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)

Bring recitals of sorting algorithms to Carnegie Hall! W. Brian Arthur: The Nature of Technology

The curse of dimensionality, as coined by Richard Bellman in "Dynamic Programming" (1957)

"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes." Ed Yong: An Immense World

Head over to Google Helsinki in a couple of hours and say hi 👋

I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model. aeriform.ctpt.co

my relationship with tech has drifted over the 10-15 years as things became more about hyper-scale and extraction vs creating and collaborating. this, uh, resonated deeply with me and i hope it resonates with you too: resonantcomputing.org

I'm speaking in the Future Frontend Meetup in Helsinki next week. I'll be yapping about my recent experiences with React Native - the good, the bad, and the ugly - from building the Starmirror app for Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst. www.meetabit.com/events/futur...

"Drone-ambient-noise synthesizer in Javascript: when instability is a feature, not a bug" bs.stranno.su/drone-ambien...

"Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web Audio and what the web does best" by Katie Fenn www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3h...

important news: this year's 24/7 livestream of a litter of puppies has begun areena.yle.fi/1-76362374

The KickStarter is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/190... Our big fat beautiful book, Designing Imaginative Environments is a deep dive into the world of environment design for storytelling.

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

i feel seen

I computed Stable Audio Open latent space embeddings for my Bandcamp music collection. A nearest-neighbour traversal reveals fun connections.