solomonb

All other electronic instruments, with the one exception being the Theramin, have a fundamental problem with human expression. There is an unsolvable disconnect between what the performer's actions and their audience.

See: https://www.scribd.com/document/55134776/48787070-Bob-Ostert...

With an electric guitar you get the physicality and dynamism of an acoustic instrument with the complex timbres and extended technique possibilities of an electric/electronic instrument.

There are complex and musically significant feedback loops occurring across many dimensions that lead to extremely complex transformations of timbre via both traditional music theoretical techniques and the physics of a tube amplifier combined with an inductive load (the guitar pickup).

Its really crazy how much more dynamic and complex this can be then even a highly sophisticated modular synthesizer or whatever. Even the way you over load the power supply in a tube amplifier can be manipulated on the fly to enhance and transform timbre.

Then on top of all that it is so incredibly physical that a performer like Jimi Hendrix can manipulate these systems and have the audience intuitively understand what he is doing. Never in a million years would THAT be possible with any other electronic instrument.

This tool lets you manage multiple accounts in `~/.claude/envs` and activate them per shell session.

imo this should be baked into claude-code.

There are so many ways music can be connected that aren't accounted for by genre labels or "sounds like."

I would be truly impressed if a recommendation engine took me from The Residents to Balinese Gamelan. My aunt plays in a Gamelan orchestra with one member of the Residents and learning that somehow made so much sense to me. This are the kind of out of pocket recommendation that an engine will never capture.

I played around with this tool a bit and didn't find it any better then other more traditional music discovery tools, that is to say not very effective.

For example, I entered John Zorn and was recommended a bunch of John Zorn's bands. I entered The Residents and got The Pixies :/

I think its more effective to click around on Music Brainz and Wikipedia.

And here is a set of single file lambda calculus implementations with a variety of extensions: https://github.com/solomon-b/lambda-calculus-hs

`polytt` is kind of an ended experiment but that lambda calculus repo i plan to extend in the near future.

Being able to launch it with:

     nix run github:cpcloud/micasa     

Actually we could go further and serve `micasa` via ssh:

    users.users.micasa = {
      isNormalUser = true;
      shell = pkgs.bashInteractive;
      openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = ...
    };
  
    services.openssh.extraConfig = ''
      Match User micasa
        ForceCommand ${micasaPkg}/bin/micasa
        AllowTcpForwarding no
        X11Forwarding no
    '';

    services.micasa-ssh = {
      enable = true;
      authorizedKeys = [ "ssh-ed25519 AAAA..." ];
      port = 2222;
    };

I feel strongly that this is a the right model for a lot of potential applications, including an agentic harness for LLMs (which I have not tried yet).

I absolutely love AM radio and would prefer to run an AM station but there is no realistic path, legally or technically, to doing it as a micro broadcaster, other then the Part 15 route which I have done.

As a terrestrial radio station our goal is to serve and be a member of our the local San Fernando Valley community. Creating a physical space for the radio station is about creating a 3rd space for community members and hosts as much as it is for recording radio shows.

We need a studio to be able to do live radio shows. Currently our hosts have to pre-record and submit through an online dashboard. The goal is to have a live studio in Shadow Hills where hosts can do their shows, bring on guests, take calls, etc.

Almost immediately (like within the first week or so) everyone involved demanded an internet stream and now that station has two internet streams lol.

I've been thinking about setting up another part 15 station at my house as a personal project but for something like KPBJ the goal is to be a community resource. Terrestrial broadcast is super important to me and helps cement the station's place in our local community but we also want to be accessible to those who are not in this immediate area or who don't know how to use a radio (yes in 2026 that is an issue!).

At the moment we are only airing a few new shows per day and filling the rest of our airtime with content from archive.org and other free sources (chosen by all our hosts), but over time more of the schedule will fill with original content.

In our case we created the non-profit in anticipation of applying for this license. We got really lucky and no one else applied for the license and it was awarded to us.

Also I am /much/ more interested in terrestrial radio but the reality is that the vast majority of listeners are online and not using a radio. : (

I often wonder what draws me to pick up so many interests and goals. I used to think its leading me towards something but after so many years I have started to wonder if that is really whats going on. Maybe there is something more essential I can tease out of all my side projects that reveals what I am really after..

> You've been wanting to take cooking classes, but you've also been wanting to join an improv group. If you don't have time/resources for both of these projects, you might choose a metaproject like "weekly dinner party with funny friends" -- it doesn't strictly meet the requirements from either project, but it might fulfill some deeper desire.

So the idea is to extrapolate a new project that satisfies some core aspects of multiple projects you dont have time for.

    validateNonEmpty :: [a] -> IO ()
    validateNonEmpty (_:_) = pure ()
    validateNonEmpty [] = throwIO $ userError "list cannot be empty"
    
    parseNonEmpty :: [a] -> IO (NonEmpty a)
    parseNonEmpty (x:xs) = pure (x:|xs)
    parseNonEmpty [] = throwIO $ userError "list cannot be empty"