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Chris Wilson @chriswilson.dev · 12/08/2026

Somehow I am 40. To celebrate my continued existence, I'm doing a flash sale on my photobook OUTPUT 001. A physical object limited to 37 copies! Use discount code 'CHRISIS40' to get 40% off. store.chriswilson.dev/product/outp...

Flat lay of a photobook on a wooden table. The text reads 'OUTPUT 001' in the middle and 'CHRIS WILSON' at the bottom. The edge of the frame is surrounded by various plants and film camera equipment.

The same flat lay, with the book open showing two black and white street photography photos. The left photo shows a person riding up an underground escalator while unfolding an umbrella. The right hand shot shows a silhouette of a person and a bicycle at a train station.

The same flat lay, showing the back cover. The central image is a colour photo of a foggy country path with trees on either side. The leaves are a golden brown colour.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 09/08/2026

Found this Gazetteer of Scottish Ghosts coincidentally(??!?) two days after being stuck behind a furniture van on the A75 between Dumfries and Annan, but what’s more alarming is that the author named it this despite ‘Och Aye The Boo!’ being right there (Aware of this one, @misterabk.bsky.social ?)

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Oh. Cassidy @ocassidy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My band is putting some bits of music out this year. First is ‘Dolphin Bay’, fusion-y, city pop-y, rock-y business. The remix comes from electronic masters Tunnel Club giving some of time euphoria. Check it out! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

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Dolphin Bay by Twin Beam

Stream and Save Dolphin Bay - Distributed by DistroKid

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 02/08/2026

Me: “Hey Belfast, where does your drinking water come from? It’s not Lough Neagh, is it? And I’m warning you, the answer had better not be enchantingly mysterious” Belfast: “er… The Silent Valley” Me: “asdfghj[]{}#%^”

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Kelly’s Cellars’ Belfast Trad Fest session yesterday with the wean

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Hasn’t Belfast suffered enough? Ach sure I’m only messing, ONLY MESSING - love a good pluck. A mate of mine is teaching on it anyway, it’ll be class

Billboard for Belfast Ukelele Festival off the Ormeau Road accompanied by a very tired joke which is JUST A JOKE, only messing

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Kelly’s Cellars’ Belfast Trad Fest session yesterday with the wean

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jenoki @jenoki.net · 30/07/2026

Glitch2 is now available to download and use for free, in memory of its creator, Kieran Foster. AKA illformed / dblue. illformed.com

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Illformed :: Glitch²

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 22/07/2026

What the shitting fuck is wrong with Slack? What are "Miles Davis themes"? Genre-redefining innovation, smack addiction and guest starring on Miami Vice? I'm at work, I haven't got time for any of that

Slack has found a new way to bother and annoy me, this time with a notification that reads "Miles Davis themes just dropped" with a sunglasses emoji and a trumpet emoji in case I wasn't sure who Miles Davis was

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_lemon @andylemon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Shame I couldnt make it down to #developconf this year, hope folks are having a good one down on the beach & at BIT's, sending remote happy #amiga #chiptune beep beeps + good vibes <3 :)

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 14/07/2026

A £20 spring tank from a guitar amp is the summer-est dub reverb (if you drive it hard enough)

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Colin Le Sueur | By Odin’s Beard RPG @byodinsbeardrpg.com · 10/07/2026

If you're struggling to stay cool, this will chill your blood: The Midnight of the Century hardcover is now available! A 104-page black and white (and red) rulebook for my ‘90s occult serial killer investigation TTRPG inspired by Millennium and Twin Peaks. shop.byodinsbeardrpg.com/products/mid...

Midnight of the Century. Black, red, and white image showing a woman screaming and split into multiple faces in front of a stark forest. A mid-'90s pre-apocalyptic serial killer investigation roleplaying game. Writing and Design Colin Le Sueur.

Two page spread from Midnight of the Century. Investigators. Creating an Investigator. The second page is a full page image of an Investigator smoking a cigarette and examining a piece of film.

Me holding up a copy of the Midnight hardcover.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 09/07/2026

Terrible zebra disguise, be careful out there folks

What on closer inspection turned out to be a horse wearing a zebra outfit

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Finally switched to Dear ImGui's docking branch for Metron. With only a little plumbing (after ditching my own clumsy floating panel system) it does an huge amount right out of the box. Trackers are info DENSE so split tabs, showing/hiding, toggling layout presets etc is crucial. #dearimgui #gamedev

Screenshot of Metron Tracker demonstrating the highly flexible layout options facilitated by Dear ImGui's docking branch

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jenoki @jenoki.net · 06/07/2026

My dear friend Kieran passed away on Thursday 2nd July. Many of you will know him as Illformed or dblue, the creator of the famous Glitch VST plugin. He was the most genuine, no-bullshit, kind-hearted, generous person I have known.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 03/07/2026

New battery day for the @dirtywave.bsky.social M8. What a handsome boy.

A Dirtywave M8 tracker alongside a new replacement LiPo battery

A Dirtywave M8 tracker in the process of having its battery replaced

A Dirtywave M8 tracker showing off its smart new battery

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Watch the full @playtopia.bsky.social talk: Tell Me What to Feel www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWXX... Buy my music chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/music

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Chipzel | Tell Me What to Feel

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Undervolted the GPU, halved max CPU, capped FPS at 30 and unplugged second monitor to survive in my windowless, unventilated studio (and because I can’t afford to replace any components that die). Metron doesn’t care! My heaviest song still only hits 3.5% of CPU budget and I get to be sweatily smug

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 23/06/2026

Wrote a wee file browser for Metron with WAV and MOD importers, preview playback, and a load of gnarly samplerate conversion fixes under the hood. Also floating mixer windows and ever more sample edit features. Human-coded C++: all bugs and unwise 1990s-ish UX decisions are my own work #gameaudio

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Dan Reynolds @dannthr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Hey fam! I'm still making Unreal Engine features! In this case a feature I've been wanting to make for a while, a Transient Shaper effect! I'm hoping to make several such features in the coming weeks! Check out the listing here: www.fab.com/listings/db4...

