iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 19h

Figuring out how to make trance music I never actually listen to any trance music but I probably should

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Speed bumps don't cover the entire width of the road?

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

At some point like half a year ago I kinda considered finding a therapist and then decided against it when I saw the wait times. But idk man, I'm certainly happy and productive overall, but some traumatizing shit happened 7 months ago that still makes me feel unsafe sometimes.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've never had a worse cold than I had today. I mean I'm already feeling a tiny bit better tonight but this afternoon sucked. I was planning to stream Celeste all day and I just couldn't :(

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don't know if you're planning to make any more but I would absolutely watch more of your math videos. This is really pleasant to watch and super well done!

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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I made my first ever math video. it's about the spigot algorithm for π www.youtube.com/watch?v=DchW...

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The spigot algorithm for π

YouTube video by lynn

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Finally finished uploading all my old LBP music sequencers, only took me a decade and a half 😅 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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LBP 2/3 Music Sequencers - YouTube

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I almost completely reorganized the interior of my living room and my bedroom and it's kinda crazy just how much more at home I feel now

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Andrew Wakefield is one of the most evil people alive

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want EU-wide legislation that enforces that smart TVs must always provide a user-accessible option to change their OS.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And bonus: there's pretty much no more "normal" TVs being produced. All new TVs are smart TVs. If you don't want this garbage your options are to buy a super old model second-hand or to buy a computer monitor. Few markets have gotten as bad as the TV industry.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I genuinely think smart TVs are the most enshittified pieces of hardware in people's homes. They're slow as shit, their software sucks, they provide little functional benefit over non-smart TVs, and they're apparently extremely sophisticated spy hardware.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I wanna get the last 3 achievements in OneShot but it has this thing where it makes you feel really guilty for resetting the game so I will unfortunately never ever play it again

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My laptop does kinda appear to be dying. This is not as good for the porn experience. But good for reducing its consumption.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Finally decided to move my tv from the living room to the bedroom. This should drastically improve the porn experience (I mostly did it to save room in the living room)

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Fred Wood @fredtwood.com · 02/09/2026

Why would you take DLSS, an incredible tool that has allowed for creators to make their games bigger and more bombastic while staying performant across machines, and then release a version where its big new features is fucking taking your performance & creative integrity? Shoulda been its own thing.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

At the end of the day it's just a generic song about how hard it can be to end a relationship. Some really fucked up shit happened around that though that I'm still unsure is okay to write about. I want to, but I don't know if it's morally okay to do so.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is scheduled for one of my albums now but I honestly haven't made much progress on it. Probably my favorite WIP I have though. It's the only project ever where I almost couldn't make it through recording vocals without crying.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The whole point of DLSS was to get better performance by rendering at a lower framerate and passing it through automatic super sampling, and now DLSS 5 is just like "ok but what if we made it slower"

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I just take great enjoyment in trying to maximize performance with limited resources even knowing that more resources would automatically make my life easier

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is also in an odd time signature so I really struggled finding the most natural places to clap and actually performing it

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This one time I tried making a song on stream and I wanted a section where it sounded like a big crowd was clapping along so I think I just sat there for 15 minutes recording myself clapping along

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It feels like good progress to collect a couple of WIPs together for a potential next album, but this is the 3rd or 4th time I've done so since I last released anything. Maybe I should actually finish one of these albums at some point.

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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

fm+soundblaster sketch~

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There is a third project idea which would be a massively expanded version of the Magic the Gathering creature type identifier I built a couple months ago. I keep writing that one off but when I actually think about it that's actually a super fun project to me! And a good way to expand ML skills.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don't know why I'm rambling about this to a platform where no one reads my posts anyway but idk I just wanna shout to the void

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

And you know, even though I've been quite the procrastinating student, now almost doubling the length my total degree is supposed to last, the latter project is probably the direction I most want to go. Research-oriented software engineering would be an absolute dream job.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Aside from that I guess I have two major projects in the idea list? - LBP music sequencer recreation in the browser - MARL-based telescope time allocation scheduler The latter is just an overly ambitious dream that I can use my current skills to contribute to child-me's obsession of astronomy.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I also need to make some last changes to parliamentviewer.org before I really drop working on it further. And I have a weekly day with a friend where we pick a project to work on. Though that might be on hold for a month or two I suspect starting next week.

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Parliament Viewer

Parliament Viewer: A tool to visualise current and historical seat distributions of various parliaments, senates, congresses, and other political bodies from around the world.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The custom HTML canvas context I was working on earlier has been sitting still for a week or two now and I keep kinda not wanting to work on it because it's now just in the back of my mind and changes would feel chaotic. But I know I'd be really happy with myself if I actually finished it

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I come up with too many hobby programming projects and I'm kinda thinking I should start pruning them based on how I think they would look on my CV for getting the career I actually want to have. I also need to like actually finish any of them

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I should make house more often

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I kinda wanna join but I don't really know if I have the time to start reading math books right now D:

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

pffft just walk during work hours

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I started doing daily walks again while it was that hot and it was hard! But getting past that made me more ready to just make walks part of my routine. I guess I did do them late at night, it was kinda nice at that point.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I don't think I'm gonna manage to achieve 2/3 of my new years resolutions

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And then there are threads that do have actually helpful answers and give immediate implementations with explanation and every programmer just ignored the explanation and copied their code from there

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The way asking questions on Stack Overflow works is you ask "How do I do this" and you get two answers - "you don't" - "this is a duplicate" and then it links to a post that is not at all obviously related

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Programmers come to rely on LLMs a lot because the alternative is having to ask questions of stack overflow and that is probably the most toxic support forum out there. Or at least, that's the reputation it has.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Straight up just continued working on an old LBP music sequencer for the first time in over a decade

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Has anyone else ever been through traumatic shit and just wished their friends would occasionally ask about it casually? To me it kinda sucks that everyone always avoids topics like that because they think it's a sore topic. I just wanna talk about what I feel without having to bring it up myself.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

And I really like the instrument block system in general which gives some of the modularity that you get from a pattern system like you have in FL Studio while making edits to a pattern doesn't edit the rest of the same pattern, so it encourages variation a little bit more.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I really like the fact that when you're editing a single instrument block, everything else still plays but at a lower volume, so you can just about hear it in context but still focus on the sound of the individual instrument.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The LittleBigPlanet music sequencer is really just kinda brilliant design imo. I really like piano roll system where each note played is a connection between consecutive nodes, which just gives a massive amount of freedom.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Feels good to do a late-night walk to the park. Was way too hot all day so it's a nice feeling walking with a normal temperature. Plus walking is healthy! Anyway I'm gonna get a McFlurry I think

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is probably like 14 years old or so. I don't really think any of my LBP music was *that* good, considering some stuff other people were doing at the time. But there's genuinely some sequencers that have a level of creativity I don't think I've matched since after the LBP2 days.

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Frank @irratix.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Gonna drop this here for now because it'll be a little while before I get around to seriously record the rest of it. Super hyped to finally get this far though!

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