damn. Good features. I was hoping to move onto this as part of the portfolio pieces/improve habits self hosted DB thing I’m working on, but for now I guess I can learn some of the things I don’t know how to do yet (like shipping to other people!) from your team.

How are you planning on reacting to the android freedoms getting compromised? I’m literally working on the android app for mine now, and it bums me out that they’re going to put more invasions of privacy for deploying apps to your own phone.

Also, are you planning to make money from this somehow? If yes, how?

I am so awesome at self promotion that I put the source code twice, and the actual usable version 0 times. Here’s the link : https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid

I have to actually see you use it in your DJ software/machine. Let’s say you have a mechanism in your DJ software that seems to somehow have a 16 * 16 grid, conway’s game of life and an interface that’s very similar. I can start pursuing legal action if I believe you’re making gains off it. The more money someone makes off it, the more likely it becomes, since courts aren’t free, international laws, etc etc. You’d also get reputational damage, especially if you’re a smaller company

Just to add a concrete example/plug:

I made the microtonal music grid : https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid
Its source code is open, you can see it here : https://github.com/MicrotonalGrid/MicrotonalGrid

If you want to, you can modify it yourself and add in things like different colours, default music systems, or even ratio mode instead of even temperment. I’m perfectly happy with that. You can even use it to teach yourself or other people how to program in javascript , or how to program a very basic synth. You can even use just the part that has an implementation of conway’s game of life.

I don’t consent to you making money off it. If anyone is going to make the pittance that this code would make, I want it to be me.

That’s why I chose the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

I want credit, and I don’t want you to make money off it.

So you use a license to specify how you want people to treat you and your code, and threaten legal action if that desire is abused.

Maybe try it from the other way around : look for tutorials that help you achieve your goals, and contextualise the tutorial to your project.

I am wrapping up the Django tutorial because I needed to make a database that held the information on where I put my taxes instead of just ramming them in the downloads folder. I just followed the django tutorial on the official website, but changed variable names etc to make it suit my needs.

I’m also working on improving my bash skills. I made a clock chime to learn cases :

https://lemmy.world/post/43115099

maybe I need to bother the good people at the music department at my local uni(s)

I’ve worked in software development professionally and I am working on some personal projects that I am going eventually share and try to get known.

Soft launch is when you make something available, but either allow something to just be encounterable, either through the system you are working in , or through search engines and whatnot. The main motive of this is when you have reached a state where it can be used, but you do not want it to be under scrutiny, and to get some feedback from initial users, and to see if it will work as expected in a live environment.

A “Hard” launch is when you work on publicity, announcements, buy advertising, and generally try to get people to all come and see/use the thing you have completed. There is a release date and you are actively trying to attract people to the thing.

For example, I’m slowly working my way up the release state for the microtonal grid.

The first stage of soft launch was just uploading it to Itch.io , without it being listed properly or on the recommendation engine listings. Then I enabled it to be seen through those categories. Then I started posting about it on lemmy. I still need to work on trying to reach out to Xenharmonic wiki to list it on their pages of tools or some kind of use through there. I want to start documenting my projects I am working on in videos and upload them to a schedule.

The things I need to will keep making the release “harder”.

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Contributing is what you do to other people’s projects once you are done making your own stupid things, and feel confident you will improve rather than ruin other people’s stuff.

The problem is, things never feel like they are complete. There’s always more you can do.

I might do some contribs to lichess once I am done with my current stuff.

Shameless plug : I recently finished a longterm project :
https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid
https://programming.dev/post/46248494

hey, when you’re used to GUIs, the install finishes and you’re staring at a command line with no idea how to get started with the desktop, yeah it’s “the hard way”.

It’s not hard, but you have to know WTF is going on. It surprised me when I got sent to the command line after reboot, I lucked out because I changed DE while I was distro hopping so knew how to install from apt.

Debian, not a bad idea but where I live I have shared wireless only, so I’d have to install the wireless drivers manually using my phone to search for advice. Not even sure how that’d go. Easier if I had ethernet.

I installed through wireless. you just set it up as part of the installation process.

I love things like this, makes it so easy to learn when it’s a really simple to understand and explicit implementation of a high level feature (read input, pass to command)

if you hate JS and think it’s dumb, but still have to use it, look into Eloquent Javascript (free) https://eloquentjavascript.net/ and the mozilla docs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript.

Eloquent JS is written by someone who also hates JS, but understands it very well.

I used them while I worked on the Microtonal Music Grid (still in progress)

I always pronounced it Four-yey

there’s already a stack overflow thread https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/312640/how-to-solve-for-the-fouriest-number