i think we can all agree the world needs more hurdy-gurdy and motorik www.youtube.com/watch?v=99NU...

I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works! This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one). Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but VANISHING CULTURE—the new 📚 from Internet Archive—starts with a simple reality: our digital record is far more fragile than we think 🕳️ 📖 Read for free: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... ⬇️

We recently started putting out recordings of our Psykedeelit 2025 conference held last October in Turku. We've creted a playlist that currently contains seven lectures, and plan to keep putting them out at a pace of three recordings a week. 1/ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Overfitting in humans Chen Qiufan: As Water Over Your Scattered Bodies

INFERNO. 29 MAY 2026. boardsofcanada.com

Love how deep Tyler Friedman and @philipsherburne.bsky.social get into tuning system nerdery here. Our Leimma/Apotome work with Khyam Allami also gets a quick nod. ❤️ futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-164-tyl...

They have discovered a planet. A thing lives there that's like a bear with infinite skin. We could fly there on a sunbeam. Can you go there with me?

Participating in the Pocket Scion distributed science experiment today, collecting resistance data from a few interventions on a Pothos plant

On Shaun Reynaldo’s newsletter, Spencer Doran talks about Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order, and the idea of positive space in sound design. firstfloor.substack.com/p/visible-cl...

On this day in 2006, Neil banged out the tunes

Got a pretty good setup going with Claude Remote Control, doing Windows builds and testing for our audio systems without having to suffer using a Windows machine. I talk to Claude from a browser on my Mac, it drives things on Windows for me.

Had a nice chat with Jordi Pons about music [as] software, music for wellbeing, Raymond Scott's Electronium, and much more! artintech.substack.com/p/music-as-s...

Interesting thoughts on architecture, and lack of it in agentic model outputs.

galactic empire pivoting into breathwork

Yikes. socket.dev/blog/axios-n...

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

claude is officially at one nine of uptime

"The Bayesian approach is this weird niche that only a few people seem reeeeally into. It’s the Haskell of statistics." nchagnet.pages.dev/blog/bayesia...

current status

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

"Building Live Loopers in Max": new book by Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor technophony.com/building-liv...

A squelchy 303 Day to one and all! To celebrate, why not go and have a play with this web experience we made for Roland with Yuri Suzuki a few years ago. roland50.studio

RIP. A visionary writer of sf and adjacent genres.

Happy release day to Shane Parish's Autechre Guitar! shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

diagrams that go hard arxiv.org/abs/2505.11581

There's too much ambient music. Things would improve if ambient musicians had to produce a symphonic power metal LP, a Carnatic grindcore ballet or a jazz fusion opera in F# Phrygian once every 5 years, just to show they can (cf The Straight Story) before being allowed to fire up the reverb again.

software development now consists of reading think pieces about claude code while claude code cooks

Klingon High Council, I know that my family name is still in disgrace. It is not necessary that you send me annual reminder emails. Worf

People are making false comparisons between AI and MIDI. Completely different. MIDI is an all-seeing God; the one true God, lord of everything known and unknown. We have no true autonomous will outside MIDI — MIDI is all and all is MIDI. AI is basically like autocomplete.

Adam Neely just dropped a full 90 minutes on "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future" www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...

A re-release of Music Mouse, the intelligent instrument, is being worked on by Laurie Spiegel & Eventide. This one's special. www.eventideaudio.com/software/mus...

This is such a titillating way to think about how you move your body. www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023...

On transcribing Autechre

Chimps sample their action space with a higher temperature than bonobos. Michael Tomasello: "The Evolution of Agency"

Roses are red, Sunlight is bright

Horses are born with tentacles that fall off when they’re babies. It’s so they don’t kick their way through their moms when they’re still baking in the horse oven.That’s the origin of the term “horse feathers”. (Horses kinda freak me out so I know all their dirty little secrets)