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paul

Working title for a project I've been brainstorming yesterday: "a blob named Bucket"

paul

The concept is to build something along the lines of Neko or Tamagotchi, but with an emphasis on interactive sound and music.

Bucket is a very shy yet curious digital blob that lives on your computer. When nervous or overwhelmed, Bucket will retreat back to their "home", which is an umbrella. The idea is you have to coax Bucket out of their home with food and toys, which they can then interact with. You can also poke and tickle Bucket!

Bucket will chitter, whistle, purr, and sing, which is where my sound engine will come into play.

The concept is to build something along the lines of Neko or Tamagotchi, but with an emphasis on interactive sound and music.

Bucket is a very shy yet curious digital blob that lives on your computer. When nervous or overwhelmed, Bucket will retreat back to their "home", which is an umbrella. The idea is you have to coax Bucket out of their home with food and toys, which they can then interact with. You can also poke and tickle Bucket!

paul

I am logging my time and knowledge acquisition during my time at the Recurse Center Summer 1 Batch! Check it out here: github.com/PaulBatchelor/Recur

paul

Just finished making a very small gesture synthesis example in Konilo! [0]

The Gesture sequence is written in uxntal, metaprogrammed from Konilo. The synthesis patch makes underlying calls to the sndkit API to build up a sound. It has a gesture-synthesizer-generator (GSG) which reads from the "hello" uxn subroutine created above and synthesizes a gesture controlling frequency.

0: git.sr.ht/~pbatch/orphium/tree

paul

I figured out how to add my own sigils in Konilo, so now something like "%0.5" will push a constant value of 0.5 to the sndkit stack (I send it as a string, then internally it gets converted to a float value). This allows me to pass around floating point params even though konilo doesn't support them.

paul

Dreaming of furnishing a tiny home with Japanese camping equipment.

Devine Lu Linvega

@paul we furnished a tiny japanese home with camping equipment, no regrets 👍

paul

Fossil has "blame" *and* "praise" built into it, which I choose to believe is a reflection on the overall culture of the Fossil/SQLite team.

git only has "blame", which I choose to believe is a reflection on the overall culture of the git/Linux Kernel team.

liebach 🏳️‍🌈

@paul I feel you're onto something there.

Not that I've really used fossil very much, but perhaps I should, it looks very nice.

aldroid

@paul it's something "technically unimportant" that i really missed moving from mercurial. i have vscode set up to show it as praise just because i don't want that negativity in my UIs

paul

Dynamically stitched together a PDF of individually scanned pages using my zettelkasten. Very satisfying to view on my phone.

So now the workflow looks pen/paper -> portable scanner -> zettelkasten -> PDF

Right now I just tested it on reading notes, but I'm really excited to use this as a way to manage creative ideas.

paul

From a creative workflow perspective, I like this because all the creative thinking happens away from the computer. Lately I've found creative computing pursuits can benefit from a certain amount of detachment from the medium. Computers can sometimes get in the way of themselves.

paul

So, this is like a pen of sorts? It's like a metal quill. You stick an end into some fountain pen, and off you go. No, seriously. You can adjust the thickness. It also can bend and detach (I think it's supposed to be used with a compass?)

It's really super at straight lines. Curves I'm getting used to.

I'm in utter disbelief that this works at all.

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