ChatGPT and Chronic Task Switching

I honestly don’t know if ChatGPT is the ultimate tool for me, or if it’s just feeding my madness. Sitting here with 3 chats open: one is crunching up examples of voice-leading algorithms to add to my Python scripts for chord progression generation in FL Studio; a second is trying to debug my clojure build …

ChatGPT teaches me Android

I’m the kind of idiot who spends six months writing my own framework in Java on Android, because I’m too stupid / lazy / impatient to read and grok the documentation and learn what’s already there. ChatGPT (3.5!) taught me more in a 15 minute chat last night than I’d been able to figure out …

Cardigan Bay 0.8.0

There’s a new Cardigan Bay out. See the video And get it at : https://github.com/interstar/cardigan-bay/releases/tag/0.8.0 What’s new : Card-level editing. The card-bar (which opens at the bottom of a card) now lets edit the source code of the card directly. Workspace saving. In a the ClojureScript workspace there’s now a button to save your work …

Patterning in Cardigan Bay

Finally done something I’ve been meaning to for a while, and brought Patterning into Cardigan Bay.That means we now have a :patterning card type which can contain Clojure code (it’s interpreted on the server using Babashka SCI) that renders patterns as SVG embedded in pages.See this example page on ThoughtStorms which has patterns embedded in …

A Test of Mind Traffic Control

Today I managed to screw up my todo.txt file that I use with Mind Traffic Control. I had to recreate it from some backups that weren’t quite as up-to-date as I needed them to be. And I got a lot of duplication in the file. And obviously items that had been done are now back …