What screws me is the DRM iLock software. I’ve tried running Reaper in Wine/Bottles but the playback with guitar is no longer realtime due to the emulation/translation going on.

I just switched to an AxeFx FM9 so I don’t need realtime playback as much but I can’t use any of my Neural DSP plugins.

Let me know if you’ve found workarounds.

Good read!

At my current company all changes have to happen via GitHub PR and commit because we use GitOps (ex: ArgoCD with Kubernetes). Any changes you do manually are immediately overwritten when ArgoCD notices the config drift.

This makes development more annoying sometimes but I’m so damn glad when I can immediately look at GitHub for an audit trail and source of truth.

It wasn’t InfoSec in this case but I had an annoying tech lead that would merge to main without telling people, so anytime something broke I had his GitHub activity bookmarked and could rule that out first.