{"id":1145,"date":"2016-08-11T20:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2016-08-11T20:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:54:21","slug":"killing-my-vibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"Killing my vibe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>qzhuyan responds to me tweeting Emacs on PocketCHIP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Emacs on pocketchip! Nice man! Then one can have portable org mode! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ohzeegFQtD\">https:\/\/t.co\/ohzeegFQtD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; qzhuyan (@qzhuyan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qzhuyan\/status\/763814543512498176\">August 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWhich is, er,  very true. And wonderful.<br \/>\nBut this haunts me continuously, as I explore the Mind Traffic Geometry of tools that support me <a href=\"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?cat=184\">tracking tasks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?cat=219\">outlining ideas<\/a>.<br \/>\nWill I one day end up simply falling into <a href=\"http:\/\/orgmode.org\/\">Emacs Org Mode<\/a>? Isn&#8217;t that basically everything I really want?<br \/>\nAm I wasting my time with quixotic effort of writing my own software for this stuff when I could be writing something newer and more important?<br \/>\nAnother thing that&#8217;s pushing me to think about this : this week I&#8217;ve been playing with <a href=\"http:\/\/faust.grame.fr\/about\/\">Faust<\/a>. A wonderful language for writing signal processing networks (ie. synthesizers, audio FX etc.) that compiles to multiple back-ends &#8230; including PureData, Supercollider, VST plugins and stand-alone programs.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s basically where I imagined <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/interstar\/gates-of-dawn\">Gates of Dawn<\/a> eventually going.<br \/>\nBut rather than a Python library, its a very nice &#8220;little-language&#8221;, with great operators for describing composition of data-flow blocks. It&#8217;s well developed and supported. I&#8217;m trying it out for writing small synths \/ FX units I can run on small boards like CHIP and Raspberry Pi.<br \/>\nI can see myself doing a lot with this. But it&#8217;s basically going to kill Gates of Dawn. Maybe there&#8217;s room for a Python library for those who don&#8217;t want to learn Faust. But for me, Faust is looking extremely viable.<br \/>\nSo &#8230; another wasted project?<br \/>\nPerhaps I need to look at this positively. I&#8217;m not old. But I&#8217;m not as young as I used to be. I don&#8217;t have so many projects left ahead that I can afford to squander them. Perhaps its time to pivot. Time for a cull. A &#8220;spring-clean&#8221;. To remove some more cruft projects that occupy too much of my mind, but are actually just weak &#8220;me-too&#8221; versions of existing things that I would use perfectly happily if I made the effort to learn them. Enough with the Not Invented Here syndrome.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not saying that OWL or MTC are going anywhere yet. I use them, and they work for me. And they are DIFFERENT from OrgMode, or todo.txt or any similar thing out there. They are what I want.<br \/>\nBut I need to embrace this change. There are so many exciting NEW opportunities, there&#8217;s no point getting hung up on the old stuff.<br \/>\nDawn is over. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phespirit.info\/momus\/19970116.htm\">For me it&#8217;s 2PM.<\/a> And there&#8217;s plenty of work to be done.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>qzhuyan responds to me tweeting Emacs on PocketCHIP. Emacs on pocketchip! Nice man! Then one can have portable org mode! https:\/\/t.co\/ohzeegFQtD &mdash; qzhuyan (@qzhuyan) August 11, 2016 Which is, er, very true. And wonderful. But this haunts me continuously, as I explore the Mind Traffic Geometry of tools that support me tracking tasks and outlining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[171,282,283,295,324,348],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","tag-gates-of-dawn","tag-mind-traffic-control","tag-mind-traffic-geometry","tag-music-programming","tag-owl","tag-pocketchip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}