{"index":{"slug":"index","filePath":"index.md","title":"index","links":["tags/posts","tags/pages","tags/blips","tags/songObsessions"],"tags":["pages"],"content":"who are you? where am i? what is this place?\ni am kaitlyn; this is my website. it is a work-in-progress.\ni make music, and i write code sometimes.\n\n#posts are my “bootleg microblogs / miscellaneous dumps of whatever” :3\n#pages are more “static” notes / sources of information :<\n#blips are little pieces of music / sounds i’ve made :D\n#songObsessions are songs i’m obsessed with :o\n\nmy “outlinks” should be below this page.\nthank you for stopping by!"},"pages/about-me":{"slug":"pages/about-me","filePath":"pages/about me.md","title":"about me","links":["pages/the-music-i-write"],"tags":["pages"],"content":"(as of writing)\nhihi, i’m kaitlyn, i’m finishing up the second year of my undergrad. i’m a computer science major and a mathematics minor. i also enjoy writing music when i’m able."},"pages/about-this-site":{"slug":"pages/about-this-site","filePath":"pages/about this site.md","title":"about this site","links":[],"tags":["pages","creating"],"content":"hihi, today is march 27, 2026, and i just found out about quartz. i genuinely do not know how to use it, but i’m going to do my best\nhihi, i’m trying out quartz as a replacement for my old website. this site will probably be very messy / disorganized at first.\nuntil i figure out how to use quartz better, i’ll use this as a table of contents, probably going by top-level folder, then an index of files???? idfk:\ni started working on this website march 27, 2026\n"},"pages/contact":{"slug":"pages/contact","filePath":"pages/contact.md","title":"contact","links":[],"tags":[],"content":"matrix: @kaitwillows:matrix.org\nemail: kaitlyngill@proton.me"},"pages/the-music-i-write":{"slug":"pages/the-music-i-write","filePath":"pages/the music i write.md","title":"the music i write","links":[],"tags":["pages","creating","music"],"content":"hello! i write music under the alias kaitwillows.  all of my “finished” work goes on my bandcamp page. i do not use generative AI in anything i create.\ni also hope to start writing more, and posting to this very site on a regular basis.\nsome songs, often ones with visual components, i post to youtube as well\n\n\n"},"pages/things-i-want-to-make":{"slug":"pages/things-i-want-to-make","filePath":"pages/things i want to make.md","title":"things i want to make","links":[],"tags":["old"],"content":"i don’t know what this page is lmao\n\nmusic things\ncs things\n\none main thing is i want to learn rust, maybe i’ll do some of these in rust\na better foss pomodoro timer; what is this bullshit\n\n\n\n\na better foss calendar, like obsidian, built on markdown/plaintext, or, if using a database, make some accessible way to export however you want\n\nYO make it like, also show when you sleep yk like, how the fitbit does that ?!?!?\ncould other integrations be done too???!?!?!? like, showing when you run a pomodoro timer and shitr?!?!?!? or what places you are at what times???? i kinda wanna make open source software for fitbit now :sob:\nWAIIIT BUT ALSO WHEN I WORK LIKE THE GOOGLE CALENDAR SHIGHSOIDJGOISJDGOIJSDOIFJSOIDJFOISJDFOIJWEFOIJWEGUJWEIUVHLINIULNWEEVIUNSDVIunsddasdffiuasdflidfbni n fd vuyeuifenviluewiu aw9489n3984n2938rn1r98hi\n\n\na search engine that works better than chatgpt and google\n\ni don’t think chatgpt is really good for learning things, it’s much more valuable to parse information written by humans yourself, with your own brain. google/startpage doesnt always seem to have what i’m looking for readily available\nthis sounds dumb, but individual’s notes on digital gardens might be a good place that concatenates information that is not easily accessible via google. it’d at least be fun to figure out how search querying works\nit also needs to be “lightweight”, preferably\n\nable to run on a reasonably up-to-date computer\nplaintext, only, so that an entire scraped database of knowledge is locally accessible without taking up an unreasonable amount of space. you could probably get like, a billion words with 5GiB is all im sayin.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"},"pages/todo":{"slug":"pages/todo","filePath":"pages/todo.md","title":"todo","links":["tags/posts"],"tags":["TODO"],"content":"yeah we gotta make updated not updated. theres so many things that theoretically can be fixed, but i dont yet know how lmao\ntodo list (for me)\nignore all this, idk if any of it will make sense\n\n get old big music folder back\n make the “posts” posts actually look like a twitter feed somehow\n add daily practice page for crwt\n “posts/posts” page? or index? (and start posting to it lmao)\n\nfor blogs / small blogs\nthings i think are cool?