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I thought I'd killed Knobbler's symbol-table leak.

In a music controller, a fader's position isn't just pixels — it's a parameter value that has to leave the device as OSC and move a knob in Ableton, at 60fps, with no lag a musician can feel.

Knobbler pushes a firehose of OSC between a Max for Live device and a tablet app.

A puzzling benchmark led me down a rabbit hole into how Max stores strings, why my device was slowly poisoning the Max environment, and what I learned migrating 5,000 lines of TypeScript from [js] to [v8].

My path to finding a new joy in life through the art and science of trail building.

If you love chai like I do, check out how to put together your own custom cup each day.

If thinking about money, 401k, and investing makes you tired and you have your nest egg just in a savings account, then read on...

This post details a system I've put together to provide notifications inside of my Max for Live devices when I publish a device update.

Memories of the job I had when I lived in Costa Mesa.

I originally wrote this in 2022, but updated it in March 2025 after the release of Knobbler for iPad.

tl;dr :: the Streamers (Spotify, Tidal, etc) do bizdev with Bandcamp to link up tracks in their streaming catalog with artists' Bandcamp catalogs.

Parenting changes not just from year to year as your kid gets older, but societally we understand more as time passes.

I had a wonderful night meeting some lovely people in my community, with a comet backdrop.

Really happy with this recent shop light purchase.

A bit about what is one of the easiest, cheapest, and most versatile condiments around.

I figured out a cool way to mount my phone to my monitor using a wireless charger.

All about the Max for Live device that can variably quantize a MIDI note stream in real time.

A little post giving my $0.02 on what side of the road a runner should run on.

In March 1983, perhaps in response to a parental request for some nerdy materials for a nerdy kid, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a large envelope to my house.

Please don't bother unless you're the kind of person that thinks that having 12 pairs of the same sock is the way to do it.

A rundown of what my creative area looks like right now.

I published some videos on YouTube showing and demonstrating Simulscrub.

Lucky me to be able to leave this kush job to focus on the more important things in life.

A look back a couple of decades to see how the heck I got here.

Cloud services will come and go, but your memories are yours forever.

YouTube is a wonder of the modern world.

I had a run-in with a cloud structure I've never seen, myself or in any photos.

How our views of competent authority as adults is shaped by our experiences as children, how that shows up in adult life, and how we can benefit from a categorical reboot of the role of authority.

Beyond the usually understood benefits of therapy (dealing with trauma, triggers, relationships, etc.), this post presents a thesis that regular therapy yields a positive ROI over traditional investments.

It's possible that your organization needs to scramble.

Origin The origin was colorless and still.

Continuing on my apparent obsession with filesystem-based applications (musics, photodirs, etc...), I present Esstraba!

I just finished a marathon session with Max For Live and have two new devices to show for it.

Bottom Line NGINX has just open-sourced a project that drastically reduces the effort required to add HTTPS support to your NGINX webservers.

Prior to 2023, I had never received a jury summons.

Marina, Naomi, and I decided last April to book a trip to St Lucia.

Yesterday after work I was reading my personal email, and a very sincerely interesting email was waiting for me.

I thought it would be good to write down the programming languages I've used and the context that I learned them in.

For the last couple of weeks, I've been nerding out on some home networking stuff.

yo I'm a constant optimizer and evolver with basically everything.

As an Ableton Live user, I appreciate its approach to interface.

In my experience, one attribute that makes a great software engineering team is their level of customer focus.

Early Yahoo!

In February 2022, I left my job at Splunk to take some time first to relax then to focus on finding a fantastic next job.

Where does the data go?

In November 2018, I decided to order a Tesla Model 3.

So your teenager is old enough to learn to drive.

Last week I had an idea for an effect.

I really enjoy working in Max/MSP, especially on Max For Live devices.

tl;dr If you just want to install it, then head over to the GitHub project page for download links and instructions.