Tim Janik ✅ @timj@social.tchncs.de

I am working on new UI controls (numbers, switches, text, etc) for #Beast (#electron based).

Sometimes it'd be nice to have a designer on the project who is familiar with #DAW software to bounce ideas back and forth with.

Courtesy of Stefan Westerfeld (who yet needs to create a Mastodon account), we now have fluidsynth2 support in #Beast master. And that means .sf3 (#soundfont + #vorbis) support.

Hm, C++14 supports lambda arguments of type 'auto', i.e. /nice/ function templates.
That allows me to throw away hundreds of lines of visitor code.

Just came back from #HM19 (industrial production fair in Hannover).

It's incredible how many products have to carry "#blockchain" in the title or description these days, it's infected almost everything that deals with sensor or log data.
One presenter literally said "we also put 'blockchain' into the sensors software because the client WANTED it."

OTOH, it's nice to see that fabrication companies increasingly base their software stacks on #OpenSource and have learned to contribute back.

The #Beast source code is currently being rewritten in various places (CI, IPC, Build system, etc)

During the process, the various pieces of Beast documentation were converted to Markdown, structured and merged into a single cohesive document. Formulas can now facilitate #Latex (and #Mathjax) and syntax highlighting was introduced. It is rendered to #HTML and #PDF and the #CSS was adjusted to closely match the Latex based PDF looks.

https://beast.testbit.org/#news

In
"Walking in my (Electron) shoes"
Gergely Nagy writes about having to deal with hate (!!) received from people for developing on #Electron.

Since I started moving #Beast to Electron, I've also had several interesting discussions (but not
"hateful" encounters) with people claiming that it must be slow or resource wasteful compared to native toolkits, both of which aren't really true in Beast's development context. Development itself is vastly superior though.

https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2018/10/26/Walking-in-my-shoes/

#EU #Copyright #Reform 2019 – Why Upload Filters Are a Bad Idea

Nice visualisation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUh9wOp_Rw

#UploadFilter

New Blog article…

Here’s my take on how "Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C Applications" relates to GSlice:

GSlice considerations and possible improvements

https://testbit.eu/2019/gslice-considerations

#GSlice #MESH #Slab #Hugepages #HUGETLB #Malloc #memalign etc

Beast version 0.13.0 is released.

Beast is an LGPLv2+ music synthesizer, composer and #DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).

It provides a #MIDI #sequencer, unlimited undo, real-time #synthesis, support for Linux #Audio Plugins (#LADSPA v1), Soundfont 2, WAV, AIFF, Vorbis, Gus Patch, FLAC and MP3 files, 32bit audio rendering, full duplex support, multi-core audio rendering and precise timing.

This release features a prebuilt binary (AppImage) for the first time.

→ https://beast.testbit.org ←

Just fixed a potential memory corruption bug detected by #scan-build (delete/free mismatch).

If your project compiles with #clang/clang++, invocation can be as easy as:

$ scan-build make

There may be lots of output generated, but catching bugs like the above *before* it's actually triggered make it really worthwhile to plow through the warnings.

#bugfix

I'd love to learn what others are using instead of #libtool.

Related blog post here:
https://testbit.eu/2019/replace-libtool-turn-full-gnu-make

TL;DR
Replacing libtool has been the major hurdle for me for replacing #autotools, and long term I want to get rid of both.

Finally someone to talk to when you're bored ;-)

http://demo.visualdialog.org/
#AI #chatbot

Just chairs, #35c3

Easy to make giant friends at #35c3

After a lengthy Autobahn trip, I have arrived at Leipzig for #35c3.

Toot me if you're interested in a meetup at #ccc, or ask for timj at the #cbase assembly.

It turns out that https://rawgit.com/ is about to shutdown (being just a hobby project after all), but jsDelivr stepped up to provide the same functionality now.

So the previously posted #CSS snippet for using the CharisSIL5 webfont now becomes:

@import url('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/tim-janik/assets@a8a12dd652e48532faa39657bc5cc268525a89ca/CharisSIL5/CharisSIL-webfont.css');

html { font-family: "CharisSILW", serif; }

The #cdn behind jsDelivr is cloudflare and the content is served with a Cache-Control max-age of 365 days.

I just ran across the blog of André Staltz, Scuttlebutt author and creator of manyver.se/. He's got lots of thoughtful and interesting articles, excerpt:

> And [...] an internet experience that violates my privacy, profits behind my back, silences my voice, steals my attention for ads, and forces me to read and accept regulation banners, [is not] a good enough sales pitch.

https://staltz.com/eu-copyrights-and-the-p2p-internet.html
#decentralized #web