Quiark's comments

On: Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5

[Quiark]

I don't understand why, if you want to use this, would you run it on RPi instead of just on your computer? Is it for realtime guarantees (ie. no OS updating in the background)?

[oceanwaves → Quiark]

Yeah, I understand the lens through which you're probably evaluating this. Wouldn't be for you.

I wanted to design, learn, build, and have fun with something physical on my desk that I could swipe, turn, twist, and make sounds with.

https://brume.aftertone.co/lcxl3.png

Just a hobby project I'm sharing.

[Quiark → oceanwaves]

Actually as a proud new owner of SuperCollider and a breadboard (and Taobao account) I'm not very far from getting a few rotary encoders myself ...

On: Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents

[Quiark]

Usually it takes less than 5 minutes to review the shell script that downloads stuff.

On: Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer

[Quiark]

Do you guys remember the smalltalk toolkit posted here a while ago which their creators made specifically for help understanding new codebases?

[xkriva11 → Quiark]

https://gtoolkit.com/ or https://moosetechnology.org/

[bokchoi → xkriva11]

Woah, that Glamorous Toolkit environment looks amazing. Thanks for the pointer.

On: Why software stocks are getting pummelled

[Quiark]

yeah but it doesn't :)

On: All it takes is for one to work out

[Quiark]

My dumb ass read it as "all it takes is that you workout", just with the more fancy pronoun 'one'

On: Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent

[Quiark]

yep lol one of the rants was how strong typing sucks and slows everything down another one about Haskell

On: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

[Quiark]

same on Firefox macos

On: Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

[Quiark]

It's possible it worked in the past and doesn't work any more.

On: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image

[Quiark]

Me and you are but that guy over there isn't

On: Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

[Quiark]

This means even more influence to Chinese phone makers which don't bother themselves with compliance to Google's platform ideas