Any reading recommendations for a small collective looking to move from google dependency to self-hosting? We're collecting some resources here: https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#

Are any live coding collectives interested in taking on management of this mastodon server? If so please get in touch with @yaxu ! https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/115243094021497355

The longest and shortest days mark Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day https://web.archive.org/web/20250330163310/https://www.volunteeramnestyday.net/ (ironically, looks like the volunteer running the site ran out of energy) The next Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day is 21st December 2025 […]

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of divorced mediocre white men

Thanks everyone for joining Alpaca 2025! We are about to start the final conference sessions, beginning with a keynote presentation from Shintaro Miyazaki, "Endosymbiotic Computation – Unlearning Alpaca and Why Dissipation is Key.." You can join us here […]

My son has been listening to Meshugah and is interested in an 8 string guitar for his 18th birthday but can't find anywhere near Sheffield/in the UK that stocks them. You can get affordable ones online but doesn't seem like the kind of thing to buy without trying.. E.g. not sure about multiscale […]

The best joke I'm ever going to make was when unix time reached one billion seconds and I said "Tonight I'm gonna party like it's time_t 1E9"

It's really important to make friends across generations. Space them out across a good few decades. Then if you're lucky to live a long life, you will have good company.

. @yaxu by accident trolling @TodePond so hard, gotta be up there in funny moments of the weekend

You have a tech project? Ursula Franklin would like a word. - Are you so obsessed with profit that your project moves costs onto others, or is justice present in your decision making? - Is there reciprocal give-and-take built into your project? - Can the benefits of your project be divided […]

Society of hopeful technologists (uk orienteded): https://buttondown.com/society-of-hopeful-technologists/archive/

Luigi Mangione is another massive success for the far right. They're becoming experts in taking anti-establishment feeling, and twisting it for their own profit. Mangione was apparently against profiteering in the US medical system, but totally bought into the anti-wokism distractions of […]

We are live on @eulerroom ! https://live.eulerroom.com/ You can see the schedule and the related texts here https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/conference/

Yes we will indeed have a limited number of tshirts for sale at Alpaca festival (https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/) !

How do you prefer to interact with other attendees of an online conference, while watching streamed talks or before/after?

Everyone needs to watch 'dissolve' by Paul Foot, especially you. Seriously, set aside 1h10m for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83GoFbnjX0s

Alpaca 2025 is going to be great! Running a new event about a seemingly niche topic like 'algorithmic patterns' across all the creative arts was a risk. We've had no media coverage so far, have paid social media tech oligarchs no advertising money, but through the power of email and word of […]

I'd like to publish conference proceedings as epub rather than pdf, as they're more accessible, can include videos etc. They're basically standardised bundles of HTML as far as I can tell, that can be downloaded onto ereaders etc. However, web browsers can't natively read them, and I somehow […]

Thinking about how best to stream a conference.. https://www.tldraw.com/p/tIXG8uAqCKIvFphpFQjTv?d=v1456.-696.2927.1552.page

Any tips for taming storage for cables used quite often in random order?? Maybe I just need more hooks

Since St George was born in Turkey, died in Palestine and never set foot on Britain I find all of his flags going up around the UK a bit strange but am fine with it really. A nice international symbol of unity with all the other countries with him as their patron saint (Aragon, Catalonia […]

We've just rejigged the alpaca festival website and welcome all critical feedback ! https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/

Using a google form (I know), I'm wondering why a few people have said they have submitted forms when nothing has come through. Looking at it, I have questions - why is there a purpose-free 'clear form' link? I thought those went out of fashion in the 90's - […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

This was a nice example found by @julian of a brickwork tiling that seemed random until someone spotted and shared the pattern - a kind of risset rhythm in brickwork https://forum.algorithmicpattern.org/t/circling-the-square/582

If you carefully look inside it, Alpaca festival is made up of over 42+ incredible artists ! https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/artists/

Still contributing the occasional PR via github, but adding a note encouraging people to leave https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/11082#issuecomment-3219409552

Happy that 28 out of 34 talk submissions opted to use markdown rather than PDF. I expected half-and-half, this is really great! PDFs are an awful format - inaccessible, practically unmodifiable (so _not_ open access), with no capacity for embedded media or interactive elements. and if you need […]

