This post is about my DJing experience for Brazilian Zouk.

Equipment

• Laptop
  • MacBook Pro M4
• Software
  • Serato DJ Pro
  • Make sure you get the "Pitch 'n Time" extension tool
• Controller
  • Roland DJ-202 (it came with Serato DJ Pro)
• Backpack
  • Rockville 25-Key Case Soft Carry Bag Backpack For 25-Key Keyboards Midi …

Introduction

This post discusses my daily workflow. I am sharing it in case it is helpful for others to read.

Starting the day

• Read unread emails and unread Slack messages. Respond to everything.
• Check personal goals and their progress for the year.

Gutcheck work

• Review each project's motivation, goals, "secret …

Introduction

When I first began my PhD, my advisor suggested I go through various malware source codes (released openly on the Internet) to compile, execute, understand, and document them for future use.

This inevitably paid off, in that it helped me more easily create ground-truth for my datasets and experiments …

Personal

• Web browser: Brave Browser
• Private email/calendar/drive/vpn/password manager: Proton
• Private messaging: Signal
• Multi-factor authentication: YubiKey
• Transcriber: MacWhisper
• Creating demos: OSB Studio
• Writing papers: Overleaf
• Writing assistant: Grammarly
• Creating figures: Inkscape
• Paper organizer: Zotero
• Feed reader: Feedly
• Time shifting: Timeshifter
• Download video/audio: yt-dlp
• Genealogy: gramps
• Tor …

Introduction

Neo4j is a graph database implementation. It's used for creating large graphs to efficiently create and query various relationships. For an explanation on the differences between graph databases and relational database (like MySQL and PostgreSQL), see https://neo4j.com/developer/graph-db-vs-rdbms/.

I required Neo4j for one of my projects …