Resource backlog

Published: 2024-11-27 13:31

How do I know or understand what I know and understand? Why do I create the things I create? What draws me to this and not that?

This link-log is an ever-evolving experiment to connect dots, preserve information for myself and like-minded people. As well as giving recognition to those, whose works inspire/d me. Everything documented here is valuable to me in one way or another.

Legend¶

🔨Tool ✨Inspiration 💡Insight 🤔Curiosity 🎵Music 🎹Music production 🍿Entertainment

🎤Podcast 📹Video 📝Read 📘Book

2024¶

2024-11-29 Jan.ai wants to be an offline ChatGPT replacement
- Support for Huggingface models, Cloud APIs, extensions
- 🔨FOSS, LLM, Local
2024-11-27 Derek Sivers studies Rick Hickey (Clojure): Complexity vs Simplicity
- Etymology: complected, simplex
- 💡Tim Ferriss, Interview
2024-11-26 jarun/buku: Personal mini-web in text
- 🔨CLI, Bookmark Manager, Python
2024-11-23 How Arto Saari survived skateboarding and became a photographer
- ✨Portrait, Perseverance, VICE
2024-11-14 Ollama simply runs Large Language Models locally
- 🔨LLM, Local, Self-contained
2024-11-14 Pinokio is a virtual computing environment for AI apps
- Simple 1-click installation, manages dependencies, creates self-contained environments for eg Open WebUI for Ollama
- 🔨LLM, AI, Local
2024-10-29 dedeco’s PlayStation 2 DJ Mix ft. a track by yours truly 💓
- 🎵 Game music, DJ, Techno
2024-10-27 Davisynth Ripple Multi-Tap Delay is free, weird and inspiring
- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
2024-10-25 Variety of Sound TesslaSEmkIII is one of my go-to saturators
- 🎹Plugin, Windows
2024-10-22 DAC research: E-mu SP-1200
- ✨DSP, AD conversion
2024-10-22 Defender Sound Studio—JS emulation of Williams 80s soundboard
- ✨Sound-Design, DSP
2024-10-21 namelessalgorithm.com deepdives into old music soft-, and hardware
- ✨DSP, Computer music, History preservation
2024-10-11 Himitungl Labs The Seeker is a free, and detailed frequency analyzer
- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
2024-09-20 This 1970 Dodge Challenger is an emotional story about values
- 📹Car, Culture, History
2024-09-13 Monolake—Studio, Robert Henke’s production notes
- 🎵Album, Dub Techno
2024-09-11 Simon Fordman’s car restorations are wholesome
- 📹ASMR, Craftsmanship, Photography
2024-08-29 “I always like the idea of trying to fail.”—Willem Dafoe
- ✨3 minutes, Perspective
2024-08-28 An emotional portrait of former pro-Skater Ed Templeton
- ✨Perseverance, Skateboarding, Photography
2024-08-15 Do these sound illusions fool you?
- 💡Perception, Hearing, Veritasium
2024-08-03 Meet Andy Anderson if you need a lil boost of faith in humanity
- 📹Skateboarding, Wisdom
2024-07-04 Hyper 8—Static site generator for video
- 🔨FOSS, Self-hosted, SSG
2024-07-02 Ghost Dog: How to face absurdity
- “Being human is about making structure in a world that isn’t predictable.”
- 📹Identity, Code, Philosophy
2024-06-09 Caspar Schols’ cabin ANNA adapts to the needs of its inhibitors
- ✨Architecture, Design, Nature
2024-03-19 Creative flow as optimized processing
- Study using EEGs comparing the brain-state of flow between experts and non-expert Jazz musicians
- 🤔Neuroscience, Creativity, Flow
2024-01-30 “Time is the inexorable progress of computation.”—Stephen Wolfram
- 💡Framing time as progression using the current iteration of a systems' state as input to compute the next incremental state as output is satisfactory
- ✨Interview, Physics, Entropy

