@paparatti Glad you're enjoying them! I can't wait for the fall and playing as a larger group. A few of us couldn't make that concert, as it was a little last minute.

After a month of just practicing for the band, I did a little practice of other stuff before work today and was shocked: A major to above the staff, Bb major ditto, clean and clear. I never had this range. My chops are 100% back.

Sent my family the video link to the WVGO's concert, and my mum suggested I try to play my electric in the band. On the face of it, this is an excellent idea, but I think what my mum doesn't understand is that once a group finds out you play horn, that's it, you're playing horn.

Look, YouTube, yeah I'm watching a bunch of FFT music videos, but in what world do I have 40 minutes to watch a long-ass video ranking the jobs?

@gemini6ice [mishearing] do you have mint chip

Last Wednesday's concert with the Winnipeg Video Game orchestra! (Mario Bros, Pokemon Red/Blue, Piranha Plants on Parade, Zelda: A Link to the Past)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq2I3SoG1iM&list=PLglafiAuLNCvpfSNeRx2Aya3OHyVxJc8y

Long Read: The Wilsey Sound: The Rise and Fall of James Calvin Wilsey

https://rhythms.com.au/long-read-the-wilsey-sound-the-rise-fall-of-james-calvin-wilsey/

@getter7seven This is the kind of weird and different thing I love. Would love to try Mega Man 2 in this context.

The long, strange road---but Interesting~

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147940/3dSen_PC/ CC: @St1ka @juliancday @eniko

"Sam Altman says..." really has the same feel as "but Dr. Lipschitz says..."

Normally dogshit at mini golf, but scored a 46 with a bunch of 2s and a hole-in-one, and now my friends (erroneously) think I'm good at mini golf.

It's going to sound cool when I finally tie all the ideas together.

This year I've been writing a lot of standalone guitar preludes. I think I've done 6 or 7, with one being from a couple years ago, and another based off a composition I'd sketched out at least a decade ago. I'm trying to finish one up for my last lesson this week, and I think I'm going to fail, but it's in CGCGBE and I'm always amazed at what alternative tunings open up on guitar.

@lastrobot Honestly, I'm a little surprised they haven't done it already, given how hard they're pushing Copilot everywhere.

@aral I learned some vi in my teens, I'm not one of the vi golf types, but I can happily use it, and actually do for writing all the Lua code for my game. I'll need to give Helix a try - I've never really heard of it, I've been out of the loop.

@lastrobot A couple years ago I wrote a little terminal 15-puzzle game in Linux, just to get back to a stripped back development flow (I wrote it in C++ using bash, vi and emacs, debugging via gdb). I really feel this. I don't run Linux natively anymore, but I maintain a Fedora VM for cross-compiling SotW and messing around with other things. It feels quiet, in a good way.

"Visual" Studio got its name when the development flavour of the day was visual programming - dragging UI components on to a form and tying things together. The IDE's kept its name for a couple decades now. I wonder how long until Microsoft rebrands it "AI Studio".

More than half of the "what's new" in the latest MSVC update is just AI shit. I opened the IDE to write code myself. I've written a large game (including making the sprites, sound effects, and music) by myself. I feel like I'm going insane just by wanting to use my creativity to make things.

I've learned enough lute pieces from tab that I'd consider the above excellent: it's clearly printed, and it's legible; some handwritten lute tablature is _brutal_.

Re-learning a piece by Besard for my lesson this week. Fingerings in the Stott edition are by none other than Julian Bream. They're not what I'd intuitively use, and there's a particular figure that seems overcomplicated (it's played up the neck on strings 2 and 3, instead of just in first position on 1 and 2), so I went to IMSLP, and yup, that's a Bream-ism, the fingering I decided to use was the same as what Besard specified in 1603.