Loved playing with it! https://strudel.cc/?qVv8Cr0OD6cc
Love this! Patterning the theme is such a great idea.
Readit Newschrislo commented on Learning music with Strudel terryds.notion.site/Learn... · Posted by u/terryds
As a counter-point to streaming services and to try and provide an alternative, I'm busy building https://jam.coop - the intention is to be a music store owned collectively by artists and the people who build it. I think it's really important to explore alternatives in this space.
chrislo commented on Heavy codes of conduct are unnecessary for open source projects shujisado.org/2025/09/30/... · Posted by u/jonymo
What evidence do you have for that? I was involved in adopting a code of conduct for a local tech meetup and we did that because a couple of incidents that weren't handled very well left other people feeling unsafe and unwelcome. Having some guidelines in place reassured folks that we took those concerns seriously and gave us a framework to deal with unwanted behaviour.
chrislo commented on The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review meks.quest/blogs/the-thea... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I find the sort of opinions on this post quite common on a subset of engineers - namely mid levels with some time in the career, who start to consider themselves senior engineers and want everyone to follow the same set of strict rules they decided make sense. It’s the same mindset that makes people pedantically apply DRY to every situation or forcing others to TDD basic apps.
In practice:
- smaller PRs aren’t necessarily easier to review (and this arbitrary obsession almost always leads to PR overload in chunks that don’t make any sense, reducing code quality as a result)
- nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR, period. I worked on a team where the lead was adamant about this and started to write messages in the vein of “if you’re reading this message, I’ll give u $5”. I never paid anyone a dollar. Don’t waste your time writing stuff for no one.
- “every commit must compile” - again, unnecessary overzealousness. Every commit on the MAIN branch definitely should compile. Wasting your time with this in a branch, as you work towards a solution, is focusing on the wrong thing
You want PRs because they help others absorb what you’re doing (they’ll have to read that same code sooner or later). You don’t want to create a performance theater.
> nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR, period.
I do! I find it the easiest way to review code when the author has taken the time to structure it in that way. I'm lucky to work with some great people.
chrislo commented on The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023) blog.samizdata.co/p/how-a... · Posted by u/mellosouls
You might not like it, but this is what peak bri'ish comedy looks like.
Or is peak British comedy Stuart Lee satirising that scene as a quaint village folk tradition? https://youtu.be/7J1J_iHC2Qw?si=kUy3aQvZ4p2PjLG8
Or maybe both?
chrislo commented on Subvert – Collectively owned music marketplace subvert.fm/... · Posted by u/cloudfudge
Really exciting to see this manifesto.
There's already some existing co-operative music store/bandcamp alternative projects that are selling music and accepting new artists.
https://jam.coop is the one we are building. We launched last year in response to the sale of bandcamp and the uncertainty we felt in our communities of musicians who depend on Bandcamp for some or part of their living. In contrast to subvert we've decided to take an incremental approach. We're incubating jam inside an existing worker co-operative, building the features that our users need, and working towards an "exit to community" where jam will become a multi-stakeholder co-op owned by artists and workers.
I'm also familiar with mirlo and ampwall who are working on similar projects.
chrislo commented on Asking the wrong questions (2017) ben-evans.com/benedicteva... · Posted by u/adamc
chrislo commented on Faircamp is a free Bandcamp alternative wedistribute.org/2023/11/... · Posted by u/Tomte
Can you share some of them?
There's also https://jam.coop (aiming to be a co-operatively owned/run bandcamp alternative)
This was fun to play with. I was initially expecting to be able to search for single notes or instrument sounds, e.g. I tried "warm synth tone single note C4" but afterwards I realised its library has mostly fixed tempo loops.
Like the idea, would be great if you linked back to freesound for each sample so I could explore the author's other sounds.
With my web audio hat on I'm imagining an interface that lets you mix, edit and add effects to the sounds you've found to help create new ones.
Thank you for sharing!