I was thinking it’d be about a musical keyboard.

It's a new book (and free!). There's also a YouTube series where they build it, so I'm very tempted to make my first chair now.

Cool post! I am also making an 8-bit-like tracker with web audio (and my name is also Dan B. Weird), but I never found this sort of solution to make it work with the native nodes. I just wound up manually creating wav buffers. Gives you the ability to emulate a lower sample rate and lower pitch resolution (8 bits on NES, I believe), plus you can work around the weird scheduling quirks of the WebAudio api that didn’t really jive with my real time game audio use case. It’s live at deathbit.okay.tools if you wanted to check it out.

Great name. That's super cool i like the retro aesthetic. The scheduling piece of trackers built with the Web Audio API is definitely a bit of a struggle but so far it's been manageable

This doesn’t seem to work for me in Firefox on iPhone SE 3. After I hit start typing here, the screen just goes blank and nothing appears when I type anything.

Please tap again on the screen and then start typing.

Haven’t wired earbuds always sounded better than Bluetooth at the same price point? When I set up my home theater, I first thought to use a Bluetooth transmitter for the audio but it stunk. Quiet sounds constantly dropped out and there was no bass for the subwoofer. Actually using a long aux cable from projector to speaker was night and day.

As for wired earbuds, I can highly recommend JLab as the most durable, and therefore the best for my tastes. Pairs of mine have gone years and through a lot of abuse (dunked in coffee with surprisingly frequency) and still work. I feel like every other brand lasted less than a year for me.

> Haven’t wired earbuds always sounded better than Bluetooth at the same price point?

That's certainly been my experience. What Bluetooth gives in terms of convenience it takes away in terms of audio quality, reliability, and having yet another thing to charge.

Cheap wired headphones are analog bad (speaker elements etc). Cheap bluetooth earbuds are also digital bad (codec, compression, poor radio reception forcing use of fewer bits). Because of the longer history, we're better at making cheap-bad-analog than cheap-bad-digital.

> Following several years of declining health, Clifford died on October 10, 1821, at the age of 74. A state legislator recalled his father attending an auction in 1878 at the old Clifford home “when the last of the fourth generation of cabinetmakers sold the place.” His account includes this heartbreaking detail: “A farmer bought their old planes and tools for firewood, many of them then over 100 years old — he had to go twice with a two horse wagon to haul them home.”

Heartbreaking indeed! I imagine those planes might still be in use today with proper care.

I learned about this from my mother, who, like my father, is a doctor. Invitations addressed to "Dr. and Mrs. Father Lastnames" were a source of great offense to her!

This is right up my alley right now! I bought a busted CZ-1 as my first synth and I’m trying to get it working. I look forward to reading your blog!

He's the game dev who made Fez, then famously decided to cancel Fez 2 after having some sort of break down (maybe over online abuse?). Not sure why we're voting for him though...

Thanks!

Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time. I almost struggle to remember where I heard them from, but I distinctly remember reading this site trying to find the next great game for my first-gen iPod Touch. I can't say I've ever followed it closely, but there's a certain sadness bound to happen when a childhood site goes down.

I'll poor one out for TouchArcade (and Joystiq. and Rooster Teeth. Just checked, and gonintendo is still kicking!)