tomduncalf

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Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?(lucumr.pocoo.org)
16 points by tomduncalf 6d ago|11 comments
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by tomduncalf 18d ago
I recently learned that vinyl cutters like Silhouette Portrait can be used for drawing too, which is fun as they can be picked up super cheap and they are very compact. I’m sure they’re not as good or accurate as a proper XY plotter but I’v
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by tomduncalf 19d ago
It still blows my mind that this is possible, as someone who spent a lot of time as a kid trying and failing to get “acapellas” by EQing or subtracting instrumentals from vocal versions haha
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by tomduncalf 1mo ago
I’ve been doing OCR of scans of old magazines (specifically extracting music reviews and charts, so turning complex layouts into structured data) and have been impressed with GPT/Codex’s performance. My setup has a Sol orchestrator and
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by tomduncalf 1mo ago
I posted in a comment above that I (well Codex) was able to get full Chromium running on it. It’s not fast by any means but is usable if you just want to read a web page on e-ink… so it’s not crazy underpowered
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by tomduncalf 1mo ago
Re: the software, I do think the on device software is good, if somewhat minimal, and the core writing experience is great
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by tomduncalf 1mo ago
Yeah I got an RM2 cheap off there and I’m very impressed. It only really does one thing but it does it well. Personally can’t really see any reason I’d need a more powerful one, the latency is great already. Maybe for the front light. They
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William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69(theguardian.com)
15 points by tomduncalf 1mo ago|2 comments
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by tomduncalf 2mo ago
This rocks. Such nostalgia. FT2 was how I discovered anything about music making - I loved the euro dance music I heard on the radio as a 12 year old but had no idea about the scene or how electronic music was was made. PC Format had FT2 pl
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by tomduncalf 2mo ago
Ha I know the exact ones you mean well, going to the train from terminal 5? I couldn’t have told you what was up with them but they seem very inefficient and there’s always a queue! Thanks for explaining
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Boorch – Beautiful TUI Instruments(boorch.itch.io)
2 points by tomduncalf 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tomduncalf 2mo ago
I dig the look - check out https://boorch.itch.io/ for some similar lovely musical TUIs
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How OpenAI's Sol Learned Design Taste(notes.designarena.ai)
1 points by tomduncalf 2mo ago|1 comments
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by tomduncalf 2mo ago
Audiogalaxy was awesome. I loved how you could browse every file that had ever been online, rather than just what was online now, and queue them up for when they came online again. I’d just leave it running on our dial up connection when ev
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by tomduncalf 2mo ago
Don’t tell anyone! Haha
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by tomduncalf 2mo ago
Yeah this reminded me of “the good old days” of the internet when every site felt like this :)
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by tomduncalf 2mo ago
Hey Jules! This looks awesome, excited to check it out :) Hope you're doing well! Tom
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by tomduncalf 3mo ago
Yeah I’m surprised by what a design misstep it was. The shiny corners of icons on iOS look so tacky and on macOS the corner radius mismatch is crazy. Also not a fan of the “bulbous” shapes of things with excessive rounded corners. Whenever
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by tomduncalf 3mo ago
Schwung is great. See also the recent new firmware for the Elektron Monomachine (old unsupported hardware) created using LLMs
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by tomduncalf 4mo ago
FWIW you can bypass quite a lot of the Max visual stuff by using the JS support, which now finally supports modern JS (the v8 object). A lot of the LOM (Live API) is exposed there though you will no doubt need to use Max objects for some st
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by tomduncalf 4mo ago
Ha yeah I have considered the same. There’s not enough info exposed via the Python or Max APIs (or indeed this one) to sync all the state you’d care about so I think the only option would be syncing the actual als files (which are zipped XM
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Ableton Extensions SDK(ableton.com)
8 points by tomduncalf 4mo ago|0 comments
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by tomduncalf 4mo ago
The screenshots of RISC OS bring back fond memories of playing with it in our school computer room (which was mostly BBC Micros but had a few RISC) - mostly playing Lemmings as I recall! It felt pretty cool at the time though
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by tomduncalf 5mo ago
I have been using the app for years but literally just because I like the step counter widget. I had no idea it did all this! Will try it for sure. Cool read.
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by tomduncalf 5mo ago
I hooked Claude up to Ableton’s Python API last year and it seemed pretty promising https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2WxSB75U6vg and more recently I created a skill for Claude to manipulate Ableton arrangements (which aren’t e
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by tomduncalf 5mo ago
Yeah +1, at the start of my career (mid 2000s) all the web designs were done in Photoshop. I think this was true until 2010/11 at least, when I first encountered Axure being used for some design stuff. I’ve never used Fireworks and nev
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by tomduncalf 6mo ago
For you maybe but seems a reasonable compromise to hit the price point and I bet you’d miss it less than you think
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by tomduncalf 6mo ago
As chance would have it, I just tried this for the first time as I wanted to bind a keyboard shortcut to an option from a menu bar app which doesn’t support keybinding. ChatGPT wrote a script which uses AppleScript to do it. Really anwesome
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by tomduncalf 7mo ago
This is going to be a huge success and to me makes so much sense as a product. I’m always amazed at the range of opinions people have on these topics. Might even pick one up for myself to use on the go, I had been thinking about an Air but
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by tomduncalf 7mo ago
I’ll take this opportunity to plug a couple of experiments I’ve not progressed any further but thought were fun: - Using Claude as a “pair producer” in Ableton by giving it access to the Ableton remote script API so it can create patterns -

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