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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 · 06/09/2026

Personally, I love your tutorials. Which, given the rant, may be just showing how old school I am.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 05/09/2026

But it an environment where everyone is paying the costs of verification, the cost reduction approach of not verifying the truth becomes optimal. Free riding on others paying the verification tax. Because high trust environment. And thus the cycle repeats.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 05/09/2026

There is an interesting result in game theory about grifters. A time of high trust results in the emergence of grifters. The presence of grifters results in a loss of trust, leading to people paying the costs of verification, which leads to the elimination of grifters.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 05/09/2026

I think this is useful, but in a different way to traditional educational content. Now the goal must be to figure out if the generated content is correct. This leads into a psychological concept called Locus of Control and how this interacts with a user’s perception of the AI generated content.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 05/09/2026

I’m a third of the way through, but I am already having thoughts. I’ve tried creating educational material using Matt Pocock’s /teach skill - www.aihero.dev/skills-teach - and the most interesting artifact is that the resulting content is probably correct, which is different to actually correct.

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The /teach Skill

Learn a topic across many sessions that build on each other.

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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

The funny part is the AI found an unpatched module: Floating / Unconnected Module: One module is present without patch cables: Fundamental::LFO (ID #1555539245045264, grid position X=137, Y=3 next to NYSTHI::Simpliciter). It can either be removed or wired to modulate sample start/speed parameters. 😂

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

Your music inspires me 😁

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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 · 11/08/2026

Here’s hoping you have another batch of Seed3 devices inbound 😎

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

The issue I hit was a fresh checkout didn’t build correctly. Antigravity fixed the build by marking one of the directories as a submodule. I’ll clean it up and do a proper PR later today. 😇

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

I have a bug report in progress 🤣

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

Thank you for blazing this path Guillaume, I have a bunch of things that could be built upon a good simple text editor. =)

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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

On the upside, we will have no shortage of work cleaning up accidental complexity nightmares

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

We have a phrase for code in production that no one understands. Technical debt. Now, debt is a valid thing to take on, but there is interest that is due on debt to maintain it, and at some point the principal may be required to be repaid in full.

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

Something we now have the option of is evaluating ideas by building them before deciding if they are viable. This is new. One of the fun things is this change destroys a lot of assumptions our industry was built upon.

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

Yes, since distribution for software is now effectively free (software was distributed as a boxed product back in the day), software development is pure product R&D in manufacturing terms.

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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 · 22/03/2026

And here’s the finished result. Not showing the many fails 🤪

Soldered PCBs with PIC10F200 SOT-23 SMD mounted.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 20/03/2026

I was trying to map the SOT-23 package across to the DIP8 layout so it matched the course materials. VSS is ground, so I had that. But the mistake was it was supposed to be GP0, GP1, GP2 and GP3. Not GP4. Sighs. Context: ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en...

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 20/03/2026

I’m guessing the LPC810 really isn’t a thing these days, going by all the deprecation markings I’m seeing. The question for the weekend is, can I smd mount a SOT-23 package.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 20/03/2026

So here is a breadboard adaptor PCB I made. See if you can spot the mistake. I, of course, spotted it after the board had been sent to production. Context: www.circuitbread.com/tutorials/se...

Photo of two copies of a small PCB, showing both sides.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 20/03/2026

Given current economics, between the Iran excursion, private credit shenanigans, rising interest rates, oil and gas price shocks, I will not be surprised to see another VC is dead slide deck in our near future

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 20/03/2026

I am doubly curious about the cross over from software to hardware. I’m finding LLMs useful to bootstrap into embedded design. But there is sooo much to know

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 19/03/2026

I’ve seen a lot of products die before getting to PMF. But yes, getting from PMF to profitability is a yawning gap. And the techniques that got you to PMF are probably not the ones that will lock in ten year corp supply contracts.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 16/03/2026

As I sit here socketing 74HC chips, I’m seriously considering rebuilding this board using SMD SOIC chips instead.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 16/03/2026

I fully expect we see a lot more PMF hits as LLMs increase iteration velocity. It is increasing my ability to explore spaces I don’t fully understand yet, and I’m loving it. I just feel the need to bop the “this is the end of programming as a craft” meme.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 16/03/2026

Speed is not judgement 😎

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