parker higgins
@xor.blue
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🎉 new release today: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal
@natanlast.bsky.social
read more:
parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill...
and play around with it:
fillharmonics.com
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Fill Harmonics, the crossword puzzle music machine
Today I’m releasing Fill Harmonics, a music machine that takes its rules and styling from the world of crossword puzzles. The name is a pun: in crossword lingo, “fill” is the stuff that goes into the ...
https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill-harmonics-crossword-music-machine/
about 2 months ago
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lol buddy you don't get to ride this one
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Joshua J. Friedman
2 days ago
Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
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i love new york
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every once in a while I hear some prince song for the first time in a while and it totally blows my mind but it feels like the most banal observation I could possibly make. this guy's pretty good!!!
3 days ago
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I voted! go do it
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mentally rearranging some timelines after discovering leonard cohen's "First We Take Manhattan" came 4 years after "The Muppets Take Manhattan"
12 months ago
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talking about various municipal agencies and animal control service is catching some strays
8 days ago
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I feel for the single issue "the word aunt refers exclusively to the full siblings of one's parents" voters who've already early voted :(
10 days ago
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I wrote a crossword puzzle with a strange little theme that I didn't think quite fit anywhere else, so I put it on my blog. I hope you solve and enjoy!
parkerhiggins.net/2025/10/cros...
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Crossword: “Rain sounds”
I’m publishing a crossword on this blog for the first time — I hope you enjoy it. I’ve added some notes below the puzzle, offset with some space to avoid any spoilers.
https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/10/crossword-rain-sounds/
11 days ago
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can't fool me, this is the apple dance
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11 days ago
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rom comrade
11 days ago
this was soothing to do :)
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depths of wikipedia
11 days ago
not to be confused with quesadilla
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I wrote a crossword puzzle with a strange little theme that I didn't think quite fit anywhere else, so I put it on my blog. I hope you solve and enjoy!
parkerhiggins.net/2025/10/cros...
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Crossword: “Rain sounds”
I’m publishing a crossword on this blog for the first time — I hope you enjoy it. I’ve added some notes below the puzzle, offset with some space to avoid any spoilers.
https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/10/crossword-rain-sounds/
11 days ago
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i would simply step into the same river twice
21 days ago
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i had a great time at the inaugural Wiki Game Jam this weekend, (though I did not get a game done in time) i presented about using wikipedia categories for word puzzle games, and my friend adam got this serendipitous photo right when I cited his project
about 1 month ago
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I hope the cashier likes the groceries I picked out
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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brooke husic
about 1 month ago
i wrote more here:
blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/1...
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Learn the grammar of crosswords with Puzzmo minis
Today is the first day of a series of 30 mini crosswords designed to help you become a better crossword solver. They’re free for all players, and you can solve the first one here. In college, I accide...
https://blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/10/01/minis/
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brooke husic
about 1 month ago
2 years ago:
@stfj.net
says puzzmo will never run minis 6 months ago:
@orta.io
and i brainstorm how i might design a mini that could change zach's mind today:
@puzzmo.com
's first mini join us for 30 days of minis that teach you how to solve crosswords. start here:
www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...
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celeb sighting
about 1 month ago
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Patrick Monahan
about 1 month ago
Independent local media 👍👍
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Sarah Colonthree (fragile!)
about 1 month ago
Oh my god the trains is trans let’s gooooo
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I loooove this kind of report, and this is an such an excellent example. great to see important local news finding its audience, and this kind of transparency is so good for trust
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about 1 month ago
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stressful baseball moment right now but the spreadsheet fan in me can't help but most appreciate watching for a multi-game outcome
about 1 month ago
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ok i'll bite. who's eric adams
about 1 month ago
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🮕 New release for xword-dl, the command line tool to scrape crossword puzzles from online solvers 🮕 This version updates the New Yorker for their new Puzzmo-powered backend, adds support for the New Yorker Mini, Observer puzzles Everyman and Speedy, and The Walrus
github.com/thisisparker...
