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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 25/08/2026

This was a series called "If It Happened There," indeed in Slate! slate.com/tag/if-it-ha...

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 13/08/2026

Another example (also guitar) is Django. There's a whole subgenre of jazz built around his particular all-strings-no-drums instrumentation.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 10/08/2026

Paul McCartney. Seems to have kept his head on reasonably straight despite a lifetime of fame and financial success.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 30/07/2026

I was going to write a witty response to this, but Nevermind.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 27/07/2026

Django Reinhardt, possibly the best jazz guitarist of all time, was Romani. He created an entire subgenre of jazz that thrives to this day. Many great Romani jazz guitarists follow in his footsteps. Some names to check out: Stochelo Rosenberg, Paulus Schäfer, Biréli Lagrène, Fapy Lafertin.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 16/07/2026

I'm late in responding, but try our scanning feature at Soundslice: www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-... In my biased opinion, it gives the best results of any tool on the market. General LLMs do indeed work poorly on this particular challenge.

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Scan sheet music with Soundslice

Scan sheet music from PDFs and photos with Soundslice. Highly accurate and powered by artificial intelligence.

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 01/06/2026

Oooh, very cool! How far back do you go?

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 01/06/2026

I'd love to take a "reverse" history course. Start with the present day's music, examine the influences, then examine the infuences' infuences, etc. This would solve the problem of really old music not resonating with people, since in theory everything would maintain a connection to the present.

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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

YouTube video by The Rest Is Entertainment

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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 · 03/04/2026

I've used masto.host for a few years, and it's been a good experience. It was reasonably easy to set up, and I have no complaints. Would recommend.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 29/03/2026

You might get a kick out of my Blackbird reharmonization with Paul's original vocal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAb9...

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Beatles "Blackbird" reharmonization to E minor

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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 · 12/03/2026

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is definitely a contender.

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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 · 11/02/2026

Are you coming through Amsterdam during your travels?

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 03/12/2025

Interesting, where can I learn more about this notation software?

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations

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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 · 16/11/2025

[Somebody had to ask] Do you think it's worse than Revolution 9? I agree it's the worst officially released non-Revolution-9 Beatles song.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 14/11/2025

So cool to see this in Soundslice format! Great work. Just a heads up, you can remove that 0:05 "audio intro" bit at the start by using the Soundslice crop feature in the syncpoint editor.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 21/10/2025

I was there for opening night as well! Super interesting to read your take — thanks for posting it. I agree the unfinishedness of it was really surprising and off-putting. Everybody in attendance would have had a much better time had it started without delay, and I feel like the actors sensed that.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 20/09/2025

In case you're not hip to it: check out the Harry Nilsson version as well. Just as good as the original (which I don't say lightly!).

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 16/09/2025

How do you split the three diamonds into individual diamonds...?

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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 · 03/09/2025

Wow, thank you reminding me of this Passamaquoddy guy. I literally haven't thought about him for 30+ years. Gotta watch the film again and see whether it holds up.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 28/08/2025

I was there too! That was hilarious. I remember he'd printed the lyrics from some random guitar tabs site.

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 22/08/2025

Audio clips or it didn't happen

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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

For me it's the "This is News" series by Neural Viz. So well done! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHb-...

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This Is News

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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]

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 09/07/2025

Nope, that's not true. I don't recall a single person ever requesting ASCII tab support since I founded Soundslice in 2012. Otherwise we likely would have added it. In fact we're very responsive to users and sometimes even implement feature requests the same day they're requested.

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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 · 07/06/2025

If it were me, I'd get some locally made tortilla chips: El Ranchero (www.rancherofood.com/products/). Available at many grocery stores. Not sure whether you can get authentic tortilla chips in VA, but here in Amsterdam it's a chip desert.

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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 · 22/05/2025

Yes, that exists: www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-...

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Adrian Holovaty @holovaty.com · 18/05/2025

Sure, here are some of my favorite blues albums: * BB King, "Live in Cook County Jail" (similar vibe) * Albert King, "Born Under A Bad Sign" * Paul Butterfield Blues Band's self-titled debut album * John Mayall, "Blues Breakers" (the "Beano" album)

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