🦜 Alison Wilder
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I’m fuming mad at 1010music
https://alisonwilder.com/im-fuming-mad-at-1010music/
Published: July 14, 2025 18:43
I recently bought a new sampler from 1010music, the bento. I bought it knowing it wasn't a finished product, and I accept that. But I was just treated like a silly child by their forum admin, and I don't accept that.
Too Much Music Podcast – Linux in your Music Studio
https://alisonwilder.com/too-much-music-podcast-linux-in-your-music-studio/
Published: July 6, 2025 13:03
Listen or watch below, or follow wherever you get your podcasts! In this episode, our fearless hosts trace the evolution of digital audio tools from these academic, computationally intensive origins—where concepts like granular synthesis were offline…
Long live Linux audio!
https://alisonwilder.com/long-live-linux-audio/
Published: July 2, 2025 22:36
So I’ve finally set myself up to be living my best 100% Linux life. That’s right: the last Microsoft account has been signed into in this house. Goodbye Xbox, goodbye Windows. Good riddance. And hellooooo, beautiful: (And, although it’s slightly off-topic,…
Not the Linux Audio Post You Want…
https://alisonwilder.com/not-the-linux-audio-post-you-want/
Published: June 4, 2025 18:49
...but maybe the Linux audio post you need. In which I try to convince you to make the switch.
Does the Zoom LiveTrak L6 work on Debian 12?
https://alisonwilder.com/does-the-zoom-livetrak-l6-work-on-debian-12/
Published: June 3, 2025 12:59
In short: yep, it works! If you need a multipurpose, relatively inexpensive interface that works on Linux (and, I presume, Android, iOS, Mac OS, and Windows) and can serve as a totally awesome little mixer as well, I highly recommend the L6. I’ve had it…
I’m finally legitimate.
https://alisonwilder.com/im-finally-legitimate/
Published: June 1, 2025 14:21
After years of slumming it at alisonwilder.net, this website is now living in its permanent home: alisonwilder.com. It probably says something about my age that I think a .com is the most legitimate TLD1, but that’s okay. (For the record, I am 43 years…
Loitering – Charles D’Ambrosio
https://alisonwilder.net/loitering-charles-dambrosio/
Published: May 8, 2025 09:22
Are we—the hesitant, the conflicted—all alone? Can that be? In a leveling climate of summations, crowded with public figures who speak exclusively from positions of final authority, issuing an endless stream of conclusions, I get a wary sense in my gut of…
How to Delete Facebook – Developer Edition
https://alisonwilder.net/how-to-delete-facebook-developer-edition/
Published: April 15, 2025 15:09
In which I explain the dark pattern keeping Facebook users from deleting their accounts if they have apps in the developer console
Acoustic guitar. Scatter.
https://alisonwilder.net/acoustic-guitar-scatter/
Published: March 23, 2025 00:18
Just an improvised bit of solo acoustic guitar playing after I found a sound I love.
The time for reacting is over. It’s time to act.
https://alisonwilder.net/the-time-for-reacting-is-over-its-time-to-act/
Published: March 15, 2025 13:44
The system is burning. We must stop clinging to what’s already on fire and start planning for what can be built from the ashes. It’s up to us to imagine the government we want, and to take action, over and over again, to make it a reality.