Sound Byte Labs
@soundbytelabs.net
Engineer. Artist. Dog dad. I love all things music and circuits! I keep it positive.
Yeah hear that. I'm currently working with a Frankenstein system in 3 cases and only 1 is deep enough to hold them all.
February 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Yeah hear that. I'm currently working with a Frankenstein system in 3 cases and only 1 is deep enough to hold them all.
...continue passing those skills, tastes, and values refined over many generations to people younger than us. Thank you for attending my TED talk. In summary, support the arts!
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 PM
...continue passing those skills, tastes, and values refined over many generations to people younger than us. Thank you for attending my TED talk. In summary, support the arts!
People will always make great art. I worry that we will create less of it and that our communities will be worse off if we continue down the path of devaluation. I think there are so many ways art is necessary for the soul and a uniquely human gift. I also think there is so much lost when we don't..
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 PM
People will always make great art. I worry that we will create less of it and that our communities will be worse off if we continue down the path of devaluation. I think there are so many ways art is necessary for the soul and a uniquely human gift. I also think there is so much lost when we don't..
...appetite for art and entertainment media has only ballooned. To fill the demand created by increased access and lower economic barriers, those with the means to scale and commoditize creative work did, relentlessly.
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 PM
...appetite for art and entertainment media has only ballooned. To fill the demand created by increased access and lower economic barriers, those with the means to scale and commoditize creative work did, relentlessly.
... and gaining social status as a journeyman artist or creative person is alien to younger generations. How widely accepted is the notion that STEM is safer and more respected than liberal & fine arts? That an arts education is an exercise in futility if not outright vanity. Yet if anything our...
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 PM
... and gaining social status as a journeyman artist or creative person is alien to younger generations. How widely accepted is the notion that STEM is safer and more respected than liberal & fine arts? That an arts education is an exercise in futility if not outright vanity. Yet if anything our...
...future. It's not just the demolition of attention spans and media literacy that gets me. It's the concerted reorienting of the very idea of valuing creativity, uniqueness and artisanship. It's been going on for a long time, longer than anyone alive remembers. The concept of earning a living...
January 31, 2026 at 8:33 PM
...future. It's not just the demolition of attention spans and media literacy that gets me. It's the concerted reorienting of the very idea of valuing creativity, uniqueness and artisanship. It's been going on for a long time, longer than anyone alive remembers. The concept of earning a living...
...but I still think it's worth learning the fundamentals in order to build out a better architect toolbox. No doubt the skillset needs to evolve, but that's par for the course in computer science.
January 31, 2026 at 4:51 PM
...but I still think it's worth learning the fundamentals in order to build out a better architect toolbox. No doubt the skillset needs to evolve, but that's par for the course in computer science.
That's a great analogy. Truly, I think beyond really cutting edge techniques or intense performance requirements, most seasoned engineers come to view most coding as mostly mechanical. Any dev can learn to write the code for a well architected and spec'd component. Coding alone will be devalued...
January 31, 2026 at 4:51 PM
That's a great analogy. Truly, I think beyond really cutting edge techniques or intense performance requirements, most seasoned engineers come to view most coding as mostly mechanical. Any dev can learn to write the code for a well architected and spec'd component. Coding alone will be devalued...
And I really don't think we can hand wave our way past the communication gap. *Maybe* AI will magically become so adept at gleaning our true intentions, or the iterative process becomes so fast that it doesn't matter that most people don't know what they want. Not sold on that yet.
January 31, 2026 at 3:44 PM
And I really don't think we can hand wave our way past the communication gap. *Maybe* AI will magically become so adept at gleaning our true intentions, or the iterative process becomes so fast that it doesn't matter that most people don't know what they want. Not sold on that yet.
... it will cease to be useful to employ humans who have a deep understanding of the product. I think a lot of companies will find out the hard way that even describing in natural language what you want software to do is quite difficult if you don't understand the underlying systems and capability.
January 31, 2026 at 3:38 PM
... it will cease to be useful to employ humans who have a deep understanding of the product. I think a lot of companies will find out the hard way that even describing in natural language what you want software to do is quite difficult if you don't understand the underlying systems and capability.
The manual suggests feeding the Bruxa output back into the input, so I'm going to try that next! #makenoise #synthsky #modular
January 28, 2026 at 8:55 PM
The manual suggests feeding the Bruxa output back into the input, so I'm going to try that next! #makenoise #synthsky #modular
I say, as I fiddle with my modular system
January 27, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I say, as I fiddle with my modular system