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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

some new work on tremolo in pfsynth olaugh.github.io/pfsynth/guit...

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have hundreds of these files now, I just import scores from musicxml

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

not yet merged into github.com/olaugh/pfsynth main branch. i made some progress on physically modeled synth for the violin family. some registers and some techniques are still sounding rough. didn't stop me from making a demoscene style string quartet tracker. they let you post anything on here

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

a bit janky in parts, drums slip a little bit near the end. but exceeded my expectations! worth playing around with some more

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

workin on guitar. just classical for now but gonna try electric soon

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

i think there was a lot of this going around last weekend

A settings panel titled "Usage limit resets," showing "Available 0" with a "History" tab selected, filtered to "Past 30 days." Below is a chronological log of reset events, each listing an action ("Reset used" or "Reset received") with its date and time in PDT:

- Reset used — Sep 9, 12:29 PM
- Reset received — Sep 9, 12:02 PM
- Reset used — Sep 9, 10:16 AM
- Reset used — Sep 8, 11:42 PM
- Reset used — Sep 8, 10:59 AM
- Reset received — Sep 4, 9:20 PM
- Reset received — Sep 3, 7:31 PM
- Reset received — Aug 21, 5:13 PM

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

got rate limited for an hour. ok i'll only do polite, throttled megablocks from now on

Screenshot of osky, a Bluesky client, showing the Settings page in a dark green theme. Sections include Account (signed in as @olaugh.bsky.social), Appearance with Light/Dark/System theme toggle set to System, AI & moderation, and a Block queue with 794 pending and 23 completed. A Trending sidebar lists current news topics.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I pushed some fixes. I ran into what I thought was clipping but turned out to be cpu not being able to keep up

Diagnosis: you were right. It wasn't level, it was CPU. The synth was rendering at 1.3× real time offline on that Pathétique passage, so with 70–89 live voices the audio callback fell behind and the buffer underran — crackle that sounds like clipping.

Fixes
- pf_partial evaluated a pow() per partial per sample for the envelope interpolation (64 per voice per sample, hundreds of millions per second at high polyphony). It now runs an incremental multiply re-anchored at each knot. Output differs from before by −49 dB (inaudible).
- Inaudible tails retire at −90 dBFS instead of −120, so they stop hogging the pool; pool raised to 96.
- Result on the same excerpt: 1.3× → 14.3× real time, peak voices 89 → 44. Revolutionary Étude: 1.4× → 9.6×.

Headroom display (per your request): a DSP load meter in the header next to the voice count — a bar with the smoothed share of each audio buffer's time budget spent rendering, a peak-hold marker (~2 s), and the numbers. Green below 60%, orange to 85%, red above; at 100% playback drops out. With the speedup you should now see it sitting well under 20% on the passage that used to crackle.

App rebuilt and relaunched. The kernel checks still pass. Still uncommitted along with the rest of today's later work.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's not perfect but like... this is running on a laptop and I did this in one day without paying much attention and my estimate is that if you placed zero value on the supervocalic constraint, the quality of the output is comparable to what a premium laptop could produce in mid 2023.

Screenshot of Eunomia, a dark-mode chat app, in hexavocalic mode. The user asks "name some muppets" and the bot replies "Rowlf and the Piggy Ducks." with each vowel highlighted in a different color. The user responds "Never heard of the Piggy Ducks in my life." The bot answers in three separate bubbles: "Funny I meant Rowlf" / "the Dog and Piggy but" / "you are right." The user asks "who's miss piggy's fella?" and the bot replies "Frog is the lucky man." Every bot bubble uses A, E, I, O, U, and Y exactly once each. At the bottom is an input field with the placeholder "Any questions?" and a send button.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Working on a chatbot that speaks in supervocalics, running locally on my laptop.

Screenshot of a chat interface with a dark background, showing a conversation where user messages ("What's two plus two?", "What color is the sky?", "Who's your favorite baseball player?") alternate with responses from "Eunomia" ("Four by simple math", "Normally it's blue", "Ohtani unless you're asking"), featuring a mobile keyboard open at the bottom.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

1.Nc3+ Ke1 2.Ke3 Kgg4 3.Ne4 Kf5 4.Kf3 Kg1 5.Nc3 Kh1 6.Ne2 Kg5 7.Nf4+ Kh2 8.Nd3+ Kf1 9.Nf2+ Kg1 10.Ne4+ Kg6 11.Nd2+ Ke1 12.Ke3 Kd1 13.Nf3#

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

my son asked me what would happen in various endgames vs multiple kings so i put fable on the task while we were out

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One more meeting and then letting this play through

Desk setup with a FiiO USB DAC/headphone amp connected to headphones, playing "Nothing to Fear: A Rough Mix" by Steinski, with the CD and jewel case sitting on a wooden desk beside a laptop, mouse, and mouse pad.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I’m going to Bovine University!

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

work in progress tui for the scrabble engine i've been collaborating on github.com/jvc56/MAGPIE

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

nardwuar interviewing mogwai in 2006

A screenshot of a Bluesky post by Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) that reads: "I have questions for MrBeast."

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I’m thinking it’s a great time to get started at Sora

A screenshot of a job board section titled "Top job picks for you." It features two job listings. The first is for a "Software Engineer, Encoding Libraries" at Anthropic in San Francisco, CA (Hybrid), with a badge noting "2 company alumni." The second is for a "Software Engineer, Backend - Sora" at OpenAI in San Francisco, CA, with a badge noting "Actively recruiting."

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

making cowork try to do hard stuff is fun. seems to get blocked by vm restrictions much less than the normal claude web code interface, easier to take yourself out of the loop than working locally (i will not dangerously yolo permissions).

A screenshot showing the Claude Cowork chat interface in dark mode, partially covered by a floating classic Mac OS emulator window. The black-and-white emulator window displays a Scrabble game called "Maven Software", with the word "JOW" played on the center of the board. A side panel shows the user's tile rack and a score of MAVEN 26 to JOHN 0. The background chat text reveals the overarching project: the prompt is asking the AI to reverse engineer Maven for classic Mac. At the bottom of the chat, the AI's latest messages note that the game is successfully running and that it is now working on connecting the GDB debugger to the emulator to inspect the memory layout, registers, and CODE resources.

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

sometimes irl friends don’t fav your posts

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John O'Laughlin @olaugh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

this guy works on ai alignment and his name is Max Harms??

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