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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-24 at 02:03

I've been working on another track for a few days. I guess that makes it more than just a jam? I went to bed thoroughly dejected about it last night, but had another listen this afternoon, tweaked a few things, and now I'm much happier with it. Still, it's maybe 60-70% done. I don't know if all this time spent will make it any better, but whatever.

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-24 at 01:48

A silly throw away jam. All beats. All with sample sounds from various drum packs. #jamuary2025

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-23 at 21:44

ok... it seems like the channels with # are latest last, but the speech bubble ones are the opposite and more announcement related.

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-23 at 21:39

Am I crazy or...

Not a big fan of discord, but sometimes that's where the action is on a particular subject, so trying to get reacquainted with it.

I'm seeing some subjects (... channels?) being sorted with most recent replies at the bottom, and some in reverse - most recent on top. This is within a single server. It seems random. I didn't sort anything, I don't think. What am I missing?

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-23 at 18:53

Well now I have not one, but two teensy 4.1 cases for my #dirtywavem8 headless. It helps to have family who have 3d printers. Thanks @lukepeters!! I owe you one.

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-23 at 18:24

Minimal meetings, planning sessions, HR red tape. Just sit down and code something cool.

It brings me back to this article, which I've referred to personally many times. https://blog.johnqian.com/startup-spark

They found the spark again. I wish them well. I hope they get a good few years in before it happens again.

3/x

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-23 at 18:21

We talk a lot about work / life balance and people wanting more money and benefits. And not to ignore those, but we're missing something in the conversation.

These engineers are now working on a new, greenfield project. They went back to being individual contributors, designing and creating this new product from the ground up. No junior engineers working under them, no constant repeat rounds of code reviews and managing estimates and deadlines and competing priorities.

2/x

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-23 at 18:17

Had an interesting and enlightening work experience last year. Three of our top end, highly productive and very smart engineers were poached by another company (the same company), all within a couple weeks. All had been with the company around 7 years.

The fascinating thing is that they took a big cut in pay for the new job and knew they'd be working much longer hours than they had been. I've talked to them and they are having a great time there.

1/x

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-23 at 15:27

If everyone donated a repeating $1 a month to their mastodon server admin, it could mean thousands of dollars a month to keep it going. These people shouldn't have to struggle to pay the bills.

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-23 at 15:18

https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=twitter+links it's really becoming quite the movement. Not claiming it's going to make any difference, but it's good to see, imo.

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-23 at 15:09

Some reddit, discord and other communities have started banning twitter links. Some mixed feelings - I'm not going to raise the flag and call for everyone to do it, but I'm totally supportive of those communities that make that decision.

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-22 at 00:29

@linuxmatters I started looking at powerline-go too, but the setup for that seems a bit much. https://github.com/justjanne/powerline-go

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-22 at 00:24

I just set up a starship prompt using https://starship.rs/ after hearing about it on @linuxmatters

My config is pretty stripped back. This does way more than I need or want. But it's a decent replacement for the one I had hacked together on my own years ago. I'll keep this around for a while and see how it evolves.

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-21 at 00:11

I was going to get a small item printed at Shapeways. I've successfully printed a number of things there before. But they shifted their business model. Not really good for one-offs these days. Any other options without a 6x markup?

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-20 at 02:27

Faircamp also re-encodes your songs in whatever format you want, sets up rss, embeds, playlists, and lots of other stuff. All configurable.

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-20 at 02:26

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And Faircamp ( https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/ ) was so easy to set up. As someone who likes to code, I might say a bit too easy. Maybe eventually I'll make my own Hugo site. But this is literally - put your files in some folders and throw in some config files describing the catalog and files and run it.

And you can run it with a theming widget that lets you configure your theme with on-screen sliders. A bit limited, but a wonderful idea.

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-20 at 02:21

1. I've been interested in checking out Faircamp

2. I finally have few songs (jams at least) that are worth sharing.

3. I've had this domain that I wasn't using and wondering what to do with.

So I bring you this...

https://keithpeters.org/

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-19 at 18:36

Teensy 4.1 running Dirtywave M8 headless. With a "custom case".

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-19 at 18:25

Another #jamuary2025 track. This one from the Dirtywave M8 headless.

[#]dirtywavem8

https://soundcloud.com/bit101/plasmatrash?si=722c16421452407782b47355ce9948dc&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Written by bit101 on 2025-01-18 at 16:47

Been having too much fun with the #dirtywavem8 headless tracker. The UI is so minimal, I had the feeling It would be limited in the length of song you could make. But I did the math.

At the default 120bps, one phrase is 2 seconds.

A chain can have 16 phrases, so that's 32 seconds.

A song can have 256 chains in a single channel, so 8192 seconds, or 2:16:32. Yeah, that should be enough. :)

Of course that's just straight up linear. Other tricks can probably get you way beyond that.

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