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I recently switched from keeping a to-do list to taking short notes on what I've done each day. It's not a lot, four or five lines in a composition notebook per day, but it's nice. Makes me feel more "productive".

A couple of behind-the-scenes screenshots, different parts of the mix planning and publishing process.

I should take a new photo of the equipment I'm using.

This week's mix:

MTT 229 / In Frame https://djcev.com/2021/07/mtt-229-in-frame/

Breaks and electro at ~120, something a bit more relaxed. Features new tracks by Bassbin Twins, Bufiman, London Modular Alliance, and Mariska Neerman, plus a bunch of old favorites by Drexciya, Intelligent Concept, Jega, and more.

OK, I'm going to import my following_accounts now. Here we go~

Following on from that introduction:

I don't post very often and I keep odd hours. Also I'm pretty slow to act or make decisions. I take my time.

I do sometimes post / promote my own projects and those of friends, but I try not to do so to excess.

I am retiring this account at mastodon.social and will be moving over to @cev@bsd.network .

I'll be importing my followers list over there in a moment so if you receive a follow request from that bsd.network account it's me.

#introduction

Hello b.n. (and the wider fediverse). I am a disc jockey, music collector, and lapsed sysadmin from the Portland (Oregon) metropolitan area. I was a regular DJ at Ground Kontrol Arcade in Portland and now produce a mix series for the internet.

I do most of my computing with the BSD variants; I'm using FreeBSD now to write this message and interact with the fediverse.

I'm moving to this account on bsd.network from @cev@mastodon.social and was previously @cev@mastodon.sdf.org.

I've been fooling around with my website a lot in the last few weeks. Not sure why. I guess I'm in the mood to tinker with something.

OK new mix:

MTT 228 / For Once https://djcev.com/2021/07/mtt-228-for-once/

#breaks and #electro up around 130. A couple new tracks from Anz, Bassbin Twins, Delta Funktionen, Overmono, and Scape One, otherwise this one's mostly old dusty files and records.

Spent the night putting together tomorrow's mix. Having a real "what the hell did I just mix" moment right now.

I'm thinking about moving to another mastodon instance. This would be my second move, after going from SDF to mastodon.social. It's been on my to-do list for a while, just haven't gotten to it.

Shopping for instances is hard.

It turns out Audacity runs fine in Wine. i386-wine 5.0.4, Audacity 2.4.2. It takes longer to start than usual and parts of the UI seem slow but I was able to record and edit audio. I'll give it a real test this week.

Posted as a follow-up to my complaining yesterday.

I should run Audacity in Wine at this point. Get a windows build of 2.4.2 and never think about it again. I wonder how well that'd work.

I'm untangling my software upgrade mess from yesterday. FreeBSD now thinks that wxgtk31 requires wayland. And it wants to update Audacity. So...

First step, pkg lock wxgtk31. Next step(s), download Audacity 2.4.2, patch and otherwise massage it until it compiles, then never upgrade again.

Tried to upgrade youtube_dl, accidentally started upgrading half the software on my system.

A big mess.

MTT 227 / Noon Disorder https://djcev.com/2021/07/mtt-227-noon-disorder/

This week's mix. Fast-ish electro, ~135. Features new tracks by Client_03, DJ Distance, London Modular Alliance, and Overmono. Some old favorites by Dexorcist, Insektoid, T.E.S.T., and more.