[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.

low fidelity != low consideration

[Rodrigo Constanzo's Landscape NOON experiments](https://rodrigoconstanzo.com/2023/09/landscape-noon-experiments/). #nowplaying

There are some inspiring thoughts in Paul Davis's recent post about open source and Ardour that are nice to think about while I'm slogging through the current stage of the move to libpippi / C astrid. I wonder if going forward, large-scale apps like Ardour ought to (as Rea...

[August McKinney's AudioSoup](http://www.augustmckinney.com/AudioSoup/audiosoup.htm) sounds lovely and takes a nice approach to simple grain visualization. #nowplaying

I started adding LMDB to astrid last week. It'll replace redis as a session store. It might also replace the redis buffer queue, too. I'd prefer that rendered buffers were available for any other process to sample from if they feel like it. Probably the same backend can be...

[Wonderful new collection of solo guitar music by Chris Rosenau.](https://chrisrosenau.bandcamp.com/album/a-light-that-cracks-through) #nowplaying

[Leslie Eaton and the Weird Winonans](https://leslieeatonandtheweirdwinonans.bandcamp.com/album/leslie-eaton-and-the-weird-winonans) #nowplaying

I'll take a bit of Spring now, thanks

Quick note-to-self to disable touch gestures on a linux wacom tablet:

(~) % xsetwacom --list devices                                                             
Wacom Intuos Pro L Pad pad          id: 8   type: PAD       
Wacom Intuos Pro L Pen stylus       id: 9   type: STYLUS    
Wacom Intuos Pro L Pen eraser       id: 10  type: ERASER    
Wacom Intuos Pro L Finger touch     id: 17  type: TOUCH     
(~) % xsetwacom --set 17 Touch off                                                         
(~) % xsetwacom --get 17 Touch                                                             
off

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Log January 2024

Log December 2023

["The strong physical presence of the beats resulting from the two engines running at slightly different frequencies put me in such a trance that I nearly rode off the side of the mountain."](https://www.secondinversion.org/2018/10/02/phill-niblock-at-85-austere-unpopular-astounding-minimalism/)

RIP Phill Niblock. <3