I have been a bit quiet the last month and thought I'd do a quick update. Typically in January I let myself go off on a tangent or two, and that leads to new discoveries and an opportunity for my brain to rest a bit from the bigger picture. So in Jan, I contributed some code to Sonic Pi. It's an opportunity to help a great OS project and contribute some of what I've learned. Also, selfishly it is a way for me to learn more about a live coding tool and its inner workings (new learnings: OSC is cool as a communcation mechanism, inter process communication isn't as hard as I thought, and vcpkg continues to be a life saver). My focus was to separate the communication with the Ruby server from the GUI, which is frankly, in need of clean up. As part of that I added a CI step which built the app and played a chord using Github actions on all 3 platforms, and did a quick demo of combining Sonic Pi and GPU shaders - this functions as an API test and demo; it is not intended to replace the existing UI. In February I'm working on a more private project in my spare time. Some time in March/April when I'm let back into the open again (!) I will get back to my music project, which may well take a turn towards more of a graph-based editor - since I did some research into that over Christmas; getting to the point where I have a flexible UI for displaying nodes, and the ability to drag them around on screen.