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Release 2025.9.28 · thisisparker/xword-dl
A pretty eventful release, this version: Adds New Yorker Mini (tnym), starting with a first-time contribution from @imjonathan! Observer Everyman and Speedy (ever, spdy), which were moved from the...
https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl/releases/tag/v2025.9.28
about 1 month ago
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merritt
about 1 month ago
"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds
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Brooke
3 months ago
I never noticed until now, but it seems like the moon emojis in this bot’s nighttime posts match up with the current moon phase irl 🥺
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recently passed 10k followers on
@pomological.xor.blue
and 20k on
@roadside.xor.blue
! i love that these little bots brighten people's days
about 1 month ago
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Moby Dick
about 1 month ago
BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?
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saw this in the subway and my first thought was: rapture?
about 1 month ago
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old roadside pics
about 1 month ago
viking sew and vac center, front, higgins avenue, missoula, montana, 1987
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Marisa Kabas
about 2 months ago
CRUSH HASHANAH
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I just know the right beaver could learn react
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about 2 months ago
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steven deobald
about 2 months ago
the most 1990s thing ever said about the effort to rejuvenate the 1990s web ❤️
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I love content management systems, and I really love static site generators, and I genuinely love how the implicit premise of interoperability and easy migration slams so hard into feature creep for "power users." it really is just fascinating software
about 2 months ago
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bijan
about 2 months ago
never forget, long live the awl
www.theawl.com/2010/05/negr...
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wow is it already negroni season
about 2 months ago
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weird general offer: if you've got some personal web infrastructure tech questions that you want to talk through with somebody, i'm basically always happy to, no matter how well we know each other. I love helping people feel like they've got a home on the web
about 2 months ago
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canceling disney plus for the kimmel stuff and for supporting the 1998 copyright term extension act
about 2 months ago
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old roadside pics
about 2 months ago
steeplechase pier entrance, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978
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In just a few minutes i'll be doing a short open projector talk on
fillharmonics.com
! I believe it is streaming at
www.twitch.tv/wondervillenyc
, tune in if you can
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WondervilleNYC - Twitch
WordHack feat. Matt Romein, Kyle Booten, and Claire Hentschker
http://www.twitch.tv/wondervillenyc
about 2 months ago
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Andy Greenberg
about 2 months ago
The death of Robert Redford (RIP) means the window to rewatch Hackers in honor of the 30th anniversary has officially closed and it is now time to re-watch Sneakers. (Time to rewatch Sneakers will continue indefinitely.)
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maybe my favorite redford film, the absolutely delightful SNEAKERS (1992) is playing at Metrograph next month as part of a Hack The Planet series đź‘€
metrograph.com/film/?vista_...
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Sneakers - Now Playing In Theater at Metrograph
In an early ’90s San Francisco, soon to be subsumed by the spread of Silicon Valley, former ’60s radical Bishop (Robert Redford) earns a living…
https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999004496
about 2 months ago
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in hindsight i needn't have worried that i'd run into a bunch of other electric horsemen from THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN (1979)
about 1 year ago
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years ago my mom met robert redford at a charity fundraiser event. she's an angeleno and knows how to be cool around celebrities. she leaned in and earnestly said "great to meet you. i love your lemonade"
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Recurse Center
about 2 months ago
📝 Interested in applying to RC? Join us to learn & ask questions about what attending is like: spending 6 or 12 weeks sharpening your programming skills and following what excites you in a collaborative community! We’re hosting an info session Mon, Oct 6th from 12:30-1pm ET RSVP:
luma.com/mn3kjnkj
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Recurse Center Info Session · Zoom · Luma
Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research!…
https://luma.com/mn3kjnkj
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snowgall
about 2 months ago
Groundhog day
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what in your mind is the best movie with no real antagonist? for me it is star trek iv (the one with the whales)
about 2 months ago
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Paolo Pasco
over 2 years ago
Well this book starts with two quotes, and the first one is from a scholarly work of classic literature. Surely the second one will be equally high-brow
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