I started hacking audio code in the mid 90s. Needless to say, things have changed. Coding is was (rip) an art form, both a means and an end. It's a pursuit which can be
appreciated in its architecture or its use. It's a realization of The Glass Bead Game, and requires the endless pursuit of craftsmanship.
I have weathered many system changes, limitations, transitions and deprecations. As you know, things have suddenly changed. This is different. Sometimes this feels more like sculpting software than writing it. I don't feel that speed is always a boon - there is value in slowness. It's hard to say yet if our inevitable atrophy is moving towards entropy or syntropy.
Currently, I'm working independently to create software systems that inspire me to craft, but also interest to me to utilize as a hand tool for composition. I'm pushing hard to finish the first of these products this spring (2026). Many components will be open sourced here. I don't know how much meaning sharing software has any longer, but community will still matter in our world - no matter how things are assembled/disassembled from now on.