Knowing how to macro correctly is important in both the real world (starcraft) and when writing code. in c you can define useful macros like #define FFMAX(a,b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b)) . The macros will be a little better than using even static inline functions because no extra memory is allocated for […]
If you’re building a cocoa app, don’t use pthread mutexes and pthread threads. Use NSThread and NSLock. I’ve written a few cocoa apps that use pthreads, but maybe I’ve just been lucky till now.
Many of the fucking sound projects have been integrated with institute of algorhythmics and are now available through a sourceforge svn repository. This is great as users can now download current source and play with the apps. I’m aware that some users don’t know how to use svn. So here’s a tutorial on how to […]
FuckingWebBrowser sonification demo from Michael Takezo Chinen on Vimeo. FuckingWebBrowser is a simple open-source WebKit based browser (for which there are hundereds of tutorials including many of annoying ones on youtube how to make in less than 2 minutes on a mac.) I added sonification, which converts the memory state into audio. The quality of […]
Audacity GUI performance from Michael Takezo Chinen on Vimeo. Audacity is an open source sound editor. I modified the code so that the sound playback depends upon the physical memory state of the program. Because the memory is dependent upon the user interaction, the user interface (buttons, menus, etc) as well as the structure of […]