Someone must have thought this was easier to understand. Remember when we had light bulbs with their power written on them in watts, like "60W"? Outdated. We call that "60 kWh/1000h" now.

I went to the Spike Island open studios in Bristol yesterday. Dozens of artists show their work in the environment where they made it, among the tools and paraphernalia of their studios, and that's always fascinating to me. The younger kid has decided he doesn't like art, though. He was not […]

I've polished up the #music I made for #fawm into a mini album, under the new artist name **Things only Cats can See**. It sounds unlike anything I've made before, with more melody and less sound design. It's on #mirlo, probably other platforms soon […]

🥳 I finally have a job! Turns out all that pretending to be businesslike on LinkedIn was in vain, because my old employer called me up and asked me back. The net effect is that they paid me to take 7 months off, then moved me to a more interesting team and gave me a pay rise.

[UK news / royal paedo] The newspapers are a sight today

#fawm track 7! Half way to the target. This one is called Pechvogel, because it was made on Friday the 13th and is in 13 time. Pechvogel is a German word for an unlucky person. Quite proud of this one.

Just wanted to post my favourite song I've heard on #fawm so far. This is so silly and so pretty, have a listen: https://fawm.org/songs/323160 #music #nowplaying

I made a bird house! I didn't measure anything properly and so it's a crooked bodge of a thing, but I made it. #badcarpentry

[Job search update] I've been unemployed for six months now. Last week I'd had a positive-feeling second interview with two companies, and a first interview and personality test with another. I was almost certain one of them would make me an offer, but no, those three have all fallen through. I […]

[Food, maybe horrible] Just ate a yoghurt with a best before date last September. I don't eat a lot of dairy, but I relish a challenge. It was OK. A little sour.

Reposting these odd little tunes, this time with embedded player.

Second song for #fawm. It's truly weird, I have no idea how this happened. https://y6nh.me/audio/2026/02%20-%20Things%20Only%20Cats%20Can%20See%20-%20Reguleven.mp3

I'm probably not going to manage a proper 14-track #fawm, but I have decided to make some quick #music in February anyway. I usually obsess about timbre, neglect melody, and take ages to get anything finished, so this is an attempt to do the opposite: preset sounds with minimal effects, and some […]

Out hunting for goblins. This looks promising.

Are their four types of #autism, asks NewScientist. TLDR: no.

Hey javaScript, can you just check these numbers are in the right order? > `[-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3].sort()` js: Fixed that for you! > `[-1, -2, -3, 0, 1, 2, 3]` Can one of you #javascript nerds explain why `Array.sort()` orders negative numbers backwards? #javascriptwtf

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Hello #fungiverse

Computer music people: There's a fun #free #vst plugin from Soundtoys, available today only. It's a re-creation of a very lo-fi early digital delay. There are more freebies coming in the next 11 days, too. (Naturally, you have to sign up for their emails and use iLok, but I've tried it out and […]

I've pretty much forgotten how to write Rust, so I'm refreshing my skills by using it for #aoc2025. A bit behind, but I've got both parts of the first three days now. I only had to cheat and use JavaScript for one of them. (I wanted to use regular expressions with backreferences, which Rust […]

[dental health] I just had a tooth extracted. My mouth is still numb and it'll take a while to get used to the new layout in there. The dentist was nice, though. I think some of her perfume rubbed off onto my hair, so I occasionally get a whiff of it, along with the feeling that she's checking […]

#chainwords 22-Nov-2025 🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠◯🟠🟠🟠🟠🟠◯🟠🟠🟠🟠◯🟠🟠🟠🟠 = 73 Tough one today; no E, R, N or U

Pflanze: die Espe gleicht der Luft durch ihr Zittern #page42

I published Grains and Pulses on Bandcamp. (It's already on Mirlo and Bandwagon.) #music c ps://pulsingbulb.bandcamp.com/album/grains-and-pulses

@etherdiver wrote about my album in Other People's Music: https://www.etherdiver.com/2025/10/31/opm-sisters-rock/ "kind of a hi-definition take on lo-fi, as odd as that sounds. It’s crusty and distorted but with incredible presence and sense of space." Glad he gets it! I love broken and […]

My #pumpkin rotted on one side, so this Jack has a big hole in the back. Still, not a bad job, I reckon.

[Job search update, +] Still looking for a job. I had a Teams interview last week, with a little firm that makes a charity lottery app, and they liked me at least enough to organize a second interview, coming up soon. But then my old employer, who made me redundant in August, are hiring again […]

#monsterdon what is this circus music in the woods?

I made this Generic Exciting Video Game Music loop for the Kilohearts contest that's currently under way. For the actual entry, it's filtered and glitched up, but here it is pure and simple.

#monsterdon a knapsack?

#monsterdon owls, rats, tarantulas.. this witch has cool pets

#monsterdon this still isn't a hospital, dad

More gloopy loops for #looptober #looptober2025

I've now published my new album to Bandwagon.fm. That means you can download it from https://bandwagon.fm/68eae89e32ce3b006264d178 , and you may even be able to follow @PulsingBulb 🎧 #music

This is the cover. I was going to photograph some beans and things myself, but ended up finding a photo on Unsplash, by Raul Kozenevski.

OK, I finally made a cover for my Pulsing Bulb album, so no excuses left not to release it. It's on Mirlo - other services coming later. https://mirlo.space/pulsing-bulb/release/grains-and-pulses #music #release #mirlo #mastomusic

#looptober I chopped up the 7/4 beat from the last one, added a little synth and effects.

I'm still looking for a software dev job. There's not much around, especially if you don't want to work on AI or weapons. Speaking of which, I came across this horrifying job title:

Current conditions: Moon dogs

**Current project announcement** I'm assembling a Pulsing Bulb album. It's mostly made up of my submissions for online challenges - the #lmc, #awhaleslantern and a couple of others, from 2018 to 2025. I've remastered them, I have a title, just need a cover image and I'll be ready to release.

We should swap the species of stags and hens so that the groom gets a cock party and the bride gets a doe do.

Computer music people: Hornet's LA2A-style compression #vst plugin is free for the next 28 hours or so. https://www.hornetplugins.com/hornet-ha2a-free-for-48-hours/ I've tested this one briefly on Linux with Yabridge, it seems to work fine. Some of Hornet's other plugins (and their installer […]

My first job interview since being made redundant. Wish me luck...

Still going through old papers and stuff. Stuff like: * Flyers for the first band gig I played, aged 17 * Really mean caricatures of some of my school teachers * BBC fact sheet about topology, signed by Johnny Ball, from 1984. It contains this joke: How do […] [Original post on im-in.space]

This is a selfie of me aged 18. It was the first project in the photography module at art college. We were asked to make a self portrait that represented something about our personalities. I just made this double exposure in the darkroom because I thought it […] [Original post on im-in.space]

Found this among my old papers. I must have picked it up somewhere at least 25 years ago. #foundpoem

My parents brought me a box and two bags of old papers, letters and artwork of mine. Going through this stuff is emotional. I'm getting to know my younger self again, aged about 7-21. Kind of pretentious and sarcastic, but basically a good kid, and really creative.