Mike Goatly

@goatly.net

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Professional software developer. Guitarist and pretend musician. You can expect me to post about Visual Studio, VSCode, C#, .NET, TypeScript, React, Avalonia, Raspberry PI, Azure, Kubernetes and more.

A video of the Chordle UI being automated. The script runs through adding 3 songs to the library, Alpha, Beta and Gamma, adding each to a set new set list. Right at the end, Gamma is dragged to the top of the list to verify that the drag/drop behaviour plays out as expected.
A video showing the song editor in Chordle. The text is a chordpro version of Greensleeves. The cursor moves to a chord in the song and clicks on it. A grab handle appears for the chord, which is used to drag the chord around the song. The song format is then changed to chords above text, and a demonstration is then given of moving chords about in that format using the same drag mechanism.
A screenshot of a machine learning diagnostics dashboard labeled "ML Pipeline." It displays four synchronized graphs visualizing a 5-second clip of piano audio from the MAESTRO dataset. The top-left (Onset), top-right (Frame), and bottom-left (Offset) graphs are heatmaps on a dark background, showing the model's raw probability output for note starts, sustains, and releases. Brighter colors indicate higher confidence. The bottom-right (Piano Roll) graph displays the final decoded result as clean light-blue bars on a white grid. A yellow crosshair cursor tracks a specific moment across all four graphs, highlighting the correlation between the raw probability heatmaps and the final discrete notes.
A single staff of sheet music displaying the same C-Major scale generated by the old pYIN algorithm. While the rhythm is visually cleaner (mostly solid quarter notes), the first note is incorrect: it detected the starting Middle C an octave too high (on the third space of the staff), illustrating a common "octave error" in traditional algorithms.
A single staff of sheet music displaying a C-Major scale generated by the new AI model. The pitches are transcribed correctly, starting on Middle C. However, the rhythm is currently jagged, with short notes separated by rests (eighth note + eighth rest pattern) because the post-processing logic hasn't yet been tuned to smooth out the note durations.
A three-panel visualization comparing audio input, AI prediction, and ground truth for a piano transcription model at Epoch 26. The top panel displays the input Mel Spectrogram as a heatmap, showing audio frequency energy over time with bright orange lines representing harmonics. The middle panel shows the model's output: a "piano roll" probability map where bright yellow horizontal lines indicate high confidence of active notes against a black background. The bottom panel shows the Ground Truth (sheet music) as discrete dark lines on a white background. The model's prediction (middle) closely mirrors the ground truth (bottom), accurately capturing complex chords and a rapid ascending scale on the right side of the graph.
A terminal screenshot showing machine learning training logs for Epoch 12. It highlights a new best model saved with a Loss of 0.3215. Key metrics show significant improvement: Onset F1 is 0.5254, and Note-Level Precision has crossed a milestone to 0.3008.
A screenshot of a desktop application titled "NoteNet". The interface is divided into several functional sections. At the top a toolbar contains various command buttons: File Controls: An "Open" button, Playback and Recording Buttons, and Export Options for SVG, ABC and MIDI. The central part of the application is split into three main sections: Musical Notation (SVG) (Left): A large white panel displays a traditional musical staff. It shows a treble clef, a 4/4 time signature, and a series of notes and rests representing a musical scale. ABC Notation (Top Right): A smaller panel shows the raw text-based "ABC notation" for the music, including metadata like time signature (4/4), unit note length (1/4), tempo (108 BPM), and key (C). Audio Waveform (Bottom Right): This panel displays a visual representation of the audio signal being processed, shown as a jagged blue waveform.
A screenshot of a Notepad window. There's a level 1 heading, then a level 2 heading, and the user is about to format a bulleted list. The point being, Notepad shouldn't have any of this.
Wooden tool statue with two children pretending to be caught in it's net
A small, human-made stone structure stands on a beach covered with small, smooth pebbles. The structure consists of several flat, grey stones carefully balanced on top of each other. Two larger, somewhat vertical stones form a base, supporting a long, flat stone horizontally across their tops. On this horizontal stone, two more rounded, flat stones are stacked, with two very small, flat stones placed on either side of the top stack. The sun casts a shadow to the right of the structure.
A close-up shot shows a stack of smooth, flat grey pebbles forming a cairn on a beach. The stack is arranged somewhat like a human figure, with two larger, elongated stones serving as legs, a wider, flatter stone above them acting as a base, and several progressively smaller stones stacked on top to form the body and head. The pebbles are wet and have a slightly darker sheen. The background is a blurred view of a pebble beach leading to the ocean, with gentle waves breaking near the shore under what appears to be a bright, sunny sky.
A game screenshot - top left: Text describing sounds that can be heard in the dungeon, including "Faint noise, north". Top right is a mini map showing the player's location and two icons indicating that noise can be heard, and a torch is lit. Bottom right is a large view of the play area, including a ladder that can be climbed. Bottom right are the player's stats.
A list of various foods, separated by grouping headers of their first letters. One of the headers is clicked on, and a list of just the headers is shown in place of the full list. One of these headers is then clicked on, and the list is reshown at the correct position of the header.
An animation of a list box containing items such as Apple, Apricot and Banana. The list is divided alphabetically with a different coloured header containing the starting letter. A checkbox is toggled to enable multi selection mode, and when it is checked, selection checkboxes slide in next to each of the items.
Snipping from the article: At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), he said, similar strategies are being used to detect incredibly rare events that hold the key to how particles came to acquire mass in the first moments after the big bang and whether our universe could be teetering on the brink of a catastrophic collapse.