Organising After Deadlines

Deadlines are finally over. Well for a bit. Two fellowships have been submitted and the one thing that links them is the challenge of communicating technical aspects of research. As a tldr; I began to really appreciate trying to find a narrative for technical research. One focussed on community and the second on a research theme. Perhaps also known as the “Why is this important? What does it mean?”.

Now I wait …

In the meantime, I have been organising some repositories. An email conversation lead to the beginning of writing scrapers for Add-on stores and I wrote some tools to use the software. I moved the tools into their own repository with some initial documentation here. It is skeletal for now as I am a little swamped for now to sit down and work them through. I realise that my basic repository has a docs folder and Python’s mkdocs to help build them, but perhaps I need to focus on the design aspects at some moment.


Down with Cubicle Land

I thought that the Early Days of Agile Development GoTo podcast with James Lewis and Martin Fowler might be interesting. Indeed it was. One of the things that I really thought interesting was the breakdown of “Cubicle Land”. Recently, I have been put into an office without much contact with other colleagues, apart from the […]


Working through a Development Process

I have recently been writing and updating various bits of code recently. Through working on a Google Summer of Code project as a mentor, I have found that I am updating how I use repositories. Like many developers, I use varying git repositories such as Gitlab and Github among others. My first year on the […]


Programming Sound Ontology

A few posts ago, I wrote about sketching out some ideas for an ontology to work through programming languages and their interaction with sound. I hacked up some ideas from the diagrams to test some initial ideas and queries so that I can develop the ontology and test the ideas within it. From this, I […]


The Hearing Car

The ACM had an article on one of its feeds regarding an autonomous car, The Hearing Car, that is beginning to listen to avoid obstacles and navigate. It is being developed by the Fraunhofer Institute.


Sketching Sound Software over Platforms using Linked Data

A while ago, I was asked to contribute to a forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Sound Studies. The contracts have been signed so the entry on Computer Science and Sound is being written. One of the things that I have been playing around with is creating a Linked Data graph of programming languages, what facets exists, and […]


Getting power usage from Mac ARM

I have recently come back to exploring energy use while certain Python scripts run, such as machine learning training. I wanted to see if it could be sonified while the training happened. Yes, this does raise numerous questions regarding CPU/GPU use of the measuring device and representation while measuring the data. The pyJoules library came […]


Crate-clicking and reading liner notes

Pitchfork have an article on a crate-clicker, Music Place, on YouTube. It sound like an eclectic mix of stuff, but the thing that I liked was that the owner focuses on the found music. Crate-clicking, as a term, intrigues me as someone who enjoyed digging in boxes in record fairs and second-hand shops. On a […]


Vibe coding, liability, and prototyping

Ars Technica has an intriguing post on vibe coding from two different models that I think lays out an interesting question if this was done on production data. The article, “Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes“, discusses two models creating code and then wiping data or code. Both […]


GraphRAG and Linked Data

I have recently started looking at retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for some project ideas and came across the concept of GraphRAG. My understanding is that it uses knowledge graphs rather than vector stores to identify additional information to create context for onward processing and Large Language Model use. It seems interesting and I am curious to […]