mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 5hwhy is macOS so antagonistic towards audio loopback? Ive tried blackhole, it ~works if you find the right combo of aggregate devices, but eg the built in screen recorder - one keypress - conspicuously doesnt support loopback. yes, OBS, but so heavyweight. is this misguided shadow of anti piracy? 230
Reposted by mmalexTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 6hThis is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 3292592432
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026ginkgo and erik been hangin' out together all day. lil buds 0110
Reposted by mmalexMatthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 30/09/2026Very excited to announce that I will be speaking at @ffconf.org in mid November, on 25 years (!) of the traintimes.org.uk concept. URLs, performance, millions of PWAs; why and how you can do a lot with not a lot. Perhaps see some of you there :) 2026.ffconf.org 1257
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026just ate a maple glazed cruller donut with egg, bacon and cheese with a black coffee. all the food groups in one life ending mouthful. rip, happy alex 2140
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026still messin' with erik (synth prototype). random technical thread, so i'll open with a vid: as an experiment, all code runs once per '4 samples', at 16khz; the only data type is a float4 ie 4 samples in a row, or a single note: pitch, gate, sequence and sample no (think: tracker cell) 3384
Reposted by mmalexMatt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/09/2026hi friends I'm very excited to announce Halfspace, my experimental cross-platform IDE for solid modeling with distance fields! This has been in progress since midway through last year, and it's finally "done enough" to make it more public.mattkeeter.comHalfspaceAn IDE for solid modelling with distance fields 520748
Reposted by mmalexLorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart 8842461589
Reposted by mmalexTom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...youtu.beDASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering - six minutes versionYouTube video by Tom Forsyth 1423075
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026today i'm taking erik (music synth prototype) in a more sober direction; the code is displayed in a more traditional way, but you can set a colour for any variable, it shows where its used via color + lines, and you can edit any number as a knob. 1576
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026couldn't find ginkgo for ages, until i discovered her being adorable right under my desk 0121
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026what a fantastic talk. ignore the thumbnail. it made me think about how i want to create music... even though this is about visual arts. must watch, this vid is NOT what you might expect from anything in the following thumbnail/title/image - its like an anti spoiler. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rI...youtube.comLevel Up Your Non-Photoreal Rendering with One Weird Trick — BCON26YouTube video by Blender 0153
Reposted by mmalexPeter Gordon 🇺🇦 @gordon.plus · 25/09/2026Nice to know the demoscene is still going in the 23rd century 212623
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026do you ever get that exasperated feeling where you desperately want to yell 'oh fuck off!' to nobody in particular, or do I have inner-monologue-is-an-angry-scottish-man-itis 7190
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026my eric tape / code music hybrid thing prototype has sprouted live webcam / image feed with an etching vibe so I can dump images and camera feeds into the middle of my composition because... because... why not 2151
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026one of the high points of my day atm is logging in and seeing what this person - www.instagram.com/perplex_on/r... - who i know nothing about - has made with his plinky12 today. he's just cranking out fun experiments. thankyou, whoever you are!instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 160
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026exactly lemmings 1 but its pixel kittens instead of green haired lil dudes. yw. - VP of ideas 050
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026is it a kitten, is it a fox, is it a rug; whatever it is, this is how to sleep 4210
Reposted by mmalexAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit" 2411218535339
Reposted by mmalex16LittleBits @16littlebits.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you're ever short of screws, take something apart and put it together again. This is where screws come from and a part of nature 0188
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 21/09/20268x8 lidar driving 64 additive triangle oscs feels super fun and expressive; a theremin for timbre (quick shakeycam experiment, idk if i should share such crappy early tests? or interesting?) its a vl53l7cx sensor fwiw, ordered from amazon yesterday and plugged into an rp2040 pico with 1 wire for 3v 8362
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026now they just need to build one of these giant spinning pinhole enclosures around the vegas sphere, wcgw 180
Reposted by mmalexJames Brown @ancient.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I made a video about a homebrew 3D display that uses LEDs and rapidly spinng parts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=npmm...youtube.comScanning Light Field DisplayYouTube video by Ancient 85911
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026felt an overwhelming need to add one of these $15 8x8 lidar sensors to my current hobby eurorack module project, would make a super fun gestural controller. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qOa... oops my finger slipped in kicad and now its laid out on my board... oh its out of stock... oops preordered... 3180
Reposted by mmalexYining Karl Li @yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Here's a neat free procedural rock generator tool that got released earlier this week. This is very cool and very handy! Especially since I just happen to be modeling something at the moment for a hobby project that requires a lot of rocks. tools.kogus.dev/rockstone/ 24812
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026i was showing pictures of my kittens to @soundswilde.bsky.social and was like 'this is erik; and ishi...' and without skipping a beat she replied 'oh named for @erikaishii.bsky.social ' ... erm... er... ok im totally retconning that into the kitten lore! 2131
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my dad is trying to set up a new-second-hand mac and has got in a pickle. as far as i can tell, all the confusion stems from the fact that during setup of a mac, you need both your icloud password, AND you set a user account password. it is 💯 unclear to a non techy person why there are 2, or even 370
Reposted by mmalexblackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Bored? Why not play around with this web-based drum machine I made which uses randomly-generated opus audio codec packets to procedurally generate samples! suricrasia.online/opus-databen... 210651
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026tfw you discover code you have no memory of writing years ago is going brrr on the scale of millions of users and you wonder how do computers even work what is code how is babby formed 1210
Reposted by mmalex✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰 58114283881
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026pcb day! i made a test jig for the eurorack module i designed for a friend, using my usual construction: a dumb test pcb covered in standoffs and pogo pins provides analog muxes and voltage references for calibration, but the device itself detects its on a jig and self tests. 1120
Reposted by mmalexMatt Henderson @matthen.com · 16/09/2026Trying to forecast the future on a Galton board 1658081
Reposted by mmalexgrapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 16/09/2026i think i've posted about this before, but it gives me great pleasure to have little emojis in my log that tell me which sub-system is talking. also, pro tip: change the unity log to show just one line per entry. makes everything so nice and tidy! 3333
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026ive been struggling with a mismatch between an idea in my head and how it comes out in practice for like... 3 months. its driving me wild. i think im up to prototype 5 to try to explore why its not working. but sometimes its hard to tell the difference between 'bad idea' and 'bad prototype'. argh. 1210
Reposted by mmalexDean @dean-dev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026store.steampowered.com/app/4331110 291179291
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026idk why but this is catnip to me: dimensional drawings of apple products developer.apple.com/accessories/... . side benefit - a chance to link to the wonderful dimensions.com projectdimensions.comDimensions | Database of Dimensioned DrawingsA comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world. 0100
mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026latest ui experiments - large pan/zoom canvas where you can arrange the top level blocks of your code (and edit them); but also you can pull wires from any intermediate variable and just drop it anywhere else. also un-set parameters arent errors, they spawn visual knobs. promising-ish. very wip tho. 5395