ok this is so cool. this LED manufacturer designed maybe the coolest demo brochure possible for their COB LEDs, its a ringed binder where each of the pages is a PCB that you plug in and can control via touch to toggle which strips are on 🤯 #electronics

I think I'm getting my mojo back #jkmakesnomusic

I spent 30 minutes with the synths. I think I'm starting to realize I'll never be remotely good at this. Not until I successfully sacrifice all my free time to INTENTIONALLY learning the missing pieces. Just playing the keys doesn't count (and it gets old real quick)... #jkmakesnomusic

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The #jkmakesmusic project has been on hold for about 2 weeks now (as I'm sure all of you noticed). I just set up my synths to just play something for a change, and it turns out all of my "creative ideas" still evaporate the moment I think of pressing a key 😞 it's making me sad, so I'm going to […]

in which I may or may not have a discount code for Scalar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWLznUD88U8

RE: https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296 No single post in this thread will prepare you for the next post in this thread. I'm beginning to think that tools like OpenClaw are professional malpractice and should be outright banned from civil society.

one thing that i really dislike about Unix is the zealous adherence to semi-accidental design elements that ends up interfering with the utility of the underlying useful principle for example: * early Unix could not run too complex a program due to hardware restrictions, so programs were […]

the more I learn of this synth stuff, the less I know what to choose to make my own sounds 🥲

this contest culture thread from yesterday really reminds me of how much I loved the Recurse Center social rules https://www.recurse.com/social-rules, it feels a lot of them are tricks for combatting contest culture and making a space that's good for learning […]

@zachmccoy thanks for the like, I was wondering if these replies even show up in people's feeds LOL

Jan 25, we're getting somewhere. Got a whole 4-bar loop... #jkmakesmusic

Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you mind want to scale back. "The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform […]

New video! Featuring cats-mtl and its relatively recent additions of the allow/rescue mechanism, AKA scoped capabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTKWpYMciV8

Always nice to have options

my confidence in my ability to recognize FM modulation

Someone blocked me for saying claude is an agent lol

I should probably move these synth threads to a more blog-ish medium... feels a bit spammy at the moment, and my Mastodon client doesn't auto-scroll-to-post, so I always end up on top of the thread, which is now very long.

This is definitely one of my favourite Carpenter Brut songs, especially the part starting at 4:16. Blew me out of my boots when I first heard it, and continues to do so to this day https://open.spotify.com/track/73HHVjU5JcU2mzM1FEGjXS?si=vVU0_YYDSNyca-kZLIbj_A

Invasion A.D

Carpenter Brut · TRILOGY · Song · 2015

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first (and only) new year's resolution is: spend an hour, daily, doing some _focused_ learning on making music.

yo yo new video ahead! The hidden power of Scala's Opaque Types https://youtu.be/4PJFdNZ1Bro (yes the URL has Bro in it, that was 100% intentional)

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are: 1. Getting up in the morning 2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

I made a video about @noelwelsh's Krop library! https://youtu.be/lY88Z1JnUpI #scala

New video, with Łukasz Biały from @scala_space! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_omndY1ifI

look mom, I spoke at @scaladays! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bUuGhSmrIU (with @majkp)

WHY IS EVERYBODY PLAYING SILKSONG

New vid! I waited 4 years for this Scala feature - F[_] around and find out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06YvDUgeEQk