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.

lots of activity in !gest. no longer is it one of the #halfbakedideas.

my little travel pillow arrived today for my feet while sitting in the meditation bench. paired with my foam pad for my knees, I think I can begin trying to test this out for my future portable kneeling workspace. #updates #halfbakedideas

make time for myself in order to write words and code for !gest.

conceptualizing the monome grid as a highly accurate low-density monochrome display #halfbakedideas

new recipe added to the !food page: !brownies.

new !sndkit algorithm: @!(sndkitref "blep")!@.

on a monome 16x8 grid, you can get 10 consecutive 3x3 blocks in a 2x5 configuration. what's left is a narrow 1x vertical strip, and a 2x horizontal strip. interesting divisions for a glyph based interface with controls. #halfbakedideas

got #libreElec to work today. My Pi4 feels a bit more useful now.

low-res hard-edged SDFs in btprnt. mainly as a way to compose organic looking geometry. #halfbakedideas

I want to somehow use my monome grid to build out coarse vocal tract shapes for a physical model like !voc or @!(sndkitref "tract")!@. 16 diameters with 8 steps of resolution, or 32 diameters with 4 steps of resolution. #halfbakedideas

new algo in sndkit: @!(sndkitref "tract")!@, a physical model of the vocal tract.

added a !projects page. it's dynamically generated :)

created a !now page.

@!(sndkitref "glottis")!@ is an analytical model that approximates the kind of sound the human glottis makes, and is now available as a sndkit model. This is extracted from the !voc project.

made a quick page for !vocshape

okay. I didn't get the PhD position. oh well. #updates

life decisions approaching. any day now. depending on the outcome, it'll range from major to huge. #updates

feels good to finally chip away at !voc. down to less than 500 LOC.

I finally got around to writing down some audio programming tips for people starting out @!(ref "audio_programming_recipe")!@.

cinnamon rolls today. waiting for Iceland to get back to me.

I'm back on twitter, kind of. I'm only using it to mirror posts from my mastodon account: [[https://twitter.com/yesthiswaspaul]].

new !sndkit algorithm: @!(sndkitref "env")!@.

Learned how to make baguettes last week: !baguette.

many examples of #metapost with pictures [[http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/zoonekynd/metapost/metapost.html]] #links

the croissant circle of life @!(ref "croissant_circle_of_life")!@.

I think I'm done trying to be social on twtxt. This is too hard. Enjoy my read-only feed?

created an overview page on patch hotswapping in !monolith the #monolithwiki: @!(monolithref "hotswapping")!@.

published @!(sndkitref "chorus")!@ to !sndkit.

the 'magic circle' sine wave algorithm: [[https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Digital_Sinusoid_Generators.html]] #links

lol inner joins are slow. learned that the fun way.

2-bit audio gives you DC. I like having DC.

the !sndkit_TODO page is back online.

some words today on installing monolith. I still wouldn't recommend it: @!(monolithref "install")!@.

1bitr is a one-bit text-based music tracker [[https://github.com/zserge/1bitr]]. #links

I just want to make cute cuddly characters that sing a chitter. I don't know how else to say this.

bottled a traditional mead today, but it was the wrong one so a little premature.

inspired by sigrid's now page. I probably should be doing that more here [[http://ftrv.se/now]]. #links

ECHO: the music of harold budd and brian eno [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Dm-ne-iSY]] #links

how to code a siren, done 6 ways @!(sndkitref "siren")!@.

using a forked version of ed to do live coding #halfbakedideas

finally go around to completing my !donutmuffins recipe.

added some more words to the !LIL page.

added a new algo to sndkit @!(sndkitref "scale")!@.

my tiny screen can comfortably display a text block of 45 lines with a maximum length of 79 characters. wonder what kind of information is possible to convey with that kind of information density... #halfbakedideas

my !cinnamon_rolls recipe is now in a good place.

an initial recipe for making fresh !pasta. pictures to come.

making great progress getting interactive sound and video working on android. it's a setup I wish I had 5 years ago.

feels good to be using tmux again more regularly. ansi-term in emacs is well, special.

new monolith wiki page on FM: @!(monolithref "FM")!@.

added biramp to sndkit: @!(sndkitref "biramp")!@.

a decentralized community !zet. individual zet feeds could be managed using something like git/git submodules, then built locally into self-contained SQLite files. zet items would be referenced by their zet nickname and UUID. #halfbakedideas

put text in a box and center it: !boxit.

links -g is an underappreciated jewel.

