Today I have a feeling of déjà vu except it's a nightmare and it's happening in real life.

The soundworld of the river in February is pretty different from August. There are so many sloshy water-type sounds right now. I suspect some of it is actually fishes vocalizing. So hard to tell!

The last entry in my voice memos is a 436 minute mp3 recording documenting a period in the life of my pants pocket.

Sad to see `moc` removed from the official arch linux repos, but also cool to learn [the debian project has been quietly patching it](https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi?src=moc&version=1%3A2.6.0~svn-r3005-3.1) and keeping it up to date in recent years. Long live the music on console player. (And debian!) :-)

This is [a great performance of Scott Lindroth's *Bell Plates*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSO8d3tWjWQ) by Alyssa Resh.

The river was frozen for a few weeks this winter (somehow I even saw folks ice fishing at one point) but melted away again pretty fast. [NOAA is saying now it's probably not going to freeze again this year.](https://www.weather.gov/arx/2024_springflood) Wow.

It's pledge season again! Edit: sorry to anyone following this RSS feed, I'm tweaking the GUID field structure today to support breaking cache on edits, but this probably also created copies of old entries in your reader! Apologies. Async rendering in the new astrid instru...

the hydrophone is back in the water again! two of them this time. i'm hoping the river will freeze soon. one will stay until the spring and the other will come in and out for me to listen in the meanwhile...

[Very exciting performance by Francis Dhomont in Russia 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcSd_CkCGg)

Fixed some bugs in the serial listener program before work today and hey: button mashing!

To get astrid set up to test external serial communication, this morning I realized I need to be able to embed some core types in an arduino sketch. libpippi is meant to be embedded in other programs but also in firmware and arduino sketches and so on. There's a relatively ...

[A sweet interview with the Hartnoll brothers](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/10/orbitals-paul-and-phil-hartnoll-look-back)

New Helado Negro day!! #nowplaying

I have a habit of running system updates on my work laptop before going out for coffee. Like some kind of ritual to prepare to go into the world fully patched.

Whoops, the [pool6 archival stream](https://los.st/pool6/) was down for a while. It's croaking again now.

"You know who makes very good sandwiches? Felix! Did you ever taste his cream cheese and pimento on date-nut bread?" #nowplaying

[craque - perspective](https://craque.bandcamp.com/album/perspective) ❤️ #nowplaying

I'm consolidating some of the astrid setup into one instrument_start function that sets up the LMDB session, configures and starts the jack callback, and opens the message queue. I think the internal message seq will be part of that base instrument setup, and that async re...

George Lewis' update to _Voyager_: [Forager](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiveFGVSWSU) I love everything about this. #nowplaying

[Daniel DePalmas Neighborhood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwTD8PTzoKc) #nowplaying

Alright no more dropouts! I just needed to increase the jack buffer size to 4096 I guess, but I still haven't done any profiling so who knows. :-) Here's a bash one-liner simulating an external serial trigger sending an update message (with no actual message payload, the ins...

How long will the tomte be out?

It's nice to read [Emma's blog](https://emmas.site).

The country music vamp n' talk is a nice format. A stolen-from-the-blues-thing? I like the vibe of someone pouring out their heart into the mic in plain speech while their friends pour their hearts into their instruments gently in the background.

I'll invoke the brain fog card, but I don't think I really have long covid... it's just been one of those weeks I guess. (Months?) Still, it's a relief to discover after work today that yes indeed I was doing something very silly with LMDB, I don't think I was experiencing a...

[Eve Beglarian's _Did he promise you tomorrow?_](https://evbvd.com/bookofdays/texts/0207/) #nowplaying

It's awfully distracting trying to get distraction-free, sometimes.

I'm dragging my feet on this LMDB implementation, but tonight got things far along enough to send a param update to a running astrid program. It's read from the LMDB database inside the audio callback. Updates are received via the instrument's message handling thread when a...

[fendoap's plain music: exploring methods and concepts](https://fendoap.bandcamp.com/album/plain-music-exploring-methods-and-concepts) #nowplaying

Found [a nicely-resonant wine glass](https://hecanjog.com/streetglass.ogg) in a free box on my way home.