Indeed, I also don't listen to music after 2024. I'm also not interested in anything my friends have made (with claude or others). Or how so much of creativity is now a prompt away.
A lot of our culture is disappearing before our eyes and people are defending it.
And make sure "follow" means "buy their stuff on Bandcamp or directly from them". Streaming platforms send most of the money you pay to bands you probably never listen to.
Costco and similar do have them at a decent price, currently see them 20$ for 10. I think most people just look at the 2 packs, which are more expensive.
I play with generally lighter strings. 8.5-40 mighty slinky fender scale. I noticed when I switched my fingers pay much more attention to pressure, and being in tune with microbends.
Been thinking of going a bit lighter recently, and also getting a classical.
I have been building music theory/midi related vst plugins in JUCE.
It's mostly targeted at me, or others that make music, but are not piano players.
There isn't much to show currently, but I have a rhythm generator, and have been
working on a chord builder. The main thing that has taken time has been trying
to decide which things to add to a user interface to make it worth actually building.
I think in the western world, Art, and music are both long term projects. So much so that
we seem to have "reinvented" music at least twice. Once after the Greeks into classical western music, then again when jazz went into tonal harmony.
This is a really important point that I think a lot
of people who aren't vegan don't get. There might
be an understanding that food is culture (lets order chinese,
or italian), but realizing that's not a culture you
experience but a culture you live.
The first thing many new vegans ask is "what do I eat
now?" The replacement food comes first, and beyond
hits the mark a lot more than seitan does because
we don't culturally eat seitan.
And even more so, I think beyond has made it so an
entire generation realized they could go vegan.
A black bean burger just never hit the same way.
Trust that vegans realize your assertion, but classify it in the same vein as "slavery is part of our culture, how dare you try and stop that!". It's cultural suffering that has no place in a modern society.
Of course things will Be Different. That's the Whole Point.
I think Lisp is more on the liberal arts side of programming languages.
That the "enlightenment" of Lisp is that you can use functions everywhere. Write macros that look like functions and modify behavior, and build your code as a language.
Things like monads are more on the evolution of functional languages, and I also fall off the bike. It's as difficult as you want it to be, and I find scheme and lisp to be easier high level languages than javascript or python and makes more sense.
The Dan Friedman books are pretty good in general: "The Little Schemer,"
and the sequel "The Seasoned Schemer" which are both more "recursion" books. He also has another book "Scheme and the Art of Programming." Which I think is a great comp sci book that's not too difficult and doesn't seem too well known.
How to Design Programs is supposed to be a pretty good comp sci intro:
If we're naming names, for me personally, Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec tops my Lisp books list. But, yes, only after perusing the SICP and The Little Schemer first.
A lot of our culture is disappearing before our eyes and people are defending it.