trying to get myself to reach for !links browser instead of firefox for locally testing my wiki. For the most part, it really doesn't need the heft of firefox. When links -g is used, it really really doesn't need firefox.

to date, 138 pages in my wiki. wowee :)

with !zet and !zetdo, I find myself constantly needing to type out UUIDs. thing is, they aren't the easiest thing to type. might invent an intermediate typer-friendly intermediate UUID format that can then convert to the regular UUID format. #halfbaked

new algorithm in @!(ref "sndkit")!@: @!(sndkitref "phasor")!@ generates a normalized periodic ramp signal, typically used for table-lookup oscillators.

don't get me wrong, I love the power of emacs. but it's a very complex piece of software, which is inherrently brittle. not a problem in the short term, but for some of my more long term tools it's a consideration.

if I don't need org-agenda, that's one less dependency on emacs, which I have a love/hate relationship.

if I could figure out a way to integrate scheduling tasks in !zetdo, and maybe clock in/out, I think I wouldn't really need org-agenda anymore.

a supplementary component to !zetdo called something like "due", which schedules items in the TODO and dynamically creates schedules similar to org-agenda. #halfbaked

I really need to feel less guilty about not doing bullshit. I decided not to do bullshit work, and it ended up being a nice day.

it really feels like I spend a few hours every day trying to will myself into doing what other people want. I suppose everyone has that to an extent. It's just really hard to do things that I know are stupid, when there are other more important things to do. Really winds me up.

today was one of those "do what you want to do, not what you're supposed to do" kinds of days for me

SQL(ite) and zettelkastens as a medium for non-linear story telling. #halfbaked

a dynamically generated page for food recipes: !food

added recipe I use for brown sugar cinammon poptarts: !poptarts #food #breakfast #baking

Writing a "tweet" is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts.

I'm finding the microblogging format to be really useful for working out ideas.

the stern-brocot tree [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Brocot_tree]].

user-defined order in SQL [[https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-03-20-user-defined-order.html]] #sql #links maybe something that can be adapted to !sqlite?

cistercian numerals [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals]] #links #notation

created !zetdo today, a small TODO app built on top of !zet. It seems like it could replace (or maybe enhance?) org-mode for some of my needs.

decided to publish the initial words I wrote up for this granular delay I created, available at the !loom: @!(loomref "bugz")!@.

rounded rectangle recipe in #cairo [[https://www.cairographics.org/samples/rounded_rectangle/]] #links #vector #graphics

Just copied over more samples today from my sample collection from one drive to another. Things are in more than one place for the first time in a long time, maybe ever in some cases? Feels nice.

lagrange is a gui desktop space for browsing geminispace. it builds and runs on alpine linux! [[https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/]] #links

new breathing card today! bc12.tizhaimy. check it out at !breathing_cards.

lots of links added to overview page on monolith wiki: @!(monolithref "overview")!@.

the !loom now has better page navigation. thanks !worgmap :)

monolith now has 38 unique literate programs. their woven representations can be found at my website [[/proj/monolith/program]]. #monolith

the !zet I have written for my wiki is probably going to end up replacing what I've been using twtxt for these past few months. this means less spam here. you're welcome.

I tried removing a flag from curl, and now tweets are downloading to the cache folder now. I think. will have to wait for folks to say stuff.

that's it. I'm sticking to this txtnish client.

that's it. I'm finding another twtxt client.

Atelophobia by @hecanjog [[https://hecanjog.bandcamp.com/album/atelophobia]] #links #bandcamp

code drunk. refactor sober.

slowly amassing a collection of !metapages on this wiki.

added a !meta page. this proof of concept integrates with the weewiki !zettelkasten I am developing to produce something similar to this !feed.

I've already implemented like 4 new features today just out of necessity with my !sample_curation project.

I am loving how organic this !zettelkasten is in !weewiki. the key value structure I'm using is so simple and allows for many structures to emerge from it.

to start my sample !zettelkasten, I imported some waveform collections I had nearby: AKWF, Architecture Waveforms 2010, and WaveEdit #samples #curation #zet

I still can't get over how I can download megabytes of information instantly these days. I am a child of dial-up.

uh-oh, my masto instance is hanging.

a collection of high-res wavetables with a !CC0 license: [[https://waveeditonline.com/]] #links #samples

okay. txtnish is now officially sketchy. sometimes feeds don't update, even if I run txtnish update, and this means missing replies. I gotta find something else if I'm going to make this more than a write-only experience.

there's a zet growing in my wiki now. #updates

with the addition of crate in weewiki, I finally found an opportunity to add some words to the !sqlar page #updates

implemented initial crate import in !weewiki. one step closer towards !sample_curation

