Chris Zen

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It breaks backward compatibility in a couple of things: - The Notifications structs change from using ObjectType/Object to using AnyObject. - Several From conversions are removed.

- Removes conversions between different types of objects - Allows to clone Device, Entity, Source and Destination - Introduces the type AnyObject that can encapsulate different types of objects as needed by the Notifications

Today I released a new version of my Rust CoreMIDI library: crates.io/crates/coremidi

There is still a subtle problem with collision detection for a particular case that I will ignore so I can make progress with my ultimate goal, building a life simulator to play with Evolutionary algorithms and NeuroEvolution.

It has been quite challenging so far, every paper/video/code I read/watched addressed different aspects of what I needed, and integrating all that knowledge into something acceptable was not easy.

I've been working on a Soft Body physics engine with Rust, and achieved a new milestone supporting polygon collisions.

I'm really happy that the support for I2S for nrf52 was finally merged into embassy. Thanks to @braincode for his support, and the maintainers for taking the time to review. I'm now one step closer to build my own hardware synth 👏

Working on adding I2S support for nrf52 chips in embassy: github.com/embassy-rs/emb…

I've been working on updating my Rust crate for CoreMIDI to support the MIDI 2.0 protocol. Reviews are welcome: github.com/chris-zen/core…

More information here: github.com/chris-zen/core…

Published version 0.6.0 of my Rust crate for CoreMIDI crates.io/crates/coremidi

I wish this gets resolved soon: #issuecomment-1012061310" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/rust-lang/rust…

Here's a #GSoC2021 @gsoc wrap-up for htsget-rs, a 100% @rustlang implementation of the @GA4GH protocol that makes bioinformatics formats accessible to the web: umccr.org/blog/htsget-rs/ Kudos to successful 2 students Marko and Daniel & @zaeleus @chris_zen @vskl for co-mentoring!

I completely share this vision for the next generation of data processing platforms. infinyon.com/blog/2021/06/i…

@bitshiftmask I've been willing to build something myself without success/time for a long time. But if a nice audio/music development board was available and with guarantees of good compatibility with Rust, I'd love to contribute from the software side.

@bitshiftmask Enough memory to store audio data required for synths (wavetables, granular) and effects (delays). As mentioned before electrosmith daisy is a good example of this. Also a good set of libraries to have MIDI over USB or Bluetooth, DMA based drivers for audio out of the box, ...

The latest chapter of @zero2prod is out! This is entry is entirely focused on error handling in @rustlang - what are errors for? Should we use the Error trait? What about anyhow or thiserror? It hopefully brings some clarity to the conversation. Enjoy! lpalmieri.com/posts/error-ha…

@bitshiftmask @baldassarifr @theavalkyrie @arturo182 Even if it's an intro, wdyt about topics like concurrency, sharing data, project structuring for easy dependency injection and unit testing, mocking, integration testing, ... I usually find a big gap between flashing leds and more complex projects. I'd love to learn them @ embed

I'm very happy to participate as a co-mentor for the GSoC 2021 for one of the projects under the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. If you are interested in participating as a student please contact my good friend @braincode More details here: github.com/chris-zen/htsg…