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molotovbliss | 4 years ago | on: Renoise – A DAW with a tracker-like interface

With tracking you kinda need to take that horizontal approach that's very similar in other typical DAWs rotate it.

It's 1994, you come across a demo copy off a local BBS of a tracker "tetra compositor" echo.mod playing over the 8bit mono soundblaster that time odd "tracker" made such magic happen.

Back in early c64 & Amiga days to achieve a lot of the results you were trying to achieve was how with such limitations. These limitations we're a good reason to posit how to do such.

To summarize, trackers have a fairly large cracktro/intro heritage. I mean most trackers from a distance looks like a spreadsheet with codes. A coder approach, as far as implemention goes is a pretty big key difference & the limitations of the time.

I'd be more than happy to help any way possible. Avid long time register ReNoise supporter & pusher ;)

Since you've got a history with the typical DAW workflow. Eventually you can learn to appreciate the coder centric ux/ui of barely touching your mouse. Kinda like a eclipse ide user finding vim, getting quick ideas down with nothing but a basic ibm keyboard makes it part of the low budget/barrier fun.

Long winded nostalgic post ...

NO CARRIER

molotovbliss | 4 years ago | on: Renoise – A DAW with a tracker-like interface

Old mod creator here. (B00MER/kosmic aka kfmf) Most of the fun that disappeared with mp3s is such an ability to deconstruct another's work because of the similar appreciation for the same art.

I would spend hours upon hours pouring over any of my favorite tracker artists like keith303, purple motion, lizard king & c.c.catch, etc. even ended up flunking out of high school because the demo scene art subculture was really alluring to my younger self, as it just made sense to me & was something I thoroughly enjoyed.

To this day I can typically listen to any song and see the tracks, channels & notes in some regard. If you have no formal background in music but have an itch you can't scratch, explore trackers or even the more popular DAWs like Ableton. There's not much rules, so just have fun.

"Even if I'm the last person out there doing it, it's a quiet pursuit. It's, a personal pursuit & it's something that helps me get up in the morning." -dj shadow

molotovbliss | 6 years ago | on: Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [video]

B00MER from kfmf (kosmic free music foundation) here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmic_Free_Music_Foundation

Used to love monotonik releases. One thing I liked about tracker days was deconstructing songs to see how it was made. Not as easy to do these days. ReNoise is pretty much the tracker DAW these days. Now that I'm not as broke as before. More gear just less drive to use it. My younger self would of been in heaven with the gear I've got now. Gus was a game changer though back then.

molotovbliss | 7 years ago | on: 737 Max Explanation by a Software Engineer

Tires, and a powerplant are two different domains. There's lots more at play with structure & what other parts can withstand. Resonance, materials, & aerodynamics all play a factor in the design process. Combine it with flying through the air in a seat instead of the ground, makes it all even more a factor.

Ever see Mazda Miatas with a Chevy LS motor? Kits are sold to adapt, especially now everything is drive by wire / software.

molotovbliss | 7 years ago | on: PureOS is convergent

Eventually it sound be the device I carry around is the main device, everything else should strictly be for input/output. I hop in a rental car the DIN just mirrors the screen & input adapted.

But... https://xkcd.com/927/

molotovbliss | 7 years ago | on: Ban organophosphate pesticides to protect children's health, experts say

As someone with a son diagnosed officially by a professional, myself & older brother believe we are both on the spectrum but not as much as my son. He is verbal, but has quirks commonly called stimming. He hums a lot and will flap his arms when being visually or audibly stimulated.

My brother & I have read up on it quite a bit, and think that it's a combo of genetics triggered by environmental sources. There is a similar gene that is related to ADD, Bi-polar & Schizophrenia. Which we all have the first 2 of the 3.

My father, & his father were both mechanics, with my father's brother who showed the most signs of being possible autistic as well.

It does appear to skip around. I've a younger son also who was born way early in my life at 19. He doesn't show much signs of it. My younger brother doesn't either nor younger half sister.

