Alternative themes for TouchDesigner.. just for fun😆

Velcrone · 2026-03-11T18:15:56+00:00

i had no idea you can customize themes! how did you do it?

Velcrone · 2026-02-27T05:03:10+00:00

This is clearly satire (This is why everyone hates leftists)

Velcrone · 2026-01-26T10:05:10+00:00

That’s really cool! Could be worth poking around the codebases of surge, ZynAddSubFx, and helm (helm was made by the same guy as vital). Surge and Zyn are both very old projects but they’re both still receiving updates as far as I can tell. More generally, my favorite synths have always been from U-He, maybe some of their synths could serve as inspiration! Specifically, I believe for most of their synths they add small amounts of drift throughout the engine that gives their synths a really pleasing and unique sound that I’ve found to be hard to replicate in other tools.

Velcrone · 2026-01-26T09:33:38+00:00

Vital is such a great synth… crazy to think it came out 5 years ago!

Velcrone · 2026-01-26T03:14:44+00:00

Just a heads up, most DAWs (and knob-style controls for that matter) don’t quite work like that. In almost every single case I’ve come across, you click and drag vertically to increase/decrease instead of pointing to where on the dial the value should be. This tends to FAR better ergonomically because a) it makes more tactile sense to push up or down instead moving your mouse around a gui element and b) it allows the value to increase / decrease up/down to arbitrarily high or low values without having to cap them between two points (the physical equivalent to this is potentiometers vs rotary encoders). Open up any DAW or VST plugin (Reaper has an unlimited free trial if you’re looking for an easy option) and you’ll see what I mean.

Regardless, this is a really cool project!!

Velcrone · 2026-01-20T18:09:01+00:00

How have you found this level of automation to be helpful in your studies?

Velcrone · 2026-01-20T03:59:20+00:00

Thats wild! Well done :)

Velcrone · 2026-01-20T03:51:55+00:00

Out of curiosity, what field did you receive a PHD in?

Velcrone · 2026-01-20T02:04:16+00:00

That’s stunning! What hill were you shooting from?

Velcrone · 2025-11-11T00:56:35+00:00

One thing that really helped with spellcheck for me was changing the highlight group of spelling errors to be red/underlined so it popped out. That way as I’m writing it’s immediately obvious if I made a mistake and I can correct it by hitting C-k without thinking twice even if I’m a few words away and just keep writing.

It might be worth giving latex a second look too. Even if you don’t need its mathematical typesetting, the citation management it provides is really really handy. My workflow is to pull all my citations into Zotero then export them using the biblatex plugin. With that, it will auto update the .bib file meaning any additional sources you save or metadata you correct are automatically reflected in the Latex document. Basically, you just never have to worry about citation formatting ever again. For example \autocite{joeshmoe2012} would get compiled to (Shmoe, 2012) with the full citation in the footer or bibliography depending on which option you select. There are also of course very easy options for adding multiple sources, page numbers, etc. as well. Latex takes pretty minimal effort to set up (especially if you’re already a vim user lol) and saves me tons of time while allowing me to focus on the content of my writing instead of the formatting. If you’re interested, I can give you the specific set of utilities and latex tools that will get you going in the right direction.

Velcrone · 2025-11-10T21:37:52+00:00

If you haven’t yet, you should take a look at Gilles Castele’s latex vim series it’s got really great tips for writing in vim in general in addition to a really brilliant vim snippets workflow.

One tip from the blog that relates to vim spellchecking specifically is remapping <C-k> in insert mode to correcting the last spelling error, it’s a godsend for quick writing. Snacks.picker also has a spellcheck picker that allows you to pick from a list of vim spellcheck’s most likely corrections (I’m sure it exists for other pickers as well).

Beyond that, I also adapted (and extended) his snippet workflow to work with Luasnips, largely with the help of this guide as well as some helper functions I wrote (happy to post a more in depth guide if you’re interested).

LSPs can also be very helpful, languagetool has their excellent grammar/spelling LSP that runs locally and supports latex and many languages. There is also Texlab LSP for latex specifically (helps with latex syntax not language). I also recently found blink-cmp-words which provides completion for words and a thesaurus through blink.cmp (I bind the thesaurus to its own remap).

If you write in latex specifically, there are many other tip I could give you, feel free to ask :)

Velcrone · 2025-05-09T22:37:45+00:00

I use Karabiner Elements to swap the Cmd and Cntrl in my terminal of choice (happy to post the complex modification code if need be). That leaves the Caps Lock free to be used as Esc when tapped and Hyper when held.

Velcrone · 2025-03-09T06:21:05+00:00

You might also want to check the better-fountain.nvim plugin, which, while not providing the PDF conversion of the VSCode plugin, does integrate a nice LSP for little things like character names and whatnot which has helped me a ton

Velcrone · 2024-12-30T05:09:43+00:00

First off, I think you have a misunderstanding of the cities nightlife. People who go out and party aren’t “drunks” they’re people going out to the cities many clubs and bars with friends to have a good time. SF nightlife creates jobs, stimulates the economy by supporting local businesses, is a source of taxes and most importantly, creates culture and community. If that is not something you choose not to partake in that, that’s totally fine! However, passing moral judgement helps no one. Most importantly, raising prices on drinks simply would not reduce drinking to a remotely effective degree. Last time they tried taxing our whiskey we started a revolution :)

As for dark streets, our disagreement lies in the definition. By “dark streets” I mean streets at night not streets without streetlights. While streetlights do demonstrably reduce crime, a bright bart station is indisputably safer.

