Charles 𝄢 H @celesteh@post.lurk.org

In 2005, one of my professors, Anthony Braxton, proposed that we record a duo of sax and tuba. I agreed. He offered me something like $500 upfront or $600 if I waited until the release. I opted to wait. I'm still waiting. I've never heard the recording.

After some years, I started to wonder if I should take the recording session off my CV. Surely if it's not out after a decade, it's just not very good. The engineer mentioned a few problems during the session, so maybe none of it was useable. Maybe it was my playing. Something must be wrong with it.

I've had stuff I recorded released without my knowledge before, so I used to check if it had come out and people forgot to tell me. Now I have vague concerns about whether a surprise release would reflect my name change. I trust them to get it right, but things can sometimes go wrong....

Two or three years ago, a German researcher got in touch with me to ask about the recording. I told him everything I remember from it. He said something about the music on the recording. I told him I'd never heard it, so he sent me a copy(!!)!

I listened to five minutes and just could not bear it. I've still never heard it. I don't know where I put the file.

OK, is Stroustrop still the major teaching text for C++?

#CPlusPlus

I'm asking a lot of questions on here and I'll blog what this turns into! You know, to feed back into the information loop etc.

I should probably also post a somewhat redacted version of my latest pgche paper.... (However the biggest fake away from that is that Nick Collins wrote a great paper on how to teach SuperCollider.)

I've heard rumours that C++ is dead and everyone has moved to #Rust. I have questions:

Are people using #JUCE with Rust very commonly or it a niche interest?

Is there a good written resource for beginners to both things?

What's a good book on Rust?

What's a good book on writing VSTs and audio apps with JUCE?

What is currently the most popular/documented/likely-to-remain-popular language and library for writing VSTs?

Please give me your faves and your opinions!

(I know that #PD is a great way to write VSTs. I have not forgotten the best patcher language!)

#VST #C #CPlusPlus

I am curious about pair coding - how it works and whether people like it?

Does anyone know how to install #fscape on #macOS.

Is @sciss the author of fscape?

Ooh, I don't want to send the batteries for recycling as some are in great condition.

I guess I should modify my offer to include posting them

Anyway, it's a #wordpress plugin: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/share-on-mastodon/

It echoes your WP posts to your masto account

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/share-on-mastodon/

Ok, so as I work to disable the cross posting, if you do want to read my blog posts, follow @celesteh@www.celesteh.com

I have no idea why my blog posts are showing up here!

It's not ifft.

I thought they were meant to show up as their own activity pub thing.

Teshuvah https://www.celesteh.com/blog/2022/09/23/teshuvah/

I'm trying to buy a piece of sheet music of a jazz standard and everything I can find at beginner keyboard level is some sort of digital thing. I just want a piece of paper.

I've got a stack of #fairphone 2 batteries to give away. Some are great. Some need recycling and I don't which are which. Available for pickup in East #London, England.

#fp2

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/free-fairphone-2-batteries-in-london-uk/88838?u=les_h

If my internal hard drive does die, this is taking like 4 days to upload. Restoring will be a nightmare. Maybe I should have reopened my rsync.net addount

I have a hard drive with a backup from when my computer exploded recently, so this seems like a safe time to try this, relatively speaking