Adrian Holovaty
@holovaty.com
Web developer, guitarist, cocreator of Django web framework, tinkerer with digital sheet music encoding and rendering. Currently making Soundslice.
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This is a delight. ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
ordinaryabundance.com
August 13, 2026 at 7:18 AM
This is a delight. ordinaryabundance.com
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An automated A.I. WWE news channel tries to pronounce "WWE" as a word and ends up going insane! 🤣
May 23, 2026 at 6:03 PM
An automated A.I. WWE news channel tries to pronounce "WWE" as a word and ends up going insane! 🤣
This new Paul McCartney interview is really good. He's tended to rely on the same, well-worn anecdotes over the years, but this one's packed with fresh questions and insightful answers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNQY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNQY...
Paul McCartney on Ambition, Fame & St Tropez Monkeys
YouTube video by The Rest Is Entertainment
www.youtube.com
May 14, 2026 at 6:47 PM
This new Paul McCartney interview is really good. He's tended to rely on the same, well-worn anecdotes over the years, but this one's packed with fresh questions and insightful answers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNQY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNQY...
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AI creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and here is the most statistically typical result.”
Human creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and now I’m so sick of it, I’m gonna go invent Impressionism.”
Human creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and now I’m so sick of it, I’m gonna go invent Impressionism.”
April 28, 2026 at 5:19 AM
AI creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and here is the most statistically typical result.”
Human creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and now I’m so sick of it, I’m gonna go invent Impressionism.”
Human creativity is that which can say, “I studied 10,000 French Academic paintings and now I’m so sick of it, I’m gonna go invent Impressionism.”
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Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :)
> neal.fun/cursor-camp/
> neal.fun/cursor-camp/
April 29, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :)
> neal.fun/cursor-camp/
> neal.fun/cursor-camp/
New Paul McCartney song is out, with a full album being released May 29.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1I...
This one gives me similar vibes to the last Beatles single, Now And Then. Nostalgic, melancoly and not particularly musically interesting. I'm glad Paul's still making music, though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1I...
This one gives me similar vibes to the last Beatles single, Now And Then. Nostalgic, melancoly and not particularly musically interesting. I'm glad Paul's still making music, though.
Paul McCartney - Days We Left Behind (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO
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March 26, 2026 at 3:52 PM
New Paul McCartney song is out, with a full album being released May 29.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1I...
This one gives me similar vibes to the last Beatles single, Now And Then. Nostalgic, melancoly and not particularly musically interesting. I'm glad Paul's still making music, though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1I...
This one gives me similar vibes to the last Beatles single, Now And Then. Nostalgic, melancoly and not particularly musically interesting. I'm glad Paul's still making music, though.
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I've started a new project: notationref, a taxonomy of music notation concepts for developers:
w3c-cg.github.io/music-notati...
Info on motivation, etc., is in the readme:
github.com/w3c-cg/music...
w3c-cg.github.io/music-notati...
Info on motivation, etc., is in the readme:
github.com/w3c-cg/music...
notationref: music notation support table
w3c-cg.github.io
March 17, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I've started a new project: notationref, a taxonomy of music notation concepts for developers:
w3c-cg.github.io/music-notati...
Info on motivation, etc., is in the readme:
github.com/w3c-cg/music...
w3c-cg.github.io/music-notati...
Info on motivation, etc., is in the readme:
github.com/w3c-cg/music...
@anildash.com Just in case you didn't see this (up for auction along with a few other Prince things): www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
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March 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
@anildash.com Just in case you didn't see this (up for auction along with a few other Prince things): www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...
I wrote up the highlights of all the stuff we built and improved at Soundslice this year:
Soundslice year in review, 2025 | Soundslice product updates
It’s been a productive year here at Soundslice. Here are the big improvements we’ve made in 2025.
www.soundslice.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I wrote up the highlights of all the stuff we built and improved at Soundslice this year:
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not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
I’ve been on a few podcasts in the last month. Four interviews, four separate topics: ChatGPT hallucination, Django's 20th birthday, Soundslice and my latest EP.
holovaty.com/writing/podc...
holovaty.com/writing/podc...
Four podcast interviews | Holovaty.com
holovaty.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I’ve been on a few podcasts in the last month. Four interviews, four separate topics: ChatGPT hallucination, Django's 20th birthday, Soundslice and my latest EP.
holovaty.com/writing/podc...
holovaty.com/writing/podc...
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welcome to development by gaslight. ChatGPT hallucinates a feature, driving users to a application for something that doesn't exist. What's a dev to do? They add the feature the AI invented
ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It
Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.
www.404media.co
July 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
welcome to development by gaslight. ChatGPT hallucinates a feature, driving users to a application for something that doesn't exist. What's a dev to do? They add the feature the AI invented
This short tribute to Brian Wilson's life is so well done. A rare example of tasteful/artful AI video generation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...
Let's Go To Heaven In My Car: A Tribute To Brian Wilson [AI]
YouTube video by Dae Lims
www.youtube.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This short tribute to Brian Wilson's life is so well done. A rare example of tasteful/artful AI video generation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...
Good news: ChatGPT is pointing a lot of people toward Soundslice.
Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.
Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.
Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.
Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
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July 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Good news: ChatGPT is pointing a lot of people toward Soundslice.
Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.
Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.
Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.
Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.
I'm trying a new thing: here's a behind-the-scenes peek at the multitracks in one of my recent EP tunes.
Behind the scenes: "Rock And Roll Roger"
YouTube video by Adrian Holovaty
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May 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I'm trying a new thing: here's a behind-the-scenes peek at the multitracks in one of my recent EP tunes.
At Soundslice we've launched a lot of great new stuff specifically for drummers and percussionists. Percussion maps, auto-generated percussion legends, better synth playback and more.
www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...
www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...
Tons of percussion improvements | Soundslice product updates
We’ve spent the last several weeks making lots of Soundslice improvements specifically for percussion.
www.soundslice.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
At Soundslice we've launched a lot of great new stuff specifically for drummers and percussionists. Percussion maps, auto-generated percussion legends, better synth playback and more.
www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...
www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...
Hey, it's my first YouTube video in more than a year. Here's my tune "Senseless Swing."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...
Senseless Swing - Adrian Holovaty
YouTube video by Adrian Holovaty
www.youtube.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hey, it's my first YouTube video in more than a year. Here's my tune "Senseless Swing."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...
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Announcing RADDLE, my new word transformation game.
raddle.quest
It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
raddle.quest
It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
RADDLE
The daily word transformation game
raddle.quest
March 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Announcing RADDLE, my new word transformation game.
raddle.quest
It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
raddle.quest
It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
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I had the pleasure of creating another album cover for Adrian Holovaty 🍰
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
February 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I had the pleasure of creating another album cover for Adrian Holovaty 🍰
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
My new EP is out today! It's called Layer Cake and has five original tunes.
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)
Layer Cake by Adrian Holovaty
Five original gypsy-jazz tunes.
www.holovaty.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
My new EP is out today! It's called Layer Cake and has five original tunes.
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)
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Absolutely unbelievable ad in the community theater playbill.
January 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Absolutely unbelievable ad in the community theater playbill.