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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 28/09/2026

It turns out that not only can I reverse engineer a VCV Patch file, but I can reverse engineer a this.is.NOISE Gamma mini synth. An overview of the adventure is up at medium.com/@domesticmou...

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Reverse Engineering a this.is.NOISE Gamma synth

I made a horrible mistake. I liked a synth I found online so much, I wound up buying it twice. I emailed the maker and explained my…

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 06/09/2026

Something I have noticed is that LLMs are over eager to burn complexity budget

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 04/09/2026

I had a lot of fun presenting as part of the DevRel track at PyCon AU 2026!

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 25/08/2026

Making sense of a VCV Rack patch using Google Antigravity. And creating an Agent Skill as part of the exploration. Thanks to @jjbbllkk.bsky.social for the VCV Rack patch that made this possible. =) medium.com/@domesticmou...

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Making sense of a VCV patch with Antigravity

When you are starting out in a new hobby, there is always a time where you are lost for words when looking at something, trying to…

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 24/08/2026

@jjbbllkk.bsky.social I’d like to demo 30 seconds of your VCV patch VCV for sleep 01 on stage as part of my talk at PyCon AU. I will attribute Red Means Recording as part of it. Background: I’m demonstrating how to make sense of VCV patch files.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 17/07/2026

Building your own tools is enormously freeing. This is going to be fun!

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/06/2026

“It represents proof of work” is my new trip hop dub step band name.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 25/05/2026

Apropos of absolutely nothing: the thing that can’t afford to continue will eventually stop.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 17/04/2026

One of the weird things is watching people who obviously have never done manufacturing use manufacturing idioms without understanding the implications. Call it Dunning Kruger Engineering. Simplest one, automation vs handmade. In the world of atoms, for building one offs, hand made is cheaper.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 07/04/2026

I don’t understand why people are fantasising about dark factories as a future for software development. It’s almost like software engineers have no understanding of the reality of physical manufacturing. The cost of R&D to set up a dark factory is astronomical and makes no sense for one off items.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 01/04/2026

I’m intrigued as to why Trump is promoting the PetroYuan.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 29/03/2026

I’m curious how long it will take the markets to reprice Nvidia to zero on the back of TSMC’s helium supply chain out of Qatar being impacted

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 22/03/2026

We are treating this change as if it is the first time we’ve seen automation as a society. It isn’t. It isn’t even the first time we’ve dealt with the fear that automation would eliminate all jobs. We have been dealing with the effects of automation since the invention of the steam engine.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 14/03/2026

As someone who has just been solidly reminded that skills are perishable, I have a suggestion. Coders who haven’t fought a compiler for three months should probably accept they aren’t coders any more. They will be forcibly reminded by reality if they don’t.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/02/2026

Equilibria Fixation Disorder is my glitch ambient band name

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/02/2026

I think the fixation on equilibrium by economists is responsible for outsize harm to our ability to understand the world we live in.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 19/01/2026

I upgraded to macOS 26. Oh jesus. Wtf happened guys? Are they trying to make my m4 pro into an oversized iPad?

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 12/01/2026

Silly question, when the US takes Greenland, I’m curious how Europe will go about interning all the US citizens on the continent.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 08/01/2026

Can I just say, I'm not a fan of 2.5mm breadboards. Especially when they are sold as 2.54mm "Arduino compatible" breadboards.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 24/12/2025

AI psychosis was not on my bingo card for 2025

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 30/11/2025

I finally upgraded to iOS 26. It has Win8 vibes.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 15/11/2025

@electrosmith.bsky.social any guidance on whether you’ll be building more patch.init modules? Waiting list?

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 13/11/2025

The first mistake everyone makes is linear extrapolation. We live in a non linear world, linearity is only ever a short run approximation. The second mistake is assuming permanent exponential growth. There are no exponentials in the real world. There is always a hidden constraint, somewhere.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 29/10/2025

Ishan is the real deal when it comes to understanding GPT youtube.com/watch?v=clqB...

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Ishan Anand - GPT in Vanilla JavaScript

YouTube video by CascadiaJS

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 28/10/2025

So the big bookstore in town has more shelf space dedicated to baking bread than programming. And I can’t find any books on things like electrical engineering. I worry.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 18/10/2025

I'm in Seoul to talk about Flutter and Gemini CLI. This is going to be fun 😁

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 04/10/2025

youtube.com/watch?v=Zyw-... TIL that Silicon Valley just invented what my Dad did for living. My Dad retired in the 90s.

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The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew

YouTube video by Y Combinator

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 25/09/2025

Odd reality shift. I was chatting with a startup founder about how to improve the onboarding flow of his product. He pitched me a front end role. I realised I don’t want to do work that isn’t first and foremost about using AI to improve user experience.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 21/09/2025

Silly question of the day: when did Americans stop being engineers? Go back to recordings of the 60s and the US called itself a country of engineers. Justifiably proud of what they built during WW2 and afterwards. Now? I see no pride in building stuff. Just to be fair, Australia is the same.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 20/09/2025

I can’t imagine what Silicon Valley is thinking right about now. I suspect the next round of startups are going to need to either master team work over zoom, or move to Canada. Eh! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump signs proclamation imposing annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visas

Move deals potentially major blow to US tech industry, which relies heavily on workers from India and China

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 17/09/2025

I'm curious, what does it take to be able to say something like "Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is now available." I'm shook.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 12/09/2025

I’m still confused why everyone predicts exponential growth in the early part of the sigmoid adoption curve.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 12/09/2025

Y’know what I find weird? We are doing stochastic compute atop a deterministic abstraction build atop a stochastic reality. That deterministic abstraction is expensive, and I’d guess not needed.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 10/09/2025

One of the odd parts of going from pure software development to combined software and hardware development is the number of engineering trade offs explode.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 09/09/2025

Can someone please explain the concept of "Vibe Coding Certification" please

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 03/09/2025

I’m using GenAI to learn electronics. It’s oddly engaging to have an unreliable tutor. I keep having to engage to figure out if I’m being told the truth or not. It’s waaay more fun 😎

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 28/08/2025

I’m curious when people are going to realise that LLMs make engineers more valuable, not less.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/08/2025

As someone who is tooling around with a soldering iron, I can’t see how anyone builds electronics without easy access to parts out of China. Simple things like SMT resistors and capacitors.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/08/2025

I'm curious how bad it is going to get in the US before y'all taco out of the import restrictions.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 15/08/2025

You know, for all the noise about AI destroying education, I’m finding it quite useful for learning new things. There is a difference between “write my essay” and “critique my essay”

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 05/08/2025

And this is why I like Zed: zed.dev/blog/disable.... For clarity, I like my AI as Gemini CLI, running in Zed’s in-editor shell window.

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You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed - Zed Blog

From the Zed Blog: If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 07/07/2025

I'm curious how long until "do not highlight any negatives" becomes standard boilerplate in academic text.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 05/07/2025

Very interesting presentation by @davefarley77.bsky.social on using AI professionally in software construction. I particularly enjoyed the differentiation between coders, software developers, and software engineers. youtube.com/watch?v=EPtU...

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Dave Farley at G[=]K25: Vibe Coding - Is this really the best we can do? The future of programming

YouTube video by Equal Experts

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