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In late 2023 I identified I’m probably autistic1.

What’s going on with me right now?

I put together this article as a somewhat more comprehensive overview / manual of MIDI 1.0 messaging than the Summary of MIDI messages for my own reference.

I added Home Assistant control to our air conditioner units.

During my work on Android apps, I regularly end up debugging things that only happen after a long wait, particularly when it’s concerning streaming music, and playing adverts.

In June 2021, my partner Brittany and I realised a dream: we bought a house.

Over time I collected several Android emulators, many of which I no longer used.

Android app development for Digitally Imported Inc’s radio brands DI.FM, RadioTunes, JAZZRADIO.com, ROCKRADIO.COM, ClassicalRadio.com, and Zen Radio.

The RE:Flex dance platform is a modern take on the concept with precise sensors and 84 RGB LEDs per panel.

A deprecation warning I got when trying to add something to our Android gradle build script proved hard to fix, so I’m documenting my findings here.

1-to-8 (or more) output MIDI Thru utility box, which lets you connect multiple instruments to one MIDI source in a star configuration.

Note: this probably only applies on Unix-derived operating systems like Linux distributions and Mac OS X.

Diversity of Thought on Bandcamp Made, as always, in FL Studio, using mainly software synths, but a little bit of my DIY modular synthesiser in the bassline as well.

Often I’ll encounter a problem that can be quite easily solved with 3D printing.

Under my fiancee’s and my brand RE:Flex Sound, I’m working on a versatile Eurorack format filter, with intent to bring it to market.

The Comeback Kid (Cimylium Remix) on SoundCloud My favourite synthwave group organised a remix contest where 4 of their most popular tracks were up for remixing.

Project 14328 on SoundCloud The title is a reference to the “Folding@Home” project that’s part of an effort to assist researchers around the world taking up the global fight against COVID-19.

GPG signing git commits is neat, but appears to require a graphical interface by default.

Unless you’re running something like tmux or screen, it can be annoying when you need to enter a command while you’re already running a program in your terminal you’re not ready to quit just yet.

iperf lets you test the connection speed between two computers you have access to, making it useful to test the speed within your local network.

In microcontroller code (and other places that use “flags”), you often need to set a specific bit to 0 or 1 in a register.

Web-based tool to make changes to KiCad schematics that EESchema doesn’t let you do easily.

Simple table tennis scoreboard operated with buttons mounted under the table.

If you’re using git for your project’s version control, it might interest you that you can deploy your latest changes to the server where you’re hosting your application by using just git on your local computer.

Popular audio sharing website for audio producers, voice actors, etc, visited by over 5 million people over its lifetime.

Byte Sequence on SoundCloud This track was composed in FL Studio, but recorded from purely hardware synthesisers, with a few effects added post-recording.

I’ve been working on a standalone polyphonic synthesiser, though it is far from finished.

A wooden workbench made out of commonly available lumber and plywood sheet.

8-step control voltage sequencer for my DIY modular synthesiser.

I’ve had some trouble piecing together how to deal with custom schematic components in my PCB design package of choice, Kicad.

A versatile foldback distortion module for my DIY modular synthesiser.

A clock pulse generator with divided outputs, used to drive sequencers and other triggerable modules.

Attack-Decay-Sustain-Release envelope generator, an expansion on Ray Wilson’s Music From Outer Space design.

Tannhauser Gate on SoundCloud Inspired by the “Blade Runner” soundtrack, this track was written using only the software synths “The CS Cloud” and “Synth1”.

A utility module for my DIY Modular synthesiser, providing 4 analogue inverters and 2 logic inverters.

Spring Reverb module for my DIY Modular Synthesiser, after Ray Wilson of Music From Outer Space’s design.

Ebullience on Bandcamp A trance track I started in June 2014 and picked up again in 2017.

White and pink noise generator for my DIY Modular synth, from Music From Outer Space circuit design.

4-input mixer module for my DIY Modular synthesiser.

Used for contouring sounds, and various modulation depth control in my DIY modular synthesiser.

Used for cutting and accentuating harmonics in my DIY Modular Synthesiser; adapted from Thomas Henry’s VCF-1 design.

Audio or modulation signal source for my DIY synthesiser, derived from Ray Wilson’s Music From Outer Space’s (MFOS) VCO and Thomas Henry’s VCO-1.

MIDI to control voltage (CV) module for my DIY synthesiser.

In programming, there are many use cases for doing things in an asynchronous way.

A programmer’s favourite, Conway’s Game of Life is a famous cellular automaton.

My fiancée got me a great gift for my last birthday: a turntable.

This little puzzle game was wildly popular at the time.

Magnitude on Bandcamp Not much to say, as with all my trance pieces, I sunk a bunch of time into this one.

RSS Dash was a dashboard for RSS feed widgets, intended as an “iGoogle” replacement.

A few years ago, my grandmother gave me one of the old radios she had lying around the house.