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Adrian Holovaty

@holovaty.com
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Web developer, guitarist, cocreator of Django web framework, tinkerer with digital sheet music encoding and rendering. Currently making Soundslice.

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K @kerry.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is a delight. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please Use AI
PLEASE USE AI
Shawn Smucker
Be sure to use Al when making your next, I don't know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to cook and ask her for her favorite recipes or tips or ways to save time making meals, because you will end
up talking for longer than you had hoped, hearing, perhaps, about her father's cancer diagnosis or how lonely she's been or even what she's planted in her spring garden and then lost with the early frost.
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"Guru Larry" Bundy Jr @larrybundyjr.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
An automated A.I. WWE news channel tries to pronounce "WWE" as a word and ends up going insane! 🤣
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 14/05/2026
This new Paul McCartney interview is really good. He's tended to rely on the same, well-worn anecdotes over the years, but this one's packed with fresh questions and insightful answers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNQY...
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Paul McCartney on Ambition, Fame & St Tropez Monkeys
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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
AI creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and here is the most statistically typical result.” Human creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and now I’m so sick of it, I’m gonna go invent Impressionism.”
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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 29/04/2026
Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 26/03/2026
New Paul McCartney song is out, with a full album being released May 29. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1I... This one gives me similar vibes to the last Beatles single, Now And Then. Nostalgic, melancoly and not particularly musically interesting. I'm glad Paul's still making music, though.
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Paul McCartney - Days We Left Behind (Lyric Video)
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 17/03/2026
I've started a new project: notationref, a taxonomy of music notation concepts for developers: w3c-cg.github.io/music-notati... Info on motivation, etc., is in the readme: github.com/w3c-cg/music...
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notationref: music notation support table
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 09/03/2026
@anildash.com Just in case you didn't see this (up for auction along with a few other Prince things): www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 18/12/2025
I wrote up the highlights of all the stuff we built and improved at Soundslice this year:
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Soundslice year in review, 2025 | Soundslice product updates
It’s been a productive year here at Soundslice. Here are the big improvements we’ve made in 2025.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
SUNO
r/SunoAl Jo 6h ago
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Sick of having to come up with prompts
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Hey y'all, looking for some tips here. I like what I've made so far with Suno but now I'm kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn't Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button the says "new prompt" and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?
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Anders :) 🇧🇻🏳️‍🌈 @annesh.no · 25/11/2025
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
Four articulated buses blocking each other in a roundabout making them stuck.
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 09/09/2025
I’ve been on a few podcasts in the last month. Four interviews, four separate topics: ChatGPT hallucination, Django's 20th birthday, Soundslice and my latest EP. holovaty.com/writing/podc...
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Four podcast interviews | Holovaty.com
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 31/08/2025
Acoustic Guitar Magazine reviewed my Layer Cake EP: acousticguitar.com/review-adria...
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Review: Adrian Holovaty’s ‘Layer Cake’ Is an Irresistibly Joyful Acoustic Confection
Five-song EP blends manouche rhythms and fingerstyle flourishes into intricate, buoyant instrumentals.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
welcome to development by gaslight. ChatGPT hallucinates a feature, driving users to a application for something that doesn't exist. What's a dev to do? They add the feature the AI invented
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ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It
Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 17/07/2025
This short tribute to Brian Wilson's life is so well done. A rare example of tasteful/artful AI video generation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...
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Let's Go To Heaven In My Car: A Tribute To Brian Wilson [AI]
YouTube video by Dae Lims
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 07/07/2025
Good news: ChatGPT is pointing a lot of people toward Soundslice. Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist. Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.
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Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 25/05/2025
I'm trying a new thing: here's a behind-the-scenes peek at the multitracks in one of my recent EP tunes.
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Behind the scenes: "Rock And Roll Roger"
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 02/05/2025
At Soundslice we've launched a lot of great new stuff specifically for drummers and percussionists. Percussion maps, auto-generated percussion legends, better synth playback and more. www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...
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Tons of percussion improvements | Soundslice product updates
We’ve spent the last several weeks making lots of Soundslice improvements specifically for percussion.
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 06/04/2025
Hey, it's my first YouTube video in more than a year. Here's my tune "Senseless Swing." www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...
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Senseless Swing - Adrian Holovaty
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Sandy Weisz @pzlr.org · 06/03/2025
Announcing RADDLE, my new word transformation game. raddle.quest It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
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RADDLE
The daily word transformation game
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Roni Kaufman @ronikaufman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I had the pleasure of creating another album cover for Adrian Holovaty 🍰 www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
Off-white background. Abstract layer cake with 5 levels (yellow, pink, blue, red and green), with different Truchet patterns on each one.
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 11/02/2025
My new EP is out today! It's called Layer Cake and has five original tunes. www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/ It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)
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Layer Cake by Adrian Holovaty
Five original gypsy-jazz tunes.
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Hamburger Dipshit🌹 @dohimjob.com · 26/01/2025
Absolutely unbelievable ad in the community theater playbill.
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 14/01/2025
Hadn't heard this reported elsewhere: evidently Ray Brown's upright bass got destroyed in the LA wildfires. :-( www.talkbass.com/threads/r-i-...
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Double Bass - R.I.P. Ray Brown's Silvestre
A credible source mentioned that the great John Clayton lost his home in the Southern California fires, and the legendary Ray Brown bass is gone.
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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
These people are your enemies
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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 13/12/2024
Here's what I've been working on — lots of new Soundslice improvements: www.soundslice.com/blog/282/new...
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New features, Dec. 12 | Soundslice product updates
It’s been a while since we posted a proper product update! Here’s how Soundslice has improved in the last two months, grouped by category.
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