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For a long time Vegas was my only reason for keeping a PC. I still miss it. Da Vinci is fine, but it's still optimized for professional video editors, which means lots of weird concepts & things which should be easy are hard if you don't understand the history. Vegas' heritage is audio, so it's very fluid for taking a "compositional" approach to video, which makes it great for making music videos.

Im going to think about this comment a lot today. Not in a “thoughts & prayers” way, just because this makes me so happy & proud for humanity, that we can do actually worthwhile things like this together. That’s the kind of stuff I want to think about on my silly made-up Dad holiday. Cheers!

I want to skip all the debate and just have someone tell me what setup I need to get to here:

Kids today don’t just use agents; they use asynchronous agents. They wake up, free-associate 13 different things for their LLMs to work on, make coffee, fill out a TPS report, drive to the Mars Cheese Castle, and then check their notifications. They’ve got 13 PRs to review. Three get tossed and re-prompted. Five of them get the same feedback a junior dev gets. And five get merged.

I was a bit surprised by this article as it actually contradicts the account I always heard, which was their main vocal effect was a Roland VP-9000. If you listen to e.g. Harder Faster the effect is somewhere in between a vocoder & autotune, so I assumed that was the VP-9000. That said, this guy has clearly done his homework (pun intended) so I'm inclined to accept his version of events.

Lapce 2 years ago

I am constantly confused by text editors pitching themselves on speed. Is the world really full of developers going crazy with frustration because they’re waiting on vs code to do something? I opened a 100,000 line text file a few days ago & it rendered in like half a second, considering I do this about once a year it’s really more than good enough.

A brief explainer I should really have submitted with the link:

- PlatformIO already has "official" support for the RasPi Pico board, with Arduino

- However almost everyone prefers and uses the "unofficial" earlephilhower/arduino-pico integration which adds a ton of features and is well documented

- A PR to add this integration to the PIO registry has been outstanding for over two years now

- In the last week or so the PlatformIO CEO has posted that they will not be merging the PR

- My understanding of their reasoning is that RasPi needs to pay PIO to support the branch going forward? The language is rather vague with a lot of talk about "communities" and "values" so I could be wrong about this, please don't sue me

- RasPi's response is basically "LOL no" since they are all-in on their horrible CMake toolchain and don't care about PIO

I was trying to be even-handed. I'm generally of the opinion that PlatformIO should merge the PR on the condition that it be maintained by the community - which seems reasonable considering PIO is supposed to be an open-source project - but it's also a complicated situation involving a bunch of negotiations I'm not party to, so I wanted to avoid passing judgement.

- Programming, obv.

- Coding electronic music / sound design

- Songwriting

- Singing

- Pen-and-paper RPGs (mainly D&D, as a player & DM)

- Cooking, baking in particular

- Reading, mainly weird fiction & philosophy

- Rambling (hiking to Americans, but generally involves more pubs)

- Real ale / craft beer

- Trying to read the entire internet

Something I just realised: I am an utterly stereotypical, central-casting nerd :/