I also figured out how to get the “neighborhood” of a given note as a Graphviz graph! I can set how far away from the initial note to look, although there are enough topic index notes that things get dense pretty quickly. This is, again, something Obsidian can […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I'm working on a Python tool to parse all the links in my PKM notebook and turn them into a Graphviz graph showing connections between the notes It's essentially the same thing as the graph view in Obsidian, but since I prefer to do my notebook in the terminal […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Due to my somewhat prickly and precise definition of "software ethics" I would not, personally, do this, but I think it's good that someone has. The industry—and the "community", such as it is—needs a wake-up call. The conversation *around* this reminds me of the loud booing from commencement […]

If you value this work and want to see our safety resources stay online, independent, and active, please consider joining our Power of One campaign. We are looking for 500 supporters to contribute just 1 (£, €, $) a month. Small change, big difference […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

> Because something new is possible, something that will increase wealth and power, those who have the capacity to bring it into being will. The statement of inevitability is a statement of the strong: we can do this and will do this […] > > When people on the Left attach themselves to the […]

[uspol] > “If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast,” Alfonsi concluded. https://newrepublic.com/post/210986/cbs-news-ousts-60-minutes-reporter-trump-deportations […]

> TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The […]

I just saw Rowan Ellis use the greeting “ladies, gentlemen, and those who are not members of the aristocracy,” which is my new favorite way of subverting that phrase

@palomakop's Week of Patching (July 6–12) event looks like a lot of fun! I put it in my calendar, and I'll definitely be making some fun Max/MSP stuff for it. https://palomakop.tv/week-of-patching/ #maxmsp #modular #modularsynth #electronicmusic

i made a webpage about #weekofpatching ! https://palomakop.tv/week-of-patching/

[crude pun] *SOPHIE voice* I just `git reset` so `--hard`

[link to AI slop] Occasionally boosters will claim that all the trivially reproducible errors ("R"s in strawberry, full wine glass) are all solved, and I need to demonstrate that this is not the case. It's annoying that this keeps happening without any fundamental progress, but in case you need […]

RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@Athena/116578993491995353 The Rust LLM policy discussion is making me deeply depressed. I just want one corner free from LLMs.

I've been really enjoying working with Lilypond, and today I wrote about some more helpful says to work with MIDI files in the terminal and quickly build Lilypond projects from Neovim https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/05/neovim-lilypond-midi-files-terminal/ #lilypond #neovim #midi […]

Beabadoobee is such a great artist name. Very whimsical, and anytime I see it, I end up saying it to myself several times since it's fun to say.

Hey friends, so my friend's a musician called girli, and she's been producing music for 10 years, and she's now 250 sales away from a top-40 album position in the UK charts. You help her by ordering via her website: https://girlimusic.com/ Or the digital download […]

“There's personal circumstances, medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes, sexual assault allegations… If that information is out across hundreds of millions of people, there's a lot of harm that's going to happen.” […]

RE: https://toot.fedilab.app/@apps/116523377274162126 Want to see what one of the solutions @sean and I said would fix one of the most persistant UX sins, being fixed real time on social apps? (This is the sin of remote following from other servers) See it in action here, on #fedilab app, and […]

🔗 https://wedistribute.org/2026/04/the-seven-deadly-fediverse-ux-sins-a-redemption-report-card/ 🧵 2/2

So Fediverse app #holossocial just added support for this in their latest iOS beta: "Holos Social 1.5.5 (34) Support for web+ap:// links (fedilinks): to open profiles and posts directly in Holos." This is a big milestone for a key fix myself and Sean wrote about here, to help make remote […]

“Bottom posting” is an unfortunate name for email etiquette I feel like a lot of teens/twentysomethings would imagine keysmashing, using the 🥺 emoji, or something like that

It varies which of my favorite songs would make the list, but: Autechre: - “Dropp” - “Gantz Graf” - “Tapr” - ”VL AL 5” Fire-Toolz: - “✓ BEiNG’ - “It's Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer” Sophie: “Hard” Enon, “Biofeedback” Charli XCX, “Silver Cross” Venetian Snares, “Frictional Nevada”

[Project Hail Mary spoiler] Dr. Grace mentioned that “taumoeba” was a bit of an obvious name, but if we're going that route, “astrophagephage” was right there

I realized something that greatly amuses me: despite the fact I would never let an LLM anywhere near anything I write, I could technically say that LLMs help me write my emails. By that, I mean that the knowledge that people are using LLMs to make their emails sound “more professional” is […]

I'm very much torn between “use an LLM ‘agent’ and get what you deserve,” and blaming the tech industry and the overly-credulous press for hyping these chatbots so much […]

