mastodon 4.7.3Composer and audio programmer in Rochester, NY | Lecturer in music tech and film/game scoring at SUNY Geneseo
For music, I use Max/MSP, Tidal Cycles/SuperCollider, and Lilypond, as well as writing for acoustic instruments, and I like to mix glitchy, noisy, microtonal sounds with “cheesy” retro synths
For audio programming, I use C++/JUCE, Rust, and C; I made my IndieWeb-style website with 11ty; and I like Neovim
I also like fountain pens, analog photography, and TTRPGs
No LLMs
I've been using Lilypond to write musical notation with code, and here I write about how to get a convenient, smooth experience while writing that code in Neovim!
I'm definitely planning to stick with this, and I'll be writing about some more fun things to do with Lilypond soon.
https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/02/friendly-lilypond-with-neovim-audacity/
#Lilypond #Composition #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #Neovim #MIDI #Audio #Audacity
I'm looking for recs on C/C++ package managers, especially Conan vs. vcpkg!
TL;DR: in a vacuum, vcpkg looks nice, but it's made by Microsoft, and the repository has the "a user you've blocked..." warning (i.e., it has Claude contributions).
My main question: is vcpkg nice enough/is the behavior by its maintainers good enough that people would recommend it over Conan?
Some of the details I've heard about the two:
I've heard people mention that vcpkg has a higher learning curve but ultimately "just works", and that Conan can be a bit more fiddly. I've also noticed that many of the comparisons I've seen are pre-Conan 2, whereas now version 2 seems pretty stable.
For anti-monopoly reasons, I like that Conan doesn't have one centralized list of packages, but I also hear that can make it harder to have reproducible builds.
Break them up! Break them up!
https://www.theverge.com/policy/912689/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-monopoly-trial-verdict
I've seen Substack claim that they're important for growing your readership, and it's nice to see people leaving and disproving that
Of course I would prefer people left because of the Nazis alone, but a win is a win I guess
https://www.theverge.com/tech/927294/substack-tax-ghost-beehiiv
They did it. Goncharov really is on Poob: https://watchpoob.com/
https://mk.asie.pl/notes/ap3juc046l
> "Is this repo manually coded? If it's manually coded you're being left behind."
> Ma'am, that is a twenty five thousand LoC slab of C++ code. It targets a console designed twenty two years ago and discontinued twelve years ago… It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for entropy. It is hubris manifest.
> We also have an SDL3 port if you would prefer that.
I'm learning Tidal Cycles, and it turns out it's pretty easy to get cool J Dilla-style microtiming effects:
Today is Send a Friend a Webmention day — here's my note about that: https://reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2026/07/send-a-friend-a-webmention-day-2026/
@ho@sonomu.club thanks for the tips! For the note names, I ended up switching to that out of necessity — I was setting up 8th/quarter tones (https://codeberg.org/reillypascal/forget/src/branch/main/include/eighth-quarter-tones.ly) and I didn't want to try researching what 8th tones “should” be in Dutch.
For the transposition, is there a difference between typing e.g., \fixed c' and using \transpose? I had been trying out \fixed plus a reference octave.
