I don’t use twtxt anymore, but I keep accidentally adding logs to it because the command I use to use !say is so similar to the shortcut I use to make !zet messages. So, some of my logs make no sense because they are out of context.

I think I’m going to create some boilerplate code for !gestku that isn’t ad-hoc. I think I’m ready for this. Gestkus need less code because of how quickly I want to make them.

Note: this seems to be for male chorus, and isn’t the arrangement that I hear in the sixteen recording.

going back to vim. #updates

trying to justify using tinyscheme, lua, and LIL at the same time.

Fossil Repo containing a version of the TH1 scripting language [[https://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/th1-sgb/index.cgi/wiki/th1-sgb]] #links

the bright sessions. a science fiction podcast [[https://www.thebrightsessions.com/season-one]] #links

fake english word generation for Go and CLI: [[https://github.com/nwtgck/go-fakelish]] #links

a zero dependency shell script that makes it really simple to manage your text notes [[https://github.com/nickjj/notes]] #links

Ask HN: most interesting, mildly impractical, well-written books on software? [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306651]] #links

old school dinner rolls [[https://smittenkitchen.com/2021/10/old-school-dinner-rolls/]] #links #food

a close look at a spinlock [[https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2173]] #links

decentralized P2P messaging platform that works on a LAN. [[https://briarproject.org/]] #links

I don’t know how to browse the web anymore. [[https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/i-don-t-know-how-to-browse-the-internet-anymore]] #links

Article on designing 21st century instruments for teaching music theory (aka ditch the piano): [[https://historyofmusictheory.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/should-we-burn-the-pianos-introducing-a-collaborative-project-focused-on-building-new-instruments-for-theory/]] #links

twigl: shader code editor [[https://twigl.app/]] #links

cylob: some interesting work with vocal synthesis. [[https://cylob.bandcamp.com/album/placeholder]] #links

breakdown of a synthwave track [[https://synthctrl.com/blogs/blog/gunship-tech-noir-breakdown]] #links

cool fractal video [[https://vimeo.com/3288925]] #links

squinewave: a sine-square-saw-pulse oscillator with hardsync: [[https://github.com/required-field/squinewave]] #links

DX7 Technical Analysis [[https://ajxs.me/blog/Yamaha_DX7_Technical_Analysis.html]] #links

introducing: the !trikuf. code samples included. #halfbakedideas

trikuf: 3x3 tiles that comply with geometric square kufic rules, as seen in !kuf. #halfbakedideas

timeline of audio formats [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_audio_formats]] #links

I think the forth-lisp works if you think of it as a forth by default that pushes and pops s-expressions. #halfbakedideas

building a Forth that sits alongside a LISP. If it’s not an S-expression, it gets interpreted as a word. #halfbakedideas

oh boy, I’m looking at !minilisp and I have to say I’m inspired to try and hack on it somehow #halfbakedideas

netsurf browser with the framebuffer backend is very impressive. it actually looks better than the GTK one, which is messed up and renders things too small with too small icons.

I have now created a log documenting my attempts at making fudge: !fudgelog

been thinking way too much about a musical morse code system over the past 24 hours: !musigram

dutifully taking notes for !novembeat_2021

updated my !now page.

The !websters1913 dictionary is truly remarkable.

damn. almost friggin done with #looptober. what an exhausting experience.

Prof. Jellywhipple’s Ultra-Fantastic Computer Music Time Loop #halfbakedideas

It’s been a crazy few weeks. Will need to spend some time refocusing.

new algo in #sndkit @!(sndkitref “sparse”)!@ is a sparse noise generator, similar to velvet noise, that produces a random series of impulses at a specified rate in Hz.

thinking about a building something in the realm of !gesture that could work alongside !gest. The core principle of gest is line construction using breakpoints and an external clock. This new system, which I think I will call sloop, is more about making lines using slope. It would work by sending it messages: go from here, to there, in some amount of time, and use an external clock. If it reaches there, you have arrived. If a new message arrives before you get there, you are already here, now you have a new there. I think this approach would lend itself well to more open-ended kinds of gestures. #halfbakedideas

Obfuscated drum synthesis in C !tinydrums

I need to remind myself that I own an !arduboy. Arduboys are cool.

new !sndkit algo: @!(sndkitref “clkphs”)!@.

lots of work gets done when you are on a mountain

did I mention yet that gest has a TODO page now? !gest_TODO

phew. took me long enough, but I finally got an initial draft for using the monome grid in C directly via libmonome: !grid_tutorial

play/pause/stop is not a great interaction, but it does count. thinking of interactive music as a gradient rather than a dichotomy (interactive vs non-interactive) seems like a healthier way to think about things. #halfbakedideas

initial timekeeping implemented in !zet this morning. right now there’s only a means of clocking in/out and saving the data, and not much else. but it is basically the last thing I’d need in order to replace org agenda.

creating vocal tract shapes using the monome grid, and then morphing between them using something like !gest. #halfbakedideas

musical experience that involve harvesting, farming, growth, and caretaking of virtual musical creatures with personality. creatures would socialize with eachother and their interactions would change the overall musical sounds implicitely. #halfbakedideas

implicit music, or the idea that music naturally exudes from everything. composition is not the act of making music, but of starting with music and working backwards. #halfbakedideas

feeling good about !gest today. nearly ready to actually use it.