2023¶

2023-12-31 Mr. Purkeypile quit Bethesda to solo-develop his own game
- ✨Mastery, Unreal Engine, Game development
2023-12-28 Fave new track: Maarten Mittendorff—Futura
- 🎵Dub Techno
2023-12-28 Faircamp is a static site generator alternative to Bandcamp
- 🔨Self-hosted, SSG, Webdev
2023-12-20 This 7.5h roadtrip across the Lincoln Highway is soothing**
- ✨Documentary, America
2023-12-10 Stop watching mixing tutorials
- 🎹Mixing, Advice
2023-10-09 Are mixing tutorials useless?
- 🎹Mixing, Advice
2023-12-08 Detroit Techno—”Tales from the future”
- 🎵Playlist, Spotify, Detroit Techno
2023-12-07 ‘8 Million Species of Aliens’ is a great perspective
- “Bi-pedal, furless oik” 🤣
- ✨Humor, Philosophy
2023-12-06 Word digging:
- pro-: “forward, forth, toward the front”
- process (n.): “a going forward”
- profess (v.) “declare openly”
- profession (n.): ”vows taken upon entering a religious order”
- ✨Etymology, Language, Reality
2023-12-06 “Prove to the court that I am sentient”—Jean Luc Picard
- Star Trek: The Next Generation—SE02E09 “The Measure of a Man”
- ✨AI, Self-Awareness
2023-12-05 Plagiarism and YouTube dissects the nature of content farms
- ✨hbomberguy, Journalism, Values
2023-12-02 Note to self: Watch Mars Express
- 🍿Movie, Animated, Recommendation
2023-12-01 Because it’s that time of the year again
- 🤣Short, Hilarious, Christmas
2023-11-29 Ian Shepherd: Inter-sample peaks and True Peak limiting
- 🎤Research, DSP, Lack of Standards
- 📝Output The-True-Peak-situation
2023-11-27 Variety of Sound updates his ThrillseekerXTC to mkIII
- 🎹Plugin, Exciter, Windows
2023-11-13 SIGNALIS is a hauntingly beautiful indie-game about trauma
- ✨Steam, PS4, Horror
2023-11-08 Aberrant DSP Digitalis is a fun, digital lo-fi degradation toolbox
- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
2023-11-03 New fave music: Guentner & Spieth—Overlay
- 🎵Dub Techno, Dark, Ambient
2023-11-01 Gilles Deleuze, the Dub Techno philosopher
- ✨Philosophy, Difference, Repetition
2023-10-28 Mad Professor: “Don’t just use effects for effects sake”
- 🎹Recording, Engineering, Physical interaction
2023-10-25 David Bowie’s advice to young artists
- “Always remember that the reason you initially started working was that there was something inside yourself. That you felt—that if you manifested it in some way, you would understand more about yourself. And how you co-exist with the rest of society.”
- ✨Quote, Creativity
2023-10-18 Commit Mono is a neutral programming typeface
- 🔨Font, Coding, Development
2023-10-17 Steph Ango: Don’t delegate understanding
- “There is a parasite, I see it everywhere. It consumes your health and wealth. It preys on ignorance and is easy to catch. It’s so common you may not even notice you have it.”
- 📝Learning, Fallacy
2023-10-13 Cutting vinyl at Abbey Road , or: what “mastering” actually means
- 🎹Engineering, Process
2023-10-13 New fave music: The Black Dog—My Brutal Life
- 🎵Album, Brutal Ambient
2023-10-11 Fullbucket NY is the quintessential Dub Techno orchestra
- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
2023-10-08 8BitDo make mechanical keyboards with retro aesthetics
- 🔨TKL, C64, Nintendo
2023-10-06 Mudda beats the most impossible Trackmania map
- 🤯Perseverance, Dedication, World Record
2023-10-02 Rocked Deadline Demoparty with Katsumaki by Still
- ✨Demoscene, Realtime, Art
2023-09-27 Fave new music: Rod Modell—Ghost Lights
- 🎵Dub Techno, Drone, Ambient
2023-09-24 Herb Alpert does East Bound and Down ❤️
- 🎵Country, Western, Jerry Reed
2023-09-22 When a game critique becomes a thoughtful inquiry about the soul
- ✨SOMA, Philosophy, Essay
2023-09-17 The Story of Sequential Circuits Prophet VS development
- 🎹DSP, History, Synthesizer
2023-08-30 The insane engineering behind 10cc—I’m not in love
- 🎹Reel, “Sampling”
2023-08-21 John Martins apocalyptic paintings explore the sublime