I've got a good feeling about the !zettelkasten I'm building for !weewiki. I think it is going to grow legs very quickly.

added some pages on #permissive #publicdomain licenses that I often reach for: !CC0 and !unlicense.

my chai recipe I made in 2018: !chai #tea #food #recipe

with some scripting, I could probably use my upcoming !weewiki !zettelkasten as a drop-in replacement for !twtxt, and then generate the twtxt file. however, I think I am going to keep them separate for the time being. let them both grow to serve different purposes.

initial crate words imported in to weewiki source repo. no code yet, but it's pretty clear to me what needs to happen next in order to make an MVP. #updates

@hecanjog has a twtxt feed yay

import functionality now works in the !weewiki zet #updates

some good initial progress with the !weewiki zettelkasten. messages can be made and tied to previous messages by providing partial UUIDs (that then get automatically expanded). basic export also works. #updates

I'm really sad to have (temporarily) taken my monome grid + arc off my desk, but the empty space on my table makes me think better. Hopefully, I'll be able to appreciate them more when they come back. #updates

okay, now !worgle and friends are uploaded to the !loom: [[/loom/worgle]]. #updates

created an initial wiki page about my !loom. #updates

added weewiki and orgparse to the #loom today [[/loom/weewiki]] [[/loom/orgparse]]. #updates

smoothstep is a stateless smoother function commonly used in computer graphics. could be interesting in the audio domain as well (parameter smoothing, phase warping/distortion synthesis, etc): [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothstep]] #links #halfbaked

notation as a tool of thought [[https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm]] #links

I had this notion yesterday of ignoring whitespace completely in !txtvm. this could allow for some ascii-art patterns in the output (similar to what some IOCC entries do). #halfbaked

my room is now a bit cleaner, much more empty. more space to think and concentrate hopefully. #updates

on small games: [[https://lorenzo.itch.io/on-small-games]] #links

thinking of computer interfaces as being hypertypewriters #halfbakedideas

tool-mind vs toy-mind #halfbakedideas

phsclk is an algorithm that divides an incoming phasor signal into an arbitrary number of ticks that are equally spaced. @!(sndkitref "phsclk")!@ #sndkit #updates

tools encourage creation. toys encourage discovery. sometimes these overlap. #halfbakedideas

gyo is an imaginary 4-bit computer [[https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/gyo]] #links

plans for weewiki: a zettelkasten-like interface, a microblogging platform inspired by !twtxt, and some utilities for managing collections of SQLar archives. #updates #halfbakedideas

finally finished all the initial ugen documentation. everything now has a sentence or two. the generated page can be accessed from the ugen wiki page [[/proj/monolith/wiki/ugens]] #updates #monolith

new sndkit algorithm: @!(sndkitref "expmap")!@ creates an exponential curve from a linear ramp. #sndkit #updates

!weewiki is now MIT licensed! can't believe I forgot to add it, considering the fact that it already has !janet in there. #updates #weewiki

thought it might be interested to post some of the code used to produce one of my !breathing_cards: !waigel

code for the codex [[https://git.sr.ht/~pbatch/codex]] #codex #updates

IA IA PAFATHUDAYYUGO! THE TRANSMISSION HAS [[/codex][BEGUN]]. #updates #codex

I gotta put hatching patterns in !btprnt. I just gotta. #halfbakedideas

hatching is a monochrome system traditionally used in woodcuts and engravings to denote tinctures (colors) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_(heraldry)]] #1bit #links

the concept of literally typed languages. as in, languages designed to be satisfying to type. #halfbakedideas

a crossfade loop delay line. #halfbakedideas

added an initial !bitwrite page #updates

I've recently been reading up on zettelkastens again, since it is very closely related to the ethos of a personal wiki system like !weewiki. The thing that interests me is the emergent patterns that come from linking things to things. Which is exactly the sort of solution I'm looking for !sample_curation. #halfbakedideas

not to mention there's lots of interesting transformations one can apply to the linear ramp of a phasor signal. movable midpoint as seen in phase distortion synthesis and !phasewarp. exponential and @!(sndkitref "bezier")!@ mappings. Not to mention all the trig functions and waveshaping synthesis techniques. All these things would warp tempo in interesting periodic ways. #halfbakedideas

it's also easy to use scaling and wrap operations to transform a phasor signal into smaller/larger phasor signals, allowing for interesting rhythmic microcosms that stay in sync #halfbakedideas

