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🎙️ Spent ~35 hours reverse-engineering the Apogee ONEv2 USB audio interface on Linux:
• 2 kernel patches to sound/usb/
• Vendor init sequence found via Wireshark on macOS
• Hardware watchdog keepalive daemon
• ALSA sees Playback and Capture PCMs
• Playback PCM opens — stable streaming not yet cracked

Anyone want to pick this up?
https://github.com/stevebrodie/apogee-one2-linux
#Linux #LinuxAudio #ALSA #Apogee #KernelHacking #ReverseEngineering #OpenSource​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Here are three different flavours of "Wolfenstein 3D", version 1.4 for DOS. 😉

#Retro #Gaming #RetroGaming #DOS #MSDOS #PCGaming #DOSGaming #FPS #Shooter #Wolfenstein #Apogee

Here are three different flavours of "Wolfenstein 3D", version 1.4 for DOS. 😉

#Retro #Gaming #RetroGaming #DOS #MSDOS #PCGaming #DOSGaming #FPS #Shooter #Wolfenstein #Apogee

Here are three different flavours of "Wolfenstein 3D", version 1.4 for DOS. 😉

#Retro #Gaming #RetroGaming #DOS #MSDOS #PCGaming #DOSGaming #FPS #Shooter #Wolfenstein #Apogee

Here are three different flavours of "Wolfenstein 3D", version 1.4 for DOS. 😉

#Retro #Gaming #RetroGaming #DOS #MSDOS #PCGaming #DOSGaming #FPS #Shooter #Wolfenstein #Apogee

Photographing Rocket Chute Deployment at 10 km

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/photographing-rocket-chute-deployment-at-10-km/

Apogee introduces Symphony Nova desktop interface at NAMM 2026 https://rekkerd.org/apogee-introduces-symphony-nova-desktop-interface-at-namm-2026/

#Apogee #AudioInterface #Hardware #MIDI #NAMM

Deep split fracture fare
Conjures full force waterfall
Hasty #apogee

#dailyhaikuprompt Waterfall
#haiku #haikufeels #vss365
#poetrycommunity #smallpoems

Podcasting anniversary

I hope you have some way of sitting down and looking back on what you’ve actually accomplished. If you don’t, you’ll never notice what you’ve done; Instead you’ll only be able to stare at your imagined yet-to-do list.

I have a habit of looking back through my old journals to see what I’d written on the same date, years past. That’s the only way I can actually notice how much I’ve done, and how far I’ve come.

December 9, 2016 was the first time I recorded something, which led me directly into podcasting. It was a Skype call—yikes, dated memory—which I recorded for the purpose of getting a transcript.

At the time, I was trying to build a website where I was asking people to answer questions from a set list. But of course, writing is hard and it was a real struggle to get people to engage with doing it. So my friend Nick (who eventually appeared on the Movers Mindset podcast in, Play with Nick Anastasia, in 2022) said, let’s just record a Skype call and I’ll try writing something [answers to my movement related questions] from that. At the time, I tried to do some transcribing, gave up and sent it to rev.com for (I think it was) a $1/minute for human transcription. Yow, time and technology fly. And the rest is history.

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I feel so old when I read things like this... LOL

I remember that Matrix scene when Neo asked Cypher what he sees on the screens... ha ha ha

#DOOM #DOS #1990s #Games #RetroGames #VintageTech #GenZ #Wolfenstein #DukeNukem #3DRealms #Apogee #VideoGames #PC #PCGames #GenZ #Wolfenstein #DukeNukem #3DRealms #Apogee #VideoGames #PC #PCGames

I feel so old when I read things like this... LOL

I remember that Matrix scene when Neo asked Cypher what he sees on the screens... ha ha ha

#DOOM #DOS #1990s #Games #RetroGames #VintageTech #GenZ #Wolfenstein #DukeNukem #3DRealms #Apogee #VideoGames #PC #PCGames

Well tonight I officially retired my #Apogee #Quartet after nearly 15 years of faithful service. When I purchased the Apogee #Symphony for my primary system I moved the Quartet to my secondary system. Today I figured I’d try updating the control panel app. The app can see the Quartet but the system can’t. *sigh* I have a #Presonus Studio 2|4 I can use while I try and figure out my next moves, although I’m tempted to just hang tough with my current setup.
#GearSquad #MusicProduction

Who can also hear this image? 😄

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #apogee #shareware #msdos #dosgaming

This game is NOT shareware.
Please do not redistribute it.

