decentralized P2P messaging platform that works on a LAN. [[https://briarproject.org/]] #links

I don’t know how to browse the web anymore. [[https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/i-don-t-know-how-to-browse-the-internet-anymore]] #links

Article on designing 21st century instruments for teaching music theory (aka ditch the piano): [[https://historyofmusictheory.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/should-we-burn-the-pianos-introducing-a-collaborative-project-focused-on-building-new-instruments-for-theory/]] #links

twigl: shader code editor [[https://twigl.app/]] #links

cylob: some interesting work with vocal synthesis. [[https://cylob.bandcamp.com/album/placeholder]] #links

breakdown of a synthwave track [[https://synthctrl.com/blogs/blog/gunship-tech-noir-breakdown]] #links

cool fractal video [[https://vimeo.com/3288925]] #links

squinewave: a sine-square-saw-pulse oscillator with hardsync: [[https://github.com/required-field/squinewave]] #links

DX7 Technical Analysis [[https://ajxs.me/blog/Yamaha_DX7_Technical_Analysis.html]] #links

timeline of audio formats [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_audio_formats]] #links

“What would a real Web3 look like?”
Matt Baer, found of write.as, compares the web3 with his vision of how a real Web 3.0 could look like. ⌘ Read more

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com @darch@twtxt.net y’all got a passcode for that zoom link?

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com @darch@twtxt.net y’all got a passcode for that zoom link?

“100 years of whatever this will be”
Avery Pennarun (apenwarr) on decentralization: ⌘ Read more

Advent of Code ‘21
New year, new code advent calendar. This year I’m trying my hand at Advent of Code once again in Go. This time with a little help from the copilot. Let’s see if I make it to the end, or have to give up early again… ⌘ Read more

Showing GPX tracks on my blog
On my blog, I’ve had the ability to link posts to a location for some time now. There is also a map that shows all posts with a location. ⌘ Read more

“What are robot dogs actually being used for?”
Many people have seen the videos of Boston Dynamics with their robots. While watching the videos, I always wondered what the possible use cases for such robots (dogs) are? Just millitary? But now Tom Scott clarifies it with a new video: Hydroelectric power plant inspection for example! With the robots it is cheaper and easier to monitor the power plants centrally. ⌘ Read more

Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ Read more

@darch@twtxt.net
It will only use the nick of the person to whom you are replying, no the occasional never ending chain link of nicks. 😄

@prologic@twtxt.net
Kind of a pickle. I would say, if the user isn’t following the feed, then @something and @something@example.com doesn’t get linked.

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com
RSS links are archaic. Clients discover them if properly linked, they do not need to be human visible.

“I’m worried about humanity’s future.”
Via Nicholas Danes I came across the video of Arun Maini (Mrwhosetheboss): “I’m worried about humanity’s future”. In this he addresses some good aspects. It’s about the impact of technology on our lives, society and behaviour. For example, he talks about the fact that algorithms are increasingly trying to keep us in front of the screen for as long as possible, that echo chambers are creating more and more negativity, and that we may soon no longer be able to d … ⌘ Read more

I am noticing that Yarn doesn’t treat “outside” (that is, twts coming from a client other than Yarn) twts hashes right. Two examples:

• https://twtxt.net/twt/mwtnrna
  
• https://twtxt.net/twt/fl5dooq
  

There are many more, but those two will give you the gist. Yarn links the hash to the poster’s twtxt.txt, so conversation matching will not work.

In reply to: MEMEX - The Small Website Discoverability Crisis [2021-09-08]

A proposal, dear reader: Create a list of bookmarks linking to websites you find interesting, and publish it for the world to see. You decide what constitutes“interesting”. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de To clarify, Markdown is just text. 😊 I can do bolding, link things, and if single return multilines ever comes to jenny, I would be able to do bulleted and numbered lists.

The only things—that I know of—that doesn’t work is “> “, but I can use “>”, like so:

D’oh!

So, jenny allows me to write Markdown almost just fine!

@prologic@twtxt.net You linked to the German version. 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @movq@www.uninformativ.de, if you want/can I can send you a Zoom link to test it interactively!

