Michael Maclean

Had to update this machine to use a new boot process, which when I don't have console access to it, is Some Level Of Fun when it fails to boot and requires debugging

Currently obsessed with bikepacking ideas, bikepacking videos, bikepacking reading, etc etc. Of course it is entirely the wrong end of the year to be thinking about this stuff, so I hope it hangs around until maybe April

I've been reminded of another microcontroller-based project I wanted to do, which is distracting me from the other one, oh no

For dotplan, I have considered doing something a bit like Jekyll and similar
blogging tools, where some YAML front matter could, if present, control the
rendering. So perhaps you could enable a more structured feed that is delimited
between entries in some way, use things like Markdown, and so on. I'm not sure
if I want to do this yet but it is on my list to explore.

I called my new site dotplan.space. This implies I should be posting my plans. I haven't yet. So, here goes.

I am working on a synth. Currently doing some research into using an RP2350 to do the actual synthesis, and handle the MIDI or encoder controls. It has two cores - one per task seems to make sense. I'm going to use Rust and Embassy for this, I think.

After that, I intend to have a go at making a digitally controlled, analogue low-pass filter on it. Something akin to that on a 303, with cutoff and resonance. If I can make it sound approximately acidy that'll be a good start. Then I'll see where I can go from there.

It turns out I'm very much not the first person to have this idea. Dmytri Kleiner beat me to it, in 2010, with thimbl:

https://archive.transmediale.de/content/thimbl-decentralized-microblogging

If I'm going to use this thing for anything I suppose I should adjust my finger daemon so I am able to post without having to use sudo

Hey look, it supports colour and bold

I don't post very much on social media so I'm not entirely sure why I'm writing
another platform to write things on, but here we are.

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