- ✨Art, Video essay, Religion
2023-08-17 David Whyte about fostering the practice of imagination
- ✨1 minute, Communication, Philosophy
2023-08-08 Ohmforce set their catalogue of legacy plugins free
- 🎹Effects, MacOS, Windows
2023-08-06 USB device tree viewer is great for troubleshooting failing cables
- 🔨DAW, Windows, Utility
2023-08-02 Made a demo about mourning a loss for Evoke with mfx (❤️ Ben)
- ✨Demoscene, Realtime, Art
2023-07-04 Listeners care about what music feels like, not what it sounds like
- 🎹Asking better questions, Gregory Scott, Kush
2023-07-02 Let’s build a computer in Conway’s Game of Life
- ✨Emergence, Logic, System Theory
2023-06-29 Goblin.tools can help neurodivergent 🧠 eg check for language
- 🔨Self assessment, Decision making, Planning
2023-06-28 Neosensory devices want to help you hear through your skin
- Via David Eagleman @Tim Ferriss podcast
- 🔨 AI, Hearing Loss, Neuroscience
2023-06-14 Markwhen is a markdown-like journaling language for timelines
- With extensions for VS Code, Obsidian and a library of tools
- 🔨Blogging, Writing, Planning
2023-06-13 Berry’s Paradox vs the search for algorithm for truth
- 🤯Algorithm, Math, Pattern
2023-05-31 Why nothing matters—the art of John Cage and Samuel Beckett
- “Music is the space between the notes”—Claude Debussy
- ✨Experience, Minimalism, Spacetime
2023-05-30 Scuba and Shifted discuss Business Techno
- 🎹Commercialization, Podcast, Interview
2023-05-23 Play—browser based ASCII playground
- 🔨Live-coding, Visuals
2023-05-20 ‘D2: Declarative Diagramming’ turns text into diagrams
- Supports Markdown, LaTeX, code snippets, animations, tables…
- Ships plugins for VS Code, ViM, Obsidian, Discord
- 🔨Context, Data, Visualization
2023-05-19 Fave new music: Sparks—Veronica Lake
- 🎵Electronic
2023-05-17 MyHouse.WAD is a mind-, and engine-bending DooM mod
- ✨Game, Design, Storytelling
2023-04-28 ChowMultiTool’s waveshaper and elliptic EQ modes fill a void
- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
2023-04-16 Hires audio w/ inaudible high-frequency content induces relaxed state
- "As a mechanism underlying the effect of inaudible high-frequency sound components, we speculate that the brain may subconsciously recognize high-resolution audio that retains high-frequency components as being more natural, as compared with similar sounds in which such components are artificially removed. A link between alpha power and ratings of ‘naturalness’ of music has been reported. When listening to the same musical piece with different tempos, alpha-band EEG power increased for excerpts that were rated to be more natural, the ratings of which were not directly related to subjective arousal (Ma et al., 2012; Tian et al., 2013). As high-resolution audio replicates real sound waves more closely, it may sound more natural (at least on a subconscious level) and facilitate music-related psychophysiological responses.
- ✨Study, Cognition, DSP
2023-04-13 mkDocs Material serves this website
- 🔨Markdown, Self-hosted, SSG
2023-02-28 If you want to revive a Windows XP machine, this might be handy
- 🔨Software, Updates, Drivers
2023-02-02 Donald Glover understands a lot about manifesting creativity
- ✨Childish Gambino, Portrait
2023-01-14 John G. Young M.D: What is (the purpose of) creativity?
- “As we transcend our past in the things we do, we also become who we can be. Thus creativity is those attitudes by which we fulfill ourselves. It is more than working in a “creative” field such as art or inventing or research, for as Maslow (1968) says, “It is better to make a first rate soup than a second rate painting.” Creativity is the actualizing of our potential. It is the expression of ourselves in our becoming. It is our “being becoming.” It is our adventure into the unknown.”
- Etymology: Greek Krainein—to fulfill
- 📝Psychology, Mental Health

