week 130

– Stephanie Shirley on women and programming.  Another amazing woman that I didn’t know about. – More places doing the self-hosting thing:  Known and Sandstorm. – Went…

week 129

– XENOFEMINISM.  I mean, that’s an instant click, right? – Some clever bunnies can do really scary good things with synthesizing photos from sketches. – Twenty…

week 128

Powers of two. – I went to a PS1 Saturday show, and was really impressed by Rabit and JLin, who you can get hammered by…

week 127

Polish, polish, hustle, hustle. – Great articles on the current zeit by good people:  https://medium.com/hand-brain – The Pico-8 is a fantasy console that saves things…

week 126

Busy times in New York City. – My friends Peter Sobot and Matt Ogle made a dreamer.  Is it just me, or is it somewhat…

week 122 / postmodern internet music

Went to a Monthly Music Hack Day, reinstalled Ubuntu, worked on The Future of Music.  Also learned about Hip Hop Transcriptions, which made my day….

the semiotics of error

What’s a bug?  And is it a glitch?  Or an error?  Well. It was Grace Hopper, who, before inventing the compiler, popularized the term “bug” (though Edison may…

week 121

– jazz.computer is a favorite thing. – In the terrible world of humans that we live in, remember that there are whales, and that they’re…

week nine billion

Lots to catch up on. – The US Navy once built a research boat that is designed to rotate 90 degrees into the water. –…

co.re.echo.es

I have a sort of casual fascination with infrastructure – factories, power stations, spillways, and so on.  This extends to the internet:  data centres, underwater cables,…