Now (February 2025)
My life has a lot going on recently so I decided that I have a good reason to create my first now page - to snapshot what's going on and why this website lost some momentum.
In October 2024 I started my teaching career (that was my dream for a long time). With one class in the previous semester, now I have 3!
- Algorithmic composition (2 groups)
- Introduction to programming (for musicians)
- Programming in C
I love how these turned up, creating materials for my classes and the process of teaching is just wonderful.
Projects
My longest still active project, Harmonia is so close to the 1.0 release. Main motivation is first concert performed using it (poster below) which (besides one technical issue) worked wonderfully. Receiving congratulations and public appreciation is sure a nice feeling. I just need to improve one minor annoyance that keeps me from 1.0 - inability to refresh network interfaces which Harmonia uses.
Next two issues that would be nice could also be squeezed before 1.0, since they improve the main feature - MIDI synchronized play. I need to think about it more, but they seem quite reachable - ability to play MIDI track inanimately and running multiple MIDI files at once.
I'm also involved with POZa Linią magazine, making (both in design and in implementation department) their website.
Tech
I started using git worktrees in work. They seem quite nice, especially when you have multiple somewhat similar but different versions and remotes that you need to concurrently work on.
I lend an iPad from my girlfriend and I'm starting to warm up to the idea of tablets. I was always sceptical as they seem too close to smartphones (which are useless) to be useful. I was however wrong - they are great for displaying PDF pages as you work on notes for students (ANSI C is the Bible of C language and one's must forward it's word) or during a business meeting when you need to quickly visualize your thought (some kind of pencil required).
Recreation
My rate of media consumption have fallen quite a bit since the end of last year. I partially blame it on the lack of purpose - last year I either wanted to watch as part of sitcom challenge or I wanted to maintain high statistics per month. With both gone and lot of other activities I just don't go. Still thinking about The Brutalist, maybe I will go and watch it again.