There's a music event on the lawn and one of the bands is playing “Hotel California,” and this is my face on recognizing the song coming through the wall

I hadn't noticed Lilypond was on a new version until just a bit ago — I saw `GNU LilyPond 2.26.0 (running Guile 3.0)` in the terminal and was momentarily very confused Today I finally got around to joining the Lilypond mailing list and the music Stack Exchange to ask some questions, only to […]

I asked this question on the music Stack Exchange, and if anyone has an answer that would be greatly appreciated! I'm looking for how to get the doubled trill line here in Lilypond, as well as ideally, multiple noteheads in the parentheses […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

lmao https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/ #claude #claudecode #anthropic #ai #llm

When I take the `cdr` of a Scheme list, I always hear it in my head as taking the Commander of the list

I'd been thinking it would be nice to have a decent fidget, and I found this little mechanical keyboard strip that should be very nice. It came with Kailh Arctic Fox clicky switches (which I wanted to try), but I'm also giving it a go with U4Ts — it's easy to […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

“The goal is to flood the zone with so much anti-birth control content that young women believe we’re encountering this content organically. In reality, what we’re experiencing is a coordinated effort by right-wing actors, steadily manufacturing our consent to ban birth control—and more.” […]

One of the very difficult tensions around this problem is that the extrusion enthusiast culture itself is deeply obnoxious, bordering on predatory. So enforcement of boundaries may sometimes need to be pretty confrontational. And it really shouldn't be incumbent upon maintainers themselves to […]

The way that this is written strikes me as wildly over-optimistic and dangerously credulous towards slopmongers' claims about capabilities. But. I think in the mold of "try to be kind, not to be 'nice'", we do need to engage with the realpolitik of a slop-haunted world. We cannot accept […]

I've mostly been happy with Dorico, but the stock instrument sounds really feel like a downgrade from even the included Garritan sounds from Finale. So far I've just used the oboe/clarinet solo, but I'm liking this free library better than Dorico's stock sounds: versilian-studios.com/vsco-communi...

Break them up! Break them up! https://www.theverge.com/policy/912689/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-monopoly-trial-verdict #Ticketmaster #LiveNation #business #law

The pizza place usually has on a 90s station, the station regularly plays “Plowed” by Sponge, and every time I swear I hear “in a world of human regex”

Weird macOS keyboard behavior: it *sometimes* inserts a non-breaking space instead of a standard one when I type a space after an em-dash. I noticed because I have Neovim set to mark different kinds of whitespace characters (gray square brackets below) Any […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

It's so cool that anthropic is setting up a double-sided protection racket where it will profit from the massive token burn of attackers and defenders with a tool specifically designed to generate exploits and their only observable mitigation is a clientside system prompt that sternly warns the […]

Youth pastor cover of Charli XCX's “360,” but it's called “316” and it's about John 3:16

I watched the livestream as they went around the moon, and it's so cool to see the photos that came out of that — even more stunning than I imagined https://www.npr.org/sections/the-picture-show/2026/04/07/nx-s1-5775935/picture-show-moon-eclipse-photos #moon #nasa #space #artemis #artemis2

Oh goody, looks like people harassed the nvim-treesitter dev enough that he archived the plugin repo I guess at some point I should figure out how to manually set up Tree-Sitter stuff https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1sbrnir/what_happened_to_nvimtreesitter_why_did_it_get/

It's extremely funny to hear the Artemis II astronauts talking about “the terminator” Makes me imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger walking around on the moon

It's so cool and beautiful to see images from this far away from earth, and to know that people are currently traveling to the moon https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192 #nasa #space #artemis

PhD Thesis: Mechanical Techno: extended turntable as live assemblage My PhD has now been approved by university, so I can now share my thesis and the media that goes along with it. Here's the main page with the thesis download and links: grahamdunning.com/phd In a three-year […]

“Every Harry Potter book, movie, video game, stage show ticket, theme park pass, and piece of merchandise that’s sold puts money into Rowling’s pocket, which she can use to keep her crusade against trans people going.” […]

“Resume.org surveyed 1000 hiring managers: > 59% admit they emphasize AI when explaining hiring freezes or layoffs because it plays better with stakeholders than citing financial constraints.” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/23/layoffs-dont-boost-the-share-price-they-drop-it/ #ai #labor #layoffs

The Astral acquisition got me thinking: if someone made a fork of Astral's `ty` Python type-checker/language server, it would be amusing if they called it `basedty` like the `basedpyright` fork of Microsoft's Pyright