These are the 3 constraints that I use before I start building anything. I’m a believer in constraints as an enabler for creativity. Constraints help us collapse the search space, and figure out innovative solutions to problems. I’ve been a … Read more
MIDI Guide, the open, “comprehensive” MIDI CC & NRPN dataset, has far outgrown its original purpose. April 6, 2026 Download dark: PNG, SVG, PDF; light: PNG, SVG, PDF. Recently, I merged in the work of a first-time contributor, putting MIDI … Read more
Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen significant growth of the e18e community and a rise in performance focused contributions because of it. A large part of this is the “cleanup” initiative, where the community has been pruning packages … Read more
I got let go from my job – elimination of role, they’re claiming – so I’m understandably a bit raw. So was my boss from what it looked like, though he still has a paycheck and benefits whereas I do … Read more
One of my favorite definitions of a problem comes from the late Gerald Weinberg [1] A problem is the difference between things as perceived and desired. This definition is great because it’s actionable. It tells you that there are three … Read more
I’ve been testing Google’s new Gemini 3 model. It is very good. But rather than give you benchmark numbers, I’m going to show you how far AI has come in three years by asking the AI to demonstrate it. It … Read more
The Works in Progress print edition will be shipping soon. Subscribe to receive Issue 21, as well as five other full-color editions sent bimonthly, plus subscriber-only invitations to our events. In the summer of 1760, a French military officer named … Read more
The very first LLM-based product, ChatGPT, was just the ability to talk with the model itself: in other words, a pure chatbot. This is still the most popular LLM product by a large margin. In fact, given the amount of … Read more
October 10, 2025 “Correct” doesn’t mean “correct” when correctly using “correct” New Logic for Programmers Release! v0.12 is now available! This should be the last major content release. The next few months are going to be technical review, copyediting and … Read more
Some high-performance RISC-V processors are in the pipeline for the rest of the year 2025, namely UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, and SpacemIT K3. We currently have limited information about each of those processors, but let’s see what information we can … Read more