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New comment by holoflash in "[dead]"

holoflash — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:13:09 +0000

I recently got myself a Novation Launchpad because I was tired of only ever using MIDI keyboards to make music and wanted to mix things up.

Then I discovered that it has MIDI in...

Needless to say, I haven't made any music with it yet, but I did make a program that makes the lights blink real nice. Even ended up creating a little pseudo scripting language to sequence the effects.

It's browser based and you can play around with it without any hardware. (not intended for mobile use) https://gridlitx.onrender.com/

New comment by holoflash in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

holoflash — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:15:22 +0000

Continuing to chisel away at my browser-based tracker/DAW https://psikat.com/

New comment by holoflash in "New Modern Greek"

holoflash — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:44:06 +0000

Thank you so much for this thorough analysis. Really appreciate it. I'm pretty convinced now that my experiment just proved my theory that I could somehow improve on the language - wrong.

Mostly, like I said in other comments, losing all of the grammar encoded in words is just not worth it just to make it somewhat easier to read (to someone who doesn't already know Greek).

I guess I had to see it for myself to understand it, so I feel like it was still a worthwhile little experiment.

New comment by holoflash in "New Modern Greek"

holoflash — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:36:55 +0000

I quickly realized that this was the greatest downside of the simplification. And actually kills one of the things I actually really like about the Greek language.

This would make Greek more like English for example where you need more context surrounding words to understand their meaning.

New comment by holoflash in "New Modern Greek"

holoflash — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:34:41 +0000

Sorry about that! Added a disclaimer

New comment by holoflash in "New Modern Greek"

holoflash — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:30:19 +0000

Hmm yeah, didn't consider that!

New comment by holoflash in "New Modern Greek"

holoflash — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:29:08 +0000

Yeah this is where I kind of reached the conclusion that the amount of grammar encoded in a single word is something I actually really like with Greek and that my simplification was too naive.

The point was that I just wanted to see what some ideas I had would look and feel like.

New comment by holoflash in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

holoflash — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:28:08 +0000

I'm developing a tracker-like sequencer/DAW for the browser: https://psikat.com/

I'm a musician first and worked as a music producer for several years. After shifting into programming and becoming comfortable with a keyboard, using a typical clip-based DAW started to feel clunky and uncomfortable. I began gravitating toward trackers, but most feel too far away from what I'm used to, or have way more features than I need. So, I started building something in between for myself.

Now it's consuming all of my free-time and I'm starting to understand Why You Shouldn't Write A DAW (David Rowland), but I'm having the time of my life!

New comment by holoflash in "New Modern Greek"

holoflash — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:50:58 +0000

Because I'm using the latin v for the αυ, ευ = aV / aF. So I felt like keeping the greek ν alongside the "new" v would make them hard to distinguish.

But you're right, this adds confusion. Especially for a native Greek speaker, and I'm not very satisfied with this solution.

Any suggestions?

PS. Updated site with some more info about the conversions.

New Modern Greek

holoflash — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:52:03 +0000

Article URL: https://redas.dev/NewModernGreek/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742430

Points: 12

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New comment by holoflash in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

holoflash — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:58:46 +0000

Really solid laptop stand!

New comment by holoflash in "Show HN: The HN Arcade"

holoflash — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:31:25 +0000

Awesome and nicely executed idea and huge thanks for putting my game Pigeonholed on there!

Show HN: Pigeonholed – A Letter Sorting Game

holoflash — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:50:00 +0000

I’ve worked as a mailman in Stockholm, Sweden, for many years and originally made this game as a joke for an old colleague. Surprisingly, I’m finding the gameplay pretty fun, and some friends outside the mail world are digging it too, so I started working on it more seriously to make it as good as I can. It’s still a work in progress, and I’d love some feedback. Of course, "Papers, Please" was the first thing that came to mind when thinking of ways to flesh it out, but maybe this game doesn’t need to be much more than it already is. Very curious to hear if anyone else here is crazy enough to find this amusing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42246769

Points: 2

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