acarabott

I'm working on a book about using WebViews for cross-platform music software GUIs. It has a particular focus on performance, which I gave a talk about at the Audio Developer Conference last year:

https://www.arthurcarabott.com/adc-2024/

As part of it I am building a code generator to generate shared type definitions in C++ and TypeScript (plus serialization, comparison and cloning).

This is a huge achievement, props to Sam!

SuperCollider is great for audio / music work, but it was always difficult to distribute work created in it.

As a prototyper I use the WebAudio API most of the time, as if you send someone a .app, they won't open it, but if you send them a link they have no excuse.

The Blockhead Digital Audio Workstation uses Godot for UI: https://www.patreon.com/colugomusic

Sounds like these could be Otoacoustic Emissions

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK580483/#:~:text=Otoaco....

This doesn't totally solve the issue, but if you unlock your phone's orientation, rotate to landscape, then go to settings, you'll find a "lock current orientation" setting.

Another extension creator here, I've been getting more and more of these emails recently. I just checked, and my extension [1] now has a "Featured" badge, which I guess explains this uptick.

No intention of "monetizing" as there is no non-shady way to monetize this feature. I perhaps don't maintain it as much as I could (sorry Windows and Linux users), but on the upside it is so little work that I'm never tempted.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-to-windowpopup...

For context, this is a fashion newsletter so the writing style reflects that world

> […] the newsletter’s intense voice, which may read like a parody of a neurotically online men’s style writer

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/style/inventing-a-new-lan...

I created a Chrome extension to add a keyboard shortcut that moves your current tab to a new window:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-to-windowpopup...

You might like (Extrmpore author) Andrew Sorensen’s piano live coding:

https://youtu.be/bq-260NUw5o

Worth a read:

http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

You don’t need to build a product in order to user test. You can take an existing product, watch a totally new user use it for the first time, and learn a huge amount.

I suggest doing this for a type of software that you know really well, as you’ll be more surprised by your own assumptions.

I work at a music software company. I’ve been playing music my whole life, my work feels like an extension of that.

An observation: a lot of programmers get into it because they are interested in programming itself. Entering the industry can be frustrating because it is no longer about programming, it’s a means to an end.

Nothing wrong with being interested in programming (it’s what makes you good at it) but it helps to have an end you care about as well.

I think you would like http://thi.ng/hdom

I interned with the PI behind Ohm (Alex Warth) and one of his reasons for using the browser was simple:

“If I send someone an executable, they will never download it. If I send them a URL, they have no excuse.”

Tydlig is the calculator app that has been the most useful re-design/re-imagining of a calculator for me. Somewhere between a calculator and a spreadsheet, with a nice UX.

http://tydligapp.com/

Adding a version field can be useful to avoid this. Particularly if your entire state is stored in one object.

Lila, the sequel to Zen... had an even bigger impact on me.

I also found some of the ideas easier to take away and hold onto.

This is great!

I especially like that you've included a share mechanism. I built an audio dsp playground before, but didn't spend enough time on it to provide that.

Are you going to add a discovery page to browse people's creations?

Strange, as this is accounted for: https://github.com/acarabott/audio-dsp-playground/blob/maste...

OS / Chrome version? Were you clicking the start button or using the key command?

Had a crack at it but it throws NotSupportedException in both Firefox and Safari. There are also some parts that don't conform to the spec and break. Filing an issue...

Great idea! Have implemented it, refresh and check it out.

I think this is a great idea as part of a learning tool, being able to simultaneously visualise a musical idea on a score, in guitar TAB, woodwind fingering, piano roll etc.

I've got a plan on the backburner to do something like this using Ohm https://ohmlang.github.io/

Is bringing the OpenCL caffe backend[1] to Caffe2 on the roadmap?

[1] https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/tree/opencl