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Thank you for this question, it perfectly captures something that I believe many would like answered.


Switch Angel live-code using Strudel. Really impressive and interesting stuff.

https://youtu.be/aPsq5nqvhxg


This is pretty incredible to watch. I initially thought she must be pulling some kind of trick to make that look so fluid, but the fact that she is making very small typos and correcting them as she goes make it look very believable. This is really the first time I've watched someone use one of these tools and it feel like a musician using a new kind of instrument.


Yeah, she's got several videos, and shorts, where she does this. It's clear she really, really understands how to do what she wants to achieve!


If you go back to the older videos she has like a decade of experience messing around with modular synths to make music live that is actually listenable.

She is also a main developer on the strudel project. If you want to contribute, it is open source:

https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel


As a producer, wow. She can visualize the outcome she wants without ever seeing much at all. That takes a ton of skill. Insanely impressive video.


Yeah, I'm watching more. These are incredible. I really like how she describes what she's doing in tempo with the music as she does it. The description is basically part of the performance. Really unique and engaging approach.


I think the videos are done live, but she plans them out, she isn't just winging it.


she is a producer, not making anything innovative music wise (she must have done similar things thousands of times), with a long experience in live music, and she is a/?the? core dev of the tool she is using.

honestly i think the planning is at most a few minutes long (once she decides what she will go for) then she probably let the experience talk.


Just to add some context, Strudel is TidalCycles ported from Haskell to JS. IMO, Haskell is a much nicer language for this stuff. Hopefully, now that GHC can output WebAssembly, someone can build a web-based music programming environment around the original TidalCycles instead.


Is there feature parity? Strudel might be ahead by now?


I've watched a couple of her stuff, it's really inspiring and feels very cosy, like a slice of Internet that lives on its own and creates without being too bothered about the Algorithm™.


Yeah love her stuff. And honestly the voice description is part of the music flow at this point.

I feel like that’s kinda how people imagined navigating whatever cyber domain when the first big cyberpunk novels came out


The person in that video really has an ear for synthesis. I've spent quite some time watching all the strudel videos and this creator consistently shows the best skill across genres.


This was epic, and reminded me of the magic of programming when I first found a video game maker at a wee 11 years old.

Writing code to make music feels so natural to me (a musically inept, but proficient coder) and this breaks down so many barriers.

I wonder how Cursor fares with Strudel so far.


Dunno about Cursor, but Claude code > codex, in my experimentation, but that was before 5.2.


This is one of my all-time favorite YouTube videos, and it's of her coding music - https://youtu.be/iu5rnQkfO6M


Yes


I had to shorten the headline quite a bit, sorry for that. Original headline:

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Don't forget that Amazon is somewhat new in Sweden. I think we just haven't entered their enshittification phase here. (Swede too)


And because they’re new, we have plenty of homegrown internet retailers for competition. Personally, I avoid Amazon in favor of the others if at all possible, seems like there’s a really significant risk Amazon is going to wipe them out.


For me it's problematic though. Sometimes I want some small gadget, and I just can't find it elsewhere. The other day I wanted a female-female connector for network cables and I couldn't find it on my Swedish go-to place for tech stuff, Kjell&Co. Instantly found lots of alternatives on Amazon.


https://www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?_nkw=network+coupler

eBay might have some similar problems as Amazon (fly-by-night retailers from China etc), but at least it doesn't pretend otherwise.

Or from Denmark, but delivery is probably expensive. (Within-EU delivery costs is something I'd like to see the EU improve, to allow smaller businesses to compete internationally with Amazon etc.)

https://www.computersalg.dk/i/2335209/startech-com-cat5e-rj4...


Yeah, I do this on occassion as well, but I aleays try the Swedish retailers first, and only go to Amazon when I can’t find whatever I’m looking for. It’s pretty rare I have to go to Amazon.

It’s rough, because you know that it will probably be cheaper and delivered faster from Amazon, at the moment it is probably the most consumer friendly place to buy. But you know once the honeymoom is over and all the Swedish retailers are gone, it’s just going to devolve to garbage. Support your non-Amazon retailers!


Yeah, this happens everywhere. Amazon in Germany also became a lot crappier once they had a strong foothold in the market.

Even if they are still great in Sweden, don't buy from them, don't let them murder your local, healthy ecosystem. (If you think it's not healthy, wait until they have most of the market.)


I have to use Windows for some things, and that's the version I have installed for that. I was a bit concerned at first, I thought I would find that some things didn't work. I've had zero issues though, highly recommend it. (No idea how it works for gaming.)


There are lots of keyboards like that. I use an eight-key version that I found on Amazon. Works just fine, no complaints.


What's Fleet?



Nice solution, and congrats on winning HN for the moment. And thanks for 46elks. (Happy customer here.)


That was unexpected! My friend Calle wrote this article and he has made some really cool projects with 46elks (and demos with voice recognition).

Ping me on my work email and I’ll send you some fun links! :)


Really interesting stuff. Reminds me of Ox (https://www.oxdelivers.com/).


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