Blog post: Development update (January 3)

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+Title: Development update (January 3)
+Date: 2020-01-03
+
+There hasn't been an update in a while. And there hasn't been a lot of work on noisicaä either.
+
+I started a new sprint back in September, but then there was a vacation, and that yanked me out of my
+routine, and it took me an awful long time to find my way back.
+
+It wasn't like I was not doing anything. I spent some time improving my emacs configuration,
+including setting up a configuration for my daughter's novel writing ambitions. We bought one of
+those all-in-one printer-scanner-fax[^1] things, which triggered me to write the beginnings of a
+little document management system, so we can eventually move to a (mostly) digital archival for
+documents that you're supposed to keep. I reinstalled my dying home server on a Raspberry Pi 4,
+which went surprisingly smooth.
+
+But those were the kind of in-between projects that you do to distract yourself, not something to
+focus. But perhaps that is just what I need every once in a while, as I feel that I have rebuilt
+quite a bit of energy over the past few days. Now I "just" have to direct that energy towards
+noisicaä.
+
+Anyway. Just to wrap up the stuff that I was doing (mostly back in September), here's the latest
+[commit](https://github.com/odahoda/noisicaa/commit/bae6940b3649995e59ce4c0a0670a321f49b5682).
+There are still plenty of bullet points on my checklist, which I initially planned to do in that
+sprint, but I'll defer those to another time.
+
+Even the commit was already done three weeks ago, and I couldn't get myself to write the
+accompanying blog post until now.
+
+### What's new
+
+#### Track list improvements
+
+[[thumb:2020-01-03-track-list.png]] I did quite a bit of refactoring and improving of the track
+list. Tracks can now be resized vertically and reordered with drag-n-drop. There's also a new zoom
+function which zooms in both dimensions, but that's only accessible via keyboard shortcuts with no
+visible hint that those exist. And so far only pianoroll tracks currently handle resizing correctly.
+
+#### Load test projects
+
+[[thumb:2020-01-03-loadtest-project.png]] There's a hidden feature (I'm not telling you how to
+access it — read the source to find out) to create a new project filled with random
+data. This is really just a development tool for myself, so the usability is not that great and that
+won't change. Like the name suggests, I can use this feature to stress test noisicaä and find
+performance bottlenecks.
+
+### Internal changes
+
+- Some refactoring of the process startup, which previously triggered some scary warning messages
+  (`"RuntimeWarning: 'noisicaa.core.process_manager' found in sys.modules after import of package
+  'noisicaa.core', but prior to execution of 'noisicaa.core.process_manager'; this may result in
+  unpredictable behaviour"`).
+
+- A new `move` mutation type to efficiently reorder lists.
+
+[^1]: Yeah, that stuff is still around. I have no use it or intend to even plug it into a telephone
+    socket. But it's not like we wasted money on a feature that we're not using, given how dirt
+    cheap the hardware itself is — until you have to buy the first toner refill.

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