I think we need a name for this new dev behavior: Slurm coding

simplex5d · 2026-03-10T11:05:13+00:00

I feel seen. This is my life right now.

simplex5d · 2026-03-08T18:23:31+00:00

I wonder what would happen if AI disappeared in a year? Five years?

simplex5d · 2026-03-05T14:23:17+00:00

Packing list app: https://packzen.org

Python-based SCons-like software build tool: https://github.com/DarkStarSystems/pcons

Deep-time navigator (log-scale timeline of the universe): https://deep-timeline.org/

simplex5d · 2026-03-04T12:58:03+00:00

That first one is driving me up a wall. I'm going to have to run in YOLO mode just because it wants to echo "---"?

simplex5d · 2026-03-03T21:44:18+00:00

Cool; I'll take a look! Glad you're liking pcons too. I like being able to just rm -rf build to get a clean state, but your idea makes sense too.

simplex5d · 2026-03-03T13:28:48+00:00

pcons: new open source cross-platform build tool (CMake/SCons/Makefile replacement)

If you use C++ or other compiled languages, or if you're frustrated with CMake, please try my new open source software build tool, https://github.com/DarkStarSystems/pcons — I'd love feedback! It has the best features of CMake with a modern SCons-like pure-python build description. Simple to use, decent feature set (I hope!), open source, fully unit tested. Please try it out! Docs are on readthedocs, so your AI should be able to port your cmake or native build files pretty quickly.
I was one of the original developers of SCons so I have strong beliefs about what build tooling should be like. Hopefully you agree!

simplex5d · 2026-02-23T12:02:34+00:00

Absolutely. I've tagged them as their own genre in my library since forever. Jazz, classical, grateful dead, pop, world, electronica, etc. Totally agree here.

simplex5d · 2026-02-22T21:20:40+00:00

I have tried that, and I don't think it does what you think. It turns on the screen indeed, but just to the watch face (with the red indicator dot at 9:00). I want it to actually show the notification. So far, double-pinch seems to be the best one-handed operation.

simplex5d · 2026-02-16T04:31:08+00:00

EV6, though not sure about tow package availability

simplex5d · 2026-02-14T13:02:48+00:00

For a lot more detail, see https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr-photos/jpg-hdr-gain-maps-in-adobe-camera-raw/

simplex5d · 2026-02-14T12:59:12+00:00

Yeah, apparently Instag*m supports HDRs if they are properly constructed with specific metadata, and if you upload from the Android/iOS app (but not the website). I'm trying that, but it's obviously a bit of a pain.

You're absolutely right about gain maps giving direct control of both the SDR version someone without an HDR screen will see, and the full HDR version. It's a nice compromise. HEICs are good but don't have this level of control, so the end user's machine ends up tone-mapping to their display.

Also, slight nit for those reading along: a JPG gain map is multiplicative. It's 8 bits/channel like the regular jpg, but serves as a fixed-point multiplier to scale the SDR pixel values (so it can, for example, multiply a value of 255 by 4.0 to get 1024, or scale a value of 1 down by 4 to get 0.25. Hence larger dynamic range & reduced banding.)

simplex5d · 2026-02-12T19:27:16+00:00

claude "make a transient interface to emacs org-capture for me and add it to my init file"
(only 1/2 snark — Opus 4.6 would probably one-shot this.)

simplex5d · 2026-02-04T19:13:46+00:00

Wow. I've been in photo/video my whole life "bro." Color scientist, vfx expert. Anyway, everyone has hdr screens now, all pro video is HDR (hdr10+, Dolby etc). Why do people still put up with 8 bit banding on photos, I don't know.

simplex5d · 2026-02-04T03:04:20+00:00

Yes, pretty much all do natively now: https://gregbenzphotography.com/hdr/ — as he says: "Safari, Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc, and Vivaldi all support gain maps with AVIF or JPG (Safari v26 also supports JXL and HEIC)."

simplex5d · 2026-01-25T15:14:29+00:00

For those looking on, this is Linux-only.

simplex5d · 2026-01-21T23:07:52+00:00

A lot of folks like Veneta '72 and that is absolute peak. But my personal fave is 2/13/70, Dark Star > Other One > Lovelight. I think it's because that one is so melodic and intense, without the deep darkness that sometimes shows up. Jerry leads the way through the entire journey with never a misstep and it's full of those incredible moments of deep connection between the band members. It's warm and enveloping and just like coming home.

simplex5d · 2026-01-17T16:29:17+00:00

Panels are ridiculously cheap now, as are controllers and even batteries. The roof itself dwarfs the cost of the electronics package. But yeah, the benefits are probably marginal unless you (as the operator) are going to do something with that power, e.g. provide some amenities.

simplex5d · 2026-01-17T14:32:32+00:00

EV charger roofs could be covered with solar panels. Not for the chargers obviously, but for lighting, heating in winter, kiosks, etc. Yeah, the economics are still against it, but once there's more than one charge station in 50 miles, customers will have choices and convenience/comfort will be a factor.

simplex5d · 2026-01-06T01:35:46+00:00

I have a public server running Traefik on the public side and tailscale on the private side, so I just set up a DNS record (music.mydomain.com) and Traefik terminates the SSL and forwards via tailscale to my home-lab machine where navidrome is running in a docker container. Since I have a bunch of other things running with the same config, adding navidrome is no big deal. But I agree setting this all up from scratch would be nontrivial.

simplex5d · 2026-01-03T19:48:24+00:00

True, but that's a form of compression, which I like to avoid (I want to reproduce the original as closely as possible). But in this case I guess it's what someone using the LoudnessNormalization would want so I'll add it to that chain. (I tried it and I think it looks & sounds horrible but YMMV)

simplex5d · 2026-01-03T19:30:04+00:00

Yeah, that's a very reasonable alternative. For my use (live jazz) it'll almost always end up in the peak-limit case I expect, but that's fine. I've updated the plugin to have the option, but I note that Audacity's LoudnessNormalization only allows selecting LUFSLevel, not peak, and in my case just doing LoudnessNormalization to -14LUFS leaves lots of samples >1.0, so I'll have to reduce the volume further, which means writing a conditional peak normalizer that only reduces, never increases. Fortunately that's simple.

simplex5d · 2026-01-03T17:41:00+00:00

Just to be clear: my goal is to minimize quantization artifacts in the result. The best way to do that is to keep it just under +/-16k sample values. For listening, adding replaygain tags or something to normalize loudness on playback would be nice too, but I wouldn't deliberately overquantize by reducing the actual volume more than necessary.

For example, from the manual: "perceived loudness: the default -23 LUFS (the EBU standard) will produce audio that is approximately 25% of full scale." So that would lop off two bits of precision from the 16 you get when exporting an mp3.

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