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Newsletter #8 – When Four Systems Align
November 25, 2025
ADR-0035 is complete: the specification for remembered alterations, the system determining when accidentals print in music notation. The work wasn't driven...
Newsletter #7 – Foundations and Thresholds
November 8, 2025
Hi everybody. It’s been unusually long since the last newsletter, but things have nevertheless been moving along quite nicely in the code, in the...
Newsletter #6 - Validation & Velocity
October 11, 2025
Last week's comment about flipping the hierarchy turned into something unexpected. The work finished in four hours instead of the estimated week. Details in...
Newsletter #5 - Specialist Forums & Foundations Corrected
October 4, 2025
I left social media years ago. Didn't like who I became on it. The only medium I’m still on is the horrible, horrible LinkedIn, which remains a professional...
Newsletter #4: Caching, Pipelines, Lisp & the Transcendental
September 28, 2025
The past weeks have brought Ooloi across a threshold. The infrastructure is no longer provisional: it now works together as a single fabric. The clearest...
Newsletter #3 – Statistics, Stability, Rendering
September 23, 2025
Since the last update, work on Ooloi has moved from invisible metrics to visible structure. Server statistics complete – All 57 metrics now implemented and...
Newsletter #2 - Pitches, Playback, Rendering, Statistics
September 16, 2025
During work on Ooloi server statistics, that 1996 t-shirt surfaced again. The one with the pitch transposer function printed on cotton. It made me realise it...
Welcome to the Ooloi Newsletter
September 6, 2025
Thank you for subscribing. Ooloi is unusual in that the early work has gone into the invisible foundations: the abstractions of music itself, and the...