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August 26, 2026

AWK: Fifty years of simplicity and efficiency in the Terminal

  • 1. AWK: Fifty years of simplicity and efficiency in the Terminal
  • 2. What Is AWK and the Story Behind Its Initials
  • 3. How AWK works: basic concepts
  • 4. AWK in action: some practical examples
    • 4.1. Print only the names (first column)
    • 4.2. Filtering data based on a condition (Age over 28)
    • 4.3. Calculating the sum of a column
  • 5. Seamless Integration into the Unix Philosophy
  • 6. AWK vs. Python: Is It Still Useful Today?
  • 7. Conclusion

1. AWK: Fifty years of simplicity and efficiency in the Terminal

Have you ever typed a command into the Linux terminal out of sheer curiosity and discovered a whole new world?

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July 29, 2026

Markdown in VSCode, Vim emulation, and navigating between sections

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Vim in VSCode
  • 3. Step-by-Step guide to entering the configuration
  • 4. Native Navigation in VS Code: Go to Symbol / Title (Ctrl + Shift + O)
  • 5. The Sidebar: “Outline” Panel
  • 6. The Top Address Bar (Breadcrumbs)
  • 7. Conclusions

1. Introduction

Visual Studio Code is an excellent editor for Markdown.

There are various built-in features in the editor that allow you to navigate quickly through the structure of Markdown documents.

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July 22, 2026

LilyPond, MusicXML and Artificial Intelligence

  • 1. Writing Music: Why Artificial Intelligence Prefers LilyPond to Graphical Software
  • 2. Graphics Software and the MusicXML Language
  • 3. Is it possible to write sheet music directly in MusicXML?
  • 4. Loss of Information During Conversion to MusicXML
  • 5. Using Artificial Intelligence Systems Such as OCR
  • 6. OCR Test for LilyPond and MusicXML
  • 7. Another Attempt
  • 8. In conclusion

1. Writing Music: Why Artificial Intelligence Prefers LilyPond to Graphical Software

In the world of digital music notation, there are two radically different approaches: on one hand, graphical (WYSIWYG) software such as MuseScore, Finale, and Sibelius; on the other, LilyPond, which is based entirely on plain text.

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April 11, 2026

Blogger posts and PDFs that can be embedded, scrolled through, and downloaded

  • 1. Blogger and Embedded PDFs
  • 2. Summary of Steps
    • 2.1. Step 1: Upload the PDF to Google Drive
    • 2.2. Step 2: Modify the URL for the preview
    • 2.3. Step 3: Insert the PDF into Blogger
  • 3. A Little Gift

1. Blogger and Embedded PDFs

Is it possible to embed PDF documents in posts published on Blogger without using additional applications?

Perhaps with the ability to scroll through the embedded documents and download them locally?

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March 28, 2026

LilyPond: exploring polyphonic notation

  • 1. A Very Brief Introduction
  • 2. What are note stems?
  • 3. Stem Handling in Polyphonic Notation
  • 4. Musical Examples
  • 5. The quick construction
  • 6. Example of a more detailed quick construct

1. A Very Brief Introduction

I’ve finally understood the “logic” behind LilyPond’s syntax as it relates to the different ways of writing multiple voices.

I’m writing down my “discovery” right away before I forget it—after all, that’s exactly what this “blog” is for!

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March 21, 2026

Extracting musical fragments in PDF or PNG format

  • 1. LilyPond, extracting score fragments: a detailed guide
  • 2. Output format: PDF and PNG.
  • 3. Extracting a fragment from the beginning of a score
  • 4. Increasing Image Resolution
  • 5. Quickly Exporting a Snippet

1. LilyPond, extracting score fragments: a detailed guide

This article was written using LilyPond version 2.24.4 and refers to page 3.5.1 of the official manual.

The page provides correct but incomplete instructions: the code is incomplete because the musical portion is missing.

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