\n\n\n music archive / posts shit\n collections?\n\n hard images\n videos videos videos\n\n\n “what i’m doing now” page\n[ ]\n"},"timeline/2026-04-02":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-02","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-02.md","title":"2026-04-02","links":[],"tags":["posts"],"content":"\nsuboptimal."},"timeline/2026-04-04-16-50":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-04-16-50","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-04-16-50.md","title":"2026-04-04-16-50","links":[],"tags":["posts"],"content":"also i’m catsitting, and fucking around with nixos when i could maybe be studying for some of the classes that i might not fail. i’ve spent like, three days straight just configuring nixos help\n(ill add a picture later)\ni really want to start making music again. i feel like i just have to solve the problem of nixos in its entirety and then ill have a reproducable system for making music. genuinely the thing that pisses me off most about digital music creation is how absolutely volatile it is. ive tried portable reaper installs with plugins and samples supposedly saved in a single folder, and yet, the few projects i worked on on there just didn’t save any audio files anywhere in the directory.\ni have a feeling nixos might solve this? if i can figure out the neccissary evil of switching to linux native audio editing software, then in theory i should be able to include a nixos configuration and a project folder?????? (i don’t really understand nixos yet.\nugh i genuinely dont know (i think paid plugins, if any, will fuck everything over so hard but idk), i think it’d be much more useful to actually start making music.\ni know it goes against the principle(s) of zen or whatever, but i feel kinda bothered by the idea of not being able to open a 5 year old project file and just have it play. i think it’s my programmer brain or whatever. git was made to create records of all changes ever. anyone can clone your repo, see how you built your project, and you never have to worry about being distructive.\nmusic has always felt messier, i know if i dont have an external tool to track changes, i’ll make duplicate clips, and duplicate tracks every time i want to tweak a sound, then delete the old one when i think im done with it. idk, UGH it’s a real frustration. i assume theres solutions with tools, maybe in the linux world or whatever, but maybe that could be a project if it doesnt yet exist."},"timeline/2026-04-04":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-04","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-04.md","title":"2026-04-04","links":[],"tags":["posts"],"content":"i’m never getting over the definition of “literally”\n"},"timeline/2026-04-09-08-00":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-09-08-00","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-09-08-00.md","title":"2026-04-09-08-00","links":[],"tags":["posts"],"content":"I really wish I could find my old phone I wanna put lineageos on it, maybe I’m just a professional procrastinator but I like old tech and I like that FOSS can make it better and also my pixel 3a has a headphone jack actually"},"timeline/2026-04-09":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-09","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-09.md","title":"2026-04-09","links":[],"tags":["posts"],"content":"i hart colour bass i love being a dubstep fan !!!! i love music i don’t care what people think!!!!!!!! i love dubstep :3\n(7:59am i can’t edit filenames on mobile)\n(edit from 04-13: i can see why dubstep went out of fashion. it’s cool and iconic, but the repetitiveness of the samples would definitely make me weary to play it around someone else. i think i just love edm more in general)"},"timeline/2026-04-11-01-14":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-11-01-14","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-11-01-14.md","title":"2026-04-11-01-14","links":[],"tags":["posts"],"content":"i <3 bed bugs"},"timeline/2026-04-13-16-26":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-13-16-26","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-13-16-26.md","title":"2026-04-13-16-26","links":["pages/todo"],"tags":["posts"],"content":"i’ve been entranced by the idea of a sitting desk, but i didn’t want to go out and actually get one just yet, so this is my alternative :sob:\n\nignore the absolute mess my basement is regardless i am sorry.