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> I could learn. We all can learn. That’s the neat thing about technologies. They’re what we can learn to do. What a wonderfully humble sentiment, and so plainly said. It's disarmi…

Aleene's tacky glue (standard gold bottle) is basically the best there is for this kind of work. I used to build some very intricate and involved papercraft models, and at least fo…

My father is an electrical engineer. Growing up, he had countless components in the basement, including a whole slew of 7400-series DIP chips, as well as a bunch of (powered) bread…

I read the title of this paper and thought to myself, “What are the chances this could be Erik Demaine?”. And sure enough!

Came to the comments to look for this! I was immediately taken by the idea after reading about the author’s experience.

I actually really enjoyed the latency, unintentional or not. There are a million tools I can use to create a groove exactly as I intend. I enjoyed the aspect of surprise, of record…

I thought the copy was fun and don't mind a good soapbox every once in a while, but yeah, wouldn't hurt to slip in a few words about what exactly the product does earlier on. I'll …

This is tangential to much of what this article discusses, but I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a while, that, to some degree, the artificial imitation of acoustic …

Scrolling this website on mobile made me think I’d installed malware.

I configured fortune to spit out a random oblique strategy in my .bashrc every time I open up a new terminal; it’s great fun, and a gentle reminder when I’ve been working too long …

I wonder if there are parallels to be drawn here against the industrialization of other, physical, goods, and how their production evolved over time. If you look at something like,…

I’ve been reading “Deschooling Society” by Ivan Illich while slowly working my way through Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”.

I've been writing and recording music for a long time, and I've internalized a lot of these pieces of advice. I work completely solo, so it's nice to see that some of the technique…

Fantastic - I love seeing new tools in service of chipmusic, and this one looks real sleek. The platform agnosticism sort of feels like MML[0] but with a GUI, in that it has the ap…

https://www.joe-bergeron.com The writing is mostly about software projects, but I also document art stuff here as well. Had some fun with the actual site design itself, modeled aft…

I wrote an article on writing a tiny pseudo-bootloader a while back[0] that got a bit of traction on HN at the time; you may enjoy it as an accesible and fun stepping stone into th…

Hey, I know exactly where this is :) I lived around a ~30s walk from here until I moved to Boston proper a year ago. I lived in Somerville for ~6 years during school and after grad…

Do standards organizations tend to release/sell/provide any sort of “test harness” that vendors can use to validate their implementations against? Some coworkers and I recently aut…

I used Milkytracker for many years, graduating from LSDJ and Famitracker. I eventually got my hands on a proper A500 and tracked on that for a while, before going back to the comfo…

Very beautiful. Seems to take a lot of inspiration from the likes of RAMA but with a design language entirely your own. I personally love when design choices in products like this …

The author of the parent post is expressing an emotion commonly referred to as “surprise”.

n-gate sprung a leak again

I love Dostoevsky; for those interested in him, or in Russian literature, but who might find the "genre" hard to breach, I can't recommend Dostoevsky's "Notes From Underground" eno…

I strongly disagree. Long, unbroken chains of "hi" have been a fixture of my IRC experience for as long as I can remember.