They have discovered a planet. A thing lives there that's like a bear with infinite skin. We could fly there on a sunbeam. Can you go there with me?

Participating in the Pocket Scion distributed science experiment today, collecting resistance data from a few interventions on a Pothos plant

On Shaun Reynaldo’s newsletter, Spencer Doran talks about Christopher Alexander’s Nature of Order, and the idea of positive space in sound design. firstfloor.substack.com/p/visible-cl...

Picture of a bald rat in front of s children's rainbow glockenspiel, captioned Neil banging out the tunes, April 13 2006

On this day in 2006, Neil banged out the tunes

I've also noticed that even though it feels like "I'm in Claude Code all the time now, I don't need to teleport an editor or a terminal", that's not actually true at all. I miss those tools almost immediately, and having to ask Claude to show me things feels silly.

I guess it says "Research preview" for a reason.

Like a lot of Anthropic stuff at the moment, it works until it doesn't. I've had sessions get disconnected/zombied without being able to reconnect them ever again. It also seems to leak sessions, which I discovered when I saw it had eaten up all the RAM on that laptop.

Got a pretty good setup going with Claude Remote Control, doing Windows builds and testing for our audio systems without having to suffer using a Windows machine. I talk to Claude from a browser on my Mac, it drives things on Windows for me.

Music as Software Tero Parviainen on the web as a medium for generative music.

Had a nice chat with Jordi Pons about music [as] software, music for wellbeing, Raymond Scott's Electronium, and much more!

artintech.substack.com/p/music-as-s...

So that’s what they grind everything down to. If you don’t specifically nudge them, they’ll ignore your beautiful abstractions, and certainly won’t design any new ones.

My unsubstantiated theory is that the affordances coding models perceive are those they’ve been tuned for. To maximise applicability, that’s the lowest common denominator between codebases: language and framework primitives.

Interesting thoughts on architecture, and lack of it in agentic model outputs.

galactic empire pivoting into breathwork

Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from... A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHu...

Yikes.

socket.dev/blog/axios-n...

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

Yeah, it was. Archive to the rescue web.archive.org/web/20260218...

The Fall - Big New Prinz YouTube video by campfreddie

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wygQ...

claude is officially at one nine of uptime

"The Bayesian approach is this weird niche that only a few people seem reeeeally into. It’s the Haskell of statistics."

nchagnet.pages.dev/blog/bayesia...

Phase I Organ, by Stephen O'Malley from the album Spheres Collapser

stephenomalley.bandcamp.com/track/phase-...

current status

Apparently!

Talk Talk - Eden (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Talk Talk band

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ebn...

A picture of a hardback book on a washed blue background. The title is Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves, by Mike Cook.

I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it.

Out May 7th, in bookshops: linktr.ee/next_level 🎲🔮

"Building Live Loopers in Max": new book by Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor

technophony.com/building-liv...

Dazzling Light, by Yuki Aizawa from the album Whispers of the Distant Past

enmossed.bandcamp.com/track/dazzli...

Roland50.studio Emulate the sound of Roland's most famous and influential musical instruments from Yuri Suzuki and Roland.

A squelchy 303 Day to one and all!

To celebrate, why not go and have a play with this web experience we made for Roland with Yuri Suzuki a few years ago.

roland50.studio

Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.

RIP. A visionary writer of sf and adjacent genres.