A friend of mine ditched his Synology for a very low cost multidrive chassis from Aliexpress, and this... https://unraid.net/

Seems like a good setup.

Never stop.

Go listen to all this... https://www.founderspodcast.com/

I will add, listen to these with your wife so you can share a similar vision for your future.

Also, check out the podcast How I Built This podcast with Guy Raz. Hearing the stories of other founders really is inspiring, and my wife and I have found listening to these really helpful thinking about our business.

We're trying a new thing in our house to curb the dopamine addiction.

Screens allowed every 2nd day. So far it has been working well, and our kid always finds something creative to do on the screen free days.

This is an interesting idea thanks! I realize mine (by coincidence) do something similar but it's in two day stretches.

They want to play Minecraft sometimes but other times they want to go play outside or play with their toys or watch a show.

They definitely have a harder time stopping some kinds of shows though regardless of only watching them some days so I have to remove some them.

I bought a 4TB external hard drive from a thrift shop and found it is loaded with a huge unorganized treasure trove of MP3s that stops maybe around 2008. The tags and file names are a bit of a mess (looks like bad character encoding for anything with accents), and there is no genres or categorization. I'd love to use a subset of this archive on Jellyfin or Navidrome.

Any suggestions for a tool that can clean up file names and tags, and apply some sort of genre categories? I've tried Picard, but the process seems too manual for such a large archive.

I've used beets to import and tag a huge personal music library:

https://beets.io/

beets, it's ridiculously good, https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#

"I am sitting in a petrie dish..."

Anyone here doing rhythm work without sequencers?

I've been noodling with a side project for a couple years trying to figure out how to replicate folk drumming patterns by adding LFOs together and doing beats at the zero crossing. My aim is to create drumming patterns that can flow and evolve. Results are so-so. I cant seem to find much info on other doing this sort of thing.

https://youtu.be/yVlgPoTpL94

Check out "African Polyphony and Polyrhythm", a presentation by Chris Ford at Strange Loop 2016. He uses Clojure to model traditional central African drumming patterns with variations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK4qctJOMaU

https://github.com/ctford/african-polyphony-and-polyrhythm

I'd think that the problem with LFOs is that they don't make it easy to think about rhythm- they are tied to specific times. So it's a hard tool for that kind of work.

I've been enjoying tools like "euclidian rhythms" where you have a variety of sounds that all have a fundamental division of beat that they share but have differing numbers of beats-per-bar. I have a squarp pyramid sequencer that implements that quite well.

You might look in that direction if you haven't already.

Bluey helped me out immensely at my research job. I was watching it with my daughter and in the episode, the father says, "Obstacles don't block the path. They are the path." It was a big ah-ha! moment that completely changed my attitude about the frustration I was having in my research. Then looking at my journal notes, it was all about obstacles and how to work through and around them, and that shift in perspective really accelerated my work.

> "Obstacles don't block the path. They are the path."

This is a modern translation of what Marcus Aurelius said in "Meditations", his private diary. This particular paraphrasing and interpretation is by Ryan Holiday, a modern stoic with many books on the topic to his name. You would enjoy them.

The original quote:

"In one respect man is the nearest thing to me, so far as I must do good to men and endure them. But so far as some men make themselves obstacles to my proper acts, man becomes to me one of the things which are indifferent, no less than the sun or wind or a wild beast. Now it is true that these may impede my action, but they are no impediments to my affects and disposition, which have the power of acting conditionally and changing: for the mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road."

Meditations, 5.20 Marcus Aurelius

https://lexundria.com/m_aur_med/5.20/lg

You'd like this book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obstacle_Is_the_Way

Thanks, bought it.

Turns out it's on sale now too: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=tOzwEAAAQBAJ

Seconding this book, this is one I go back to every once in a while.

Wow, that player seems to work really well. The music played almost instantly.

Would it be that responsive for long tracks?

Yes, it would. The browser only needs to download a small amount of audio for the playback to start, and the rest would be downloaded as you listen.

Perhaps open source it?

Yeah, as I mentioned some of it is marked to be open sourced. Other bits are IP I'd like to retain but make actionable. Hopefully over the next few months I'll release some of it!

Ha! love your co website.

Thank you! I'm putting the finishing touches on a minimalist sh'mup that will play itself in the background. I've received your email and will reach out shortly :)

I'm trying to finish off a final mix of a weird album. It's a 36 minute composition made from recordings done over 2023/24. It is all rotary magnetic bow on electroduochord and metal wire rack shelving, and will be on Bandcamp soon. https://stefanpowell.bandcamp.com/