Submitting to an academic conference and once more am completely amazed that people who call themselves academic technologists use LaTeX to make PDFs to communicate their research. This is by far the worst widely-adopted software I've ever used, and I really hope I don't ever use it again. Awful […]

Anthropic are now casting live coders for ad campaigns showing how great Claude is for pushing beyond their capabilities. Not sure it's quite there yet..

I was really pleased with the range of @uzu microgrants, although it was uncompetitive - we were able to fund all the proposals that fit the open call and had enough detail to evaluate. Crowdfunding for free/open source at this level is tricky because people do it for fun and intrinsic value […]

Live code duo Epiploke (Lucy aka heavy lifting + I) have a gig in Lyon France 2nd May, and looking for gigs to make a mini tour on the way there.. E.g. Netherlands, west side of Germany, maybe London.. lmk if you are putting something on around then !

Good to see more free/open source projects move off the proprietary ai-scraping microsoft github platform to codeberg etc. I think it's fair to say that projects left behind there aren't really free/open source.. Many aren't able to contribute to projects there for ethical reasons, and github […]

Fun times ahead, I'll be in Eindhoven for a few days weds-fri this week, visiting @kand, Pei-Ying Lin and co in their textile lab at tu/e to explore controlling a hacked TC2 loom like a musical instrument together I'll also be at the live coding meetup at blablalab in Eindhoven on Thurs 29th to […]

I haven't flown anywhere in over five years, ryanair just emailed deleting my account for inactivity #nofly

[Gas boiler opentherm rant] Our boiler thermometer stopped working (wouldn't pair). Looked into replacements and found out there's a nice 'opentherm' standard for efficient control of the boiler. Got a hive opentherm thermostat fitted for ~£300, had to call the engineer back to actually connect […]

Was going to post some thoughts about going on holiday but remembered asking chatgpt4 about my holiday schedule and it had been spying on my mastodon profile and made a pretty good guess

My top debian-derived linux tip is to uncomment the bash completion bits in /etc/bash.bashrc It enables tab completion for a bunch of stuff that saves loads of time No idea why this isn't enabled by default. Setting up a new linux mint install for me these days is basically just doing that and […]

The freezers in the co-op on ecclesall road sheffield sound really nice https://www.reddit.com/r/sheffield/comments/1qisgb9/comment/o0ue74u/ #sheffield

Still providing support for people using Betablocker DS - if you want to make software with longevity, make it work on the oldest tech you can get your hands on! #permacomputing https://thentrythis.org/projects/betablocker/

[Sheffield] If you live in or visit Sheffield and have been impacted by the excessive use of amplifiers on the moor by preachers etc, please sign and share this petition! https://democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=10394&RPID=19509420&HPID=19509420

"On being formal: communal informatics, khipu technologies, extractivism, and debt." Research workshop of the Epistemic Media Research Group (Institute for Music and Media) with @Khipumancer, @nebogeo, @julian and myself coming up in-person in Düsseldorf on […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

When writing a parser for a new (programming) language and you find yourself doing a lot of lookahead, and making design compromises to avoid that.. I wonder what a language would end up like if you parsed it backwards from the start? Like just reversed the code as a string. Would the language […]

Our Bandcamp Friday compilation "Compassion through algorithms vol III" raised £2272 GBP, split equally between Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), and Gaza Biennale, a collective project of the Forbidden Museum in the West Bank and artists in Gaza. Many […] [Original post on social.toplap.org]

Strangers On a Bench just keeps getting better https://shows.acast.com/strangers-on-a-bench

Good news - pubpub is continuing https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-01-update/ #pubpub

When you ask someone to respect your GPL free/open source license, sometimes they act offended and say you are threatening them with state violence. The thinking seems to be that copyright law comes down to threats to put people in prison. I've only seen this from privileged white men in tech […]

Financial Times is not holding back […]

Work is progressing well on my new live coding language. Please book me for a gig as I've promised not to talk or write about it until I've performed with it for a year and I'd like to start the clock

V excited for the new AdaCAD v5 pre-release ! If you're interested in weaving and comfortable with box-and-wire style programming, it's a weird and fun way into it. I'm happy to have contributed a bitfield generator to this release ! - main doc website for people new to adacad […]

