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I love Fire Fight! I got the demo on a PC Gamer disc when I was a kid and played it forever. And couple of years ago when I built a retro PC, it was one of the first games I loaded up :)

If you’re curious about synths, I’d actually say it’s better to start with an instrument that’s standalone (that is, doesn’t need a MIDI controller). The HiChord is a good choice. I’ve personally had lots of fun with Orchid by Telepathic Instruments. And anything with a keyboard by KORG (including the VERY affordable volca line) is also a great starting point.

Once your first synth starts making sense, you’ll get the itch to buy a second, and it’ll be time to delve into MIDI :)

Hah! I hope it's worth the expense. Check out the Condukt discord when you get it going, lots happening in there.

Totally, and I think the need for MIDI Guide - the fact that MIDI CC/NRPN is pretty much a free-for-all - is also why the spec has such staying power. It's so unopinionated that it imposes essentially zero constraints beyond message size. I love it.

That's an interesting idea. We've had a couple of requests to expand the format to include a mapping function between the CC/NRPN values and the 'display' values, e.g. [0, 127] -> [-10, 10], for cases where the relationship is nonlinear. This wouldn't guarantee normalization of meaning (it wouldn't encode the difference between the SH-101's attack and the Bass Station 2's attack), but it would make it easier to pull everything together in an app.

This is my pet feature :) There are so many cool sequencers and controllers, all with their own idiosyncratic plaintext instrument definition formats. Making little exporters for each of them is fun.

Hey thanks. I love the MIDI standard for exactly this reason too. Blows my mind that you can hook a forty year old synth up to a computer or iPad without drivers.

Thanks! My daughter loved it too. I tried to design the sharing workflow so that kids could send their designs to friends with printers (that's why I stuffed all the state into the query string). I struggled with the name, WordCAD sounds so stodgy to me, but the kids I talked to thought it was cool and serious haha

Dev here - we already have a developer membership from our other (monetized) apps, so releasing this doesn't cost us any additional money.

That’s right, scans don’t appear in Photos. You can delete pages or scans with the usual iPhone controls (swipe left to show the Delete button, etc.)

I have the same problem with my “blinds” - I started calling them “shades” instead (not the usual term, in my vernacular at least) and have had much better luck. YMMV!

If you don’t mind sharing - what kind of rashes?

It sounds that way - but they also say that connections over 5-pin DIN is/will be MIDI 1.0 only.

That’s interesting - does the canonical tag identify the Medium article or the WordPress article as canonical?

Related to the imagery in this article:

“Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike — then learns it wasn't him“: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-...

Basecamp started a “Facebook Free” movement for businesses who pledge to not use Facebook in any way. Their original announcement: https://m.signalvnoise.com/become-a-facebook-free-business/

Some press coverage of it: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/06/some-advertisers-are-quittin...

I'd add hosting on top of that - like Apple, Google, etc., they don't charge you for distributing your app (which could be hefty, per paid transaction, if you have a low-converting trial or freemium app).

I think that's part of it. It's also a more open platform, so they have to compete with, say, Stripe or Digital River etc. on their commission percentages to get the big Windows software titles on board.

30% on one-off purchases of apps and IAPs, and 15% of subscriptions.

If they click your link (that includes the `?cid` parameter) while they're on your website, I believe the `cid` value is cookied/stored with their Microsoft Store profile, and will be respected even if they buy later directly from the Store.

If they visit your website but don't click the link, then there's no way for the Store to attribute the sale to your website, so you'll probably be charged full freight (15%).

That sounds about right, although 5% (or 15%) is a pretty good deal IMO for worldwide payment processing, installer and update distribution, DRM, and their built-in tools like crash reporting, push notifications, analytics, affiliation, and attribution.

Here’s Richard Branson’s blog post announcing this: https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/my-statement-kingdom-...

This looks amazing and is definitely much-needed.

Any plans to add an SDK for the Microsoft Store?

It’s coming soon for iOS and web, too.

Many employment agreements have 'non-solicitation' clauses that you might breach by recruiting from your employer. You should definitely ask a lawyer.

I thought the same – I actually liked the illustration so much I bought a print of it. This is the artist's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harriorrihar/

That’s smart - businesses don’t expect as much for free, whereas consumer app pricing is cutthroat. Do you face more issues with gatekeepers in B2B stores?

Can't speak to AI for dogs and buyer's remorse insurance, but the AR collector really spoke to me - I would hand over 5-10% of invoices to have someone else deal with getting my enterprise clients to pay on time (and getting them to pay interest when they don't). It might not provide much social benefit, but I wish it existed anyway.

Hey, glad you think so. I’ve definitely been lured into a niche where the incumbents are only succeeding because of some external traffic source. Sometimes it’s subtle - big paid app install campaigns can be hard to spot from the sidelines.

I've been using this for a few years now, mainly with FastMail and Gmail. I can't live without it, especially for sending emails with documentation, technical instructions, usernames, etc. to customers.