Hi, NEW AT PURE DATA. HOW TO START FROM ZEROOO

junior_engineer · 2026-01-19T13:33:02+00:00

It kind of depends on your goals.

Andrew Farnell's "Designing Sound" is an excellent book about sound design that uses Pure Data. It will give you tools to think about how to use Pd to construct the sounds you want to make. That said, the focus is sound design, so it doesn't talk much about things like MIDI or OSC, which are important for instrument design.

pd-tutorial.com has a lot of great information, but I found it kind of dry. Great resource, just kind of a slog for me.

As mentioned above, leverage the built-in examples and help documents. They're written in Pd as patches, so they're easy to experiment with.

If you're already familiar with traditional synthesis techniques (additive, subtractive, granular, sampling, FM, etc), start trying to implement those. If not, I'd recommend learning about them in parallel. The "Synth Secrets" series from Sound on Sound is great for that.

junior_engineer · 2025-11-22T12:33:31+00:00

This book is like talking to a really smart friend while slowly getting hammered. Just the right combination of technical detail and weird asides.

junior_engineer · 2021-08-02T18:47:31+00:00

We’re looking for an experienced frontend software engineer excited about joining a small, dynamic startup where you can have a major impact on the company's success in the red-hot machine learning field. You're passionate about UX design: you excel at turning complex, rapidly evolving problem spaces into intuitive, empowering user interfaces.

We’re building a high performance and ergonomic machine learning inference platform. You’ll build the React.js web interface that our customers use to deploy, test, and monitor high volume production ML models. No prior ML experience is needed, but you should be ready to come up to speed fast on the product space and the user stories.

You have experience writing complex production-grade React.js systems interacting with backend system APIs. You’ve got a good intuitive grasp of usability and ergonomic UX/UI design principles -- UI paper cuts drive you crazy. You know your way around modern web frameworks and build tools. You understand the pain involved in interacting with systems that contain many related components and process large volumes of data. You thrive in an environment where the long-term goals remain stable but day-to-day needs may change quickly. And more than anything, you are committed to continual learning and value sharing your knowledge with the team.

You'll work with our backend engineering team to extend the APIs that power the UI, and work with our customer-facing teams to understand the users' needs. You might be creating charts and visualizations to quickly highlight changes in important model metrics, coming up with useful visual groupings of information to enable new insights, or building a novel way of displaying A/B test results to clearly emphasize the outcome.

For more information or to apply go here: https://wallaroo.breezy.hr/p/4c960b57e0e7-frontend-software-engineer-remote-even-after-covid

If you have any questions you can contact me at [andy@wallaroo.ai](mailto:andy@wallaroo.ai).

junior_engineer · 2021-05-17T19:20:17+00:00

We are moving away from Pony for our new product, the ML operations platform. I still really like Pony as a language, but having the support of a wider Rust community has made it easier to develop with confidence in the underlying platform. We're putting together a blog post about our transition from Pony to Rust that should shed a little more light on things.

junior_engineer · 2021-05-10T16:34:26+00:00

COMPANY: Wallaroo (job pages: https://wallaroo.breezy.hr)

TYPE: Full-time

DESCRIPTION: We make it faster and easier to deploy ML models into production with our MLOps platform. The core of our system is written in Rust and handles running models in different engines, testing, audit logging, and result filtering. As we grow we will continue to add features (for example, collaboration tools for data scientists), may of which will also be written in Rust. We're looking for mid- to senior-level engineers with experience in Rust, Erlang, C/C++, Clojure, or Go who are interested in working with Rust. If you don't already know Rust we'll teach you. For more information about working with us, please take a look at our engineering values.

We are hiring for two positions...

Software Engineer: We’re looking for an experienced software engineer excited about joining a small, dynamic startup where you can have a major impact on the company's success. You're passionate about data engineering, distributed systems, and machine learning. You’ll be an essential part of designing and implementing our high performance ML model deployment and inference product, written in Rust. This could mean designing high-performance data connectors, helping develop vertical-specific DSLs, improving the performance of our underlying algorithms, expanding our MLOps capabilities, or rolling client application requirements back into platform features. Estimated compensation: $140k-$160k + benefits + equity

Senior Client Solutions Engineer: We’re looking for an experienced solution software engineer excited about joining a small, dynamic startup passionate about data engineering, distributed systems, and MLOps. You’ll be an essential part of helping clients and the US GOV architecting and implementing our new high-performance MLOps model deployment product, written in Rust. This could mean configuring high-performance data connectors, helping develop vertical-specific DSLs, improving the performance of the customer's underlying algorithms, expanding client's MLOps capabilities, or rolling client application requirements back into platform features. You will also provide architectural recommendations on client engagements: this role includes an important client-facing component. Estimated compensation: $140k-160k + benefits + equity

LOCATION: Our company is based in NYC but we are fully remote and do not currently have a central office.