\nit’s genuinely kinda insane i find sitting crosslegged like this already more enjoyable than using my office chair. idk if it was just the desk height, that made my feet too far from the ground when i adjusted my chair to match.\nnow i need to get  a fucking split ergonomic keyboard with the thumb modifier keys, idk\n\ni kinda wanna just keep track of what i do every day with this site. like, i almost got a little bit through the rust book, in addition to setting up a scrappy ass sitting desk. the website was being weird, it didnt really show code examples? and i got the fucking unicorn error page :( what do you even do in this situation. (i went and read the ebook version idfk)\n\nthere’s still a couple things i want to do before i actually publish this website i think. but for now i have to fucking go to work aaa"},"timeline/2026-04-15":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-15","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-15.md","title":"2026-04-15","links":[],"tags":["posts","blips"],"content":"\ni’m actually getting into it again\nbitwig stock grand piano with max reverb, gate-sidechained by another 0-release. one of the bitwig multiband compressions (grid xcomp multiband yeah) on the first, modulating threshold"},"timeline/2026-04-16-23-46":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-16-23-46","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-16-23-46.md","title":"2026-04-16-23-46","links":[],"tags":["posts"],"content":"i was trying to articulate how it’s never often that apparent to me how genuinely evil social media companies are\nthey’ve made every single person their own personal robot whose sole purpose in life is to waste as much of your time on this earth as possible, since they found a way to make money off of it\ni should watch this whole video at some point\nyoutu.be/j-TK_oWSg0g"},"timeline/2026-04-17":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-17","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-17.md","title":"2026-04-17","links":[],"tags":["posts","blips"],"content":"technically tomorrow idk\n\n\n\nwait sorry i think one of these is basically a duplicate"},"timeline/2026-04-18-16-37-25":{"slug":"timeline/2026-04-18-16-37-25","filePath":"timeline/2026-04-18-16-37-25.md","title":"2026-04-18-16-37-25","links":[],"tags":["posts"],"content":"my body is a machine that turns a two hour study session into a five hour study session"},"songObsessions/Camellia---Newspapers-for-Magicians":{"slug":"songObsessions/Camellia---Newspapers-for-Magicians","filePath":"songObsessions/Camellia - Newspapers for Magicians.md","title":"Camellia - Newspapers for Magicians","links":["songObsessions/Vylet-Pony---ANTONYMPH-(Vylet-Ponystep-Remix)"],"tags":["songObsessions"],"content":"\ni really want to make something like this. idk why but this song feels similar to vylet pony’s antonymph self-remix they’re both so good"},"songObsessions/Vylet-Pony---ANTONYMPH-(Vylet-Ponystep-Remix)":{"slug":"songObsessions/Vylet-Pony---ANTONYMPH-(Vylet-Ponystep-Remix)","filePath":"songObsessions/Vylet Pony - ANTONYMPH (Vylet Ponystep Remix).md","title":"Vylet Pony - ANTONYMPH (Vylet Ponystep Remix)","links":[],"tags":["songObsessions"],"content":""},"songObsessions/kimj---MY-UNNIES":{"slug":"songObsessions/kimj---MY-UNNIES","filePath":"songObsessions/kimj - MY UNNIES.md","title":"kimj - MY UNNIES","links":[],"tags":["songObsessions"],"content":"\ni found this song yesterday and played it 30 times holy shit its so good\nit keeps getting stuck in my head too. i’m obsessed\ni don’t know how to feel about the rest of the album though, some is cool, but some feels so rough around the edges. i think i like it though"},"songObsessions/passangerprincess---puppy-4ever":{"slug":"songObsessions/passangerprincess---puppy-4ever","filePath":"songObsessions/passangerprincess - puppy 4ever.md","title":"passangerprincess - puppy 4ever","links":[],"tags":["songObsessions"],"content":"\ni need to fix the tags on this"},"songObsessions/pinkpanthress---stars":{"slug":"songObsessions/pinkpanthress---stars","filePath":"songObsessions/pinkpanthress - stars.md","title":"pinkpanthress - stars","links":[],"tags":["songObsessions"],"content":"this shits just been in my head on repeat the past few days"}}