It's a strong correleation for me personally that it's definitely genetic but seems to vary on some triggering factor in gestation or the tech environment of today's constant barrage of stimulation. The rise in diagnosis correlates to mass farming also on large scales. But also correlation doesn't mean causation.

I'd agree it's genetic, but with multifaceted triggers which is like cancer that could cause or trigger either.

I've also considered it's just our evolutionary path to a more tech geared world. I would be curious to see the rates of autism in 3rd world or outside untainted tribes.

Some reading, - https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2018/suspect-mole...

- https://www.wired.com/2001/12/aspergers/

molotovbliss | 7 years ago | on: The Bullshit Web

Came looking for motherfuckingwebsite.com & find an even better site to reference now instead. Kudos!

molotovbliss | 7 years ago | on: Rules of optimization

Having optimized others code before. https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/13992/69

Those who slam spaghetti code. Posit: Lasagna is just spaghetti flavored cake. Too many abstracted layers to fulfill a request. Down the layers, & back up, just to fulfill a simple request.

Autoloading can be expensive as well for I/O until cache is involved, especially with large code pools. Caching isn't optimization.

Trim the fat, reduce layers, use leaner pasta & or less special sauce.

If you've started tweaking costs/time from the ingredients & cooking process (lower level, OS, daemons, etc.) to start then move onto frameworks/libraries; it's less to consume & healthier. Ie., cache invalidation is much faster which should be at the end of your optimization journey.

Fundamentals are being abstracted away daily, while it's great for rapid prototyping & easier maintenance of code. It's imperative to understand problem spaces before delivering a solution.

A very highly recommended book is:

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HHORGA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_...

The demo scene is a very good example to attempt to mimic with the culture of optimization. It's been bragging rights way early on. https://www.pouet.net/ granted hardware is much faster than it was back in the olden days. But a quick note from admiring their creations you get a taste for older hardware & milking every cycle you can. Maybe forcing younger up & coming devs to use older hardware means they'll appreciate it more & you'll know on current hardware it'll fly.

Another thing to think of is the von Neumann bottleneck & how it was solved (partially) with cache levels or Harvard architecture. I/O is a basis for optimization.

"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture

With all of the above said, I'm agreeing whole heatedly with the article & yourself as it's nice to see others focused on this as it seems to be a dieing breed.

I'll leave this here for web developers: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

molotovbliss | 7 years ago | on: Learn just a little Awk (2010)

There Unix philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

It's a shame to see so much bloated, over abstracted development these days with more emphasis on delivery than doing one thing well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

After seeing what the demo scene is able to pull off in very little code makes me hope that the art of fundamentals & single responsibility principals like in Unix/Linux resonates with younger developers the ability of truly understanding a problem scope before implementing a solution. Above all else have fun with it, be curious on even a low level how your program functions at an os & hardware levels. Things like what is the von Neumann bottleneck? Or even those building boolean logic gates in minecraft is inspiring to want to know "how does it work? And why?"

molotovbliss | 7 years ago | on: On paying for software

Any software I have used and found to be a tool I've relied on, I have purchased a licence for at some point in time. Granted this is when I've been comfortable financially. If it comes down to eating or paying for a software license is obvious. But to keep being a tight ass after you're more than able is just crappy. Especially since as a dev you should be able to relate to those dedicated to their craft & realize they too could be struggling financially. I do find smaller orgs more enticing than say a Photoshop license as an example, of the pricing is high for using on occasions. That said being a solely design or front end type that's something you'd use and rely on to make money on. It's really that case (for me at least) if it's used for profit it should be profitable for the creators. However I've also been a musician too who believes strongly on the opposite. Music should be free to individuals and paid for up corporations. The same model is great for open source like redhat (centos) or Magento that offer enterprise license that mean dedicated support. My point being as an individual it's hard to justify at times, but for organizations it should be obvious to licensed.

Having paid for sublime and PHP storm, both have vim modes. But I prefer nano (yes I'm one of those lol ;-) )

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