I'm hoping to build a phasor-to-clock signal generator, which divides up a phasor into an arbitrary number of ticks. Using a global phasor as a global clock would allow for interesting polyrhythms, as well more flexible precision in sequencers. It's also closer to how human-based conducting works. #halfbakedideas

lil (little interpretted language) is a tiny scripting language with implementations in C and Pascal. Apparently, the author maintains it in a private !fossil repo, which is pretty neat: [[http://runtimeterror.com/tech/lil/?ref=hvper.com]] #links

sitelen sitelen is a style of non-linear writing that appears as hieroglyphic blocks, and can be used with toki pona [[https://jonathangabel.com/toki-pona/]] #links #tokipona

the fe language by rxi would make for a great frontend for generating txtvm code maybe #halfbakedideas

been adopting a document-as-you go approach to the !monolith wiki. as I dogfood my software to make pieces an etudes like !breathing_cards, I write about it in a wiki stub. #workflow #documentation

added channels page to !monolith wiki: [[/proj/monolith/wiki/channels]]. #updates

sitelen telo v1.01, a japanese logographic script for toki pona. might want to try to make a #1bit version of this for !btprnt [[https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/jax1x2/sitelen_telo_v101_a_japaneseinspired_logographic/]] #links #tokipona

now that !txtvm is no longer !halfbaked, I decided to update the wiki page on it. #updates

added a few notes on woven program output on the !monolith wiki page #updates

a few new words for !btprnt #updates

introducing the #loom, a collection a small literate programs woven to HTML: [[/loom]] #links #updates #literateprogramming

I need a loom for all my random woven literate programs. #halfbakedideas #literateprogramming

the codex is evolving #updates

beautifully rendered 3d vector-art animations of old electronic items: https://guillaumekurkdjian.com/electronic-items/ #links #vector #graphics #art

a 1-bit delay line? basically could be used to store audio-rate impulses, clocks, and triggers. the buffer would be a bitbuffer, so it would be a very memory-efficient. the notion of feedback some kind of feedback could be compelling too... #halfbakedideas #1bit

es is an extensible shell derived from Plan9's rc. It's also placed in the #publicdomain https://github.com/wryun/es-shell #links #plan9 #github

saw this great writeup once on how somebody visualized data by drawing faces with them, and letting our brain's natural face feature-extraction algorithms interpret the data. Kinda want to try to do that with some of these samples and waveforms I'm curating. #halfbakedideas

if you thought emails were great at getting stuff lost, wait til you check out this thing called twtxt

This morning I had this really weird notion of building a generative podcast complete with musical interludes and asemic speech using a speech synthesizer. It'd be interesting to have "interviews" with two distinct vocal characters. #halfbakedideas

added @!(sndkitref "bezier")!@ to !sndkit today. coupled with @!(sndkitref "oscf")!@, it is capable of making some really weird wet FM-y sounds. Me like! #updates #sndkit

I think I got txtnish working better for me now. hopefully I'll be able to reply/see replies now! #updates

@eli_oat happy to be an enabler :) I keep finding new uses for Janet as well! It has proven to be a remarkable extension language for !weewiki.

Hey @prologic! still figuring out how to reply to people. I'm based in the New England in the US. What about you?

a 1bit version of this iconset would be pretty neat [[https://icons.mono.company/]] #links #halfbakedideas

a new addition to !sndkit: @!(sndkitref "oscf")!@ is an arbitrary size table-lookup oscillator with floating point precision. #updates #sndkit

Eisenkraut is a standalone cross-platform audio file editor built on top of SC3: [[https://archive.org/details/eisenkraut]] #sound #links #supercollider

some initial words + code for a table-lookup oscillator with floating point precision to be included in !sndkit. testing and monolith come tomorrow. #updates #sndkit #monolith

The Suiko ST-50. A rare japanese synthesizer designed to accompany poetry: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzo9ebsFd6Q]] #links #synthesizers #youtube

I really really need to add page navigation to !worgle programs exported to !weewiki wiki pages.

