
Revisting Pianotypes
I recently finished a course in deep learning and wanted to took a look at a few ways I could apply my knowledge to. The idea the came to me was to create an ai music generation model and feed it into my old pianotypes app. Simple right! It’s all broken So I booted up my old, dusty, untouched, forgotten, delapidated, abused, ramshackled, repository, and lo and behold, I can’t get it to run. I tried updating packages, my nodeJS version, moving around code, but nothing worked. In fact, I think updating anything at all just made it worse. Mind you, this project has been mostly untouched for a couple years so it was prone to deprecated libaries and syntax that made it very difficult to remedy. At this point I’ve all but given up on trying to polish a giant heaping pile of rust. ...