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How would you feel about using this or a subset of them as the default preset bundle for milkdrop? It needs a better curated default.

IMO making a projectM-gstreamer plugin would accomplish this a lot easier and better. I wanted to do this but wasn't sure how to create the GL context. Started it a while back: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm/pull/207

Almost all of the visualizations are responsive to the bass/mid/treb amplitudes and detected beat, but the problem on the SDL version on macOS is latency, which is unfortunately present in the demo video you are likely referring to. SDL doesn't currently allow for requesting low-latency audio capture so we're looking at PortAudio instead.

There have been a good number of major improvements in projectM in the last few years, which is impressive considering the age of this project. Trying to keep software and user-contributed presets and shaders from 20 years ago working are efforts that are never finished.

To mention a few:

* Milkdrop was a windows-only win32 affair, and the shaders for presets have all been written using HLSL, for DirectX. ProjectM had to incorporate a shader transpiler to convert preset shader code on the fly from HLSL to GLSL so that projectM can run on platforms other than windows. The conversion isn't perfect and can cause a few shaders to fail compilation but these problems do get fixed when someone takes the time to dig into them.

* Improving the FFT maths and PCM data interface

* Optimizations for preset evaluation using the LLVM JIT

* Halfway-completed port to the web with Emscripten

* Updated support to work first with more recent versions of iTunes as a plugin and more recently as a Music.app plugin. macOS installer for the plugin and SDL app. Almost-working multi-bundle installer code signing and notarization.

* Text menus and preset searching in the SDL app (keys listed in README)

* Released as a standalone app for Steam

* The build system was ported from a very-broken CMake setup to autotools, and then back to CMake again, soon to be released as a new major version 4.0.0.

There's a discord now too. https://discord.gg/tpEuywB

We welcome PRs and generally respond quickly to them. It's a completely community-driven project and we're always looking for help.

libprojectM is a cross-platform library designed to be part of other applications. There are some reference implementations using SDL and Qt. They run on Linux.

For best results grab the latest master and build with cmake.

Love your articles Ken! Interesting content, straightforward but not dry writing, helpful diagrams and images and footnotes.

A lot of these sites don't support HTTPS, so they can't be iframed without being mirrored

Source: https://github.com/revmischa/cursed-webring

Submissions welcome!

I've been trying to make a list of "cursed" websites - some of them are really deep and vast and demonstrate some sort of twisted brain that was behind each site. Some are just bizarre. Most have cursed vibes. You can spend hours on a lot of them just digging up fucked up shit.

It is impossible to parse HTML with a regular expression even in Perl

Honestly I'm not so into async and more into Lambda with Flask. Here's what I'm using right now for that: https://spiegelmock.com/2020/01/04/python-2020-modern-best-p...

SSM parameter store only stores one thing at a time, but SM stores things in key/value pairs which you can retrieve all at once.

No

Despite being a walled garden, the IRC gateway was Slack's saving grace. It was what made it palatable to many old-school chatters and people who didn't want to add another proprietary client to the giant list of other proprietary chat clients needed to keep in touch with people.

It was working great and seriously used and appreciated by our users. This is a tragedy. Many feel the electron clients are extremely clumsy and massive resource hogs. Nobody likes threads. Nobody needs threads.

Very unfortunate news. I hope they realize what a mistake this is and reconsider!

Also covered on the Software Development Times: http://sdtimes.com/sd-times-blog-updating-posix-poses-proble...