**Subject:** [Action Required] Important AWS Account Notice > As previously communicated on 2025-09-30 in an email we sent at 23:45 UTC while you were on annual leave, AWS will be sunsetting all Amazon ElasticJizzWailer (EJW) nodes, starting yesterday. Please migrate your workloads to Amazon […]

The #jkmakesmusic project has been on hold for about 2 weeks now (as I'm sure all of you noticed). I just set up my synths to just play something for a change, and it turns out all of my "creative ideas" still evaporate the moment I think of pressing a key 😞 it's making me sad, so I'm going to […]

in which I may or may not have a discount code for Scalar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWLznUD88U8

RE: https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296 No single post in this thread will prepare you for the next post in this thread. I'm beginning to think that tools like OpenClaw are professional malpractice and should be outright banned from civil society.

one thing that i really dislike about Unix is the zealous adherence to semi-accidental design elements that ends up interfering with the utility of the underlying useful principle for example: * early Unix could not run too complex a program due to hardware restrictions, so programs were […]

the more I learn of this synth stuff, the less I know what to choose to make my own sounds 🥲

this contest culture thread from yesterday really reminds me of how much I loved the Recurse Center social rules https://www.recurse.com/social-rules, it feels a lot of them are tricks for combatting contest culture and making a space that's good for learning […]

@zachmccoy thanks for the like, I was wondering if these replies even show up in people's feeds LOL

Jan 25, we're getting somewhere. Got a whole 4-bar loop... #jkmakesmusic

Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you mind want to scale back. "The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform […]

New video! Featuring cats-mtl and its relatively recent additions of the allow/rescue mechanism, AKA scoped capabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTKWpYMciV8

Coprolites aren't my favorite fossil but they're a solid number two. #dadjokes #paleontology

Always nice to have options

my confidence in my ability to recognize FM modulation

Someone blocked me for saying claude is an agent lol

I should probably move these synth threads to a more blog-ish medium... feels a bit spammy at the moment, and my Mastodon client doesn't auto-scroll-to-post, so I always end up on top of the thread, which is now very long.

This is definitely one of my favourite Carpenter Brut songs, especially the part starting at 4:16. Blew me out of my boots when I first heard it, and continues to do so to this day https://open.spotify.com/track/73HHVjU5JcU2mzM1FEGjXS?si=vVU0_YYDSNyca-kZLIbj_A

first (and only) new year's resolution is: spend an hour, daily, doing some _focused_ learning on making music.

yo yo new video ahead! The hidden power of Scala's Opaque Types https://youtu.be/4PJFdNZ1Bro (yes the URL has Bro in it, that was 100% intentional)

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are: 1. Getting up in the morning 2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

I made a video about @noelwelsh's Krop library! https://youtu.be/lY88Z1JnUpI #scala

New video, with Łukasz Biały from @scala_space! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_omndY1ifI

look mom, I spoke at @scaladays! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bUuGhSmrIU (with @majkp)

WHY IS EVERYBODY PLAYING SILKSONG

New vid! I waited 4 years for this Scala feature - F[_] around and find out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06YvDUgeEQk

@scaladays we comin'! @majkp

hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam linux user: omg you got it working?

God and x86 are both made up

first attempts with @strudel - […]

who named it “docker compose down” and not “docker decompose”

reporters submits a hackerone report against #curl that includes "a crash in function NNN" with lots of complicated details. With the little detail that function NNN was made up and does not exist in real code.

an ominous I-am-under-NDA-coded warning to immediately uninstall atop has been posted by a reputable tech blogger. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/25/atop/

Is it because I'm in an organization selected for Summer of Code, or is everyone seeing a surge in AI slop contributions on GitHub? It's like Hacktoberfest in March.

Oh my fucking god they open sourced pebbleos

Time really do be flying. It's been more time since I last had long hair (early 2021) than between when I originally had long hair (early 2017), cut it, grew it back and cut it again (early 2021) so yeah is it time to bring it back? 🤔

When someone is better at one thing I do: ok When someone is better at multiple things I do: NOT OK!!!!!

A recent @obsidian release changed my keybindings, anyone else?

Anyone who appears to be making a Nazi salute is making a Nazi salute. There’s no need for speculation when the only people who ever do it are Nazis.

#playdatedev is getting network APIs 🥰

Sometimes you're having a good day, and sometimes you're just having a day that you decide should end early...

For corporate platforms, "Community Notes" is just a transitional stage to AI-added "context" (and the "AI" label will increasingly be dropped or footnoted). Meta and X have already begun blending human & AI-generated content towards this end. Above all, the temptation of controlling the […]