Hello! I’m Adam Davidson. I was introduced to the podcast by a friend recently and love it! I’ve only listened to a few of the episodes so far and have really loved the topics they choose and generally the zoomed out perspective of programming they tend to take. I already feel like I have learned a lot and found some people who like to think about the same sorts of things that I do.
I am a software engineer without a particular focus since my interest seems to take me in a different direction every month. a recurring interest is the intersection of computation with music and art.
Here is a website I made back in 2018 that let’s you visualize the relationship between 2 or more sound waves of different frequencies / wave forms (please forgive the design / font choice I was in college 😂)
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I majored in math in college and got terrible grades as I had undiagnosed ADD and was more interested in making music and silly websites (but somehow made it through).
I grew up in Japan and speak Japanese but cannot read Kanji above grade 4 level (there are too many)
some recent projects I have been working on:
• Hardware x software project to create little audio / midi processing modules that snap together with magnetic connectors and are configurable in a browser with a max msp style editor. So far I have a working PCB designed in keyCAD and have rewritten the code 4 times (!) from arduinoIDE C++ > platformio with C++ > stmCubeIDE with C > embedded rust
• Music theory based chord progression improvisation instrument using a ps4 controller connected to a raspberry pi with small display attached, and a codebase and UI i (stupidly) built with python and TKInter (!)
• For work I do semi - boring azure cloud development in C# and Java (although I have come to LOVE these languages)
I am very excited to explore what people are up to here and (crap I hit enter again pfffaaaaaeifuveurv) learning together!