added a #1bit dither page to the #monolith wiki: [[/proj/monolith/wiki/dither_1bit]] #updates

permapeople.org is a platform for permaculture people. [[https://permapeople.org/blog/2020/10/05/why-i-am-building-permapeople-org.html]] #links #permaculture

created !updates page #updates

more attempts at articulating the !sample_curation problem space today. #updates

initial ugens page added to !monolith wiki, with link to woven ugens scheme file. the first non-C woven file in monolith. [[/proj/monolith/wiki/ugens]]. #docs #updates

new words added to the !index

realtime lighting in pico8: [[https://medium.com/hackernoon/pico-8-lighting-part-1-thin-dark-line-8ea15d21fed7]] #links #graphics #pico8 #pixelart

asemic script done in contextfreeart: [[https://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/view.php?id=945]] #links #generative #asemic #graphics

generative bad handwriting: [[https://avinayak.github.io/programming/art/2020/09/18/p5-strokes.html]] #links #generative #asemic #graphics

raymarching soft shadows in 2d: [[https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/]] #links #graphics #2d #raymarching

a minimal MIT licensed chain loader for multiple architectures, including pi4. found via raspi3 baremetal tutorial link (same author): [[https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/imgrecv]] #pi4 #baremetal #links #pi

bare-metal programming on a raspberry pi 3, a tutorial: [[https://github.com/bztsrc/raspi3-tutorial]] #links #pi #pi3 #baremetal #lowlevel #c

what is the best dumb TV? [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24666968]] #links #hackernews #tv #dumb

hoard of bitfonts: [[https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts]] #links #typography #bitmap #fonts #1bit #8bit #pixelart

typography in 8 bits: system fonts: [[https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts]] #links #typography #1bit #8bit #pixelart

get Igno Quilez's classic FBM domain warping example as a metal print [[https://www.redbubble.com/i/metal-print/Warping-1-by-InigoQuilez/45300039.QL7J0]] #links

added a twtxt activity section on the !monolith page

suddenly I have an urge to build a concatenative macro language to go along with this !txtvm project of mine. Together, they maybe could build a more @!(ref "thoughtful_programming" "thoughtful")!@ !runt? #halfbakedideas

just made a !links page for myself to keep track of interesting things I find. Anything with the hashtag #links gets placed there automatically.

randoma11y is a color generator that generates two colors and scores them using WCAG system for accessibility: [[https://randoma11y.com/]] #links #color

James Tenney's Meta Hodos and Meta Meta Hodos are an attempt to derive music theory from first principles: [[https://monoskop.org/images/1/13/Tenney_James_Meta-Hodos_and_Meta_Meta-Hodos.pdf]] #links #composition #musictheory

LC is a new music programming language that is prototype-based, strongly timed, and designed with microsound synthesis in mind: [[https://www.hnishino.com/2019/05/09/lc-a-new-computer-music-programming-language-with-three-core-features/]] #links #composition

A fork of twtxtc, a #twtxt client in C: [[https://github.com/neauoire/twtxtc]] #links

a podcast on medical alert sounds: [[https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/sound-and-health-hospitals/]] #links #sound

a collection of clarisworks patterns: [[https://hecanjog.com/claris/claris.html]] #links #1bit

7seconds is a composition project where composers try to compose something no longer than 7 seconds in length. [[http://www.microsound.org/projects/project.php?name=Seven%20Seconds]] #links #composition

The lospec palette list is a database of palettes for pixel art: [[https://lospec.com/palette-list]] #links #pixelart #color

a WIP video codec for pixel art: [[https://twitter.com/yip_pe/status/1296978100522115073?s=21]] #links #pixelart

Helmut Lachenmann has an interesting notation system for stringed instruments: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt3UfNDNV0]] #links #composition #notation

the c64 method would be an even cheaper video storage mechanism, but you wouldn't get constant 2-bit color.

so, having the etudes be ~20mb/minute for sound AND video ain't too bad, and that's before doing any sort of compression. My etudes are almost always 80-120 seconds long, so the total size of a lossless uncompressed etude would be ~40mb, consistently. #halfbakedideas

sound for #breathingcard etudes in 44.1 kHz mono 32-bit floating point sound. that's about ~10mb a minute raw uncompressed audio. #halfbakedideas

my #breathingcard etudes are 128x64 resolution videos with 4x zoom, that normally use no more than 4 colors (2-bits) using a 2-bit color storage format, that's ~7mb a minute for raw uncompressed 60 fps video. not bad. #halfbakedideas

I've been thinking about storing the output of some of my audio-visual etudes in a more portable lossless 4-bit indexed color format, rather than rely on x264 directly. #halfbakedideas #etudes #breathingcards #longterm

well, I missed my one-year #twtxt anniversary by a few days. yay?

also hoping to bring bits of #sndkit into #9front and #neindaw. maybe build a whole professional-quality music production platform around plan9 concepts instead of the tired cliche of emulating analog workflows? #halfbakedideas

this morning I planned lots of #halfbakedideas for #sndkit in the near-distant future: a ROMpler with crossfading capabilities and optional input, and vowel formant filter, paired with a physical model of the glottis.

