December Adventure

2025-12-15

Trying to make ambienzzz works on background. brain fried.

Drinking: Water
Listening to: Me wanting to sleep a bit in Rio's summer.

2025-12-14

Had to drive for 7h hours. braindead.

Drinking: Water
Listening to: Kids shouting

2025-12-13

Had some time to work on Ambienzzz. Now we have:

• 6 layers
• Magic filter (make it ambient-like)
• Dark magic filter (use Oscillators to make it drone-like)
• Export the mixed loop

Energy is gone. Here's a video of it. Still lot's to do.

Drinking: Water
Listening to: My AC almost dying

2025-12-12

Tired. Just played a bit with Ambienzzz audio engine and I'm trying to take it easy the rest of the day.

Drinking: Water
Listening to: CONFLICT DLC, by HEALTH

2025-12-11

I'm calling the loop recorder Ambienzzz. It's very simple for now, but the core stuff to record is done.

Drinking: Coconut Water
Listening to: CONFLICT DLC, by HEALTH

2025-12-10

I started a new project, a loop recorder instrument for the iPhone. Still just messing with it.

Drinking: Local IPA
Listening to: RAT WARS, by HEALTH (getting ready for tomorrow new release)

2025-12-09

Low energy day.

I've converted the filter selection to the default quick settings layout, to make it more iOS-ish. I'm done for the day.

I think I got to a point with this project where I need to use it more and thinker less. New project tomorrow.

Drinking: Office Coffee
Listening to: Silence

2025-12-08

Dropped the work on the LOG mode. It was making the app totally unstable. Working on improving the fake anamorphic mode.

Also made an icon for Lentil. Tried to make something between oldschool and the terrible iOS 26 style:

Drinking: Water
Listening to: Ethereal Horizions, Blut Aus Nord

2025-12-07

Got into a rabbit hole trying to make Lentil support LOG files and spent too much time on it today. Still not working. Will continue tomorrow.

Drinking: Water
Listening to: Exu é meu amigo, by EGITOROCK

2025-12-06

I love the photos oppen posts on merveilles.town. The texture and grayscale tones hit the spot. I knew he shot most of them with a home-made Android camera app called Lento, and that he archived the project some time ago.

I was looking for a reason to dive into SwiftUI, so I started porting Lento to iOS and called it Lentil. I’m a fan of lentils. Beans and code, Lentil-style.

Lento is built for anamorphic gear, but I’m just working with what I’ve got. I whipped up a rough workaround and added it to the pipeline. It’s not the real deal, but it captures that stretched, cinema vibe without the glass. For the moment, it’ll do.

Real-time previews, grain textures, and metal shaders; things finally start coming together. Building it has been a challenging pleasure. It isn’t usable yet for real, and I'm unsure if I will share.

I'm planning to tinker with it over the next few days, probably after the weekend. Excited to see what will happen.

My bucket list:

• Try to implement LOG file support in the pipeline (for phones that supports it)
• Fix some UI elements that are slow under the realtime preview
• Remove the onboarding page
• Make an icon for it
• Adjust the fake anamorphic mode so the crop matches what you see in the preview
• Play with the fake anamorphic effect so we have more bloom bleeding the edges
• And if I'm feeling ambitious: redesign the filters UI entirely, add a way to load existing photos for filtering, general UI revision pass.

Let's see how far I get.

Drinking: Mate Tea
Listening to: M A R I G O L D, by Witch Bolt

2025-12-05

Drinking: Airport Water
Listening to: Death Spells, by Holy Fawns

2025-12-04

Exhausted today. Slept most of the time, working on work stuff here and there. But I had a nice idea for a small adventure for next week.

Drinking: Mugicha (麦茶)
Listening to: Crime, by Damien Hearse

2025-12-03

Drinking: Airport Water
Listening to: Bats At The Beach, by Desmond Doom

2025-12-02

It was an "interesting" challenge. lilypond is like a oldschool version of strudel.cc and I had to make a pipeline where each save would recompile it and play the midi file (if it works).

Here's what I was able to come up with:

• the .ly source code
• the score in pdf format
• the midi file
• a quick render of the midi file using my DAW and mastered with Ozone, in mp3 format

To be honest, I'm happy with the results. Would I do it again? No fucking way.

I call it "Obsidian Veil". Enjoy.

Drinking: Water
Listening to: Obsidian Veil

2025-12-01

Since I'm taking care of my sick dad, I'm going to try something different and be really low key.

No plans this time. I just going to try to code something everyday I'm able to. For this first day, I'm going to try to come up with a darkwave melody using the lilypond notation. let's see what I can get done.

Drinking: Water
Listening to: Lilypond noises