The handweaving.net archive seems great and a huge effort, but getting together out of copyright patterns, digitising them and then charging people $6.50 a month to access them under a restrictive license seems a bit wrong? Surely if you digitise out of copyright patterns you don't have […]

Deadmau5 mistakes sonic pi code for strudel, news at 11 https://youtu.be/ane7B2Q8jbs?si=IzAdRtqS0DAmS4jl&t=120

Stumbled across this again

Pretty useful summary of European train delays in 2025. Grim reading for German trains. It seems the coach is often the better option these days :/ https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

Hi @tidalcycles + @strudel people! If you'd like to support + encourage software and community development of Strudel, Tidal and sibling projects, now would be great time! https://opencollective.com/tidalcycles This software is shared as free/open source with love, and created and supported […]

I still agree with this tbh

I've been fascinated by this new 'pyramid tala' via B C Manjunath, trying to get my head around it for months now x x - x - - x - - - x - - - - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DV3RPS2-iZw Just found an example using this tala on the veena: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DLVBt5FzkJ5/ A great […]

The blogerati have discovered algorave (via @soundclamp) https://interconnected.org/home/2025/12/11/live

7 years ago, I got a room full of people in Sheffield to sing the red flag, o tannenbaum and o christmas tree simultaneously, while I played with the chords in @tidalcycles (they all have the same tune) merry xmas!

Over the last year my fedi feed has gone from aloof disinterest in LLMs to what feels like 50% anti-LLM diatribes. I kind of miss the old days!

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

A new epistemic tool has arrived in the @patternclubsheffield lab!

!!!Album release!!! "220 under adit (techno from mine waste)" All proceeds will go to the Panzi Foundation, supporting victims of sexual violence in conflict mining areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an illegal exploitation that ends up filling our laptops and mobiie phones. Please […]

Thinking about making a new live coding language that I don't talk or write about until I've performed with it for a year. #normaliseintrospectivecreativity

Shocked to hear of the antisemitic terrorist attack in Sydney. Full power to all affected including the passing fruit shop owner who selflessly managed to unarm one of the attackers.

I've done a bit of website spring cleaning, update the music bit (was over 10 years out of date), added some publications, updated contact info etc. There's about 360 blog posts on there that I should go through, and make more browseable.. https://slab.org/

New to warm @strudel , you can use 'delta' to do things based on the duration of events […]

<3 techno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfCRS08D4uA&list=WL&index=34

I'm calling the prototype crystal 'log synth' done. Three natural semiconductor voices, each with their own filters, 4 vactrol sequencers and 3 single transistor gates with their own sequencer - actually quite a lot packed in here I realise... Tested in the […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

Live coding from scratch stream is live, currently from Bogota https://live.eulerroom.com/

I really want to be interested in this "dark forest theory of the internet" but just listened to their podcast about the economics of it and they just went on and on about using substack and discord as if that was somehow revelatory? I couldn't get the point of what they were saying at all. Then […]

Happy to have two collaborations on this fundraising compilation - one with instrumental musicians Sarah Heneghan on drums and Zebedee Budworth on hammer dulcimer, and another as "epiploke" with Heavy Lifting aka Lucy Cheesman. Both fully improvised from nothing in the moment. Is it ok to say I […]

Just released "Compassion through algorithms volume III" - a huge 55 track album full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity and culture. Buy it today (name your […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

Another live coding stream this weekend! This one with from-scratch live code performances, to celebrate 15 years of the from-scratch movement. Grab your slot here: https://eulerroom.com/

What do people think about the "dark forest theory of the internet" ? https://www.ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/

I want to get into bobbin lace, I got a second hand pillow and bobbins and am enjoying surfing youtube, but not sure how to navigate all the tutorials etc.. Anyone with advice for a good book or something, or even better in a similar position and fancy some peer learning?

According to the US copyright office, copyright doesn't extend to purely AI-generated material. I'm not sure if vibe coding can count as 'purely AI-generated', but it's an annoying thought that e.g. GPL code can be turned into uncopyrightable code via the AI meat grinder. I also keep returning […]