坂本龍一氏が『async』制作で使用したiPhone用マイクそもそもは、YouTubeでクローズアップ現代のドキュメンタリーを見ていて、以下のシーンが出てきたことがきっかけだった（現在は削除されていて見られないが、番組の文字起こしが、NHKの公式サイトに上がっている）。 NHK「音質に非常にこだわる坂本龍一がフィールドレコーディングをiPhone付属のマイクで行っている…！」 これがこの番組における一番の驚きだった。iPhone付属マイクというのは、数年前に試したことがあったが、その頃は音質が悪く、「音質が大事な録音は最低でもZOOMのH1」というのが僕個人の認識だった。¹ 「坂本龍一の最新アルバムに収録された音を録ったマイクなら、当時に比べて音質も使い勝手も良くなっていて、実用レベルに違いない」 そう思って、調べ始めた。5月号と6月号のサウンド＆アンド・レコーディングマガジンに坂本氏のイ

Folks have been discussing BigQuery quite a bit these days, which is fantastic. But there’s a lot of STUFF to BigQuery — it’s a sophisticated, mature service with many moving pieces, and it’s easy to get lost! In order to aid in understanding what exactly IS the BigQuery service, here is a quick rundown of what I’d consider the major user-facing components: Serverless Service ModelOpinionated Stor

Audio recording of this blog postHow I unexpectedly built a monster of an open source projectThis wouldn’t be my first foray into open source software; nor my last. A few songs from 2009 to listen to while reading.It was the summer of 2009. I found myself helping a coworker debug something in their terminal. As I attempted to type in a few command lines, I noticed that the prompt wasn’t responding

I first encountered the Content Security Policy HTTP header earlier this year when one of our users reported the Instapaper bookmarklet wasn’t working on GitHub. Triggering the bookmarklet, and inspecting element on the page revealed the problem: Refused to load the script ‘https://www.instapaper.com/j/redacted?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fcocoapods%2Fcocoapods&t=1414077850205' because it violates

Probably, you have thought to test HTTP results such like status code, response headers and body, or SQL query results by Serverspec. I have done too. But then you should have felt strangeness like “Is Serverspec responsible for such higher level state? Which resource type should I use? Execute curl command from target server to loopback interface? How about virtual hosts”? After a little thought