The name “Sapphod Beeblebrox” just popped into my head, which I guess would be a genderbent wlw Zaphod or something

I mentioned last time that I was going to start a series on how reverb works — here's the next post! https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/09/reverb-part-2/ Last time I wrote about the “freeverb” Schroeder reverb algorithm. This time I'm looking at a way to make echo densities build up over […]

I've finally started moving over to Codeberg! I have a collection of Max/MSP reverb abstractions that I'm working on, and so far, I have some room algorithms from Gardner's 1992 paper: https://codeberg.org/reillypascal/rs.reverb I'm also writing some blog posts about these, and I'll have the […]

[ICE, sexual assault] “Among the most upsetting aspects of this rising crisis of violence against immigrants and women is how predictable it was. Of course men believe that if they pose as the state they can perpetrate the same violence the state often does to terrorize and violate women and […]

My entry for the September IndieWeb blog carnival, hosted by @fractalkitty! It's my first foray into creative writing/short stories on my blog, and it was a lot of fun: “You feel that a certain sickness has been pervading your life. It's a dull ache that suffuses subtly through many unrelated […]

[unicode font support survey - please boost!!] i am working on a project utilizing unicode characters from a wide array of character sets. if you have a sec, pls reply with a screenshot of what you see below, and optionally lmk what OS you're on! please boost ↺ so i can see a variety of […]

“We'll pool some revenue and dole it out to you based on how valuable we decide it is. How do we decide how valuable it is? Shut up and trust us.” https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/cloudflare-proposes-the-spotify-model-for-the-web #cloudflare #ai #search #web #gigeconomy

I'm reading Borges' “Garden of Forking Paths” collection. I was inspired to do so because I've heard people reference the title story in connection with hypertext. That combined with searching through archives for mysterious texts in “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” reminded me of this URL (make […]

[uspol] “One of the more immediate dangers of Trump’s rhetorical gesture may be the ‘chilling effect,’ Kadidal said. The average protester may find it hard to piece through the legal questions around terror designations and decide to stay home.” […]

Has anyone found it harder to drag and drop things on recent MacBooks? I have an M3 Pro MacBook Pro from 2023/macOS 15.7, and everything works fine for me but I've seen multiple students' computers on which it was much harder to drag and drop things Any workarounds/suggestions I could give […]

“Between CBS, TikTok, and Oracle’s recent stock surge and data center dealings— Ellison is a billionaire to watch… his chokehold on the structures and systems powering our information and media ecosystems may be indelible in the years ahead.” […]

My partner's mom gave me a lovely leather pen case for my birthday! It's especially great because I was just thinking how I need something like this after almost knocking a pen on the floor. #fountainpens #fountainpen

I got the message “Gav ett hjärta till en bild” from my partner in an otherwise English group chat. I realized it's just the usual notification that Android users get from iMessage reactions, except my partner is studying Swedish and must have had the Swedish keyboard turned on. Did not realize […]

I found a cool resource on a composer for The Weather Channel: https://twcclassics.com/information/trammell-starks.html I first learned about him when Fire-Toolz shared some music that inspires her ( […]

“This poll underscores that the term ‘democratic socialism’ now communicates something very practical to American voters: the kind of economic security and fairness once associated with the New Deal tradition” https://jacobin.com/2025/09/new-poll-democratic-socialism-mainstream/ #socialism […]

Y’all, this one is close to me. A San Diego mutual aid organizer I’m connected with needs support to pay for a jaw surgery they’re having soon: https://gofund.me/09d07f525 Any amount helps and boosting is much appreciated. 💛

I'm missing a pen and my first thought was “oh, I'll just ctrl + f for it”

[transphobia, gun violence, Charlie Kirk] “As reported by The Advocate, ‘The Gun Violence Archive has tracked mass shootings since 2013 and found in 2023 that just 0.1 percent involved a transgender shooter. By contrast, 96 to 98 percent have been committed by cisgender men.‘” […]

Came across this interesting suggestion for better Rust build times on Mac The article suggests adding your terminal to “Developer Tools” (explained in the article) so that XProtect doesn't scan things you've compiled yourself for malware every time you compile […]

[Charlie Kirk, transphobia] “We know now that the Journal royally fucked this up — the bullets did have messages, but nothing about transgender people was on them. […] “_The Wall Street Journal_ has not retracted its report about the trans community, nor has it apologized. I guess it really is […]

My mom gave me this nice fountain pen ink for my birthday and it writes very nicely! Ink: Sailor Yurameku Yoi Pen: TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR Notebook: GLP Creations, “The Author” (A5, 68gsm Tomoe River) #fountainpen #fountainpens

My partner baked a cake with me for my birthday, and now we're watching “The Amazing Digital Circus”

When I think about the ARM EABI (embedded ABI) toolchain, I hear it pronounced "eeby," and I think about how robots say "eeby deeby" (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeCb_abgig0 )

A very cool looking project! It's a tracker interface that runs in the terminal, with SuperCollider handling the synth. Really checking all the boxes for me — retro music interfaces, works with SC, runs in the terminal. Still in alpha, but I'll have to try it out when I get some time […]

It's my birthday today and my fiancé got me tickets to see Autechre! My partner is very sweet and I'm very excited — Autechre has been one of my favorite groups for quite a long time now.