#msdos #dosgaming #apogee #shareware #retrogaming

Save 60% on Apogee’s compressor, EQ & channel strip plugins https://rekkerd.org/apogee-plugins-bundles-sale/

#Apogee #Audiodeluxe #Sale

Apogee releases Clearmountain Dance delay effect plugin https://rekkerd.org/apogee-releases-clearmountain-dance-delay-effect-plugin/

#AAX #Apogee #AU #DavidBowie #delay #VST

Apogee announces 40th anniversary price rollback on Duet 3 https://rekkerd.org/apogee-announces-40th-anniversary-price-rollback-on-duet-3/

#Apogee #AudioInterface #Hardware #Sale

Retro style fantasy fps Wizordum is coming to consoles September 23, and I'm psyched to grab it (when it goes on sale, as I usually wait for). Have to decide if I want it for Switch and/or Xbox. I played the demo on Steam a while back (it's here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1715590/Wizordum), and it was a blast. It's also on GOG already here: https://www.gog.com/en/game/wizordum (And there's a free demo on GOG, too.)

Trailer: https://youtu.be/GWDTqzs9pPs?si=ZZwJFKGuFK1IIvvS

#fps #Wizordum #Steam #SteamGames #NintendoSwitch #Xbox #IndieGames #Apogee #Atari #Infogrames #fantasy

Wolfenstein 3D ad from 1993

#Wolfenstein3D #90s #DOS #DOSGames #Wolfenstein #90sGames #Apogee

Apogee launches Clearmountain’s 8068 console emulation plugin https://rekkerd.org/apogee-launches-clearmountains-8068-console-emulation-plugin/

#AAX #Apogee #AU #ChannelStrip #PluginBoutique #VST

Save 50% on Clearmountain’s Phases by Apogee Digital https://rekkerd.org/clearmountains-phases-by-apogee-digital-sale/

#AAX #Apogee #AU #AudioPluginDeals #flanger #phaser #Sale #VST

Rise Of The Triad (Apogee 1995)

One of my favorite classic FPS games I played back in the late 1990's... and still playing today.
Finally playing at Playstation 4 ! Never get bored !

#1990s #FPS #Games #VideoGames #RetroGames #Apogee #ROTT #RiseOfTheTriad #PS4 #PlayStation4

Finally got the #ROTT game for #Playstation 4!
Loved to play that game back in 1995 and I was so excited after #Wolfenstein3D and especially #DOOM!

Never stopped playing it and used the #DOSBox in a #Linux laptop all those years. LOL

#PS4 #Apogee #1990s #RiseOfTheTriad #Retro

Finally got the #ROTT game for #Playstation 4!
Loved to play that game back in 1995 and I was so excited after #Wolfenstein3D and especially #DOOM!

Never stopped playing it and used the #DOSBox in a #Linux laptop all those years. LOL

#PS4 #Apogee #1990s #RiseOfTheTriad #Retro

Save up to 46% on Apogee Clearmountain’s Domain, Phases & Spaces https://rekkerd.org/apogee-clearmountains-domain-phases-spaces-plugin-sale/

#Apogee #flanger #phaser #PluginBoutique #Reverb #Sale

Chop wood, carry water

There is a well-known trumpet player named Rick Braun. Although a few years younger, he was born in the same city and went to the same high school as my dad. And if my memory serves, they were in high school at the same time and at least knew of each other. My dad played the trumpet in high school, even performing in a band. Many year ago, my dad saw Braun somewhere—a concert I think—and had a chance to speak with him. The story goes that my dad said something complimentary about Braun’s ability and talent. (Yes, this is all hearsay.) Braun’s reply? “What a lot of people mistake for talent is simply a lot of hard work.”

At Time in the nineteen-fifties, the entry-level job for writers was a column called Miscellany. Filled with one-sentence oddities culled from newspapers and the wire services, Miscellany ran down its third of a page like a ladder, each wee story with its own title—traditionally, and almost invariably, a pun. Writers did not long endure there, and were not meant to, but just after I showed up a hiring freeze shut the door behind me, and I wrote Miscellany for a year and a half. That came to roughly a thousand one-sentence stories, a thousand puns.

~ John McPhee from, Omission

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John McPhee is a stellar writer. He’s written a lot and, okay, sure, I get that. There are greatest-of-all-time musicians I’ve heard of who still do scales daily 30 years on. And McPhee wrote a thousand puns(!), a thousand titles, and a thousand one-sentence stories cut-down from larger stories. (And go read McPhee’s article right now, about omission.) And now here’s Braun’s comment. Frankly, I’ve heard this sentiment countless times in countless variations: The path to mastery? Chop wood, carry water.

The thing I’m not certain of though, from my dad’s story, is whether the takeaway for him was, “Oh cool, Braun’s just a regular guy who worked really hard!” or “Fudge, I shoulda’ stuck with the trumpet!”

