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Written by John Turner on 2024-10-16 at 04:29

While I love working in the tech industry broadly, the most exciting to me in technology recently has been the community around the monome norns. Norns is a small computer made for music; I think it’s an RPi? But unlike a lot of synths, many of which these days are also RPis with fancy hardware controls, the norns embraces being a computer: it has a scripting engine and a very active and engaged community of folks hacking together programs to make fun sounds. 1/3

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Written by John Turner on 2024-10-16 at 04:41

I think that the main draw for me is the lack of moral ambiguity and unabashed enthusiasm in the community. No one is arguing about whether the scripting engine is a net negative for humanity or accusing anyone using it of being wrong; no one nitpicks their way into reinventing the wheel; and when someone releases a new thing, it’s either met with applause or, at worse, not a ton of engagement, but there’s never abject disdain. 2/3

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Written by John Turner on 2024-10-16 at 04:46

I think a lot of the conversations around ethics in tech that happen on places like Mastodon are necessary, and important. But their necessity also diminishes the appeal of the field to me. It’s nice to have an outlet that’s tech related without all the baggage. 3/3

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