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Question: Which artist is your favourite recent music discovery?
Asked by SpoiledHobo (78.51.241.x) on September 11 2025, 5:00pm

Question: You say "Vampire", I say "no, it s strigoi"...how about now? Rolf
Asked by Brk_ (90.167.94.x) on September 11 2025, 4:49pm

Question: do you need the users of reaper to politically allign with you as well or that doesn't matter?
Asked by Rano (103.182.107.x) on September 11 2025, 2:52pm
Reply on September 11 2025, 3:54pm:

obviously I have no control over that, but I'd hope that people would be kind and decent to other people, even those who have beliefs and values different than their own. Comment...

Question: How many dead or lingering branches does the REAPER repo have? Do you sometimes see one of those old branches and think “hah, this could be doable now!” ?
Asked by humanboi (104.28.98.x) on September 11 2025, 7:50am
Reply on September 11 2025, 3:57pm:

 % git branch -r|grep -E '(wip_|hold_)'|wc -l
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support lane buttons on the left when tcp is on the right. not worth it!

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Question: Hmm so heartbreaking your answer.. from all tech ppl... Happy bday to me, I guess..it s not like I have much choices, as re@p3r ppl delete my SMS too..fr0m @ll p30pl3.. I w0nt m3ss@g3 u @nim0r3..s0rri 2 b0th3r y@..by3... :"+(
Asked by Brk_ (90.167.95.x) on September 10 2025, 2:28pm
Reply on September 10 2025, 11:36pm:

the signal to noise ratio in your posts is basically zero - you don't have any actionable requests, it reads like spam. think about it. you have to actually ask for something. 1 Comment...

Question: have you listened to "him"?
Asked by not justin (2.147.58.x) on September 10 2025, 2:06pm
Reply on September 10 2025, 11:36pm:

not sure who you speak of? 2 Comments...

Question: Is accepting checks and money orders to your PO BOX worth the hassle in 2025? Doesn't everyone have a credit card or paypal these days?
Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on September 9 2025, 10:14pm
Reply on September 10 2025, 2:00am:

It's a very small percentage but those who use it appreciate it, afaict Comment...

Question: have you done any multi-day fasts before? apparently autophagy promotion is good?
Asked by rilkean (193.32.249.x) on September 9 2025, 5:00pm
Reply on September 10 2025, 2:01am:

Not really, but I unintentionally fasted for about 5 hours on the last 15 miles of a 100k trail race and that was a little rough. Comment...

Question: Hi, have you seen my previous messages? I sent you several...
Asked by Brk_ (90.167.95.x) on September 9 2025, 9:15am
Reply on September 9 2025, 12:41pm:

Yes but they are not appropriate questions for this site. Comment...

Question: In JSFX, when using slidershow to hide or show sliders, why is it that if the plugin is opened for the first time with some sliders hidden, the plugin window gets slightly shortened at the bottom? Then, when those sliders are made visible again, the window fails to automatically regain its full original size specified at the @gfx, requiring the plugin to be closed and reopened to restore the specified @gfx size. Is the initial window size being calculated based on that reduced number of visible sliders?
Asked by JSFX @gfx (154.161.247.x) on September 7 2025, 8:30pm
Reply on September 8 2025, 1:06am:

probably, yeah 4 Comments...

Question: Do you like open source?
Asked by doom (218.59.37.x) on September 7 2025, 5:27am
Reply on September 8 2025, 1:06am:

yeah it's a good thing for a lot of software Comment...

Question: On the REAPER forums, do you browse the JSFX forum to see what people are creating?
Asked by Forums (102.176.65.x) on September 7 2025, 12:53am
Reply on September 8 2025, 1:06am:

sometimes yeah 1 Comment...

Question: What's your plan to shatter the tech oligolopoly? I hate the internet being all memers-only-clubs now.
Asked by sunblister (217.253.96.x) on September 5 2025, 10:55pm
Reply on September 6 2025, 2:52pm:

fuck if I know, but agree 1 Comment...

Question: Hi Justin, I'm trying to put an extension hook in my c++ in the windows Media Explorer [...]
Asked by Anthony (92.54.248.x) on September 5 2025, 1:54pm
Reply on September 6 2025, 2:52pm:

email me instead thx Comment...

Question: rowing is great ...
Asked by Bernd Keul (89.0.69.x) on September 5 2025, 12:26am
Reply on September 5 2025, 2:37am:

sure Comment...

Question: Here's a fun one! Curious to hear your answer to this tweet: x.com/davepl1968/status/1963452164...
Asked by Will (99.100.219.x) on September 5 2025, 12:11am
Reply on September 5 2025, 2:37am:

heh I'd have to target SWELL's implementation so I'd stick with the original GDI code... Comment...

Question: Have you acquired formal education in programming or are you mainly autodidact? Wikipedia article says you dropped out of the university (where you studied computer science) after two quarters
Asked by Education (164.132.163.x) on September 4 2025, 6:36am
Reply on September 4 2025, 10:53am:

That wikipedia is correct, yeah, I've learned programming on my own, the stuff in university was pretty much all stuff I already knew (I missed the opportunity to test out of intro classes) 1 Comment...

Question: What variant of "C" do you use for Reaper?
Asked by Don Nafis (73.197.39.x) on September 2 2025, 2:09pm
Reply on September 3 2025, 1:50am (edited at September 3 2025, 1:15pm):

something like C++98.. you can see what we use in WDL, I suppose Comment...

Question: The only mp3 player I use to this day is Winamp v2.95 - it's worked flawlessly on every computer I've used. I purposefully sought you out to say thank you to you and your team that was responsible for coding it. It's everything I ever wanted in an mp3 player...simple, cool functions and plug-ins, and it just works. Since I started using it, I got married and her computer also sports V2.95 of winamp which in my opinion is the greatest mp3 player of all time. Lots of gratitude your way this Labor Day 2025
Asked by Erin (69.2.3.x) on September 1 2025, 4:36pm
Reply on September 2 2025, 12:54pm:

right on Comment...

Question: Hi Justin. I'm a longtime fan of Winamp and the world's best plugin, 3D Spectrum Analyzer Dot Plane. Would you consider sharing its code so that it can be adapted to the capabilities of modern monitors (more dots, 16:9, etc.)? I'm not a good enough programmer to write such a marvel from scratch, but maybe I could modify something? Best regards and good luck!
Asked by Marek (77.46.82.x) on August 31 2025, 1:12am
Reply on August 31 2025, 1:41am (edited at August 31 2025, 1:44am):

(Did I write that? Or someone else did using openGL, I think?) Anyway I definitely don't have the code, but I could probably write a JSFX or REAPER video processor version of that, which would be fun. Maybe I'll do that! 1 Comment...

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