I’ve worked in software development professionally and I am working on some personal projects that I am going eventually share and try to get known.

Soft launch is when you make something available, but either allow something to just be encounterable, either through the system you are working in , or through search engines and whatnot. The main motive of this is when you have reached a state where it can be used, but you do not want it to be under scrutiny, and to get some feedback from initial users, and to see if it will work as expected in a live environment.

A “Hard” launch is when you work on publicity, announcements, buy advertising, and generally try to get people to all come and see/use the thing you have completed. There is a release date and you are actively trying to attract people to the thing.

For example, I’m slowly working my way up the release state for the microtonal grid.

The first stage of soft launch was just uploading it to Itch.io , without it being listed properly or on the recommendation engine listings. Then I enabled it to be seen through those categories. Then I started posting about it on lemmy. I still need to work on trying to reach out to Xenharmonic wiki to list it on their pages of tools or some kind of use through there. I want to start documenting my projects I am working on in videos and upload them to a schedule.

The things I need to will keep making the release “harder”.

good luck

great work, it actually reminded me of High Castle Teleorkesta , whose members are heavily influenced by mr bungle…

Pre-edit : Bär is in HCT. That’s why.

My sound is a free airplane liner crew communication chime

I just need a cleaner sound because the chime I found is kinda noisy.

I got you fam

https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/intercom-chime-1-31642/

oooooooo… I should try it.

EDIT : for others, you might need to set up/enable terminal bell

Fighting Time Blindness one chime at a time.

I feel so seen 🥲, thank you so much. I’m happy it helped you, thank you for letting me know it’s useful to you.

I’ve had to up it to once every 10, and I’m considering lowering it to 5 or 6, and changing the case statement to be a division/modulus calcuation.

There’s various sound effects on https://www.myinstants.com/ , I’m using one of the airhorn sounds from there 🙈

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Contributing is what you do to other people’s projects once you are done making your own stupid things, and feel confident you will improve rather than ruin other people’s stuff.

The problem is, things never feel like they are complete. There’s always more you can do.

I might do some contribs to lichess once I am done with my current stuff.

Shameless plug : I recently finished a longterm project :
https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid
https://programming.dev/post/46248494

There’s a few scattered vocals throughout the album, especially track 4 , Valisystem A. The vocals there take inspiration from the beach boys, as one of the creative leads for this album is a HUGE fan of BB/Brian Wilson.

Estradasphere also worked like that, most of the songs were instrumental, but there were some with vocals.

I wholeheartedly recommend both the whole album and the entire Estradasphere catalog.

I’m glad you liked the song :)

So… did you like the song?

I’m glad you find this useful, there are some resources on wikipedia and Maqam world to find interesting note groupings for arabic scales :)

https://maqamworld.com/en/maqam.php

If you have questions or want to share some stuff, let me know.

hey, when you’re used to GUIs, the install finishes and you’re staring at a command line with no idea how to get started with the desktop, yeah it’s “the hard way”.

It’s not hard, but you have to know WTF is going on. It surprised me when I got sent to the command line after reboot, I lucked out because I changed DE while I was distro hopping so knew how to install from apt.

Debian, not a bad idea but where I live I have shared wireless only, so I’d have to install the wireless drivers manually using my phone to search for advice. Not even sure how that’d go. Easier if I had ethernet.

I installed through wireless. you just set it up as part of the installation process.

I love things like this, makes it so easy to learn when it’s a really simple to understand and explicit implementation of a high level feature (read input, pass to command)

I’m trying to get established, I’ve just got a few more things to sort out before I can start putting stuff out there regularly.

I make music and write programs

I loved the faction angle for GTA2 , alongside the improved controls. I want to make a game inspired off it as one of the creative projects I’m trying to work on.

No wonder I loved the later Saints games.

Plugging something I did : I implemented this on a 16*16 step sequencer. Click the “Conway’s game of life” button to turn on the game of life rules, and whatever you drew on the sequencer will apply the simulation rules and change the music being played.

https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid

I do post a bit from this account, but I have another account I make more contributions from. Please let me know if this is bothersome.

I want to do a bit more before I do a proper launch and try to bring people’s attention to it, but I felt like it would fit this submission.

if you hate JS and think it’s dumb, but still have to use it, look into Eloquent Javascript (free) https://eloquentjavascript.net/ and the mozilla docs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript.

Eloquent JS is written by someone who also hates JS, but understands it very well.

I used them while I worked on the Microtonal Music Grid (still in progress)