"Transient Shaper Pro" text over a waveform colored in blue, white, and pink.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 05/06/2026

Saw a van with the reg plate 'TOO7 SAX' today and thought of music producer and composer @chipzel.bsky.social

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 01/05/2026

Repaired the transformer in this analogue bucket-brigade delay from the early 80s and gave it some new knobs that are easier to twiddle. Noisy boy.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 19/04/2026

I added some vaguely analogue-ish drift/slip/slop features to Metron's VA synth, and a very filthy oscillator sync, but I also make as many oldskool tracker effects as possible act on it the way they would on a sample instrument - arps, pitchslides, cuts etc. #unrealengine #gameaudio #demoscene

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 19/04/2026

I can never be accused of sanitising the user experience

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Ochre @ochremusic.com · 28/03/2026

Happy to share that my new album, 'Oversail', is now available for preorder, with beautiful vinyl courtesy of Mystic & Quantum, featuring otherworldly art by @warls.bsky.social. Out on April 17th.

echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 13/04/2026

Welcome to my talk on realtime #gameaudio programming. I won't need the clicker thing, there's only one slide.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 12/04/2026

I spent (wasted? maybe?) Easter tweaking my ProTracker MOD importer for Metron, our #UnrealEngine DAW/middleware, so I can enjoy classic bangers like this while testing. Even implemented patternloop. Never getting that time back. Elysium.mod by Jester of Sanity (1991) #gamedev #indiedev #demoscene

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 08/04/2026

ProTracker->Metron import rabbitholes, repeating all the sins of yesteryear. Stardust Memories by jester/sanity uses A00 in PT, where A00 does nothing; it's ignored in FT2, but when importing PT mods FT2 just deletes it from the pattern. If you add A00 manually it's NOT ignored...but it sounds bad 🙃

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 08/04/2026

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 07/04/2026

"Why doesn't my note-delay code work? I wrote it years ago, it should work by now" "Oh."

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 07/04/2026

Added an Amiga ProTracker .MOD importer to Metron. Some...quirks, but easy fixes. Now I can plug my 30+ year chiptune back-catalogue into #UnrealEngine and put realtime sequenced music back where it belongs: in tyrannical charge of all the other gameplay systems. #gamedev #indiedev

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 07/04/2026

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 06/04/2026

The intro tune from Transmission: Shortwave on Quest 3. 3.5MB on disk, 7MB total RAM footprint including DSP buffers, and like 2% of audio CPU budget in UE5. Plays in realtime between 32 and 1530 BPM Not really necessary when RAM and storage are so cheap and abundant tho #ue5 #indiedev #gamedev

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 06/04/2026

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 01/04/2026

I added a new Juno-style VA synth to Metron. Very pleased that 6 voices don't exceed ~2% CPU (aggressively optimised to run cheap as possible in #UnrealEngine). My square/saw wave code sounded terrible for years but I just learned about polyBLEP and most of the aliasing is gone.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 26/03/2026

If you've explicitly told Windows to never automatically adjust your mic volume yet it still allows shitty team chat apps to poltergeist the fader up and down all day, you can use this tiny tray app I wrote to bruteforce it back to your desired level whenever it's changed github.com/echolevel/Mi...

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 26/03/2026

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 12/03/2026

Peak pandemic programming. The fuck around phase of my current find out arc.

Unhelpful c++ comment on an instrument preset undo buffer that reads "TO DO - implement undo system properly. I can't really be arsed. For now, I will simply not make mistakes."

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 11/03/2026

Added an extra effect column and some wonky-making effects for procedurally generative-ish instrument modulations. 0xD hangs progress by a random number of microticks between 0 and your value; Shuffle does a no-repeat row reorder; pitch cents up/down are iterative until note is reset, etc.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 10/03/2026

I like trackers so I put a tracker in my tracker. Sequence Tables run at microtiming resolution and can semi-randomise incoming notes against a scale rule that I pack into a 16bit number, as it has to be read in an insanely hot loop. Scale semitones are toggled via the cutest little piano.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 10/03/2026

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 09/03/2026

I wrote GlueMidi to replace MIDI-OX (which was always crashing) as a merger/router. I use it all day, every day, and it's the thing I'm most proud of - mainly because of the tray icon that illuminates some DIN-5 pins to show incoming MIDI messages. Free here github.com/echolevel/Gl...

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Ian Thomas @wildwinter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Game Subtitles - what to do if your text is just too long? I've created a tool to make this easier - paginating and hyphenating where it needs to, in a variety of languages. In the vain hope that maybe I won't have to worry about it ever again! You can find it here: medium.com/@wildwinter/...

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Game Subtitles — but my text is too long!

TL;DR — a solution to take care of subtitle text so you don’t have to.

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echolevel @echolevel.co.uk · 08/03/2026

I implemented microtiming in Metron to allow stuff to occur at 192 PPQN (rather than the default 24). That means x microticks per subtick, and y subticks per row, where x is a microtick multiplier and y is tracker speed. I already had a headache, so I'm glad I chose a relaxing way to test it.

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