My friend @gooserelin and I are starting a classical music club. We're not sure what sort of things we'll get up to yet, but it'd be lovely to chat to more people about music. If you're reading this an interested, please send me a Twitter DM!

Dunno how my dad keeps coming out with these bangers in his musings over text. "I spam therefore I think" is incredible work

Such an absolutely disgusting moment. How did he do it

lovely snippet on Fauré: Although for much of his career he made his living as a church organist, Fauré greatly preferred the piano. He never underestimated the challenges in composing for the instrument; he wrote, "In piano music there's no room for padding – one has to pay

From Les Laurentines:

Sorely needed as well – I don't know of any composer who wrote more ornaments per square inch than F. Couperin

François Couperin's «  Explication des Agrémens, et des Signes » from his Pièces de clavecin, and Bärenreiter's explication of the Explication:

@MaineFrameworks The best design is the one which is transparent with respect to the data model. There is a reason the world runs on Excel.

Strauss' Metamorphosen (IN MEMORIAM!) was an epitaph to music itself

And before anyone says the platitude "Everyone in their time says music is dead, now it's our turn", I'm saying music has been dead a lot longer than my generation or even the generation above me. Something really changed. Little written today will last.

I love contemporary music and play and listen to as much of it as I can. The last thing I want is for art music to be a museum piece. But it's impossible to ignore that the number of works of serious quality has dwindled to almost nothing since 1945. And musicians know it.

One of the most under-appreciated facts today is that music has endured an almost complete cultural collapse. Not only does no-one know how to compose great art music any more, no-one even has any ideas on how to start again. And few even notice the problem.

The status/equipment menu in any random SNES or PS1 J-RPG has a faster, better-designed, more responsive, more powerful user experience than basically any user software on my computer today. It doesn't have to be this way!

It's ridiculous how much the crown of good UI/UX is just lying in the gutter. I can hardly think of a single piece of software outside of video games that doesn't have fundamental, often trivially-fixable UX issues.

Reminder to set reasonable fallback fonts :)

Das Wirtshaus is just so impossibly gorgeous

If computer science can offer anything to mathematics, it is the idea that the physical possibility of execution in finite time is a useful criterion for hedging off the excesses of idealism and groundless Platonism. Hence the utility of the Brouwver line of thought.

F-Zero GX ran at 60 fps on the GameCube back in 2003. We're talking about putting a few characters on the screen on 2026 hardware here.

I hate to rain on people's parade but are we really pretending 3ms to draw a couple of hundred monospaced characters in a grid is fast? Does anyone know what computers are capable of any more?

Types are always there, even if you don't see them. Static typing simply means that you, the code, and the compiler agree on what the types are. Everybody should strive for this level of mutual understanding.