Well, we’re back. JFC yesterday was exhausting. To give the same lecture twice looks suspiciously like carelessness.
In other news, how is it that I only learned today that Sam Altman is gay?
It’s not redemptive, don’t worry. I still abhor that freeze-dried weasel. But is it a coincidence that he’s literally the only even vaguely fuckable tech billionaire?
Another update, this time to Frobulator. Just bugfixes, but notable by virtue of being prompted by a report from someone at A Tasty Pixel. They’re the makers of Loopy, but more importantly also of long-retired framework The Amazing Audio Engine, which is what encouraged me to make Frobulator in the first place. Long, long ago.
In other news: AAAAARGH! It’s almost October! Teaching starts on Monday! Winter is coming!
I should post more. If only to get that one off the front page before any students accidentally google their way here. JFC.
New version of Vagabond just dropped. Mac edition available now from the software page, iOS heading to the App Store sooner or later — this one will get submitted for App Review, since the main change was requested by an actual user, of all things. Said change is a preset browser in the AU itself, allowing presets to be loaded in host apps that don’t support this themselves. Case in point Koala Sampler, seen here modelling the new browser:
Also new to the software page is an alpha release of a new generative music app, Quarterjack. Here it is running standalone:
It’s fun. I like it. There’s a reasonable chance it might make it to the App Store too. In the fullness of time.
I like Lapidary and Persiflage and Auxotroph too, but the thought of submitting them all just makes me tired. All of these apps are basically me noodling to myself anyway, so it doesn’t really matter if nobody else gets to see them.
Meanwhile, the new term looms. I am so not ready.
Sorry, imaginary interlocutors. And non-imaginary canine proxies. Software users. Old flames. Random drive-by students.
It’s nearly certain that no-one will read this — I’m confident the dogs won’t, anyway — but still. Not supposed to let it show. Not even to an audience of none.
I’m usually pretty good at that.
Sorry.
Yet another one. Been up on the software page for a week or so. Inevitably not yet on the App Store, like predecessor Lapidary, for the usual reasons of bureaucratic exhaustion. I will get around to it, probably, but it’s hard to feel motivated.
Elsewhere, it’s that transitional time of year when current students are barreling towards their final essay crisis while a whole new batch are prowling toward their first. And their teachers are grappling with both. Another year looms and I am not fucking ready.
In yet other news, The Vampire Lestat is just fabulous. I am rationing it, currently on ep 4. I laugh out loud watching. That title sequence is a work of genius.