acarabott

This is a huge achievement, props to Sam!

SuperCollider is great for audio / music work, but it was always difficult to distribute work created in it.

As a prototyper I use the WebAudio API most of the time, as if you send someone a .app, they won't open it, but if you send them a link they have no excuse.

This doesn't totally solve the issue, but if you unlock your phone's orientation, rotate to landscape, then go to settings, you'll find a "lock current orientation" setting.

You don’t need to build a product in order to user test. You can take an existing product, watch a totally new user use it for the first time, and learn a huge amount.

I suggest doing this for a type of software that you know really well, as you’ll be more surprised by your own assumptions.

I work at a music software company. I’ve been playing music my whole life, my work feels like an extension of that.

An observation: a lot of programmers get into it because they are interested in programming itself. Entering the industry can be frustrating because it is no longer about programming, it’s a means to an end.

Nothing wrong with being interested in programming (it’s what makes you good at it) but it helps to have an end you care about as well.

I interned with the PI behind Ohm (Alex Warth) and one of his reasons for using the browser was simple:

“If I send someone an executable, they will never download it. If I send them a URL, they have no excuse.”