!caisaichoh

huh. it seems that dumping + gzipping a SQLite database can sometimes have better compression than gzipping the SQLite database directly. cool. #sqlite

some experiments with fractal brownian motion: !fbm #graphics #fbm #monolith #c

Implemented ftlists in #monolith today, along with #tlseq, and #tchoose nodes. More info at the monolith wiki [[/proj/monolith/wiki/ftlist]].

created a page on bare metal development on a pi !pi_baremetal

a western music theory textbook, but reimagined to actually make sense for computers instead of humans. #halfbakedideas

support for homemade :emojis: in my HTML feed parser? perhaps. perhaps not. #halfbakedideas

automatically generated #TeX equations implemented in !sndkit

the @!(sndkitref "chaosnoise")!@ algo is now in !sndkit and !monolith #DSP #chaos #noise #patchwerk #monolith #crackle

new breathing card: @!(ref "breathing_cards" "tairyzesh" "tairyzesh")!@

made a page for !1bit music and stuff

listening to some of Tim Follin's 1-bit work on the ZX Spectrum makes we want to try do make 1-bit music on the !arduboy #halfbakedideas

implemented Zavalashin's 1-pole VA lowpass filter @!(sndkitref "valp1")!@ #sndkit #dsp

reworked the CLI argument parsing in !weewiki today. running weewiki with no arguments now prints all available subcommands. #weewiki

@!(sndkitref "bitnoise")!@ is a 1-bit noise generator. #sndkit #NES #1bit

I've been making this chocolate pudding recipe every 4 days for the past 5 months or so: !pudding #cooking #chocolate #yum

thinking about implementing some noise generators for !sndkit. A chaos noise generator that leverages numerical instabilities in IEEE floating point, and a 1-bit linear feedback shift register noise generator based on NES audio. #sndkit #halfbakedideas #dsp

all files !monolith written using !worgle have now been automatically HTMLized via !weewiki. the top-level browser can be found [[/proj/monolith/program][here]].

a concept that's organically grown with my !literate_programming efforts is this idea I call a !proof_of_thought #literate_programming #thoughtful

soft-release of a new project of mine: !sndkit

check out my !keywords page! It automatically scrapes all =keywords= into an index.

introducing !phasewarp #sndkit

introducing !modalres #sndkit

hey, it looks like at some point I spewed over 100 tweets here! I'm not seeing my first tweet anymore at my !feed. huzzah!

introducing !peakeq #sndkit

introducing !vardelay #sndkit

introducing !rline #sndkit

A fragment of my !monolith program has been woven to a !weewiki from !worgle using !sqlite. Find it for now at [[/proj/monolith/wiki/][the monolith project page]].

well, it seems like I managed to automatically weave all the !literate_programming parts into a !weewiki! It's not all that helpful yet though, due to the fact that pages have autogenerated names like 'wm_000_0002'. A table of contents comes next...

gotta publish my chocolate pudding recipe here at some point #TODO

introducing !fmpair #sndkit

writing words on FM synthesis #sndkit

introducing the !bigverb reverberation algorithm

Testing @!(ref "weewiki_sql" "page markers" "iterate_over_values")!@.

finished caliban's war. onto abaddon's gate. #TheExpanse

A AM radio modulator filter. Put one or more signals into it, and virtually tune between them like you would on a radio. #halfbakedideas

An NES-inspired noise source. Basically, 1-bit noise using a linear-feedback shift register algorithm, as defined in the NES specs. #halfbakedideas

you should get a !pocketwatch

so, I actually did throw out my Csound book last night. Tore out all the pages and recycled them.

here is how to build a classic table-lookup oscillator: !osc

being able to render TeX math equations to PNG files is pretty empowering, because it allows me to write about more technical things here that would otherwise be more difficult to communicate in plaintext.

figured out how to render a single TeX equation to a PNG file today: !render_one_equation

I never thought I'd ever say this, but I am officially done with Csound. I've been using Csound since I was 16 years old, but now I feel like throwing my copy of the Csound book in the trash. Good riddance.

an extendable text editor inside of a Blit that tries really hard not to edit text. #halfbakedideas

at the end of the day, I do like the stiffness of the tactile grey switches, even if it means I don't get to type as fast, or as long. they just feel great to me. #mk

I rotate out my !planck keyboards weekly. going from brown switches to tactile grey switches is always a bit of an adjustment! #mk #thumpthumpthump

somehow get !weewiki pages rendered in !btprnt. maybe build a btprnt backend for links browser? #halfbakedideas

The master plan is to export the !worgle bits of !monolith to a !weewiki, then begin adding user-level documentation that is able to dynamically reference bits of source code as another wiki page.

