via the magic of laion_clap embeddings and umap, my live coding thingy has a sample browser at last!

what if we hilighted every 4th line of my text editor and then put tidal mininotation in every line and then... called it a tracker.... 🤔 wcgw

still messin' with this thing. so many yaks to shave when you start from scratch. autocomplete, filter dsp, sample loading, even json parsing. an eternal pile of todos, but each one small enough I'm making slow but continual forward progress...

also added 'keypoints' (by saying that space means 'unset', and . or A means 0) and actually they're more useful than i expected. (wait for it.... a to z!)

leaning into this text editor/visual editor dual, i've made the code colourer detect comments like /*====*/ and turn them into sliders. I really like how plain old source code remains the 'source of truth' for all state and the editor just doodles over it.

when you have your own text editor, everything starts to look like a .... textnail? behold, I can now edit my LFO shapes with copy and paste...

i started to make a live coding environment for myself! its currently basically shadertoy but on my mac with compiled c for the audio. its not a particularly unique wheel, but it's *my* wheel, so I am mostly experimenting with the details to see what makes me feel productive & creative.