2022¶

2022-12-25 Resonate in Peace, Maxi Jazz/Faithless
- “Music is an expression of humanity. You can touch people with three chords of music more, than say, a book full of words sometimes. That’s the immediacy of it, the urgency of music. It allows you to feel parts of yourself that you wouldn’t necessarily—on a ordinary day to day basis—feel. … It’s a way of communicating, and it’s almost heart to heart.“
2022-12-15 Silverbullet.md is a markdown-driven note-taking application
- 🔨FOSS, Self-hosted, PWA
2022-12-09 EURkey makes sensible changes to the ANSI layouts, adding Umlauts
- 🔨Keyboard, Layout, Productivity
2022-11-28 Fave new album: John Shima—The Empty Lands
- 🎶Detroit Techno, Futurism
2022-11-23 Krzysztof Domaradzki’s game and movie posters are **awesome
- Favorites: Heat, Blade Runner, The Last of us 2
- ✨Art, Print, Design
2022-11-18 The birth of the classic DBX 160 compressor in 1976
- ✨Music production, Engineering, History
2022-11-04 Glyphs is a table of, erm, glyphs to copy/paste into your designs
- 🔨Design, Typography
2022-10-26 R-Kontrol lets you remote control Bitwig from your iOS device
- 🔨Bitwig, Extension, App
2022-08-04 Tourbox’ custom controllers want to boost your workflows
- 🔨Productivity, Editing, Design
2022-08-03 Work Louder’s mechanical keyboards sport a lot of extras
- 🔨TKL, Industrial Design
2022-08-02 “The 4 things it takes to be an expert”
- Valid environment (fixed set of rules)
- Many repetitions (combining the 4 things)
- Timely feedback (requiring results)
- Deliberate practice (conscious thought)
- ✨Veritasium, Expertise
2022-07-26 The Holey desk uses the dog hole standard to be adaptable
- 🔨DIY, Craftsmanship, Modular
2022-07-15 Fave new track: Der Dritte Raum—Hale Bopp (BSB’s Remix)
- 🎵Electronica
2022-06-30 “Gregory Scott: A better way to use reference tracks/mixes”
- 🎹Mixing, Engineering, House of Kush
2022-06-23 Markdown Memo turns VS Code into a knowledge base
- 🔨Note-taking, Extension, PKM
2022-06-19 Creative Cuts diorama builds from scratch are relaxing
- 🍿DIY, Craftsmanship
2022-06-01 Skelet v3 is a typography-focused CSS framework
- 🔨Webdev, Design, Layout
2022-05-27 Laragon is a portable, easily extendable, local WAMPP stack
- Stack: Apache, Nginx, MySQL, PHP, Redis, Memcached, Node, Python, Ruby, Java, Go…
- 🔨Webdev, Windows
2022-05-25 “What does DJing have to do with leadership?”
- ✨Seminar, DJ, Confidence
2022-05-23 Blink gets to the gist of intuitive, snap decision making
- 📘Malcom Gladwell, Psychology, Intuition
2022-05-17 Wagtail is a Python-based CMS, made to scale
- 🔨FOSS, Enterprise
2022-05-01 “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is ADHD in a nutshell ❤️
- ✨Movie, Fave
2022-04-11 Chow BYOD wants you to build your own distortion
- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
2022-04-06 ‘Principles of Pleasure’ should be part of every school curriculum
- ✨Education, