Escher Beat

this plugin was so key to a lot of the psychedelic effects I'd make on my escher beat album, but I'd have to basically bounce tracks multiple times and hope it didn't crash in the meantime

the plugin's last release was in like 2009, it was written only for windows 32 bit, and would randomly crash. It was also a free plugin, so I'm not putting anyone out of a job by making this.

Having a near-replica that is fully modernized, bug fixed, and *extensible* is an amazing power

Spent some time setting up a rust-based VST/CLAP plugin repo yesterday. Today I had an LLM recreate one of my old favorite granular plugins just from the PDF manual it came with, and now it's working. I've never written rust code or a plugin before - very non-trivial accomplishment

I had to look at the comments to figure it out too - it's a D not an O, JDI=jedi

I can't underscore how surprisingly effective agentic workflows are for getting actual quality work done, including for fairly nuanced tasks across a whole repo. If you think LLMs are useless, you are definitively misinformed. Caveat that with they are not perfect, but nobody using them assumes that

Is LLM AI perfect? definitely not.

Is claude code surprisingly effective? **Yes** (when you plan/scope effectively (requires actual dev experience).

Is it cost effective? Mmmmmm probably not. But for now, my company is footing the bill 🤷

zen is a minimal fork of FF. while idk if they have specifically committed to anti-AI, adding in *any* extraneous feature (AI or not) is just fundamentally against their goal of providing a minimal browser

nice, I used to use opera many years ago (that vivaldi based off of) until they kinda went in a drastic different direction, so I switched to FF. in general I prefer to support non-chromium browsers for software ecosystem reasons, but vivaldi seems pretty nice!

on top of all the the UI is just kind of nicer overall

historically, I use FF with aggressive use of multi account containers. I have a couple different windows I hold for different "workspaces" and do some tab grouping within them.

Zen browser kind of gives me a lot of UI candy with this flow, with some modifications from what I expect

trying out zen browser, seems pretty nice. with a bit of customization and privacy extensions, might be ideal going forward (I've historically been using firefox)

guys. the kid rock performance is uh. well it’s exactly what you’d expect

Huge pet peeve of all new Yorkers lol. I'm a fast walker even for nyc so I get it a lot

classic first timer move. for the better honestly

I was trying to think of them and couldn't remember their name 😅 but yes

More annoying that the first 5-10 people I was standing with were doing that, and then late comers slide in and go straight up to the baggage drop in as if there wasn't a reason people weren't already standing there 🙃 just pure selfishness

The correct configuration is everyone stands at least 5 feet back, and you step forward when your bag shows up

People who crowd the baggage carousel as close as possible are insufferable. You make it harder for everyone to both see and get their bags while you stand there like a doofus waiting just like everyone else

Fleshgod apocalypse also does a great job, even if I think it's a bit much for my personal taste at times - ar least it sounds correct

One of the only bands I've heard do it right is wilderun on veil of imagination. There's for sure others I'm forgetting, but it's the exception, not the norm that bans have good/realistic arrangement and quality sampling for orchestral accompaniment

As much as I loved symphonic metal as a teenager, as an adult quasi retired producer, I loathe to hear the like upscale sound font symphonies over otherwise really well made metal. It's really only a bit better than midi when you can hear it :/

Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

Insane story

tweet from Scott Adams "If Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the year."

>"If Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the year."
> trump elected
> dead within the year

In a car headed to goth night but I have lady gaga just dance stuck in my head

finally, we're living through precedented times

FIVE GOLDEN RINGS

just opening an ammo container with like 8 puerh cakes in it lmao

looking for small-medium airtight containers for tea storage and I've come to the conclusion that ammo boxes might be the most space efficient, which will be pretty funny if I go through with it