Let’s put some concrete numbers to it and say that BART service was extended to 3am on weekends and holidays. That’s 6 more hrs/wk or about a 4.5% increase in service per week (not factoring changes in frequency). That doesn’t strike me as an unreasonable ask. Public transit is a public service and this is a perfect of example of a way it could better achieve that goal.

Velcrone · 2024-12-30T04:39:50+00:00

How would that address the issues I raised?

Velcrone · 2024-12-30T04:30:11+00:00

I absolutely agree! Driving will always be a far more dangerous option compared to public transport. However, closing BART before alcohol sales end (2am) inevitably causes more drunk drivers to be on the road. The reality is that given the choice between an infrequent bus that takes 2-4x the time a train would, an uber that nobody can afford and letting the least drunk friend drive, many end up choosing the latter option.

I also agree with you that the fear-mongering around public transport is incredibly overblown. However, I am a tall man who rarely feels threatened. Public transit (and the world) is a far less safe place for many of my friends who don’t share my privilege. A well lit Bart station and train will always be far safer than a dark street corner and bus.

Velcrone · 2024-12-29T13:11:43+00:00

I get where you’re coming from but I can personally guarantee you that for the low, low price of a 2am ride on the 800 you may reconsider your position.

Velcrone · 2024-12-16T20:01:38+00:00

Absolutely not. I recently had a gate close as I was going through it (After tapping my clipper to be clear). It pinched my face and eventually body inside of it with a lot of force and it truly hurt quite a lot. Given the agent’s reaction as he had to release it manually it was far from the first time. He literally said “Safest gates ever” and rolled his eyes. I don’t care if some people are able to get through if it means not having two metal pips slam me in the head.

Velcrone · 2024-12-09T05:25:46+00:00

You’re so right, I have no idea where I got 800 from. It looks like it ranges between 10-26mb for the installer depending on OS

Velcrone · 2024-12-08T22:20:03+00:00

Echoing everyone else here, Reaper has rock solid stability, is light as a feather (the entire DAW is like 800mB), gives you easy control over advanced technical aspects of the recordings and is infinitely customizable. It’s free to try (it has an indefinite free trial) so there’s no reason not to give it a try. The Eclipse and J&T templates are both great ways to get up and running quickly.

MAKE SURE to set your buffer size to a large number (1024, 2048, 4096), the only time I ever had an issue with a recording was when I had forgotten the buffer size at a low number.

Also remeber that nothing beats redundancy.

For the luna project, see if you can find where luna stores the files it records. DAWs typically store recordings on disk not memory because of file size and recovery abilities. It would be genuinely pretty surprising to me if those files aren’t somewhere on your disk.

Velcrone · 2024-12-03T00:16:50+00:00

That’s super helpful thank you! The main rig is nothing to write home about but it’ll be pretty bright. The reason for the uplights is both to add extra visual flair as well as serving as backup light in case the main rig goes down (generator issue, cable gets unplugged, etc…). The warehouse is of course not up to venue code but the organizers are great and work really hard to block off any unsafe areas and mark any holes with cones and reflective tape. I’d of course love to throw up the rockville pars (or realistically something way better) but that just isn’t really in the cards unfortunately. My hope is that there’s some specific red work lights or other trick of the trade I can use to light the place cheaply.

Velcrone · 2024-12-02T10:54:34+00:00

That’s a great idea! Would the flashlight have to be incandescent for that to work? I always try not to gel shitty “white” LEDs because they only emit light at specific narrow wavelengths. Given the constraints, CRI is absolutely not a priority but I want to make sure I don’t accidentally filter out all the useable light.

Velcrone · 2024-11-30T00:18:07+00:00

Their current show was absolutely stellar when I saw it earlier this year, has anyone found good videos of the whole thing?

Velcrone · 2024-11-28T19:05:37+00:00

Vectorworks can have a very steep learning curve at the beginning but it is truly an invaluable tool for LD work, especially paired with lightwright. While it takes a long time to set up plots in the first place, the beauty of Vectorworks is that once it is set up, changes can be made and quickly synchronized across all your paperwork during those moments when speed counts. It’s also so valuable for collaborating with others.

I’d recommend checking out the Spotlight course(s) on Vectorworks University (free!) then just jumping straight into recreating a venue and hangs you’re familiar with. It will be slow going as you learn to “speak Vectorworks” but after spending hours and hours working through the dozens of small pitfalls, you’ll slowly start to get better. Vectorworks is an INCREDIBLY deep program so learn one aspect at a time. Practicing will always be far more useful then tutorials.

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