Welcome!
This is the personal website of Dominic Ricottone. You can find my CV, code repositories, and other personal work here.
You can also find me on GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut, BitBucket, and LinkedIn.
These are my three most recent blog posts. More posts can be found on the 'Blog' tab.
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Control Your Dependencies
posted on 2024-04-08
I spent a few weeks hacking on an OSS project that I used to follow very closely: ncspot . The tl;dr is that it is a curses-interface to Spotify.
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Audio on Linux
posted on 2024-01-23
Why is audio on Linux so difficult? Over the course of a decade, I have experimented with just about every reasonable configuration for audio on a Linux distribution.
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Bug in SPSS's Excel Writer
posted on 2024-01-08
I was unpleasantly surprised to discover a corrupted Excel data file this week. Luckily I was fully prepared to rebuild it with my pipeline in SPSS, but rather puzzlingly, rebuilding did not cure the problem.
I occasionally post on Bluesky, mostly about concerts and music.
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Currently listening to:
Julianna Riolino and Rural Alberta Advantage, live at Lincoln Hall
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And then for the main act: Two Door Cinema Club. Who I haven't seen live in about a decade! A great night for nostalgia.
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Admitedly terrible photo, but Joywave opened the show tonight at Riviera. Haven't seen these Rochester natives in years.
Here's my most listened to music from the last 30 days. See more on LastFM
- ARIA by MiMi
- Credits Song For My Death by Curruff
- Miku by Anamanaguchi
- Wild Guess by Everything Everything
- A3 S28 by RAC
Articles from the internet that I've been reading
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Does A Software Engineer Have Scorpion Nature?
I. A scorpion wants to sell some software but cannot code, so it asks a frog to write the application. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might start running Scrum, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that they would both be out of wor…
via Ludicity
April 8, 2024
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A short document describing how I maintain open source projects. It talks about how I prefer issues to PRs, how I work in batches, and how I'm trigger-happy with bans. It's all about setting expectations.
via Filippo Valsorda
April 6, 2024
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I guess it’s not a surprise, but I just don’t enjoy writing very much. I do, however, recognize its importance, so I always want to try. And sometimes, there is just this weird set of circumstances that kicks everything back into motion. _Djot One feeling that…
via blogfehler!
April 5, 2024
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