Have you ever looked at beat-link-trigger[0]? If the equipment you use is supported it may be suitable for your use case, it was specifically designed for coordinating effects with playback.
This approach is really appealing to me, and it's similar to how I got my start as a software developer. I had applied for a job and been rejected, but they invited me to apply again in six months. And indeed, in six months I had learned enough and grown enough in to go from a marginal candidate to a good one. I was motivated to do it because it was a career change that had a lot of upside, and knowing that the door was potentially open encouraged me to persist.
Yeah, that's it, is it not? A tiny sliver of real hope in the otherwise blackness of rejection after rejection? If at all one hears back from the company, that is.
But also, sticking with it and making the retry happen---that was all you, robto. Our experience was pretty much that almost no-one we made our office-hours offer to, took it up.
Also, unrelated --- idle.horse --- fun domain! Is it an email carrier only, or does it have a future in public service, as a not so idle blog / site / memex content delivery beast too? :)
This is something I'm very interested in, and I've actually found it very difficult to buy these shapes. Do you have a link to a supplier? I've even approached ceramic studios about getting them custom made, but without any real interest.
Bonus points if you have a supplier for einsteins!
Oh it's been a while since I looked, one of the tile stores I used to go to in Montreal had them -- not as a set mind you, but as two different lines of tiles that happened to be the right proportions to reproduce the pattern.
Seems like it draws a lot of inspiration from EDN. Tagged literals, commas-as-whitespace (and optional), and anything-can-be-a-key are features I sorely miss when I have to go back to JSON.
Don't know how I feel about optional quotes around strings, that seems like a mistake. And having an immutable set literal would be nice as well.
Because I may not be the only one who was confused initially: I think EDN in this instance refers to the data serialization format (Extensible Data Notation) from the Clojure people, not to CBOR-EDN (Extended Diagnostic Notation), which also offers tagged literals and anything-can-be-a-key, IIRC.
[0]https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/beat-link-trigger