A remarkable year for field recordings was led by forms of minutiae’s incredible Ice Series, from which three albums made our top ten (and a fourth was just outside at #11!). The series highlights the fact that the genre isn’t
Elegance is the key word to describe our Modern Composition slate, whose orchestral timbres speak simultaneously to mind and soul. Whether scoring the weather, remembering atrocities or challenging existing regimes, this music calls its listeners to a higher state of mind.
I haven’t gotten a new (used) module in a while. I’ve wanted a sequencer for some time, and though I’ve had gate sequencers and trigger sequencers and sequencers that are a tiny part of a larger thing, and I’ve constructed the results of a sequencer from various modules, I’ve never before owned what you might […]
I found myself in an office supply store after dark, dark coming early this time of year, mid-December. The plan was to purchase some take-out Chinese food around the corner for dinner, but first came this errand. I wandered the aisles, items large and small on shelves that occasionally flirted with the emptiness one might […]
What’s happening over that tree? Two very different things
Today's links Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses: Labor should be fixed, capital should be vanquished. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Star Island"; "Mediactive"; Afraid of solar; Well-Armed Peasants; Dumpster fire exits; Wikipedia v Brittanica; Pentagon v Quakers; Stealing whole houses; "Situation Normal." Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent ...
Today's links America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity: America's loss is the post-American internet's gain. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DanKam; Backyard M*A*S*H; Blockchain voting is bullshit. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em....
Let's have a slow clap for the corporate tools who still have to show up at work and try to spin their bankruptcy fire-sale as Line Goes Up: Roomba maker iRobot has filed for bankruptcy and will be taken over by its Chinese supplier after the company that popularized the ...
Today I got my periodic reminder of how much I fucking despise Python, and every so-called tool that has chosen to depend upon Python. Fuck this whole "ecosystem". I mean really get right up in there and fuck it. mesa-25.3.1# meson setup build ... Program python3 found: ...
It has come to my attention that the artwork for the original mozilla.org "dinosaur" logo is not widely available online. So, here it is. As I explained in some detail in my 2016 article "They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo", I commissioned this artwork ...
To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing (and aspiring) providers.
The speakers are pretty good. And for a laptop, they’re actually amazing. They have depth, the upmp, and are loud enough to watch films with comfort - can’t say this about any other laptop I’ve had before. — GNOME is better macOS than macOS
Why readable math still matters in a world aided by LLM-assisted code generation. — In Defense of MATLAB: Why Engineers Still Need Whiteboard-Style Code I too am a firm believer in simple syntax (R, Mathematica, or even Scilab or Octave): “The math is identical. But in the Python version, the engineer is thinking about computer science concepts.”
/me is listening to “Gallowdance” by Lebanon Hanover
Interesting discussion on matrix multiplication with Mathematica: Speedup matrix number multiplication. #mathematica
winternew one only on tinyview: https://tinyview.com/they-can-talk/2025/12/13/winter