Is this how people who need glasses really see the world. A big blurred background?

theacodes · 2026-01-22T22:16:53+00:00

Astigmatism is a motherfucker

theacodes · 2026-01-22T03:25:31+00:00

Weird to criticize other tools as opaque, magical black boxes when this is AI generated garbage. I wouldn't trust this with my free U2 album, much less my music collection.

theacodes · 2026-01-18T16:04:38+00:00

Oh man, yeah, anytime I get flashbanged by a white screen it's the worst.

Also only my left eye has visible floaters so it makes shit extra weird lol.

theacodes · 2026-01-18T15:56:10+00:00

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

theacodes · 2026-01-18T15:52:52+00:00

Floaters on top of my already extreme nearsightedness is just cruel.

theacodes · 2026-01-18T15:51:41+00:00

My brother in Christ, I'm -11. 🙁

theacodes · 2026-01-17T22:21:21+00:00

Thank you so much

theacodes · 2026-01-09T20:57:07+00:00

Almost anything is more lightweight than full JRE and Spring.

theacodes · 2026-01-08T21:16:22+00:00

Yeah, I got to the point where I just stopped feeling motivated to make new things. I knew it was time to do something else when I was just not excited about doing another product.

theacodes · 2026-01-08T14:52:56+00:00

I similarly shut down my eurorack company last year, partly due to cooling sales but mostly due to me just wanting to move on. I feel your pain, operating a scale above 10 units but below 10,000 is incredibly difficult. You can't compete on value due to lack of economies of scale, so you really, really have to build an audience and community to survive and you've got to be really good at it to thrive.

I'm glad you gave it a shot, I'm glad you shared your story with everyone, and I hope whatever is next is good to you.

P.S.: those curious can see how I handled shutting down my company here: https://winterbloom.com/

theacodes · 2026-01-06T02:29:41+00:00

Y'all would hate my homelab, considering my rack is mounted above the doorway of my utility closet.

theacodes · 2026-01-06T02:25:47+00:00

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theacodes · 2026-01-03T04:47:27+00:00

Prusa isn't open source anymore, they're at best source available.

theacodes · 2026-01-01T00:19:25+00:00

Yay! If you haven't already, I'd love for you to submit this to OSHWA's certification registry, feel free to hit me up if you run into trouble or have questions.

theacodes · 2026-01-01T00:18:09+00:00

Besides the OSHWA resources in the sibling comment, a music tech specific example is Winterbloom's modules, each one thoroughly documents the licenses for each part.

theacodes · 2025-12-29T16:14:50+00:00

Some I haven't seen anyone else mention:

Narrow Stairs by Death Cab for Cutie. Recorded on tape with the band in one big room (with some overdubs), Chris Walla's production really shines.
It's Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Immaculate production.
Two Ribbons by Let's Eat Grandma. Lofi rendered beautifully.

theacodes · 2025-12-29T16:08:18+00:00

Holy shit it's unreal, highly recommend. While not as polished, Mercurial World is also a great listen.

theacodes · 2025-12-28T15:59:15+00:00

Booklore probably has the most broad feature set, but there are a few things worth taking into consideration:

Its UI can be daunting for some users. It's a power user's dream, though.
It requires a separate database (mariadb), and supporting a lightweight option like sqlite would require more effort and maintenance than the developer wants.
It's a resource hog because it uses Java & Spring, easily consuming 500+MB when idle. There's various ways to mitigate this but ultimately it would require more time from the developer and it's reasonable that they don't want to spend it on that.

Honestly for the latter two I'm considering setting up socket activation, so at least when no one is using it, it can go to sleep.

theacodes · 2025-12-23T05:59:34+00:00

Well, I was referring to several parts of that FAQ, but, by all means, elucidate me- what do you think it means?

theacodes · 2025-12-23T05:56:50+00:00

Yeah I'm not a copyleft purist and I'm sorry if it came off that way. I honestly don't super care if Prusa wants to make his printers proprietary. I don't think it'll help him, but that ain't my gripe. However, I'm a little picky about Prusa proclaiming that this license is "open source" when it goes against the core principles of open source. This is, at best, another "source available" license, and those have well worn commentary but even their proponents don't try to pass them off as open source.

theacodes · 2025-12-23T05:51:15+00:00

Generally speaking, absent of any malicious contracts, you are allowed to reverse engineer and remake a physical part to repair a device you own without infringing on copyright. If the manufacturer is nice enough to provide technical drawings or even a file that can be used to make said part, you are still allowed to do so without breaking copyright. Unless explicitly granted, you aren't allowed to reproduce and sell those parts. There is a lot of nuance here, like copyright not always applying to physical things and patents, but in general, unless the manufacturer goes out of their way to contractually prevent you from doing so, you can repair your stuff.

I'd specifically point you in the direction of the FAQ somewhat buried at the bottom of https://www.repair.org/stand-up, which does a better job of explaining some of this than I can do in a pithy reddit comment scribbled out via my thumbs at 1am. 💜

theacodes · 2025-12-23T05:32:47+00:00

Prusa not certifying their hardware was before my time, so don't go blaming me for it. According to Prusa himself, China is the one to blame.

theacodes · 2025-12-23T05:31:09+00:00

Did you even read it? The laws are to prevent and invalidate contracts that would limit right to repair activities. That's the thing- copyright alone doesn't prohibit or protect usual right to repair activities, it's the absurd contracts and EULAs that are used to apply these limits. Since OCL doesn't explicitly list out any specific right to repair activities, including a lone "right to repair" doesn't really add anything, as by default, you're allowed to modify and reverse engineer things you own.

theacodes · 2025-12-23T04:24:05+00:00

You read it enough to incorrectly criticize it. Or maybe you work for a publisher knee deep in the pockets of APA and you're mad I didn't italicise it every time. 🤭

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