This may have been my laziest Looptober so far - I decided to only use my guitars and the granulating synth setup I have on my laptop, and didn't do much actual development, though I did add the ability for a bunch of the granulator's parameters like trigger rate and grain …

I've cut down my Mastodon use a bit this weekend, which has made my mental health a lot better already. The current state of my corners of the net makes it hard not to think about AI all the time: I've been trying to not take a side in the …

About a year ago I made a note in my reminders to do a game based on grawlix, a set of little doodles which I turned into emojos. When this year's Lisp Game Jam rolled around I did it, and came fifth, which I was really pleased with, considering how …

This is the fifth year I've done Looptober, a Fediverse exercise where you post a little track every day for all of October. Last year I did as much as I could with the Arduino which made it a bit musically uninteresting. My technical constraint this year was that I …

Over the summer break I started trying to make a set of custom emoji which could be tiled to make geometric patterns in interesting ways, got bogged down in various fiddly issues, and wrote a quick tool using Observable so that I could visualise the maths behind it. I liked …

If you can read this, it means that at least some of the server migration worked properly.

The Dragon in the Sea
The Santaroga Barrier

Frank Herbert

About a year ago my brother lent me an old copy of Frank Herbert's first novel, The Dragon in the Sea, and I hadn't got around to reading it, but after watching the second of the new Dune films I …

Fedivision is an annual song contest held around the same time as Eurovision on the Fediverse. I entered an instrumental in 2022 but this year I wanted to actually write a song with lyrics and vocals. I've tried songwriting many times over the years but have always gotten too shy …

Late last year I started looking at a microtonal pitch quantiser for my modular synth setup, and then I remembered that I had an Arduino Nano and an Adafruit MCP4728 Quad DAC sitting in a drawer, waiting for me to overcome my fear of soldering, and thought that fiddling with …