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#7ForSunday #Apogee #BruceWConstantine #JohnMcPhee #Mastery #RickBraun

Urgency

As always, I continue my project of self-improvement. I’ve long been aware that I take on too much— and yet, all efforts to “take on less” only seem to lessen the problem; Like pulling Dandelion weeds but not getting the entire root out. I’ve made an insane effort in countless ways over several decades to make progress towards “take on less.” I’ve long known there must be something underlying.

I love to use a tool I refer to as a “wedge”, to affect changes by altering the normal sequence of things. A wedge can be used to create a space for consideration, to divert my thinking, or to initiate (or change) an activity. It works because the presence of the wedge alters the mental context. My mind proceeds from idea to idea, with an evolving context for that thinking. As the context changes, it constrains—or maybe, “helps select” is a better description—what ideas are going to come to the fore of my mind next. Trains of thought develop this way. The inserted wedge causes, (if it’s done right,) enough of a shift in my mental context.

It’s really difficult to have the wedge be a thought. But orange sticky notes work well. (Until you no longer notice them, of course.)

The action of this wedge is to make me think about why I’m about to do this next thing that feels so urgent.

“Is it really [urgent]?”
…like, how a smoke detector sounding off is urgent? Okay, so it’s not that urgent.

“Where does that feeling [of urgency] arise?”

And that is where my train of thought shifts. (So far it has been every time I’ve felt urgency to do something.) Because the feeling comes from my desire for control; There are countless examples. That explains why I’m forever taking on too much.

“Sit with that?”
Sit with that realization that the urgency is a reaction to a desire for control. Sit with the knowledge that every attempt at control—all types, all sizes, all shapes, all degrees… attempted control of anything external—has never ended well for me.

That’s not hyperbole.

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#Apogee #SelfAwareness #TheWedge

APOD: 2021 June 11 - Eclipse Flyby

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210611.html

#ase #solar_eclipse #partial #annular #apogee

Performing with a safety net

When recording conversations for the Movers Mindset podcast the guests know I’m not going to edit what they say to change their meaning. They know I’m bringing journalistic integrity to the conversation. (I’m not doing strict journalism, but that feature of journalism is present.) I do my best to set up the correct space (physical, emotional and mental,) so that we can co-create the best conversation possible. I’m not digging for dirt, creating tension, nor trying to create any other saccharine artifice. But that doesn’t change the fact that we are performing for an audience. The final necessary piece to facilitating a great conversation is a safety net.

Each conversation… each performance is better if we can reach just a bit farther than we might normally be comfortable doing. That’s why I bring a safety net. I very clearly give the guest a safe word which they can incant at any time to take back what they’ve said.

I don’t include the guest in the post-production process. They’re not invited to review the material, or to give additional thoughts about what to keep or what to cut. In fact, the only people who have time to do that, are wanna-be cooks, who will only mess up the soup if I let them in my kitchen. Instead, I and my team do all the post-production difficult work which is in fact our responsibility. The guest already did the really hard work of being themselves on-mic.

I do also say, “take your time— silence is free and we can easily trim out 30 seconds of you thinking before you speak.” I’ve also a few other little coaching tidbits I share to prep them for being recorded. But it’s the safety net which makes them feel comfortable trying something they might otherwise hesitate about. Part of the magic of a great conversation is how it develops organically, and without the safety net most people dial their caution up a few notches to be safe. With a safety net, most people are delighted to take a leap to see what they can do.

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The process of reflection

Much of the power of the Movers Mindset podcast’s signature question, “three words to describe your practice?” comes from thinking about one’s personal understanding of the word practice. In the podcast episodes, sometimes the guest’s discussion of that understanding is a profound part of their interview. Sometimes their surgical statement of three words is its sublime culmination.

In 2019, we posed the three-words question of the project itself. This turned out to be a surprisingly fruitful exercise. We came up with three words to describe our practice, and I subsequently adopted them as the three words to describe my practice:

Discovery. Reflection. Efficacy.

If those three words describe my practice—the journey of my whole life—then what is the purpose of this web site? Why go through all this work? It’s taken me 9 years and the previous 2,499 posts to understand:

It’s a vehicle for my process of reflection.

I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say. Then I thought, “I will continue to write because I have not yet said what I wanted to say”; but I know now I continue to write because I have not yet heard what I have been listening to.

~ Mary Rueflé from, Madness, Rack, and Honey

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Tension

I’ve been thinking about ways to create more opportunity for engagement among the people who are following the work of the Movers Mindset project. We’ve reached a point where we’re creating plenty of content and sharing ideas—but currently almost entirely in the broadcast direction. We’ve a considerable collection of people who are passively consuming.

