CtrlStrum Wall

In this retro resurrection, I wrangled an Apple //c and a modern M2 MacBook into (almost) talking — with a tangle of adapters, Java hacks, and vintage wizardry. Part 1 of a 2-part deep dive into bootstrapping ProDOS from the future.🧠💾

Building cool stuff sounds fun—until your JSON breaks and your tone engine eats itself. Here's what it feels like to hit the wall... hard.

This is The Wall. A public feed, a digital corkboard, a sketchpad, a mixtape. A place to post something that didn’t need permission to exist. 🧠 What It's For The Wall is for the raw ideas, the weird experiments, the blurry drafts, the finished pieces no one else knew what to do with. It’s for musicians, coders, visual artists, designers, beatmakers, and t...

I graduated this weekend. Not in music this time—but in Computer Science. That makes two degrees, one life reboot, and a whole lot of Ctrl+Z. Now I’ve built something that blends what I know and what I’ve learned. It’s called ToneGPT. I made it for musicians like me—specifically for folks using the Fractal FM9 who’ve ever gotten lost in tone menus at 2 a....

This is the story behind ctrlStrum—how it started, what it means, and why I built it. From my first guitar lesson at 9 to chasing creativity through music, tech, and everything in between, ctrlStrum is a home for people like me: the builders, the weirdos, the poets, the dreamers.