Conducting Between Roller Coasters

I almost didn't write this down, because the sentence sounds like a brag and it isn't one. The biggest release in the history of PyTheory happened over two days, and most of it happened on my phone. On vacation. With two thumbs. The interesting part isn't the phone. It's what the phone stopped being in the way of. Last week I wrote about taking PyTheory's gate down, the pip install wall that kept everyone who isn't a programmer standing outside the library. That essay was about access for other people. This one is about something that happened to me while I was supposedly resting. What shipped A lot. More than belongs in a paragraph, so here is the paragraph anyway. The one I'm proudest of is thirty-six Hindustani ragas, in real shruti tuning. Not just the ten parent thaats the library already knew, but the living ragas: Yaman, Bhairav, Malkauns, Darbari, each with its ascending and descending line, its catch-phrase, its time of day, its rasa. And they play back in just intonation off…