Chris McCormick @chris@mccormick.cx

Worklog: lots of progress hacking on https://dopeloop.ai (Melody Generator Pro).
- Refactoring.
- Authentication API update.
- Exporting wav & mp3 feature.
- Accounts page update.
- Show MG Pro info modal when exporting MIDI.

Worklog: hacked on a browser based live-reloading web dev experimental thing over the weekend.

Worklog: Hung over. Faffed about trying to get Malli type errors showing up via clj-kondo. Got sitefox-payments integrated into dopeloop.ai to support paid subscriptions. \o/

Worklog: integrated Sitefox auth/accounts into the dopeloop.ai backend. Long day wrestling to get the integration working in this old codebase & upgrading server libs. Managed to keep the old Postgres session data intact. \o/

Lol, Andreesen Horowitz tagged the wrong Chris McCormick and so I get to have a bit of fun.

https://twitter.com/mccrmx/status/1662059468891500544

gameboy formfactor raspberry pi zero running custom mod tracker live performance software (python + pure data) playing an impulse tracker module and toggling channels on and off.

Working on a big update to melody generator today.

- Fix iOS looping.
- Fix MIDI export loop issues.
- Fix overlapping notes issue.
- Upgraded various deps (React, Reagent, midi-writer).
- Switch to rendered loop based playback.
- Build fixes.
- Fix metronome icon.

"I’m fooling around not doing anything, which probably means that this is a creative period, although of course you don’t know until afterwards. I think that it is very important to be idle. So I am not ashamed of being idle." –Freeman Dyson
(via @yaxu & @FoAM) https://libarynth.org/doing_nothing

https://hostedgitea.com updates on Friday/Saturday:

- Upgraded all boxes to 1.19.3
- Show disk usage on account page.
- Notify admin (me) when Gitea version bumps.
- Hardened firewall on all boxes.
- Fixed weird DNS issue.
- Improved first login experience.
- Documentation.

Updated http://pro.sfxr.me this week - fixing UI bugs with numeric input, button states, slider layout.

#IndieGameDev's we literally have one job.
(thx @Sora_Sakurai)

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/2/download-esm/

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/16/writing-javascript-without-a-build-system/

You're in good company.

@b0rk:
> I find it frustrating that some frontend Javascript libraries require that you use a build system.

@simonw:
> I really, really dislike having to use a local build script when I’m working with JavaScript code.
---
RT @lisperati
I miss the olden days of browser javascript before nodejs/browserify/webpack

You would just include a library by writing

<script src="library.js"></script> https://twitter.com/i…
https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1653587629584285696

Update on my various side projects and what I'm hacking on in May 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZTEaZzvAaU

This is an #algorave proof of concept. It takes a JSON data structure with b64 samples + note position data and outputs a Protracker .mod file and renders a wav file using libOpenMPT. Next step: build some generators to create track data algorithmically.

https://chr15m.github.io/algotracker/

Morning: tinkering with algotracker (algorithmic tracker module generator).
Afternoon: working on the Joplin notebook web publishing plugin.

Wow, http://dopeloop.ai has reached half a million visitors in one year! Almost all of these visitors are using the Melody Generator: http://dopeloop.ai/melody-generator

It's humbling to have my little music tool born of #algorave roots used by so many people.