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 documentation, and on the blog.

Event routing in the client is now defined, grace notes complete the data model, and time signatures – ordinary, additive, fractional, irrational – have been specified and implemented.

Three short posts marked the pause before things become visible. Where’s the Music? explained why foundation work comes first. The Lineage: When Ledger Lines Shorten traced the engraving heritage Ooloi follows. And As Time Signatures Go By and Half Measures showed that the same care must apply to rhythm. (ADR-0033 has the full specification.)

Development is about to enter a new phase, and this led to a few reflections: Nun denn, allein!, on working alone, and Vertigo: On Spirals, Obsession, and Architectural Identity, on the question of WTF I’m doing in the first place.

From a usability perspective, Ooloi Flow Mode Revelations deals with an interesting discovery about one of Igor Engraver’s USPs: its input method.

The technical blog post called ADR-0031: Frontend Event-Driven Architecture describes the event router that keeps the interface quick and the network patient.

Not at all a quiet month, but one with a certain stillness – the kind that comes just before motion.

— Peter Bengtson