Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 03/10/2026I‘m playing a 30min set at ROTOR / Künstlerhaus Factory on October 15. You’re very warmly invited! www.kuenstlerhaus.at/besuch/kalen...kuenstlerhaus.atKünstlerhaus 000
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 27/09/2026„The Machine hums! Did you know that? Its hum penetrates our blood, and may even guide our thoughts. Who knows!“ E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops 020
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 23/09/2026The thing is… I‘m not ready to drink the „disposable code“ kool aid just yet 030
Reposted by Julian RubischAntoine Marguerie @antoine.basesecrete.com · 22/09/2026👏 Well done @julianrubisch.at ! audioproxy.dev 132
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 18/09/2026Please help me stay in the top 3 🫣 cc @domchristie.bsky.social @juliancheal.dev 031
Reposted by Julian RubischJulian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 15/09/2026Audioproxy is on devhunt this week. Please upvote! 🙏 devhunt.org/tool/audiopr...devhunt.orgaudioproxy - Audio variants, addressed by URLAudio variants, addressed by URL 022
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 15/09/2026Audioproxy is on devhunt this week. Please upvote! 🙏 devhunt.org/tool/audiopr...devhunt.orgaudioproxy - Audio variants, addressed by URLAudio variants, addressed by URL 022
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 14/09/2026I've added a new browsing mode to discoverbandcamplabels.com: "The Dig" I built this directory so you can discover more music, by browsing labels that are similar to a label you already like. Now the site finally lives up to this promise. Dig through music and put it into a crate: 010
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 11/09/2026I wrote AudioProxy to get simple audio variants without a job queue, a variants table, backfilling huge swathes of records, and a whole lot of additional plumbing that goes with it. Here's how it works: dev.to/julianrubisc...dev.toAudioproxy: Simple audio variants for your appLet's say you're running a podcast hosting platform, or a social network. A user uploads a 40-minute... 000
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 11/09/2026Today and tomorrow, a small cycle of pieces of mine (Bifurcation III-V) is played at Ars Electronica / Sonic Saturday. Admission free, in case you’re around! ars.electronica.art/negotiatingh...ars.electronica.artListening Room | Ars Electronica Festival 2026: Negotiating Humanity 001
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 23/08/2026One definition of luxury: Eating outside in late August without swarms of wasps feasting on you (and your food). 020
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 21/08/2026Oh and I forgot this directory of Bandcamp labels which is actually producing most traffic: discoverbandcamplabels.comdiscoverbandcamplabels.comdiscover.bandcamp.labels | Home 000
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 21/08/2026And finally, I‘m also doing audio product work: soundlogo.cosoundlogo.coSoundLogoI create outstanding sound branding for small businesses and content creators. 110
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 21/08/2026Then, of course there’s my own artistic practice, which I‘m pursuing with more vigor - and success - than ever julianrubisch.atjulianrubisch.atJulian Rubisch — programmverdichterSound artist, electroacoustic composer, and code sculptor. Music of non-presence: outlining sound by making its traces heard. 110
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 21/08/2026More recently, and an indirect outcome of that, I’ve published audioproxy.dev, an open source, drop in solution to transcode, edit, trim, normalize audio on the fly.audioproxy.devaudioproxy — audio variants, addressed by URLOpen-source on-the-fly audio transcoding proxy. Name a format in a signed URL and audioproxy renders the variant on demand, streams it, and caches it. If you know imgproxy, this is that, for audio. 110
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 21/08/2026A year ago I’ve started working on indee.co, a platform for creators of long form audio.indee.coIndeeListening containers turn long-form audio into one beautiful link. Package your sound work, share it with your own people, and get paid directly. 110
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 21/08/2026Find out what works, they say, and do more of that. Well, something that always „worked“ for me is my passion for music, audio, and sound art. So I‘m doubling down on that 🧵👇 140
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 20/08/2026What I used for impulsar4.julianrubisch.atimpulsar4.julianrubisch.atImPulsar4 011
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 17/08/2026If reading this you feel a sudden surge of panic, don't. Maybe you just need "a technical grown up". 000
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 17/08/2026The TLDR is that the deploy step that's been removed was doing an actual job. It was making sure that the natural anxiety that goes with publishing your software had a natural crystallization point, where it was felt and dissolved, not blocked out. 100
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 17/08/2026Digging deeper I realized that there's a cognitive shift at work here, in how these platforms approach distribution of your software. I’ve written about this here: www.railsreviews.com/articles/why...railsreviews.comWhy Deployless Environments Breed Constant Anxiety - Julian RubischNo-code and vibe coding platforms like Softr, Lovable, Replit and Bolt ship your changes to users the moment you make them. The deploy step you lost was never just friction: it was the checkpoint wher... 100
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 17/08/2026After I published The Vibe Coder's Sound Check, I was approached by a founder building on Softr. The setup was clear: A no-code solution with vibe coded parts that needed human judgment. 100
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 12/08/2026Claude made a beautiful marketing page with live demo audioproxy.devaudioproxy.devaudioproxy — audio variants, addressed by URLOpen-source on-the-fly audio transcoding proxy. Name a format in a signed URL and audioproxy renders the variant on demand, streams it, and caches it. If you know imgproxy, this is that, for audio. 120
