Jamie Teh

So after months of zero musical inspiration, I started writing a song about how utterly fed up I am of enshitification and hypercapitalism. Here's the intro, first verse, first chorus and interlude. The bad news: I have no idea where this is going from here, especially lyrically, so who knows when I'll finish it. The good news: it's far enough along now that it shouldn't die completely. Hopefully. https://files.jantrid.net/music/NthDegree/DidntHaveToBeThisWay17Mar.mp3

Atlassian's CEO says: “The bar for what ‘great’ looks like for software companies – on growth, on profitability, on speed, on value creation – has gone up.” I love how "quality" doesn't come into that at all. It's very demonstrative of the tech industry across the board these days.
Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/atlassian_layoffs/

I've just spent far too long writing the beginnings of a ridiculous music game for web browsers. You use either a MIDI keyboard or the computer keyboard (a s d f g h j k). The game plays a bar of random notes and you have to play it back, correct notes and correct timing. As you level up, the patterns get more rhythmically complicated. If you make 5 mistakes, game over; you have to start again. Still probably a lot more to do to make this more interesting, but I'm curious as to whether anyone finds this remotely worthwhile.
One challenge right now is how to calibrate if you don't have absolute pitch. I feel like I might need to add some sort of screen where it plays you a few notes until you find the right ones or something. For now, note that it's in A minor, A3 to A4.
https://files.jantrid.net/simus/

I landed a couple major features in ReaKontrol in the last week:
1. You can now adjust parameters for non-NKS FX on S-series MK2, A-series and M-series. These keyboards don't officially support this, but ReaKontrol supports it by abusing the mixer/track view.
2. For all keyboards, by default, all parameters for the selected FX are mapped. It's now possible to create map files which specify which parameters are mapped to which knobs, section names, friendly parameter names, etc.
See the ReaKontrol website for details and instructions.
https://reakontrol.jantrid.net/

Of all the questionable things about AI, I'm starting to think its biggest crime is simply the staggering amount of resources it has pointlessly drawn away from other, more important work and the way it has corrupted even organisations that were previously doing great work in some misguided, race-to-the-bottom belief that this is actually the most important thing for humankind.