@lhp

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Gothic Tinkerer

Writing Free Software in emacs. My other passions are cooking, fashion and photography. Enjoying dark and gloomy music, mostly darkwave, post-punk, goth-rock, and some metal. Trying to be an avid reader, currently a lot of Lem. Studying experimental physics. Progressive, obviously.

⚠️ no tech-bros allowed

🛸 I shall always remain alien

🤖 I hate "AI" with the fire of a trillion stars and so should you

Websitehttps://leon_plickat.srht.site/
SourceHuthttps://sr.ht/~leon_plickat/
GitHubhttps://github.com/Leon-Plickat
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lhpAug 2
the DJ played that New Order remix from Blade in the club today, which is a good dance track, but I am not sure if I really want to feel like being part of the blood rave scene...
lhpAug 1
Guess who just hit a cable while mounting a clothes rack... the cable routing in this house is a mess
lhpJul 30
the great conundrum of whether to start a proper personal wiki or just stick to my enormously large org file...
lhpJul 29

New blog post! Synths! Orca! Fun?

https://leon_plickat.srht.site/writing/synths/article.html

Synths!

lhpJul 28
I have finally reached the stage where coming up with melodies is the hardest part :)
lhpJul 28

ok synth update: I moved all of it to my coffee table, which has less space and is overall less comfortable to sit at than my desk, but somehow the entire setup feels nicer now?

Anyway, I can now confirm that analog-synth drums (drumbrute impact) combined with the classic drum samples from roland (D-110) sound really sweet. Best of both worlds.

Also orca is pretty fun as a MIDI sequencer.

Now I only need to figure out how I can get the D-110's synth to emit nice sounds...

lhpJul 28
It's commonly known that exponential grows faster than polynomial, but only known to people who tried it: Even faster grows the complexity of a synth setup the more """Technically Compatible™""" components you add. And even faster than that grows the set of possible ways to connect them all and in which order. And even faster grows the despair of realizing you'll have to memorize it all before you can start having """Fun™"""...
lhpJul 27
so firefox just insta-crashes when I try use webmidi with a physical midi input device, lovely
lhpJul 26
Floris BruynoogheJul 25

Many years after starting to use this, I finally wrote down how I run my #riverwm #desktop using #systemd

Mostly as a reference to myself whenever I need to make changes to it. And to fill a documentation gap on systemd unit dependencies for myself.

https://devork.be/blog/2025/07/river-as-systemd/

Running River as a systemd service

devork
lhpJul 23
The main reason I want the WM protocol in an official #riverwm release is because I want to publish a blog post introducing my WM projects, so I can finally share my thoughts on desktop UI/UX in (hopefully) coherent writing. I tried decoupling that into its own article-thing, but it doesn't really work standalone...