Sam Aaron

Images of creative Dutch biking infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Introducing SuperSonic - SuperCollider's audio engine in a Web AudioWorklet. | Sam Aaron Get more from Sam Aaron on Patreon

Introducing SuperSonic - the full power of SuperCollider's audio engine running in a real-time high-priority AudioWorklet thread in the browser: www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

Pretty sure I’m going to release my self-nerd-snipe project tomorrow.

One of the coolest aspects of it is that it runs in RTNRT mode (really it does).

(Where R=real, T=time and N=none).

Nope - this is just a fun little experiment. The other thing is waaaay more exciting!

I totally and utterly nerd-sniped myself for the past month working on something I wasn't sure I could do or was possible.

I think I've done it. It feels a bit surreal.

If things turn out as good as they're currently looking it's going to be a game changer for both Sonic Pi and Tau5.

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Can’t!

Love me some immutability!

Good morning!

Going for a bike ride remains one of my most powerful debugging techniques.

Me too!

I talked about how I then built a system called bleep with the University of Sheffield in Elixir and Lua and now I’m working on Tau5 which has a focus on collaboration.

tau5.live

From Clojure over Ruby to Elixir / Datastar in Clojure, Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 5:00 PM | Meetup Speakers: * **Sam Aaron** of **Sonic Pi** & **Tau5** fame on his journey from **Clojure** back to Ruby, through to Erland and now to Elixir. * **Martin Clausen** on **Wea

This afternoon/evening I’ll be speaking at the Copenhagen Clojure meetup.

If you’re around, come and say hi!

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Sonic Pi Algorithmic Music.
A Never-Ending eight-beat technopop groove - a tribute to "Telex".

#electronicmusic #Sonic Pi #generativemusic #algorithmicmusic #technopop

Thanks for your enthusiasm and for trying though. I wish things were easier.

With Tau5 I’m planning on providing an AppImage release. Would that work for you on your distro?

This post is a perfect example of why there isn’t a “Linux” release of Sonic Pi.

Unfortunately there are so many distros with subtly different packages, configurations and expectations.

I tried my best to make building from source as easy as possible but ultimately we need package maintainers.

I've been busy hacking away on Tau5 - I'm still working hard laying the best foundations I can.

If you'd like to help me continue to work hard at full speed, please do consider supporting me on Patreon.

Every small donation helps more than you realise towards sustainability.

patreon.com/samaaron

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We’re excited to announce our next #YOW2025 keynote speaker @samaaron.bsky.social

In his keynote, he introduces #Tau5 - a new live coding system exploring collaboration, concurrency & AI as a creative partner.

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I’m still thinking about @samaaron.bsky.social’s talk at #goatmire - nothing has captured my curiosity and wonder for coding like this!
#elixirlang

Waking up with @samaaron.bsky.social at #Goatmire is a pleasure

Weird that my cmake doesn’t have a problem with ARM64 in caps. Thanks for the heads up though.

Today was a nice milestone for Tau5.

The GitHub CI now auto-builds a fresh Linux AppImage for each commit.

I was able to download the latest ARM64 AppImage as a single file and run it on my Raspberry Pi - simply by launching it.

It worked :-)

Hiya! Sorry, I moved up to Sheffield a few years ago. Let me know if you ever head over this way though…

Tau5's internal server has 3 optional configurable http endpoints:

1. Local - listening to localhost (for trusted interactions)
2. Public - listening to external machines (for untrusted users)
3. MCP - listening on localhost (gives AI agents access to a secure sandboxed Lua runtime).

tau5.live

Tau5 isn't just another fun language for live coding.

It's a secure cross-platform-runtime designed to support many fun languages *working together* for live coding.

tau5.live

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Sure, Sarah is using Strudel which is a fab web-based tool.

It’s great that there are so many different approaches to coding music.

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