Dear fellow patchers,

(please distribute in your favorite peer-group, on discord, telegram, IRC, fb, twitter^Dmastodon, whatever)

it's the time of the year where one reflects on their past achievements. A perfect time for reviewing patches you have written in 2023 (or 2012; or whenever).

You might notice that would looked like a perfectly nice patch, is no longer digestible. You are not alone. So why not share your experience?

I would therefore like to invite you to submit patches for the "Patch Beauty Competition 2023".

https://discipline.puredata.info/upc2023

They tell us that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, so I'm looking for ugly patches instead. If you have any patches lying around that you are not proud of, please submit them. If you have any patches lying around that you *are* proud of, submit them nevertheless.

The patches are going to be used in an online survey - the community decides.

But fear not: patches are going to be anonymized, to the extend that it's no longer possible to guess their original function (or author).

If you are interested (or not) please head over to https://discipline.puredata.info/upc2023 for instructions on how to send in patches.

Cheers and a merry Christmas/Hanukkah/Hogswatch/Kwanzaa/Pancha Ganapati/Saturnalia/Winter solstice/Yalda/Yule or whatever you celebrate.

gdras IOhannes