Looks good but no way I'd pay a subscription for a utility.

do you use the utility on a recurring basis

I'm seeing:

" failed to start application on imherefor.me

  This is most likely because your project has a code error.
  Check your project logs, fix the error and try again.  "

Nice! I'd love to be able to export a MIDI representation of a pattern. Any way to do it / any plans to incorporate?

Yes MIDI export will be done for sure. I do have some libs identified, so it's just a matter of keyboarding frantically for a few hours and I can get it done.

Yes, that was my experience too, maybe three years ago.

I was in the same situation as you - I couldn't upgrade because I'm not in the US. But there is the ability to get a support chat (after going through a couple of bot suggestions) - and they quickly took me through a different route to change billing country (even though I was, like you, on the legacy free version with no billing to date).

I've set up a one-user paid-for account for the time being, but the whole "rug-pull" has left a bad taste and I'll be on the lookout for an alternative solution from here on.

I'd like to see this as a setting, so both camps can be appeased. I'm like OP, I keep forgetting to manually open in a new tab, then wonder where HN has gone after I close the tab again.

The blog entry is recent. It quotes from an email from 1995.

I was about 45... I was soldering some electronics and realised I couldn't see what I was doing. Presbyopia seemed to happen overnight :)

It works for me.

Yes, me too. I often find far better solutions to problems after backing off and deliberately not thinking about the issue.