Chris McCormick @chris@mccormick.cx

Worklog: 🐟 floundered around for a few days, then finally managed to get back 🥁 on the Beat Maker horse. Implemented a tricky data serialization/persistence ticket. Can't wait to get this web app online!

Worklog: took a break from Beat Maker last week to hack on some 🌲 https://hostedgitea.com essential fixes.

📼 Started implementing subscriptions & analytics on https://transcriptgenerator.com which has been getting a fair bit of traffic, but it was slow going and I didn't really get anywhere. Not very motivated to work on it.

🤓 Also tinkered with some algorithmic tracker module code which was the most fun.

🥁 Back to Beat Maker this week.

Worklog: fixed a provisioning bug on https://hostedgitea.com and tightened up security.

I can't seem to capture a screencast without audio glitches when generating, but the app itself has no such artifacts.

Worklog: basic procedural beat generator working. 12 TODO list items until launch.

Worklog: more progress on Dopeloop Beat Maker this week. 9 TODO list items left until release.

Worklog: this week I got the drum sample generator working in Dopeloop Beat Maker. \o/

Bootstrapping and convexity. Re-posting this as it's in the zeitgeist now.

https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/bootstrapping-and-convexity

Worklog: upgraded Gitea on all https://hostedgitea.com machines. Added a new DNS monitoring script. Improved validation on signup form.

Worklog: had another fun week working on the new dopeloop.ai app. Here's a sneak peek. I'm really excited to ship this one soon!

CSS is good enough for games.

https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/css-animations-for-game-juice

Worklog: yet more work on the UI components for https://dopeloop.ai. Started building a new Dopeloop app too.

https://chr15m.github.io/dopeloop-ui/

Worklog: 🎛️ continuing https://dopeloop.ai UI component development this week.

https://chr15m.github.io/dopeloop-ui/

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.” 🔥 Martha Graham
(via the inimitable @0atman)

Worklog: busy week hacking on projects.

🌲 Lots of support for a large https://hostedgitea.com customer working with Gitea Actions.
💳 Tweaks to the Melody Generator subscription pipeline.
🎨 Started building a style guide / component whatsit for https://dopeloop.ai

🦊 Sitefox #Clojure(Script) web backend library v0.0.18 is out.
Upgraded node passport library to fix auth and session issues.
https://github.com/chr15m/sitefox

tfw the beat drops at the same moment all your tests pass in the test rig you spent several days getting set up to test a lib change and it works first time. 😤

Worklog: upgraded Gitea on all hostedgitea.com machines this week + doing some support.

Been doing some analytics on anonymous https://dopeloop.ai/melody-generator data.

* 2,500+ people have downloaded more than 10 procedurally generated MIDI files.
* Some people have generated more than 1,000 melodies.
* Many sessions last days and days over a period of several months.

It's a nice feeling to know people are finding this software useful!

Working on https://dopeloop.ai/melody-generator mostly wrangling analytics today. Also started working on a dark mode which I might make the new default.