OMG OMG - I just managed to play a pre-recorded sound in SuperSonic, my port of SuperColliders's audio engine scsynth to the web. Looks like there's a bug in scsynth which only revealed itself in WASM in a hideously nefarious way that wasn't obvious in the slightest and took a week to figure out...

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Introducing SuperSonic - the full power of SuperCollider's audio engine running in a real-time high-priority AudioWorklet thread in the browser: www.patreon.com/posts/introd...

Pretty sure I’m going to release my self-nerd-snipe project tomorrow. One of the coolest aspects of it is that it runs in RTNRT mode (really it does). (Where R=real, T=time and N=none).

I totally and utterly nerd-sniped myself for the past month working on something I wasn't sure I could do or was possible. I think I've done it. It feels a bit surreal. If things turn out as good as they're currently looking it's going to be a game changer for both Sonic Pi and Tau5.

🚀 Meet our #YOW25 Keynote Speakers! Join @kentbeck.com, Michael Feathers, @samaaron.bsky.social & Sarah Meiklejohn to explore agile, legacy code, live coding with AI, and crypto de-anonymization. 🎟 Get your ticket in MEL 4-5 | BNE 8-9 | SYD 11-12 Dec yowcon.com

Going for a bike ride remains one of my most powerful debugging techniques.

This afternoon/evening I’ll be speaking at the Copenhagen Clojure meetup. If you’re around, come and say hi! www.meetup.com/copenhagen-c...

Sonic Pi Algorithmic Music. A Never-Ending eight-beat technopop groove - a tribute to "Telex". #electronicmusic #Sonic Pi #generativemusic #algorithmicmusic #technopop

I've been busy hacking away on Tau5 - I'm still working hard laying the best foundations I can. If you'd like to help me continue to work hard at full speed, please do consider supporting me on Patreon. Every small donation helps more than you realise towards sustainability. patreon.com/samaaron

We’re excited to announce our next #YOW2025 keynote speaker @samaaron.bsky.social In his keynote, he introduces #Tau5 - a new live coding system exploring collaboration, concurrency & AI as a creative partner. Don't miss out & book your #YOW25 tickets: MEL 4-5 | BNE 8-9 | SYD 11-12 Dec yowcon.com

I’m still thinking about @samaaron.bsky.social’s talk at #goatmire - nothing has captured my curiosity and wonder for coding like this! #elixirlang

Waking up with @samaaron.bsky.social at #Goatmire is a pleasure

Today was a nice milestone for Tau5. The GitHub CI now auto-builds a fresh Linux AppImage for each commit. I was able to download the latest ARM64 AppImage as a single file and run it on my Raspberry Pi - simply by launching it. It worked :-)

Tau5's internal server has 3 optional configurable http endpoints: 1. Local - listening to localhost (for trusted interactions) 2. Public - listening to external machines (for untrusted users) 3. MCP - listening on localhost (gives AI agents access to a secure sandboxed Lua runtime). tau5.live

Tau5 isn't just another fun language for live coding. It's a secure cross-platform-runtime designed to support many fun languages *working together* for live coding. tau5.live

My gentle beginner-friendly introductory Sonic Pi course is currently discounted for only one more week. Learn the basics of coding *and* music - no prior experience necessary. Use code SUMMER_SALE to unlock a 33% discount - only valid during August. sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-i...

27 years ago I learned one particular programming trick that has had a profoundly beneficial impact on my career. Real. Tangible. Benefits. (That I enjoy every single day.) What is that trick? Touch typing.

Looking forward to introducing Tau5 at goatmire.com The blurb… Out here processes don't just run, they thrash. Supervision trees fracture into a recursive geometry of light & sound. Introducing Tau5 - Live. Code. Together. Don't just pattern match - rhythm catch.

If there were a single lesson I'd drill into new software engineers it'd be this: You can be technically right and politically and systemically dead wrong.

It says a lot about the corpus of existing code when the first thing the LLM does when it encounters a segfault due to execution order of concurrent threads is to introduce a timer to delay part of the computation. WTF?!? Who on earth does this? Clearly a lot of people...

Experimenting with tiled layouts for Tau5.

