Spent most of my day yesterday staring at a colorless text editor writing in a dialect of TCL in small lines. Almost no indentation needed or required.
It was nice break from the visual carnival that is Rust in NeoVim.
Wondered onto a film set in the historical district of Brooklyn today during my walk. The crew handed me a water bottle. I am now part of the movie industry.
Tried to schedule a repair for my cracked m1 screen that I'm anticipating will cost almost half the price of the device itself. Forgot my apple id password. Don't own any other apple devices. So now I'm stuck waiting on Apple to get back to me on whether they'll let me reset my account so I can give them stupid amounts of money to repair this thing (I already know about iFixIt so don't mention it).
I'm starting to realize why I never really bonded with this thing or bothered to use the software ecosystem properly. I never felt like I really owned it.
According to my tasks page [0], it took me 10 hours to carefully read the MDN CSS module on CSS building blocks while taking handwritten notes [1]. I started reading it back in December, and finished late February. Not exactly what I'd call an exciting read.
It took another 3.5 hours to transcribe those notes [2]. ~33% time overhead seems to be pretty constant for transcription I've noticed.
I'm still plugging away at Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman, also taking handwritten notes [3][4]. Currently 27 hours in and I've just hit the halfway point. It's a big book crammed with stuff.
I've sometimes been called a "tech maximalist" because I buy separate devices for things like timers, alarm clocks, lights, and calculators, which are all things I can do on my phone.
In theory, I feel like my personality *would* be the type to turn my phone into a multifunctional tool. I *shouldn't* be this so-called "maximalist". It doesn't fit. Pocket computers have been a part of me for a loong time. I was the weird kid walking around with a palm pilot who did everything from notetaking to musical ear training. But, in reality, the phone software/hardware ecosystem is a mess. Also their UX has too much in common with a slot machine. I just want to be as dispassionate and distant as possible towards this rectangle.
Sound artist exploring the human voice, simulacrum, and mechanisms for lyricism.These are some of my favorite things: vocal synthesis, generative music, Palestrina, audio DSP, baking, croissants, tea, dogs, grids, retrogaming, computer graphics, powers of 2, 1-bit art/sound.Over the years, I've developed several audio engines and music software ecosystems, and like to talk about them here. I also have a quieter account where I mainly talk about vocal synthesis: @patchlore