SocioResources
My old blog (2013-2021) on the sociology of autonomy and the autonomy of sociology.
أبحاث لفتت نظري
My old Arabic blog (2009-2014) on which I summarised research that I thought was interesting: أبحاث لفتت نظري.
accicalc
In 2023 I wrote a program that makes spreadsheets of data about traffic accidents in France: accicalc. The data is available online, but difficult to work with. This little program is useful if, for example, you want details of all accidents involving pedestrians or cyclists in a given municipality, including the address or geographical coordinates. It was a good exercise for learning Go, but if I were implementing it now, I’d probably use sqlite.
Fanny Hensel – September
In 1841, Fanny Hensel (1805–1847) wrote Das Jahr (The Year), a large-scale piano cycle with a movement for each month of the year. She published “September” in 1846 as part of her Op. 2, but Das Jahr was first published in its entirety in 1989. Subsequently, a magnificent revised autograph manuscript was discovered, in which each movement is copied on paper of a different colour, illustrated with a drawing by Hensel’s husband Wilhelm, and preceded by a poetic epigram. Furore Verlag has published a critical edition.
Chopin, Waltz, Op. 64, No. 2
Frédéric Chopin, Waltz, Op. 64, No. 2. Benjamin Geer, piano. Recorded 20 May 2023.