Amen.

A bunch of US government accounts joined Bluesky last night, just before the No Kings rallies today. On Twitter, these accounts are known for using quote posts to direct their MAGA followers to harass people online. Use this list to block them all. Do not engage. Use “detach quote” if needed.

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New blog post: Improved Registration Algorithm for IMREGCORR Substantial improvements for function IMREGCORR, which registers image pairs using similarity, rigid, and translation transformations. #matlab www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

The four Nazgûl pursuing Gandalf forsake the chase and turn back south. Three ride for the Last Bridge to prevent the Ring from crossing it. The land is growing rocky, so Gandalf sends Shadowfax back to Rohan. The wizard sets out on an eleven-day hike through the Ettenmoors.

New blog post: Using AirPods Pro for Hearing Protection A report from a horn pro, and my own experiments, about using AirPods Pro 2 or 3 for hearing protection in orchestra. www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/he...

New blog post: iPad Recommendations for Use with forScore Considerations and recommendations for choosing an iPad model for use with forScore. www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/ip...

New blog post: Making a Simple Two-State Map with Landmarks Using MATLAB and Mapping Toolbox to make a simple map of two states with some point and path landmarks. www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/... #matlab

New blog post: forScore Interface Changes forScore version 15, released at the same time as iPadOS 26, has significant interface changes motivated by Apple’s new iPad menu and windowing changes. Check it out before your next rehearsal or concert www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/fo... #forscore

New blog post: News, Newsletters, Social Media, Email Inboxes, and RSS Using new apps and an old technology (RSS) to cope with an increasingly fragmented flow of news and information. Inspired by @molly.wiki. www.steveeddins.com/blog/general...

New blog post: "Image Processing Example: Processing a Lake Image" Creating a two-color thumbnail lake image from original GIS image with extraneous details. www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/... #matlab #imageprocessing

New blog post: "History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 3: 1993, Image Processing Toolbox 1, and IMSHOW" The new toolbox supported more image display models (beyond indexed images). www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

Read this book!

I read about this and had to try it myself. This is a screenshot of my phone after running the search “oreo spelled backwards” directly on Google. Check out the “AI” response.

New MATLAB blog post: "History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 2: 1990, MATLAB 4, Handle Graphics, and the IMAGE object" #matlab #imageprocessing www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

New blog post: "History of Image Display in MATLAB, Part 1: Before 1990" A brief summary of the early years of digital image processing, and of early versions of MATLAB before 1990. www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/... #matlab

New blog post: "Mid-Phrase Brain Freeze" In a recent chamber music dress rehearsal, my opening phrase was a train wreck. Mental rehearsal before the performance was my fix. www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/mi... #frenchhorn

New MATLAB blog post: "Motivations for Sharing Code" My thoughts on a MATLAB Discussions thread about reasons that researchers might benefit from actively sharing their code. www.steveeddins.com/blog/matlab/...

New horn blog post: "Hazard Ahead: Dangerous Line Break" I started using a new symbol in my parts to help avoid trouble. www.steveeddins.com/blog/horn/ha...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

New blog post: "Website changes on July 19 affect appearance, content organization, mailing lists, RSS feeds, and comments. Mailing list subscribers and RSS feed users may see a repeat notification of some previously published posts."

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

What are some good orgs for trans youth that could use some donations on this awful day? Reply below.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

They're booing Donald Trump at the Kennedy Center.

I suspect TeePublic is not going to approve the t-shirt design I just uploaded, but if they do, I'm buying 50 copies and giving them away.

I wanted to turn a Markdown nested list into a directed graph in MATLAB. Here are some tips and tricks I learned for getting it done. steveeddins.com/text-process...

The Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary goes to @anntelnaes.bsky.social, for various works that appeared in The Washington Post. This is her third Pulitzer recognition.

I’m not catholic but I find this wildly offensive

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In 2019, I wrote a MATLAB Central blog post called "The tool builder's gene (or how to get a job at MathWorks)." I just shared this essay on my personal blog, along with a couple of updates. steveeddins.com/tool-builder...

New horn-related post: It's amazing how much horn-related gear is within just a few feet of my practice chair. steveeddins.com/horn-gear/

Concord, New Hampshire, at the State House #handsoff

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

Today's Harmonic Notes blog post continues the theme of finding useful ways to mark up your music. steveeddins.com/a-pair-of-di...

After writing a ~500 pages book in two versions for MATLAB and Python, I would like to offer a comparison from the point of view of a MATLAB user. #Geoscience mres.uni-potsdam.de/2025/03/21/m...

My highly opinionated thoughts about MATLAB image display, including an update to my function imview, which I plan to use instead of imshow. steveeddins.com/imview-v2/

I held onto my Washington Post subscription longer than I should have, I guess, but now I have cancelled it. I have zero interest in some billionaire techbro’s self-serving notions about libertarianism.

If you want to understand how we got here, you have to understand Christian Nationalism. It's the permission structure that justifies all of this harm and hate in the minds of so many Americans. Here's a reading list to get you started: bookshop.org/lists/unders...

Wow! Watch this.

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Resist! 🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄

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Live to production!! Totally bonkers.

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

Among other reasons why you want a neutral civil service: it will be important to have a comprehensive investigation into this crash by competent professionals who don’t owe their personal allegiance to Donald Trump, and whose primary concern is not protecting his poll numbers.

I published a blog post yesterday about how to wait for a big entrance. Work out a repeatable plan give your body and mind easy and productive things to do. This helps me to avoid fidgeting and gets me consistently ready for the first note. #frenchhorn steveeddins.com/practicing-t...

I posted "The Story of TIMEIT" yesterday. This MATLAB function started out as part of the textbook Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB, 2nd edition, before later moving into the product MATLAB. steveeddins.com/story-of-tim...

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11