This is pretty cool. I like the link idea. Gives me an idea about pining twits I think are important.

This is pretty cool. I like the link idea. Gives me an idea about pining twits I think are important.

Trying to troubleshoot twtxt. On twtxt.net, discovery shows my follows linked to https://twtxt.netbros.com/, which is nothing (not even an index.html running there), while on arrakis.netbros.com shows my follows linked to https://twtxt.netbros.com/twtxt.txt (using yarns links too) which is right.

007.00 POST: I’ve decided that I’ll probably post my stream of links and whatevers into another twtxt feed, plus into a html page…

Bringing back old-school web pins and buttons
Back in the not-quite-as-bad-old-days (at least as far back as the 90’s), every good website had a small “ad” gif that fans of the site could use as a colorful link. These are called “buttons” or sometimes “pins.”

You can see sites that collect these internet artifacts (both the good ones and boring ones) here and here.

Most people would have **do … ⌘ Read more

Bringing back old-school web pins and buttons
Back in the not-quite-as-bad-old-days (at least as far back as the 90’s), every good website had a small “ad” gif that fans of the site could use as a colorful link. These are called “buttons” or sometimes “pins.”

You can see sites that collect these internet artifacts (both the good ones and boring ones) here and here.

Most people would have **do … ⌘ Read more

Negativity Bias - Biases & Heuristics | The Decision Lab
Negativity bias is linked to loss aversion, a cognitive bias that describes why the pain of losing is psychologically twice as powerful as the pleasure of gaining. ⌘ Read more

Late livestream on YouTube ASAP
Link is here: https://youtu.be/OU84HrX8D8Q

I’ll begin before the top of the hour. ⌘ Read more

Livestream on YouTube right now
Link here: https://youtu.be/GZi0gmDcuAc ⌘ Read more

many examples of #metapost with pictures [[http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/zoonekynd/metapost/metapost.html]] #links

Livestream on YouTube within an hour or so
See the link here:

https://youtu.be/Jq9ZKvsJSJI ⌘ Read more

Stay frosty: possible test stream on PeerTube and YouTube in a bit
I’m going to probably be doing a test livestream in a bit. Hopefully I fixed the issue in the previous stream with Pulseaudio and buffering.

I’ll probably go live on PeerTube first, test it there, then test it on YouTube. I’m mobile and on limit battery though, so it won’t be a super long stream if everything works out.

PeerTube stream will be at this link: [https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/vi … ⌘ Read more

Livestream on PeerTube ONLY at 10AM New York time
As the title says, I’ll be livestreaming today on PeerTube only at this link.

I’ll talk about finishing my book reptinting project that you’re going to want to know about and perhaps “recent events” (several weeks late)
for example, on Richard Stallman.

I’ll read donations I get if you want to talk about other things.

If you haven’t already, subscribe to my PeerTube’s RSS feed to get up … ⌘ Read more

Dynamic linking was a mistake.

the ‘magic circle’ sine wave algorithm: [[https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Digital_Sinusoid_Generators.html]] #links

1bitr is a one-bit text-based music tracker [[https://github.com/zserge/1bitr]]. #links

inspired by sigrid’s now page. I probably should be doing that more here [[http://ftrv.se/now]]. #links

ECHO: the music of harold budd and brian eno [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Dm-ne-iSY]] #links

Livestream momentarily
On YouTube at this link: https://youtu.be/uYDfdeySis0 ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Bug in your profile links: it’s repeating a segment. For example, your face tries to get to https://twtxt.net/user/https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt

@prologic@twtxt.net we would want:

• a way to reply to the current thread. We have this.
  
• a way to reply to a specific twt. Need this. Maybe make all the replies start new conversations?
  
• check if twt is start of a conversation.. we kinda have this in the main feed with the conversation button. need to extend it for forked convs
  
• a way to inline first replies. maybe show one or two in the sub thread with a link to view.
  
• for convenience have a link to parent conv?

@prologic@twtxt.net we would want:

• a way to reply to the current thread. We have this.
  
• a way to reply to a specific twt. Need this. Maybe make all the replies start new conversations?
  
