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Chris Liscio
@liscio
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I write SuperMegaUltraGroovy software, such as http://capoapp.com. More recently, I'm also a grad student at the University of Waterloo.
Nobody asked, but you won't find me anywhere near WWDC again this year. And I really miss meeting up with you folks in person.
Travel to the US has been prohibitively expensive for me the past few years. Haven't been to WWDC since before it moved (back) to San Jose!
Fortunately, I'm not particularly excited to travel south of the Canada-USA border these days, so I'm ok skipping it. But I can’t comment further about that because doing so might actually impact my ability to visit in the future.
Happy Thursday, everyone! Today I've released version 4.7 of Capo—everyone's favorite tool for musicians who learn by ear.
The big item in this update is Mac-only, and it's *by far* the most-requested feature I've had for the app: you can now print publication-quality lead sheets from your Capo projects!
Learn more about today's release in the blog: https://supermegaultragroovy.com/2026/06/04/capo-4-7-is-here/
Craig HockenberryIf you ever attended C4, I have a favor to ask: the videos from the conference aren’t available online and if you have any of them stashed away, I’d like to get a copy to organize and upload (I have Wolf’s permission to do this).
2006-2009 was such a formative time for both macOS and iOS: these talks are a great record of what was happening.
For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about:
Some quality-of-life improvements will appear shortly in the next Capo update, and I've written a few words about one of them to explain how a seemingly simple feature can help unlock some real-world ear learning benefits: https://supermegaultragroovy.com/2026/04/24/call-response-mode-coming-soon/
Last year I shipped Capo's new MIDI & Keyboard Remote Control feature. But I don't think I spoke very much about the little DSL I built for the configuration files: https://supermegaultragroovy.com/2026/04/08/capos-own-language/
My Overdue Eulogy for the Mac Pro: https://supermegaultragroovy.com/2026/03/27/my-overdue-eulogy-for-the-mac-pro/
(Spoiler: Life's so much better now without 'em!)
For those of you who went to NSNorth at Chateau Montebello, enjoyed your time there, and are in the market for a resort, this might be an interesting opportunity: https://youtu.be/ZeoNkWbA9nI
Chateau Montebello for sale: Local businesses worry
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I'm still working on the email export in my Middleman project, but I wanted to publish ASAP so that my in-app newsletter links don't still point at a page with a 3-year-old "latest post". 😛
It's official—The SuperMegaUltraGroovy Newsletter is Back!
https://supermegaultragroovy.com/2025/10/15/smug-newsletter-is-back/
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