I was part of a very nice software engineering reading group at Spotify, just before I left. In addition to being around for the coining…
I just finished the excellent The Printing Press As An Agent of Change, by Elizabeth Eisenstein, and wanted to get down a few notes about…
– The complete works of Walter Benjamin are available as PDFs. Here’s the big one – thanks to Sam Valenti for the tipoff. – James…
– XENOFEMINISM. I mean, that’s an instant click, right? – Some clever bunnies can do really scary good things with synthesizing photos from sketches. – Twenty…
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…
– Glenn McDonald knocks it out of the park again with the words for each genre, and vice versa. – “Just” being a DJ is…
Grad school is sometimes about doing ridiculous things. One of the ridiculous things that I’ve done was to download all the text and and all…
– Went to Tufts’ Computer Science Hackathon, as an Echo Nester. Built The Feminest, which tells you about the gender makeup of a band. The…
– I’m making staggering progress on DREAM|CITY: I’m done the first four parts, and made a really good start to V tonight. – I went…
– I’m in Montreal! It’s pretty nice so far. – I finished a hack called Music I Used To Like, based on the shirt of…