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gravitronic

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About gravitronic

app dev, musician, hardware hacker

building a collaborative audio/midi/video platform - https://sequencer.party

Email: tom@sequencer.party

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48498811

    Magic is complicated . I looked at doing something like this but the open-ended nature where one specific card will completely change the rules or require a series of followup even…

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    Comment #47448007

    *adds "be intentional" to the prompt* Got it, good idea.

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    Comment #45102530

    Don't worry, it's actually a 4MB SD card with a fake sticker

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    Comment #44070036

    Well, I watched it. The archival footage makes it pretty clear they did it for the lulz and only in the present day interviews do they bolt a social action to it. I prefer if they …

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    Comment #44068969

    Their act was cool. Post-hoc bolting a protest social action on top seemed dishonest. It's fine to say you did something cool because you could, in fact the coolest things are done…

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    Comment #44004055

    You should check out webaudiomodules and sequencer party.

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    Comment #43071722

    That's a really cool and simple solution to a difficult problem!! I love it!

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    Comment #43067989

    years ago the daily wtf had a challenge for writing the worst calculator app. my submission maintained calculation state by emitting it's own source code, recompiling and running t…

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    Comment #43012838

    there is a DAW with that feature, they then extracted the multiplayer core and license that. Forget the name, though.

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    Comment #43012743

    hey, this is really nice. Have you seen web audio modules? https://webaudiomodules.com It is an audio/video/midi plugin standard for the web and it is rather mature. During covid I…

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    Comment #42519060

    Yes, that is what I'm talking about! I had once dreamed of building a service you could ask questions like "what other artists recorded in the same city in the same year as artist …

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    Comment #42513238

    If you haven't seen it, discogs releases a huge dataset for free that I feel like is ripe for powering a cool music recommendation engine

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    Comment #42402405

    slippery slope fallacy that giving people control of their own deaths will turn into the state euthanized anybody against their will

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    Comment #42398713

    Well my kids are already convinced 1+1=window

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    Comment #42265994

    Reminds me of the chrome bug I filed years ago that is still unfixed. An extension with access to all browsing tabs can open a hidden iframe to a website that commonly would have m…

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    Comment #42265919

    give the carbon tax revenue to consumers to offset that the price of food now reflects it's true cost. people can still afford to eat and food producers would actually be incentivi…

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    Comment #42241335

    First thing I thought when I saw the headline was "oh! I should tell Sirupsen"

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    Comment #42119496

    My 10 year old walks home from school with a few friends regularly and stops in at the local library. I haven't been arrested yet.

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    Comment #41869654

    In 2012 I was at a conference in Montreal for CS students that had Maciej Ceglowski (Pinboard, bed bug registry) do the closing talk, and he was giving advice to students about wha…

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    Comment #41584807

    Starting to eye my dryer lint as a toxic substance

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    Comment #41562804

    Yes, and if I remember correctly at least one girlfriend for a few months

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    Comment #41562017

    In highschool my friend wrote a mIRC script that waited in our city's DALnet channel for someone to announce they were *\f\(our city), and would DM them hello, start a conversation…

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    Comment #41561952

    At least they can work from home the other two days!

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    Comment #41427286

    Brings to mind a viral tweet I saw years ago, "my roommate asked to charge his cigarette but he had to wait as I was charging my book. The future sucks"