• check if twt is start of a conversation.. we kinda have this in the main feed with the conversation button. need to extend it for forked convs
  
• a way to inline first replies. maybe show one or two in the sub thread with a link to view.
  
• for convenience have a link to parent conv?

@xuu@txt.sour.is @prologic@twtxt.net we could show first level inline like twitter does. With links for deeper discussion.

@xuu@txt.sour.is @prologic@twtxt.net we could show first level inline like twitter does. With links for deeper discussion.

links -g is an underappreciated jewel.

trying to get myself to reach for !links browser instead of firefox for locally testing my wiki. For the most part, it really doesn’t need the heft of firefox. When links -g is used, it really really doesn’t need firefox.

@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io @prologic@twtxt.net Yo. wrap that naked link in some <>’s https://fosstodon.org/@/105673078150704477

@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io @prologic@twtxt.net Yo. wrap that naked link in some <>’s https://fosstodon.org/@/105673078150704477

user-defined order in SQL [[https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-03-20-user-defined-order.html]] #sql #links maybe something that can be adapted to !sqlite?

cistercian numerals [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals]] #links #notation

rounded rectangle recipe in #cairo [[https://www.cairographics.org/samples/rounded_rectangle/]] #links #vector #graphics

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah it reads a seed file. I’m using mine. it scans for any mention links and then scans them recursively. it reads from http/s or gopher. i don’t have much of a db yet.. it just writes to disk the feed and checks modified dates.. but I will add a db that has hashs/mentions/subjects and such.

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah it reads a seed file. I’m using mine. it scans for any mention links and then scans them recursively. it reads from http/s or gopher. i don’t have much of a db yet.. it just writes to disk the feed and checks modified dates.. but I will add a db that has hashs/mentions/subjects and such.

PeerTube v3 is now live with Live Streaming abilities
PeerTube has recently released version 3.0.0, which has added many things, including the ability to livestream. I’ve already updated by PeerTube instance to version 3 (it is linked from this RSS entry), but the link is just videos.lukesmith.xyz .

I’m not sure if I’ll end up immediately using the livestream ability, but it is certainly nice to have a non-YouTube option which is, in fact, self-hosted.

Aside from that, I strong recommend you … ⌘ Read more

lagrange is a gui desktop space for browsing geminispace. it builds and runs on alpine linux! [[https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/]] #links

lots of links added to overview page on monolith wiki: @!(monolithref “overview”)!@.

@prologic@twtxt.net yep. it actually extracts everything at parse time. like mentions/tags/links/media. so they can be accessed and manipulated without additional parsing. it can then be output as MarkDown

@prologic@twtxt.net yep. it actually extracts everything at parse time. like mentions/tags/links/media. so they can be accessed and manipulated without additional parsing. it can then be output as MarkDown

I may or may not have become involved in yet another blogging type thing, only this time it’s for writing fiction. Links will soon follow everywhere.

Atelophobia by @hecanjog@hecanjog.com [[https://hecanjog.bandcamp.com/album/atelophobia]] #links #bandcamp

@prologic@twtxt.net (#keh22ka) maybe a custom linking method on a pod level? like can pass a template that gets translated. ex https://{domain}/wiki/{nick}/{tag} + !somepage -> https://sour.is/wiki/xuu/somepage

@prologic@twtxt.net (#keh22ka) maybe a custom linking method on a pod level? like can pass a template that gets translated. ex https://{domain}/wiki/{nick}/{tag} + !somepage -> https://sour.is/wiki/xuu/somepage

a collection of high-res wavetables with a !CC0 license: [[https://waveeditonline.com/]] #links #samples

New website
Got a new simplified website. Real old school, no CSS sheet. I’m going to make it more text-based and have more writings.

I’ve also rolled over this RSS feed.