Meanwhile, every time I manage to engage with someone [in this context of Movers Mindset], it’s an energizing exchange of ideas about movement, movement’s place in society, and sometimes even philosophy in general.

The whole project is intentionally aimed at people who are becoming, or already are, reflective. Such people tend to have made the growth step beyond low-value interaction and engagement and are increasingly aware of how they engage and expend their time especially online. I suppose the key is to simply engage with them one by one, until that becomes untenable for me.

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On podcasting

The short version of this story is simply: I’m simply curious. I try things. I make mistakes. I ask questions.

My podcasting journey began with the Movers Mindset project, which grew from conversations I started having as part of my personal journey rediscovering movement. Started in 2015, at first it was just a web site that shared others’ writing. But as I travelled, I kept finding myself in cool conversations until one day someone said, “you should have recorded that. I’d listen to that podcast.” Excited, but with no clue how much work it would be, I kicked off the Movers Mindset podcast at the start of 2017. For the first dozen episodes I did far too much of the work myself, until I wised up and started finding a few incredible people to share my new passion.

By this point I was devouring anything I could about interviewing. I smashed through thousands of podcast episodes in the process of wondering, “how does everyone else do it?” Podcasts, books, online courses… Everywhere I turned I found something new to work on in my own journey.

In the fall of 2018 I had about 30 interviews published on the podcast. I was getting comfortable travelling by plane, train and automobile, being invited into people’s lives to capture the Movers Mindset interviews. I was invited to the North American Art of Retreat, a Parkour leadership retreat, in the Cascade mountains outside of Seattle. There I did a series of interviews with the event’s presenters and organizers, and handed those recordings off for Art of Retreat to create their own podcast.

When 2019 rolled around, on a whim, I jumped into an Akimbo course called The Podcast Fellowship. I wanted to search for unknown-unknowns, to rethink everything I had done so far, and much about the Movers Mindset podcast changed in this period. To my surprise, I was invited back to be part of a small group of alumni who assist the coaches for the 4th, (and then the 5th, and 6th) running of the course. It’s mind-bogglingly inspiring and energizing to hang out daily with hundreds of people who share your passion. I even tried to summarize the fun of it in The Journey.

Meanwhile, the Movers Mindset episode numbers kept climbing and I’ve been branching out to interview more challenging guests; challenging for me as I’m forced to converse and discuss topics I know less and less about, but which none the less intrigue me endlessly. In the fall of 2019, this time with help from some of the Movers Mindset team, I was invited back to Art of Retreat. There, we did a second series of interviews for Art of Retreat’s podcast.

If you want to see a more up-to-date listing of what I’ve done in the podcasting space, see my Podchaser creator page.

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Nobody cares

Nobody cares. Do it yourself.

~ Hugh MacLeod

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This is a terrific splash of cold water. I interpret this not as a pessimistic, “people suck.” But rather, a catalyst to, “simply start.”

Nobody cares in the same way one cares about one’s own projects and ideas. Obviously nobody cares like that! But why do we—ok fine yes I’m projecting my behavior onto you… Why do we look outward for the external validation? Certainly, the real world is the ultimate arbiter of truth. (As opposed to one’s thoughts.) But no amount of external data is going to create or destroy your true passion. If you have a project that you cannot put down because you’re passionate about it to the extent that it consumes your life, then whether or not you have external validation is irrelevant.

Do the thing. Make the art. It doesn’t matter that nobody cares. Do it yourself.

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Before dawn

I’m not sure if it’s the silence, or the darkness. Maybe it’s the fact that pre-dawn there are two kinds of people, those who are sleeping and those who are up attacking their day and I prefer to be the later. (Although, it’s a physical fight with my body every morning.)

There’s a time and place for most everything. Writing, for example, seems best done in the early morning. Vacationing seems best done at the end of summer. Hard labor seems best done in one’s 20s.

I wonder when is the best time for introspection?

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#Apogee #Reflection #Seasons

Sunday, fireside

Learning to create spaces is one of those super-power life skills that they don’t—or at least, they didn’t, I don’t know about now—teach in school. But I’m not sure you could have taught this to me in school. Probably best that they didn’t even try. I had to discover for myself how much it matters to have a space, a context, and a set of expectations in which to do… well… everything that matters.

The things I use to create a space certainly don’t need to be expensive. They do need to be purposeful. My particular chair that I use for reading. My gel pens that have served faithfully for years. (A parade of clones, not one super-pen.) The keyboard and large screen for programming. The physical-paper books I generally prefer.

…and then comes the intention. Why am I reading? Why am I writing? Why am I having this conversation, or that experience?

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#apogee #meaningOfLife