We recorded our @patternclubsheffield radio show not realising that resonance FM is on a summer break. So we uploaded it here please have a listen! https://www.mixcloud.com/patternclub/pattern-club-radio-24-august-2025/

Having a studio near a piano teacher's studio makes me realise how that most kids don't practice this instrument at all, just come and struggle through the same boring tunes every week. Please don't make your children learn an instrument they don't actual enjoy playing, it's a […]

Just off to @patternclubsheffield for the evening to learn lace making I once was involved in a performance collab with a lace maker, although she was too busy so couldn't join us and sent a video. We jammed over her explaining the numerical patterns. I […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

Still thinking about how @julian told me that you can just email a couple of people to start a conversation with them about something. This was a couple of years ago I think, I haven't had the nerve to try it yet.

What's a good+quick way to add a widget to a webpage for an event, so that people can view dates and times in their own timezone? Ideally it would guess from their browser settings but allow them to change it to something else. I expected wordpress to have a feature or plugin for this but can't […]

Anyone know a service that can both archive (i.e. long term storage with an assigned DOI) and display markdown files? Zenodo lets you archive anything but the markdown preview doesn't show images etc.. e.g. https://sandbox.zenodo.org/records/313171 I don't want to have to convert useful and […]

I think the term "post-AI" has so much power, are people using it much yet? Just like postmodernism didn't reject everything about modernism, post-AI needn't throw out all AI.. But look beyond its dodgy ideals and hype to focus on other stuff. We don't need AI institutes, AI art funding calls […]

I like this one a lot, chalcocite is a really strange semiconductor: https://soundcloud.com/cornish_semiconductor/penstruthal-chalcocite-transistor-part-1 https://archive.org/details/cornish-semiconductor-penstruthal-chalcocite-1

I did it http://alifeee.co.uk/tpe-soundboard/ (source: https://github.com/alifeee/tpe-soundboard)

Was behind a bunch of people in a queue who were talking about how they were protesting in support of Palestine and expecting to get arrested, then saw them pay for their bread with Barclay's bank cards. I'm not anti-protest by any means, but where we put our money is possibly the most power […]

Two out of three night trains on this trip has had our sleeper carriage cancelled or replaced last minute (causing 1hr delay).. I wonder if there's a bed bug problem in Europe at the moment

If you get an invite to this generative art software engineering call, note that if you submit something and it gets accepted, as far as I can tell it would cost you $3000 in open access fees... unless you want it to languish behind a paywall (you'd then only be allowed to share an unedited […]

Cornish Semiconductor Corporation: making techno using naturally grown semiconductors! All tracks recorded straight out of the circuits, just a bit of chopping around: https://soundcloud.com/cornish_semiconductor

We are all doomed 'Extreme day tripping is quite addictive' https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cedv825nqnno > A woman who flies abroad and then returns home on the same day says the journeys can be "pure fun".

Sad to hear that Maggie Boden has passed away. Her work on creativity e.g. her book "The Creative Mind" framed much of my work when I was a research student, bridging philosophy, psychology and computer science. https://staff.sussex.ac.uk/news/article/68608-obituary-professor-maggie-boden

Algorave : la teuf en open source | Tracks | ARTE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crz6R4p_owI

For the @supercollider 3.14 release party I explored new @tidalcycles beat functionality inspired by a conversation with drummer Matt Davies about the work of Malcolm Braff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bzZxl5bUT4

Does anyone have recommendations for interesting things to do in Berlin at the moment ? Will be passing through on holiday with our teenage son for a couple of days this week. Will likely hire some bikes and check out some museums.. Then Budapest for some more days and on to Slovakian high tatras

I'm going to say it... Wordpress (as self-hosted, multi-site website creating software) is a really awesome bit of free/open source software.

I'm going to try doing a live stream about @strudel on the weekend https://www.youtube.com/live/qxawE1nk9SA

On the way back from a great mini residency at IRCAM together with incredible percussionists B C Manjunath and Matt Davies. A joy and left with lots of ideas and homework, including some very fun new tidal functions which I'll have to share soon..

If you use supercollider (including superdirt), why not join the supercollider 3.14 release party? https://stream.supercollider.online/

According to google, the 2003 "live coding in laptop performance" journal article has passed 500 citations! That's quite a few books worth of papers that refer to it.. Unfortunately we published it in a closed access journal, but you can download a preprint here […]