Hacker News: alestsurko

New comment by alestsurko in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

alestsurko — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:39:41 +0000

In my opinion the most underestimated git forge is radicle.

New comment by alestsurko in "Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles"

alestsurko — Tue, 16 May 2023 09:10:37 +0000

For 5 years or so, I'm watching for GUI infrastructure for my imaginary audio applications. And recently I started to develop an audio application in Rust. What I learned is that there is no a single best library in any language. Also, you shouldn't rely on anything as if it even a very popular thing at the moment it can become unmaintained very quickly. So it's better to choose a satisfying solution in what available currently and abstract it as much as possible to be able to switch to something else in the future. I also did a very simple benchmarks for GUI libraries I was interested in (instantiating 10 000 rectangles, styling them and doing layout) and the leader on macOS was the browser (Tauri) with Slint at the second place. But, unfortunately, Tauri is unusable for such kind of application because of IPC. If you need to visualize your audio data, you need to continuously send it to GUI. The fastest way of communication for that would only be WebRTC, because of the sandboxing. Or you would need to go all WASM, but then you don't have access to a lot of other features you needed. As a suggestion, take another look at Qt. At very least MuseScore and Ardour use it. Also, at my opinion the most mature Rust GUI library yet is egui, not Iced. FYI, Audulus uses immediate mode GUI based on nanovg (https://github.com/audulus/vger#why). And they develop their own Rust GUI library BTW (https://github.com/audulus/rui)

New comment by alestsurko in "Show HN: Predict a Reddit user's Myers-Briggs type from their profile"

alestsurko — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:49:28 +0000

As I'm ENFJ, this is absolutely wrong

  Personality Probability
  ISFJ 0.505107
  ISFP 0.441592
  INFJ 0.015237
  INTJ 0.011497
  INTP 0.009005
  INFP 0.006540
  ENTP 0.003931
  ENFP 0.001573
  ESTJ 0.001450
  ISTP 0.001228
  ENTJ 0.000833
  ISTJ 0.000782
  ENFJ 0.000712
  ESTP 0.000294
  ESFP 0.000131
  ESFJ 0.000087

Live coding environment, which allows to mix different programming languages

alestsurko — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 22:26:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AlesTsurko/cells

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21887372

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Cells – Live Coding Environment

alestsurko — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 11:06:38 +0000

Article URL: https://alestsurko.by/cells/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883084

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by alestsurko in "Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music"

alestsurko — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:50:15 +0000

Due to the album's concept there is no such a feature, sorry. But you can fork the project on github and try to set attribute contenteditable to "true" for the div, which you'd like to fill up with your text. The buffers have ids "buffer-1", "buffer-2" etc.

New comment by alestsurko in "Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music"

alestsurko — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:33:52 +0000

Thanks!

I started with the composition (the music one). So these have been dictated by composition techniques: some samples should play in a loop, others should be played fully before the sequencer's cursor increments etc.

New comment by alestsurko in "Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music"

alestsurko — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:16:53 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by alestsurko in "Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music"

alestsurko — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 21:16:21 +0000

Done. Thanks!

New comment by alestsurko in "Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music"

alestsurko — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:48:43 +0000

Thank you guys! I glad that you liked microscale.

New comment by alestsurko in "Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music"

alestsurko — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:44:35 +0000

...and you can change the mapping file to use it as an instrument for your own music, btw.

New comment by alestsurko in "Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music"

alestsurko — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:42:14 +0000

Exactly. There is a farther explanation in the interview: http://www.preservedsound.com/news/ales-tsurko-microscale-ge...

Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

alestsurko — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 08:23:23 +0000

Article URL: http://alestsurko.by/microscale/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15958625

Points: 67

# Comments: 25