An other #sonicpi workshop at #ICC #Porto now I showed the students the different colorthemes with highcontrast. You see that they all used different ons. @samaaron.bsky.social #coding #watkanwel

Love creating music? Love dabbling with the odd bit of code here and there? Well keep an eye on this project, you'll soon be able to smash these two loves into one and then explore the creative world you've just created.

I did this a while back and it's fantastic! Sam's a great teacher and this it was already cheap enough, so if you've got an interest in coding and electronic music you should buy it.

Mid-sale reminder... My introductory Sonic Pi course is on sale for all of August. Use code SUMMER_SALE to unlock a 33% discount. If you've been waiting for the right time to learn to live code music - it's now! sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-i...

Live coding with jaming with friends (and bots, if you want, or not, if you don't). A new project from @samaaron.bsky.social of Sonic Pi fame. The magic of this: a simple client, a shared server. Oh, and pretty graphics from Hydra. Talked to Sam about this; let's have a look:

What is Tau5? www.patreon.com/posts/what-i...

Tau5 is - A Tool for Creative Coding - A Dream in Active Development - AI Ready - For Your Heart and Mind - Complementary to Sonic Pi - Ecosystem Aware - Open Source - Forged with Powerful Built-in Dev Tools These are the headers for an upcoming Patreon article introducing Tau5 and its roadmap.

Tau5 will be a creative coding native/web platform for secure, event-driven, concurrent, hot-swappable, deterministic & precisely-timed distributed computation. Features include a native GUI, remote browser UI, LAN discovery/mesh, central server global sync & a sandboxed local MCP for AI. tau5.live

Today I did a workshop with the great software #sonicpi from @samaaron.bsky.social on the #ICC camp with #visual impaired students in #Porto. They had a great time (and me too). Everybody started off with the same starting code. #coding #computationalthinking #creative.

The Tau5 boot screen...

#bandcampfriday you know what to do noodlrstudio.bandcamp.com/album/noodlr...

It's summer sale time for the Sonic Pi introductory course! Use code SUMMER_SALE to unlock a 33% discount. If you've been waiting for the right time to learn to live code music - it's now! sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com/p/sonic-pi-i...

Money tight? Get these two albums for free, all we ask of you is you spread the word for us. It all helps get the word out. theblackdog.bandcamp.com

When working with AI coding agents always assume that the LLM produces some garbage. It may only be a garbage comment. It may only be a garbage API call. It may be a garbage architectural decision. It may even look great but on inspection you find it’s actually gas lighting you. Don’t trust it.

It feels like cheat mode to hook an AI agent to internal evaluation/log tools to your server and a public endpoint and then say "please security audit this endpoint and address any issues". Then watch it find exploits, fix them in your code, recompile, retest and repeat until you're happy.

Tau5 now has the beginnings of an end-user MCP server. This will allow AI Agents (or any other systems that speak MCP) to perform operations within Tau5's safe sandbox. You will be able to use AI Agents as digital jamming partners and collaborators alongside your friends.

This is such a beautiful, poignant and important talk.

Experimenting with a fun loading overlay for Tau5 using gratuitous GLSL shaders :-)

Tau5 now features two dev-focussed MCP servers. AI Agents can now observe the live running system during development. * tau5-gui-dev - gives AI full access to Chromium dev tools to inspect the DOM, run JS etc. * tidewave gives full access to to the Elixir server for code eval, log viewing etc.

Tau5 just got vastly improved server debugging with a new Elixir console to the server and a powerful inspection dashboard.

Tau5 - now with web developer tools (the app is essentially a custom browser connected to an internal web server running on the BEAM VM). The debug pane now lets you see what the BEAM is doing and also to see what the Chromium browser is doing. All in one compact view.

Just added a new dev log console for observing the BEAM VM running in the background. The BEAM is Tau5’s brain and is where all the magic happens. The Tau5 GUI is essentially a custom simplified browser.

Tau5 can now blend Hydra sketches.

Delightful. A real mix of styles of downtempo, found sound, IDM and house all impeccably delivered, each gradually filling the dancefloor. Audio captured, stunning visuals throughout courtesy of @samaaron.bsky.social expect another Noodlr Studio EP soon. Yclept, Industries, LA French, Wildforts

Did you catch the interview we did with Bandcamp? daily.bandcamp.com/features/the...