!worgle -> !sqlite -> !worgmap -> !weewiki is kinda working?

a copy of the btprnt program can be found at the !btprnt_program page

while eventually I hope to get all of literate org parts of !monolith posted online as a self contained !weewiki, I've decided to post little pieces as self-contained documents. here is a copy of !trigvm, the toy VM used to power a rhythmic computer-sequencer controlled entirely from the !monome_grid

some example graphics added onto my !btprnt page.

this rhythm machine I'm working on for !monolith has finally given me an opportunity to crack open and use Hacker's Delight. This morning I needed to find a way to count the number of active bits, and there's a whole chapter dedicated to it :)

The Content Creator at Innsmouth Trail #lovecraftian #halfbakedideas

penning out the structure of my current !music_software_ecosystem

a microblogging creative coding platform like dwitter, but for sound. users would be encouraged to remix, the output of one persons code would become the input of the new code. only text would be stored on the server, with audio rendered client-side. to save on time, there could be caches of frozen audio for remixes. #halfbakedideas

the natural color system: when in doubt, these are some pretty good functional colors. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Color_System]].

a music sequencer, but for producing continuous gestures instead of discrete steps. have it be clocked with an external source so it can play well with others. perhaps build a notation system around it. #halfbakedideas

!txtvm, a text-based toy VM, used to run tiny domain-specific bytecode programs using only printable ascii characters. #halfbakedideas

a 1-bit synthesizer and sequencer for the !arduboy #halfbakedideas

I really want !btprnt to be integrated into !weewiki somehow. Both can speak !janet, and I already figured how to embed PNG images inside of an HTML document. In small doses, it could be fun. #halfbakedideas

collecting my half-baked ideas over at !halfbaked

the idea would be to build and share tiny 6.5 bit programs encoded as printable ascii characters. this could then in turn be read by a virtual computer to do things like paint a picture or compose a piece of music. #halfbakedideas

a 6.5 bit fantasy computer, whose bytecode representation can be represented entirely as printable ascii characters. The first 6 contain standard data space, with the 7th bit used to represent one of 32 values. #halfbakedideas

links web browser is surprisingly good, especially when you can get it in graphics mode: !links_browser

@eli_oat thanks for reading my wiki! janet is pretty cool right? happy noodling.

goodbye blogging? hello wiki-ing and micro-blogging? [[/blog/posts/2020-07-27-goodbye_hello.html][a new blog post suddenly appears]].

built a little script for looking up IDs in twtxt tweets: !twtxt_search. Going to use it as a way to look up and reference specific tweets in my wiki.

parsing expression grammars coming in real clutch right now. punctuation can now exist after wiki reference tags. Thanks !janet!

I'm so close to being able to get my literate programs written in !worgle converted into a self-contained !weewiki. #literateprogramming #worgle #weewiki

testing #hashtags

I've been actually thinking about introducing a '#+RELAX' tag in !worgle that would explicity turn off strict mode, allowing literate programs to be written more casually.

weewiki uses a custom org markup parser written in ANSI C to render the HTML. No emacs needed! my hope is to introduce a user-defined callback that can process these to allow for custom meta-commands.

a new fix to !weewiki will ignore all org-mode command strings by default. Now things like PROPERTY tags won't show up in the output.

some future plans for my !norns

first night on the new tatami mat + futon was a success. very comfty.

@hjertnes are you using emacs as twtxt client or something? does it render the org markup for you into links?

@lucidiot very cool idea! may have to try something like that at some point...

updated the print style of the feed. date + message are no longer on separate lines.

It turns out that fts5 is enabled by default on SQLite! My twtxt2sqlite generator has been updated to use fts5. Now I can do full text search on all my twtxt tweets. I have implemented a related-tweets box in the !twtxt_playground as a proof-of-concept. More info on fts5 can be found at [[https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html]].

attempting masto verification @!(prin "<a rel=\"me\" href=\"https://post.lurk.org/@paul\">with this link")!@.

updating my wiki index, so some pages are not going to be featured there anymore: !MIDI_sucks !sample_curation !howyousay !sixtycolumnrule

documenting my experiments with twtxt/weewiki integration at the !twtxt_playground

Inline Janet means I should be able to make calls to functions defined in the config file. For example, the =ref= function is how I usually make wiki reference links. This @!(ref "wiki_index" "link right here")!@ should take you to my automatically generated weewiki index of all the wiki pages.

Wow! Inline Janet code does work. What a happy accident. Will use with the upmost restraint.