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 12/08/2026Capabilities, in short: - apply transforms as URL parameters - signed URLs - fully cacheable by CDNs and/or a configured variant store - S3 and local file sources - built on Elixir/BEAM for maximum stability - built-in backpressure and queue contention management 110
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 12/08/2026Calling all podcast hosters, social networks, CMSes - everybody who hosts audio content and needs to transcode, edit, distribute it in large quantities. I’ve created something that might be genuinely useful for you: docs.audioproxy.devdocs.audioproxy.devaudioproxyOn-the-fly audio transcoding. Request variants by URL (previews, waveforms, normalized audio), rendered on demand and cached. 100
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 10/08/2026My first package on hex: hex.pm/packages/aud...hex.pmaudio_proxyOn-the-fly audio transcoding proxy: renders variants (transcodes, trimmed previews, waveform peaks) from signed URLs, streams them while they encode, and caches 010
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 05/08/2026What can we do about agent-generated technical prose? I enjoy agentic coding, but pull request descriptions, commit messages and code comments are so overloaded with meaningless slop they're downright useless. If I have to read the term "load bearing" just one more time... 140
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 28/07/2026Lately I have been thinking a lot about how the public debate about agentic coding resembles an age old philosophical debate. I wrote a short opinion piece about it, and how it starts to shape the decisions I make: www.railsreviews.com/articles/the...railsreviews.comThe Metaphysics of Vibe Coding (or the Absence of It) - Julian RubischThoughts on how an old philosophical debate resurfaces in the agentic coding discussion. Is code really disposable or is it an essential artifact for thinking? How does the relationship we have to the... 000
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 23/07/2026To make ImPulsar4 more widely available and playable I've decided to mold it into an interactive web art piece that follows precisely the same mechanics as the installation, but allows you to interact with it. impulsar4.julianrubisch.at #SoundArt #ExperimentalMusic #SpatialAudio #GenerativeArt 100
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 22/07/2026New Hotwire Club challenge! I learned this technique from @domchristie.bsky.social , and it's a really slick one: Turn a controller into an asynchronously callable API via Promise Returning Outlets: hotwire.club/blog/2026-07...hotwire.clubStimulus - Promise-Returning Outlet MethodsUse the deferred-promise pattern to expose an async ask() method on a Stimulus confirm dialog controller, callable via outlets from anywhere. 150
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 05/07/2026Confession: I haven’t tried Fable yet because I don’t think I have a task that necessitates it at the moment 🙈 Definitely some kind of saturation kicking in for me. 000
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 02/07/2026A while back I asked my Patreon subscribers to vote for what set of tools I should extract from the > 50 challenges we've been solving over the last years. Today I can proudly ship the first one: an Optimistic Form Builder, check it out: github.com/TheHotwireCl...github.comGitHub - TheHotwireClub/hotwire_club-toolbox: A toolbox for common Hotwire Rails patternsA toolbox for common Hotwire Rails patterns. Contribute to TheHotwireClub/hotwire_club-toolbox development by creating an account on GitHub. 100
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 27/06/2026Whether AI generated or not, most consumers can’t decide one from the other, and they couldn’t care less. As long as musicians sell themselves to bigcorp, that’s not going to change. 000
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 27/06/2026What does that say about the self-conception of musicians? What does it say about the audience? Yeah there’s lots of more to choose from nowadays than before but that’s precisely the point. 100
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 27/06/2026In my youth I saved up a months pocket money to buy one (!) CD. Nowadays you get ALL albums for half that price a month. The exchange value of music is zero. 200
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 27/06/2026You know, in the arts and music world there’s a lot of debate going on these days regarding how AI created content devalues the „real thing“. But here’s the thing: at least in the case of music, art has devalued itself a long time ago already. 220
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 24/06/2026ImPulsar4 is a quadraphonic piece or installation featuring autonomous agents moving sounds through space and reacting to each other's sonic qualities. the installation will premiere at The Factory Salzburg in July 2026 #SoundArt #ExperimentalMusic #SpatialAudio #GenerativeArt #SoundInstallation 020
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 18/06/2026Master test: you should be able to draw your whole app on a napkin at any moment. New piece, for non-technical founders shipping real businesses: www.railsreviews.com/articles/gua...railsreviews.comThe guardrails non-technical founders skip when building with AI - Julian RubischThe mistakes founders make building software with AI cluster around four missing guardrails: the boundaries AI quietly crosses, code you cannot read, the happy path mistaken for the feature, and a sta... 000
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 18/06/2026Four it skips most: boundaries it crosses without telling you, code only it can read, a happy path with no failure path, architecture it re-votes on every session. The founder has to be the guardrail. The model won't be. 100
Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 18/06/2026An AI coding agent has one goal: make the code you asked for run. Not safe. Not coherent. Just run. It'll quietly cross a boundary, skip the failure path, or re-decide your architecture to get there. None of it shows up in a working demo. 100