A lot of the site is still unfinished, so notify my of anything I’ve missed so far.
I want to keep old links more or less in place. I haven’t decided if I want to keep using my old blog script (this entry is RSS only).
I feel like I had neglected the blog for a while, and my new site is more conducive to browsing as I add even more. ⌘ Read more

smoothstep is a stateless smoother function commonly used in computer graphics. could be interesting in the audio domain as well (parameter smoothing, phase warping/distortion synthesis, etc): [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothstep]] #links #halfbaked

notation as a tool of thought [[https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm]] #links

The Mask Masquerade ⌘ https://link.medium.com/qTavtCMDRbb

on small games: [[https://lorenzo.itch.io/on-small-games]] #links

gyo is an imaginary 4-bit computer [[https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/gyo]] #links

hatching is a monochrome system traditionally used in woodcuts and engravings to denote tinctures (colors) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_(heraldry)]] #1bit #links

I’ve recently been reading up on zettelkastens again, since it is very closely related to the ethos of a personal wiki system like !weewiki. The thing that interests me is the emergent patterns that come from linking things to things. Which is exactly the sort of solution I’m looking for !sample_curation. #halfbakedideas

lil (little interpretted language) is a tiny scripting language with implementations in C and Pascal. Apparently, the author maintains it in a private !fossil repo, which is pretty neat: [[http://runtimeterror.com/tech/lil/?ref=hvper.com]] #links

sitelen sitelen is a style of non-linear writing that appears as hieroglyphic blocks, and can be used with toki pona [[https://jonathangabel.com/toki-pona/]] #links #tokipona

sitelen telo v1.01, a japanese logographic script for toki pona. might want to try to make a #1bit version of this for !btprnt [[https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/jax1x2/sitelen_telo_v101_a_japaneseinspired_logographic/]] #links #tokipona

introducing the #loom, a collection a small literate programs woven to HTML: [[/loom]] #links #updates #literateprogramming

beautifully rendered 3d vector-art animations of old electronic items: https://guillaumekurkdjian.com/electronic-items/ #links #vector #graphics #art

es is an extensible shell derived from Plan9’s rc. It’s also placed in the #publicdomain https://github.com/wryun/es-shell #links #plan9 #github

a 1bit version of this iconset would be pretty neat [[https://icons.mono.company/]] #links #halfbakedideas

Eisenkraut is a standalone cross-platform audio file editor built on top of SC3: [[https://archive.org/details/eisenkraut]] #sound #links #supercollider

The Suiko ST-50. A rare japanese synthesizer designed to accompany poetry: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzo9ebsFd6Q]] #links #synthesizers #youtube

permapeople.org is a platform for permaculture people. [[https://permapeople.org/blog/2020/10/05/why-i-am-building-permapeople-org.html]] #links #permaculture

initial ugens page added to !monolith wiki, with link to woven ugens scheme file. the first non-C woven file in monolith. [[/proj/monolith/wiki/ugens]]. #docs #updates

realtime lighting in pico8: [[https://medium.com/hackernoon/pico-8-lighting-part-1-thin-dark-line-8ea15d21fed7]] #links #graphics #pico8 #pixelart

asemic script done in contextfreeart: [[https://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/view.php?id=945]] #links #generative #asemic #graphics

generative bad handwriting: [[https://avinayak.github.io/programming/art/2020/09/18/p5-strokes.html]] #links #generative #asemic #graphics

raymarching soft shadows in 2d: [[https://www.rykap.com/2020/09/23/distance-fields/]] #links #graphics #2d #raymarching

a minimal MIT licensed chain loader for multiple architectures, including pi4. found via raspi3 baremetal tutorial link (same author): [[https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/imgrecv]] #pi4 #baremetal #links #pi

bare-metal programming on a raspberry pi 3, a tutorial: [[https://github.com/bztsrc/raspi3-tutorial]] #links #pi #pi3 #baremetal #lowlevel #c

what is the best dumb TV? [[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24666968]] #links #hackernews #tv #dumb

hoard of bitfonts: [[https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts]] #links #typography #bitmap #fonts #1bit #8bit #pixelart

typography in 8 bits: system fonts: [[https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-system-fonts]] #links #typography #1bit #8bit #pixelart

get Igno Quilez’s classic FBM domain warping example as a metal print [[https://www.redbubble.com/i/metal-print/Warping-1-by-InigoQuilez/45300039.QL7J0]] #links

just made a !links page for myself to keep track of interesting things I find. Anything with the hashtag #links gets placed there automatically.