Technically not org, but weewiki org. So this means that I might be able to run inline Janet code? @!(prin "Hello from Janet.")!@

I actually think my org markup might work here. Testing a [[/proj/patchwerk][link]].

here is the script I use to convert my twtxt feed into a SQLite database: !twtxt_sqlite

I'm using a wrapper around txtnish called !say to make it easer to tweet stuff.

a new twtxt/weewiki feature: any word starting with '!' will translate to an internal weewiki reference in my HTML renderer. Example: here is my !wiki_index

a unique thing I do with my twtxt feed is convert it to a SQLite database. This, combined with the Janet + SQLite scripting abilities available in SQLite, could provide interesting metrics and insights over time.

there are also things like using #hashtags, which could be a useful tool to coordinate with weewiki somehow.

in particular, twtxt provides timestamps. weewiki doesn't really track the passage of time. it only wants to be a key/value database with org markup.

my hope is that I'll be able integrate this more with my wiki somehow. I think they are a good pairing.

all I have to do is hit "say", write a few bits of things, and then hit ENTER. much easier than using txtnish directly.

made a script that simplifies making twtxt entries. let's see how well it works...

building a http server into weewiki has been more useful than I initially expected

coss a toin to ur witchr

when did I dream of mangos. wut?

dusting off the ol' arduboy

despite all the tools I've made, it is still a chore to update this thing. some things you just can't automate

steam controller is a fascinating little thing

made a PR to the linux-surface kernel today. it's only udev rules, but I still feel accomplished

so glad USB phone tethering exists. no way am I going to stumble through wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli to connect to coffeeshop wifi

It really looks so much better not having html extension in my wiki.

attempting to build arm-none-eabi cross compiler from source. why have I never thought of this?

Can life be measured in bytes shaved off?

the mind-numbing task of undoing bad C++

mincer ported to patchwerk. missed ya buddy

Dreamed of mangos last night. So many mangos. Not sure why.

that moment when the gbz80 tutorial tells you that mul and div operations do not exist...

embedded scripting languages are all fun and games until you break their garbage collector

weewiki org parser is getting a little bit better. fun bits are long gone, and now it is just tedious bugfixing.

finally hacked ijanet up to behave like the scheme REPL. very excited about this!

thank you sean costello for teaching me how to make planetarium music

physical models are wild animals that are never meant to be domesticated

after a month hiatus, I am getting back into some low level norns work. 8x8 bitmap fonts look real good on this thing

gameboy color speaker replaced using ds lite speaker. sounds quieter than I expected. but better than no sound at all. this, combined with the new case I got for it, makes it almost feel like a brand new device :)

should also note that I have been traveling a lot recently, so the heavy speakers do not travel with me. it is difficult to get re-acquainted with them for this reason.

even though I have these nice hs7 studio monitors on my desk right now, most of my monitoring has been done using my minirig mini. There is just something so irresistable about writing music for something so cute and tiny.

listening richard devine's new album sort/lave today. of course the sounds are top notch, but I really am enjoying how 'composed' it all feels. it really demonstrates true mastery of modular environments.

postcard sized art is such a lovely scale for the visual medium. attempting to imagine the sound/temporal version of that

planck keyboard feels 98% natural to me now. I'm using stiff tactile grey cherry switches on them, which feel great to me, but my fingers need to build up strength for long-term use.

lol build broke. see ya later rx.

rx pixel editor looks seen on HN today looks interesting to me (and the sort of thing I've wanted to build), but the vulkan support seems like overkill. Also, my graphics cards drivers are broken on Alpine, so the program probably won't run. trying anyways.

when composing, it can be hard to know what is good or crap, so you just have to power through it

added paragraph blocks and code blocks to weewiki HTML output. things look decent.

it is time to add a test suite for orgparse/weewiki.

statically generated my twtxt feed here: https://pbat.ch/wiki/twtxt.html. learning how to be social on this thing comes next.

gears seem to turn okay.

seeing if auto-publisher works out on other computer

testing auto-publish

testing out auto-generation of twtxt wiki page now

Tweeting from MBP now.

Tweeting from GPD pocket now

Maybe it's just me getting older, but there is something very satisfying about seeing big chunky text on screen. Currently using an Atari font on my computer. Once your eyes get used to it, it's actually quite lovely.

the best vacations are the ones in your mind

trying out script. not instant upload, but that's probably for the best

right now, it's a three step process for me to tweet and upload. gotta make it just one.

I could see me using this. Just need to figure out the best workflow for making 'tweets'.

Hello twtxt world