Feature: Single-shot shortcut that 1. creates a new track (navigates to it) 2. creates a new instrument (navigates to it), 3. opens sample recorder 4. starts sampling.. and when you 5. press the shortcut again, it stops sampling, and sets the track volume to -30.0dB so you can slowly start triggering the sample and increasing the volume. it also adds the paketti loader settings to the mix.
Link to Patreon in bio.
#paketti #tracker #patreon #lua #renoise #demoscene #trackermusic
Advent of Code 2025 Day 12: Christmas Tree Farm
The one where I solve thousands of NP-complete problems like it ain't no thang. Thar be spoilers herein.
https://westkarana.blog/2025/12/12/advent-of-code-2025-day-12-christmas-tree-farm/
Advent of Code 2025 Day 11: Reactor
This is the one where I learn about Kahn's ... I mean KAAAAAAAAHHHHNNNN's algorithm.
https://westkarana.blog/2025/12/11/advent-of-code-2025-day-11-reactor/
I had an epiphany yesterday that may result in my increasing my use of #Lua in #embedded systems. I'm about 90% done in implementing the epiphany as well; when it's done I'll be sharing it as part of my lunatic library¹.
So the problem I'm solving with this epiphany is storing Lua tables in ROM. The natural data structure of Lua is the table, but the table is militantly SRAM-resident in bog-standard Lua, though MCUs have far less SRAM than Flash usually.
(1/n)
Feature: Create New Instrument from Sample Range and retain slices - this will duplicate the current sample range selection, all it's settings + slices, and recreate the slices to the new sample buffer / instrument, then apply the Slice settings.
Link to Patreon in bio.
#paketti #tracker #patreon #lua #renoise #demoscene #trackermusic
Improvement: Added "RX2 to .OT+.WAV" & ".OT to WAV Cue Header" export entries to File -> Paketti Export for easier discoverability
Link to Patreon in bio.
#paketti #tracker #patreon #lua #renoise #demoscene #trackermusic
Advent of Code 2025 Day 10: Factory
This is the one where I started with BFS and ended with Z3. WTF is Z3?
https://westkarana.blog/2025/12/10/advent-of-code-2025-day-10-factory/
I just completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/7
Finally! This one took me forever even though I enjoyed the puzzle itself.
My solution in #Lua:
https://codeberg.org/Mus/AdventOfCode/src/branch/main/2025/07
Improvement: Added 3 OctaMED themes to Paketti Theme Selector created by CeOH/NPC1
Link to Patreon in bio.
#paketti #tracker #patreon #lua #renoise #demoscene #trackermusic
Improvement: Auto-Samplify / Pakettify will now no longer try to pakettify/samplify a sample that is an alias.
Link to Patreon in bio.
#paketti #tracker #patreon #lua #renoise #demoscene #trackermusic
Why #LUA, why do your arrays start with index "1" instead of "0"? I don't get it.
Advent of Code 2025 Day 9: Movie Theater
This is the one where I wanted to use flood fill but couldn't because Lua.
https://westkarana.blog/2025/12/09/advent-of-code-2025-day-9-movie-theater/
@writefreely the project seems very much technologically and value aligned with @silverbulletmd: backend written in #golang, simple single binary deployment, open source, open standards, minimalist design. This may well become my recommended way of sharing content from #SilverBullet
But again, first need to hack together a proper integration in #lua. Seems straight forward enough, already got auth working.
Advent of Code 2025: The Playground
This is the one where I am forced to drop Picotron and fall back to Python.
https://westkarana.blog/2025/12/08/advent-of-code-2025-the-playground/
Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua
https://galileo.ai/blog/how-we-boosted-gpu-utilization-by-40-with-redis-lua
#HackerNews #ClientSideGPU #GPUloadbalancing #Redis #Lua #Optimization
Improvement: I've added functioning Anchor Links to the Experimental Manual - this takes all the dialogs, menu entries, keyboard shortcuts + midi mappings, and autogenerates a list + description.. https://esaruoho.github.io/paketti-manual/Experimental.html
Link to Patreon in bio.
#paketti #tracker #patreon #lua #renoise #demoscene #trackermusic
Improvement: Improvement: Paketti Effect Command CheatSheet will now detect if you're in the Phrase Editor, and write to the Phrase Editor, and disable the effects that are not available in the Phrase Editor.
Link to Patreon in bio.
#paketti #tracker #patreon #lua #renoise #demoscene #trackermusic
@emilis thanks for the optimization tips! I’ll probably convert the `..` to a table with `concat()`.
#Lua is used as a scripting language to provide additional logic and data manipulation that can’t be done with wiki markup. Nearly everyone who edits in Wikimedia don’t directly use Lua but they often invoke them via templates. For example, in Wikimedia Commons over 5.6 million category pages use Lua behind the scenes.
