lukehaas

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I can't play an instrument, even after multiple attempts. The main problem for me was understanding the theory. When you start learning, you're expected to accept a lot of things at face value with very little explanation for why things in music are the way they are.

This article documents my own journey into understanding music through writing code and taking a first-principles approach. This enabled me to understand things like why there are 12 notes and why notes in the same key sound good. Hopefully, if you are in a similar position to me, this will give you a foundational understanding of music that you can reason about instead of memorising.

Disclosure: I built RunJS, and this is on its blog. It gets a mention in the last paragraph and nowhere else.

Music Theory for Programmers runjs.app

3 lukehaas 2 months ago 2 comments

Show HN: RunPy – simple desktop app for tinkering with Python runpy.app

2 lukehaas 1 year ago 0 comments

Comment · 1 year ago

I built https://runjs.app because I wanted an easy way to run JavaScript and test out ideas. It turned out that a lot of other people wanted the same thing.

The first version was free and very basic. After getting a lot of suggestions and feedback from the people using it, I added more features and introduced a freemium pricing model.