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The Uncanny Valley of Frictionless Art: On Code, Sound, and Synthetic Taste

When machines can generate pristine chords and clean code in seconds, what happens to the human error that made us care in the first place? Notes on resistance, taste, and tools.

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Painting With Frequency: Real-Time Audio Reactivity in the Browser

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Mar 5, 2026

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Painting With Frequency: Real-Time Audio Reactivity in the Browser

Taming Web Audio buffer underruns, syncing FFT frequency arrays to 60 FPS requestAnimationFrame loops, and drawing sound on an HTML5 canvas without melting mobile batteries.

Articulate: Retrieving Music Through the Shape of Visual Memory

Traditional streaming search forces you to remember text strings. But our brains remember colors, mood, and imagery. Here is how I built Articulate—using vision models and 384-dimensional vector embeddings to find songs by describing their cover art.

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Articulate: Retrieving Music Through the Shape of Visual Memory

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