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txbrown··on Azulejo
Portuguese here - many Portuguese words have origin from Arabic as Portugal has been conquered and occupied by "the Moors" in 8th~13th century. That's a long time! Alentejo, Aljezur, Algarve, and many of the cities in the Southern part of the country have have Arabic origins.
txbrown··on Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation
what you mean? synthesisers are software... I think the context is clear here and we're talking about software made for music, so the usage of patch is accurate. If author wanted to use "patch" to mean patching a file they would likely be specific or context could be inferred.

"A patch is data for modifying an existing software resource such as a program or a file"

Which is what patching synths/drum machines (and files) does.

txbrown··on Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation
Would have been easier to say it receives patches - I think most people would get this.
txbrown··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
I am close to releasing an iOS Camera app (yes another one lol) called Invisible Camera. It's a minimal app that works the way I like to shoot with my Fujifilm camera: focus on what I see, quickly apply a look / filter with a slider and shoot. The processing pipeline reduces the default color science applied by iOS to result in a more pleasant look.

You can join the beta https://testflight.apple.com/join/LEJk313o

When I can, I am also working on some features for https://midicircuit.com Beta here - https://testflight.apple.com/join/pNyAUEac

txbrown··on Grug Brain Dev as LLM
I need a netflix show about Grug Brain
txbrown··on Kakizome: Japanese way of new-years resolution
What I did this year was draft all the things I wanted to achieve, check roughly how long it takes to achieve them - some have deadlines, like driver license test, which has a specific date - split them by quarters (Q1,Q2, and so on), some are more about consistency and repeated practice that culminates into being able to perform something at a higher level of execution - e.g. bass guitar and music theory. During each quarter I focus on what is there and try to limit my time around those things. I adjusted my calendar, reminders, etc to help me stay on track. I thik focusing on a few things every 3 months and tracking time/sessions/effort put into can be helpful. I think something good happens regardless and you know for sure you did your best.
txbrown··on Do front end engineers with ASP.NET, VB, React / Razor knowledge exist
I did 4y of my career like that - never worked with VB though. ASP.NET got replaced with Go, Node, SWift and other languages and frontend I have done mobile, desktop, web. Some of my colleagues from that period also have this background but they are more focused on backend for sure.
txbrown··on Ask HN: What audio/sound-related OSS projects can I contribute to?
Hey, why not join the Audio Programmer Discord where you can find many of the leading projects and much more? https://discord.gg/YbYGjtzz

I'd say from there you can pretty much reach out to the maintainers and go from it.

Another project that would benefit of more help is AudioKit. https://discord.gg/y6fKdWR7

I'd say most modern audio based apps on iOS / macOS are likely using it, although JUCE is the leading framework for audio dev.

The rust community also seems to be booming around DSP.