software developer @ power good at: ruby, react, linux, making coffee interested in: music trackers, self-hosting, free software links: github <a ...
I have been into music trackers for about as long as I have been dabbling in producing music. to me, the tracker paradigm feels most natural; punching in individual notes and effects commands in a top-down orientation brings an air of familiarity to a programmer. though their heyday has long passed - they first emerged on the Commodore Amiga and became a big part of the 90s demoscene - there are…
mastodon is the premier app of the fediverse - the ecosystem of decentralized web applications bound together by the activitypub protocol. there are many public instances of mastodon available for people to join, but savvy users may be interested in hosting their own. the reasons for this are multifold - examples include using your own domain name, resisting censorship, and having full agency over…