Writing

A Behringer X32 keeps its entire state as plain text — one parameter per line, a little over 2,100 lines for a full console. Input patching, head amps, every EQ band, every monitor mix, the routing out to the stage boxes. You can open it in a text editor, which makes it look like a file you can edit. You can. What took me a while to learn is that a file being correct and the desk doing what you meant are two different things, and nothing in the file tells you which one you have. ...

This site is Hugo. Markdown goes in, HTML comes out, and one folder gets copied to a box running Caddy. Nothing runs on the server: no Node, no database, no process to keep alive. Projects and posts are kept apart on purpose. A project page is evergreen and gets revised as the project changes; a post is dated and does not get revised after it goes up. That part was uneventful. The part I found interesting was how much went wrong while everything looked fine. ...