https://methodictruth.com/ Field notes from building an AI agent from scratch, plus everything shipped on methodictruth.com, in the order it happened. en https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-07-04 changelog-2026-07-04 Fri, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT New Learn Production hub tying the guides into one visual, free path from a raw idea to a finished master, cross-linked record → arrange → mix → master. Plus a new Mastering Guide (the chain, loudness & LUFS targets, true-peak limiting, metering and the dithered bounce) and a Logic Pro reference (shortcuts, toolbox, and music-making features — Drummer, Flex Time & Pitch, Smart Tempo, quantize, Apple Loops, automation, Track Stacks, Live Loops). And housekeeping: removed pages now 301-redirect instead of 404, and static assets are cached at the edge for faster repeat loads. https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-07-02 changelog-2026-07-02 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three new visual guides for Logic Pro producers: a Recording Guide (microphones, polar patterns, placement, stereo miking, reamping, compression, punch-in/overdub), an Effects Guide (what every effect does, the signal-chain order, which effects pair together, and how to practice mixing), and an Arrangement Guide (song structure, the energy arc, and transitions, built with the Arrangement track). Plus: the Song Analyzer learns to live with YouTube's limits — paced/budgeted downloads, a browsable Library of instant replays, and a drag-and-drop upload path with no YouTube at all — and a site hygiene pass (full sitemap, canonical URLs everywhere, social cards, orphaned pages retired). https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-06-30-self-hosted-audio.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-06-30-self-hosted-audio.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT YouTube's embedded player started demanding "confirm you're not a bot" from viewers — a check tied to their device, not our server. So the Song Analyzer dropped the embed and now plays the audio it already downloads, with a Web-Audio spectrum visualizer. https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-06-30 changelog-2026-06-30 Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Big Song Analyzer day: replaced the YouTube embed with self-hosted audio (killing the viewer bot-check) plus a spectrum visualizer; fixed the service-only stall and added a concurrency limit; added a live streaming progress bar, beat-synchronous chord detection (major/minor plus dominant- and minor-7th colors), shareable ?v= permalinks, and EBU R128 loudness normalization. https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-06-30-song-analyzer-debugging.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-06-30-song-analyzer-debugging.html Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Song Analyzer passed every test by hand and failed only through the installed service. The bug wasn't the code, the network, or YouTube — it was the worker's output pipe to journald applying backpressure and freezing the download mid-transfer. https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-06-29 changelog-2026-06-29 Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Added Song Analyzer and Fretboard to the Music nav dropdown. Fixed the gunicorn deployment on the physical Song Analyzer host (it was never actually installed). Made the host survive a real reboot — WSL2 auto-starts at Windows boot and the machine no longer sleeps. Added optional cookie support so yt-dlp can ride past YouTube's bot-check block. https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-06-29-song-analyzer-hardening.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-06-29-song-analyzer-hardening.html Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A day after the Song Analyzer started doing real audio analysis on real hardware, that hardware proved it: gunicorn was never actually installed, WSL2 doesn't survive a Windows reboot on its own, and YouTube started blocking the requests outright. https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-06-28-song-analyzer.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-06-28-song-analyzer.html Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Song Analyzer stopped faking it — a real audio-analysis pipeline now runs on a physical machine behind a Cloudflare Tunnel, hardened with caching, gunicorn, and a dedup lock. https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-06-27 changelog-2026-06-27 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Added a searchable directory of every tool and page, a skip-to-content link and better keyboard support across the site, and the changelog. Filled in missing page descriptions and gave the site a proper 404 page. Moved the step sequencer into the synth itself. Made the ambient atmosphere calmer. Fixed the mobile hamburger nav dropdown. Added a Jam Guide, FM synthesis, an AI Dispatches feed, an Ear Training tool, a generalized Chord-Tone Trainer, a rhyme finder and syllable counter in Songwriter, a Rhythm Trainer drill, algorithmic chord voicings, and improved Theory piano legibility. https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-06-26 changelog-2026-06-26 Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stopped the generative ambient music from autoplaying and hid the music player bar site-wide. Fixed the SPA router breaking onclick handlers on navigated pages. https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-05-30-local-inference.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-05-30-local-inference.html Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT How we built a free local AI inference tier across two machines — a gaming GPU and an Apple Silicon chip — and what it means to own your own compute. https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-05 changelog-2026-05 Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Connected a second GPU node to the AI agent network with live inference. General site cleanup — fixed broken asset references, added a favicon. https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-04-10-auth-lockdown.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-04-10-auth-lockdown.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Anthropic revoked third-party OAuth for 135,000 OpenClaw instances with less than 24 hours notice. https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-04-10-presenting-the-network.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-04-10-presenting-the-network.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Six machines, one encrypted mesh, one AI gateway. A clear picture of what comes next. https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-04-10-four-nodes.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-04-10-four-nodes.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The network grows: four machines connected to a private mesh, each becoming a cognitive node. https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-04-10-the-network.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-04-10-the-network.html Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Six nodes on a private mesh. Abstracting the network as agents. Five possible architectures. https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-04-10 changelog-2026-04-10 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Published The Network — a live map of the distributed AI infrastructure: remote access mesh, OS icons, character avatars for each node. Moved Network into the Systems menu. https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-04-01 changelog-2026-04-01 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Added the Chord Voicings tool, tuned audio latency and keyboard responsiveness in the synth, and fixed real-time parameter changes in the Signal analyzer. https://methodictruth.com/changelog.html#2026-03-30 changelog-2026-03-30 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Added the Song Analyzer — chord, key, and tempo detection from a YouTube link — connected it to a Cloudflare Worker backend, and gave it a dark, Byzantine aesthetic. Stabilized the synth's audio engine. https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-03-23-infrastructure.html https://methodictruth.com/chronicle-2026-03-23-infrastructure.html Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Remote access, OAuth auth migration, and building a distributed gateway architecture across meshed machines.