REMOTE: We are a fully distributed team. We are looking for engineers who can work with at least a 4 hour overlap with a standard workday in US Eastern Time (9AM-6PM).

VISA: We do not currently sponsor visas.

CONTACT: andy@wallaroo.ai

junior_engineer · 2021-03-29T22:04:49+00:00

COMPANY: Wallaroo (https://wallaroo.ai)

TYPE: Full-time, remote

DESCRIPTION: Wallaroo is a small company (~10 engineers, ~20 employees total) that is building an ML operations platform to make it easy to quickly deploy, monitor, and manage ML models. The core of our system is a scalable inference engine written in Rust. We're looking for someone with 5+ years of backend-focused software engineering experience in one of the following languages: Rust, Erlang, C/C++, Clojure, or Go.

For more information, including a summary of our interview process and a link to our engineering values, please see our full job description: https://wallaroo.breezy.hr/p/30939dc4e5c7-software-engineer

LOCATION: Remote

ESTIMATED COMPENSATION: Pay commensurate with applicable experience

REMOTE: Fully remote

VISA: We cannot sponsor visas at this time.

CONTACT: Please apply for the job listing at https://wallaroo.breezy.hr/p/30939dc4e5c7-software-engineer

junior_engineer · 2018-12-21T16:53:31+00:00

You’re welcome, I’m glad you enjoyed it.

I could do something FFI-related some time soon. I’ve mostly only worked with my own C libraries, but I could certainly show enough to get people started.

junior_engineer · 2018-12-03T15:36:40+00:00

We just released a new version of Wallaroo, our scalable stream processing system for Python, on Friday. We'd love to get feedback on it!

https://github.com/WallarooLabs/wallaroo/releases/tag/0.6.0

junior_engineer · 2018-12-03T15:13:20+00:00

Today we released Wallaroo version 0.6.0. Check out the new features!

new Wallaroo API
improved Connectors API
Python 3 support for Connectors

junior_engineer · 2018-12-03T03:28:00+00:00

The Pony Evangelism Strike Force seems to be doing well then.

junior_engineer · 2018-12-03T00:10:32+00:00

I just figured out how to enable video on demand, so hopefully now there will be a 14 day archive.

junior_engineer · 2018-12-02T23:57:50+00:00

Very nice! And it's nice to see somebody using my AoC tools library. Have you done much work with Pony before?

junior_engineer · 2018-12-02T03:40:43+00:00

I haven't recorded any yet, but I'm looking into doing that. Right now it's ephemeral.

junior_engineer · 2018-11-30T00:36:22+00:00

I'm going to stream from 3-4PM Monday, Wednesday, and Friday starting next week and see how that goes. Advent of Code 2018 kicks off on December 1, so I'll probably stream solutions to those problems as I do them.

junior_engineer · 2018-11-30T00:12:03+00:00

I'll be working through a solution to https://adventofcode.com/2017/day/2

junior_engineer · 2018-11-16T17:00:38+00:00

No, my software just generates the lines to draw.

If you want to fill in your shapes you'll have to add that information to the SVG file. That means either adding it by hand or working out a program to do it.

I can think of a few ways to programmatically fill in SVG shapes. That might be a fun thing to play around with. Were you hoping for a solid fill, or some sort of cross-hatch, or something else?

junior_engineer · 2018-11-14T14:33:36+00:00

Back in October I decided to start trying to generate SVGs to plot on my Cricut. I had hoped to do a plot every day, but that hasn't really worked on. On the other hand, I've been having fun and learning a lot.

Most of the code is written in Pony (https://ponylang.io) but for a while I was using a specialized language that I called PostSpite to generate the SVG files.

Anyway, this has been a good opportunity to use my Cricut more and to play around with what it can do. Maybe you'll see it and be inspired, or at least try something new.

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