Everyone's coming (back) to Mastodon this weekend thanks to a certain social media acquisition. Here's an old blog post of mine which I wrote after a similar influx in 2018 but which I should update at some stage.

I haven't been posting as many daily links thanks to being at …

I am doing Looptober again this year. Last year I used it as an opportunity to clean up my SuperCollider toolkit. This year I've been trying to use the modular synths as much as possible but I'm still at the stage where getting started takes fifteen minutes of faffing around …

What system of ideas which you first encountered indirectly through artists you admired was the most disappointing when you got to actually know about it? For me it's Gnosticism.

Me, aged 21: Wow, Philip K Dick, Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Pynchon, Octavio Paz and Sonic Youth are all into the …

An interesting blog post argues that we are living through a golden age of programming language research. I like the point that dynamic languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby and Javascript have done more to popularise functional programming concepts than anything else put together.

Photographs of the Nakagin Capsule Tower …

Ranjit commented on my drawing of Glossatory's definition of GARTER: "I find this one particularly evocative! Please do an oil painting next" so I colourised the original and fed it to StableDiffusion with different degrees of desaturation, and the prompt text "A man in a green boat holds a ladder …

• Camestros Felapton on whether there's an inherent political tendency to subgenres of science fiction and fantasy, with bonus Judge Dredd mention
• A post doing the rounds about how hard it is to run a mail server. I think this is too paranoid - there's no need to posit an oligopoly, things …

A blog post about the latest image generator, StableDiffusion, which coins the term 'AI veganism' for the the ethical case against using this sort of thing, which I think is a poor analogy even by the standards of tech bloggers.

There's a public beta here. Unlike DALL-E the source code …

Last weekend I wrote my first Rust program, which made an LED flash on an Arduino, following this blog post and with the help of this hardware abstraction setup The impetus to getting into microcontrollers came from playing around with modular synths: I've got a little quad DAC chip and …

It's amazing that Mark Zuckerberg has managed to make so much money off all of us pretending to keep in touch with our friends. I realised about a month ago that although I still have an account there, for the ostensible reason that it feels like an important way to …

Home sick from work today: I've been going to the office three days a week, and this is the first time I've had a sick day when it doesn't feel like it's blended in to working-from-home.

I have had two negative rapid antigen tests so far this week and about …