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Alex McLean
Personal blog · yaxu.orgprogrammingculture
Alex McLean's personal blog at yaxu.org covers programming and culture. Since 2009, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Demonstrating tidal, live music by a DSL in Haskell”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link yaxu.org mainly for the Tidal live-coding music language page, a Haskell pattern DSL for algorave-style electronic music. Comments cite it as a reference rather than discussing the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /tidal/7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-11-27
- Demonstrating tidal, live music by a DSL in Haskell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-03
What Hacker News says?
I haven't actually used Self, but from reading the paper, discussion of embodiment, tangible objects, and direct manipulation makes it interesting from a visual perspective. Personally I think all computer languages are textual by definition, and vary in the amount of extra visual support for syntax and more often secondary notation. The Reactable perhaps pushes beyond this limit by making proximity and orientation…
Comment linking /thesis/
on “Bret Victor: Learnable Programming”Submitted Some music in Haskell as a story · 30 points
HN discussionYou don't need to know anything about the physics of sound or programming, to get algoraving with Tidal or Ixi Lang http://yaxu.org/tidal/ http://www.ixi-audio.net/ixilang/
Comment linking /tidal/
on “Show HN: Wavepot – Digital audio workstation of the web”Submitted The Joy of Interpretation as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI've mentioned this before, but there's a lot of music stuff written in Haskell - tidal[0] (DSL for live-coding electronic music, not the 'save Jay Z from penury for $20/month' initiative that has just clobbered its google results) and Euterpea[1] spring to mind. [0] http://yaxu.org/tidal/ [1] http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/euterpea/
Comment linking /tidal/
on “Becoming Productive in Haskell”Submitted The Loebner prize completely misrepresents Turing’s paper as a story · 12 points
HN discussionAnother cool live-coding music platform, in Haskell: http://yaxu.org/tidal/
Comment linking /tidal/
on “Sonic Pi: Make Music Using Ruby”Submitted Haskell patterns ad nauseum: datatypes for music as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt looks like they're using tidal. http://yaxu.org/tidal/
Comment linking /tidal/
on “'Algorave' Is the Future of Dance Music (if You're a Nerd)”Submitted How we program as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI found this article very difficult to read, and while it talks a lot about procedural music, I don't think that any of the people it covers are making any except the "Birthday Song Crew", who are clearly geniuses. It did, however, introduce me to http://yaxu.org/tidal/ which is going to force me to finally learn Haskell.
Comment linking /tidal/
on “I For One Welcome Our New Robot Vocal Cords: Radical Computer Music”Submitted Patterns in Haskell as a story · 5 points
HN discussionKeep in mind there are actually two domains in music: instruments (sound synthesis) and orchestration. Both Skoar and Alda (which was linked yesterday) are only orchestration languages. I've been researching about this and narrowed down by these criteria: (1) Modern and maintained (2) Open source (3) Multiplatform (4) Supports live coding (5) Not MIDI-only output (6) Text-based (7) Not Java (sorry JSyn :P) For me li…
Comment linking /tidal/
on “Skoar – A musical programming language”Submitted Demonstrating tidal, live music by a DSL in Haskell as a story · 4 points
HN discussionthis is a live coding language, so trying to achieve what tidal and overtone are. EDM type genres have recognizable formulas for the drum and bass, and then for pads and leads above so all these environments are trying to abstract over patterns at different levels of the music. i can't find a real tutorial, but there's lots of material to look at: https://github.com/overtone/overtone/wiki/Getting-Started and this is…
Comment linking /tidal/
on “Skoar – A musical programming language”Submitted Demonstrating Tidal (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted We have no idea what we are doing: exclusion in free software culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meaning of Hack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Colourful Texture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computational thinking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best known and wrong: Dreyfus and Dreyfus as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Paper on Bricolage Programming as a story · 1 points
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