Nostr notes by samaaron

I’m really honoured that the School of Computer Science at The ...

2026-08-27T11:36:19Z

I’m really honoured that the School of Computer Science at The University of Sheffield have extended my Visiting Scholar status for a further 3 years.

I look forward to continuing my research into expressive programming languages for music and education in association with one of the best CS departments in the UK.

Why is it that is seems to be more anti-capitalist to be a ...

2026-08-13T14:24:59Z

Why is it that is seems to be more anti-capitalist to be a programmer that works in the finance industry or for large corporations in the daytime and hack on open source in your spare time…

…rather than trying to find a sustainable and independent way of working full time on open source software using things like Patreon and paid keynotes?

I just find it ludicrous that I’m so often labelled pro-corporate in OSS circles just because I’m trying to make a meagre living.

It's been a very tricky space predominantly because ...

2026-06-29T18:05:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…4246
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It's been a very tricky space predominantly because there's no such thing as "Linux" only "Linuxen". So you end up having to support a wide range of slightly different contexts.

Things are a lot better in this new Pipewire world though - so there is hope. However, unless you're doing the AppImage thing you have to find a maintainer for each distro you want to support and ideally setup CI runners for the full matrix of possible Linuxen.

Sonic Pi’s DSL is embedded in Ruby. Sonic Tau’s DSL is ...

2026-06-08T20:33:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…fj5w
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Sonic Pi’s DSL is embedded in Ruby.

Sonic Tau’s DSL is essentially identical but is compiled to Tau bytecode. (https://sonic-pi.net/tau)

Sonic Pi now has the ability to sync bpm with external MIDI ...

2026-06-08T20:25:10Z

Sonic Pi now has the ability to sync bpm with external MIDI clocks.

Up to 8 simultaneous MIDI clocks are supported - so you could drive multiple threads at different BPMs simultaneously via different clocks.

Coming in v5 Beta 4 in a week or so...

In the late 90s a synthesis engine was built for a live coding ...

2025-12-30T09:38:14Z

In the late 90s a synthesis engine was built for a live coding system called SuperCollider.

This engine was so powerful, it was formally separated from its language and set free.

Today, compiled to WebAssembly and running in an AudioWorklet, it survives as a soldier of sound.

If you have a web page... if you need real-time synthesis... maybe you can use SuperSonic.

http://sonic-pi.net/supersonic/demo.html

The left needs to stop being intolerant priggish gatekeepers. At ...

2024-11-14T10:25:03Z

The left needs to stop being intolerant priggish gatekeepers.

At best it causes horrible infighting between people with similar & mostly compatible views.

At worst it utterly alienates everyone else.

I'd prefer social progression via negotiation & compromise - not shaming.