apis.

  function cache {
      cmd="$*"
      name=$(echo "$cmd" | base64)
      if [[ -f ./cache/$name.exit ]] && [[ $(cat ./cache/$name.exit) -eq 0 ]]; then
          echo "cached"
      else
          mkdir -p ./cache
          eval "$cmd" > ./cache/$name.out
          echo $? > ./cache/$name.exit
      fi
      cat ./cache/$name.out
  }

  cache ls /

I use something similar, created by a friend of mine, called 'bash-cache': https://bitbucket.org/dimo414/bash-cache/src/default/

It hooks specific functions in Bash and keys off of their arguments.

I like this. I currently do the "plumbing" the OP refers to using files. This has generally worked for me, but want to give this tool a test run and see if it's faster than my current approach and this cache command.

About half a decade ago I had added a random blot generation to my now-unmaintained-site https://web.iiit.ac.in/~paresh.verma/. I have spent a few hours generating random blots, and trying to interpret them. Adding more structure to it, with an algorithm should make it more interesting and entertaining.

I think it would be interesting to compare an image shot in the daylight with the one created with this processing scheme in the same daylight. I expect the normal exposure shot to be better than the processed one, but it would be interesting to observe the difference in quality.

Does DistroKid track the usage/consumption details of the songs for artists to look at or analyze? If so, what is the probability that they will expand to also have a recommendation system for indie music based on these aggregated stats?

Yes we provide lots of stats to artists. No, we're not planning on a recommendation system (plenty of online radio thingy thangies that are already great!)

Ability to swap underlying ip address is orthogonal to using alphanumerics in DNS. Numeric sequences could also be used as CNAME for the ip address. But we don't because of human brain.

Looks great. But I think quite a few people (the audience with which the recording would be shared) would like to see the entire session at once instead of watching the entire video. It would also be helpful for the writer to quickly verify if they missed something.

Yeah maybe a button to "View Transcript"

Showing the same gifs without those white solid lines for comparison would have been better. Anyways cool stuff :).

yeah this is something I want to see. i would think that the blur that goes on on the background part of the images plays some part in the 3D effect.

would like to see how it plays out without the white lines.

I just tried the blur effect, but it is too much manual work. I spent 20 minutes, and finished a very small part of the gif. I just deleted it. It wasn't getting the 3D feel I wanted. I think having solid bright color instead of a blur, gives it more impact in the outcome.