Chris McCormick @chris@mccormick.cx

"The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate."
-- Richard Feynman

https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html

https://twiiit.com is back. I unbroke the instance verifier at 11,500 meters over Iran. 🕊️

🇬🇧 On Dec 31st we are moving to the UK for 2024. 🎉

Have not been able to write any code for two weeks due to packing etc. 🥹 Hard to express how badly I want to get back to writing software. 😅 Super excited to start our new adventure!

Worklog: converted https://svgflipbook.com back to a completely free and open source project that anybody can use online to animate SVGs. 🎉

Worklog: This week I decided to take another crack at getting https://transcriptgenerator.com to market (i.e. implementing subscriptions). I didn't quite get there but made good progress.

I am pretty sure I will get subscriptions live this week. Traffic and usage of the site & AI features has been consistent. Some people seem to find it useful. I'm looking forward to seeing how it performs as a paid product.

I hope to retain my moral compass somehow, despite building an LLM based subscription product.

Online music app side projects dev update:

https://youtu.be/SfhRv6xWgdQ

#Clojure #music

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/