Listening to Fire-Toolz's “Breeze” album this morning. Such cool sound design and composition and it feels really nice to just get lost in it.

I've made the amusing realization that I tend to look at Power User as a guide on what not to do. I'll see an episode mentioning a trend; usually it's something I dislike; and then I'll think “well I guess I need to do the opposite.” I've definitely noticed that I see less thoughts and daily […]

Cool collection of short stories opposing authoritarian tech surveillance: “The settings range from a scorching Italian freeway, where swirling photovoltaic car windows catch the reflection of a Signora’s malocchio amulet, to a low-tech enclave within an automated city that’s exploited as a […]

I get the most clunky spam comments on my blog sometimes. They tend to be "I love how you do…" [keyword soup scraped from my site], and immediately followed with "by the way, I think you would love this product." Today it was someone hawking a website that will turn your photos into pixel art […]

I recently switched from Debian to Arch and just now it took me about 5 seconds of staring in disbelief at the screen to realize why it was telling me "apt: command not found"

As a static site lover and JavaScript hater* I did one of those satisfied "heh heh" chuckles on reading the title of this: https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/ *I only hate JavaScript when it's used unnecessarily client-side. Sometimes a sparing amount is useful there, and 11ty […]

I've wanted to get into D&D/TTRPGs for a while, and now I've found a cool group to do that with at my library! https://reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/08/ttrpgs-at-the-library/ #dnd #ttrpg #gaming

I figured out how to get some custom shortcuts in my startup screen on Neovim, and how to do my own ASCII header (my dotfiles: https://github.com/reillypascal/kickstart.nvim) "u" runs Lazy.nvim updates, "n" runs :enew, "r" runs Oil, and "s" runs Telescope. This is using dashboard-nvim.

Some nice ways I've made my use of tech feel more pleasant — live coding with Tidal Cycles, and algorithmic knitting patterns https://reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/08/re-turning-towards-the-positive/ #indieweb #livecoding #tidalcycles #knitting #crafts

A colleague at the school where I teach music came across an old DX7 synth! We moved it into the new recording studio that's getting built, and that will be very cool to play around with.

I added a /uses page to my site, and one thing I found in particular that I have to recommend is FOSS Android apps to de-Google your phone. I also have a section on the fountain pens/inks/notebooks I like. https://reillyspitzfaden.com/uses/ #android #grapheneos #degoogle #foss #indieweb […]

I laughed at an AI meme just now. I take the laugh back. No laughs for AI.

Not to be an Annoying Vim Person™ but Neovim makes me very happy I started using it because I didn't like Microsoft making it harder to use official plugins in forks and couldn't find another GUI editor I liked much better Between the custom color scheme I was […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I'm getting back into SuperCollider (and running it from Neovim!) This is taking an MP3 I glitched up in Python (as discussed here: https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/04/databending-part-3/) and looping random segments of it like a skipping CD […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

If LocalSend is so good, why don't we have a LocalReceive yet? Where are all the locals getting sent to?

Should've posted this earlier, but I've now added *everything* that's on #youtube to #peertube, including every single short. Whew. Here's the playlist: https://tv.gravitons.org/w/p/dfjStRNLqePh2phmmqGC8r Or you can follow @ursinewave :toot: #music #musicvideos #video #videos #animation […]

The recording studio at the school where I teach is coming together! They're been having me pick out gear and consult on setup for this, and before this semester, we were waiting for the facilities people to install the paneling. It's nice to have that finishing up. #teaching #recording #audio

最近HTMLでルビを振ることのやり方を知た! Or in English, “I recently learned how to write ruby characters in HTML!” I took some Japanese in undergrad, and I'm having fun playing around with Japanese typography on the web. https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/08/ruby-html/ #japanese #language […]

I added a “location” section for my /notes posts — previously I just had that on the “statuslog” section on my /now page, which I haven't ended up using very much: https://reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/08/location-test/ #Eleventy #11ty #bash #shell #blog #indieweb

I'm looking for Markdown display help for Neovim. I have text wrapping at whitespace rather than in the middle of words, but the link underlines still extend to the edge. I have `vim.opt.linebreak = true` in ftplugins/markdown.lua, and that's all I'm doing to […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Eli and I are getting married! https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/08/were-getting-married/

I have SuperCollider running from Neovim! This plugin works pretty easily to do it: https://github.com/davidgranstrom/scnvim #supercollider #neovim #nvim

I added a section with DSP blogs/posts, textbooks (including free online ones!) code snippets, and more to the “Links” page in my personal wiki/digital garden! Hopefully it can be helpful to someone: https://reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/links/ #dsp #audio #programming #sounddesign #indieweb

I have a humans.txt file on my site (https://reillyspitzfaden.com/humans.txt), and I wanted to get it to update the “modified” date only when I actually modify the file, not every time I update the site. @benji suggested the Eleventy `Last Modified` variable (https://www.11ty.dev/docs/dates/) […]

“Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” One of those studies where the result seems self-evident, but it's nice to have research demonstrating it for when people try to argue that AI Is Great Actually […]