c.d.m. rørmose @body@mastodon.social

Dear family members who actively read my social-media accounts:

I have made a habit of giving an analytical futurist treatment to normatively ridiculous subjects, and when I find one that seems plausible, I incorporate it into my vision of the future and my sense of self. Please cease interpreting this as a personality-disorder or a defect in my mental reality-checking mechanism. This kind of clumsy pathologizing evaluation can quickly become harmful. Thanks.

With a 32nd-note granularity, seqs are now a bit too short at their max size for the sort of languid sequencing that I want to be an option, so I will have to lengthen them to 8192 bytes per seq in virtual-memory, and then change the huge number of things that rely on the old seq-size constant

Going to be close to the beta-threshold after this (just have a bunch of stability-checks before then)

Feel like my work on Tine has become much less of a burden in the last few days.

Definitely think therapy is helping me get past my mental-block in terms of avoiding work / agonizing over work / etc. We went into the issue specifically, and uncovered some things I hadn't ever thought about.

I'm still not working as efficiently as I know I'm capable of, but overall my relationship to work has moved from "totally struggling all the time" to "somewhat okay"

Heck. Heck. Okay.

Contentious design decision time.

I'm removing CLOCK-IN and MIDI-FOLLOW from Tine. This is because, if you're not using Tine as your only sequencer in a given setup, then you're defeating the device's purpose.

NOTE-IN and various command-INs will remain, for recording purposes.

Hocico are perhaps the best band, purely because every other band that tried to imitate their surface-style ended up being hilariously bad

Hot take: Under conditions where the US State Dept has either de facto or de jure influence over every telecom provider, social-media network, and major newspaper, the "open internet" is - by merely existing - an attack-vector against all of its current and potential alternatives

Tonsil stone is feeling scratchy now... hmm

Thinking 🤔 a out The this

Because of how Tine handles timing, MIDI-IN actually gives it a lot of complicated problems

I’m laying in bed and thinking: Maybe I should just throw up my hands and make it ignore incoming PLAY/STOP/CLOCK signals

I’ll think about this more after I sleep

If you're sending a MIDI song-position pointer of 0xF2 0x00 0x00... then is that a "Front 242"

Just tried to type "LOAD"

Attempt 1: LOAG
Attempt 2: LODE
Attempt 3: LOE

Thinking about how it will probably become a plausible espionage tactic to fake the existence of Strong AI / space aliens

2039: a rogue military Strong AI turns everyone into their fursona, and those without fursonas get assigned a random abandoned character from the Furaffinity archive (which, while its content has been illegal for years, has still been backed up on NSA servers for blackmail-and-control purposes)

Augh... why is my left elbow painful and floppy... I think I must have strained it at some point in the past few days... gonna buy a cheap elbow-brace if it keeps feeling this way

GOOFUS listens to Rammstein

GALLANT listens to Wulfband

GERHARDT listens to anonymous dark-minimal tapes from a short-lived obscurantist rhizome

GORMULUS listens to the subtle creasing of spacetime as his imperial armada ritually annihilates the Betelguesian parliament-planet

Modemism: a mode of thought that assumes that anything can be built out of modems

Postmodemism: a critical process where modems are sent through the post

Went back to sleep, had a “hidden sealed room full of vengeful ghosts bursts open” dream, and it dovetailed seamlessly into some bad sleep-paralysis, which I never usually get. And now I feel even more sleepy than before. What the hell kind of cold do I have

Burgh... simultaneous flu and tonsil-stones and anxiety...

One of my friends once said that I "crucify myself on incremental improvements", and I'm definitely feeling that now.

I'm gonna stop dithering and knock out a bunch of tasks, once I get home from therapy today

Then again, there are usage-cases for both behaviors.

Would most users care about them? No

Would most users care about another command's worth of added complexity, to toggle between the behaviors? A command that they're never going to think about, or interact with, anyway? No

That means I could include a command to toggle between the behaviors without any UX penalty

But it would contribute to intimidating tutorial-bloat regardless...

Would that matter to most users? I don't know 🎷🐴

Just figured out that REPEAT-SWEEP and the arpeggiator interact in a really interesting way, where it will refresh the original sweep-velocity on every new arpeggiation keystroke.

It's such an intriguing behavior that I'm tempted to either leave it that way outright, or add a command that lets the user toggle the behavior. Think I might go with the former, since I'm really trying to curb my tendency to make things over-complex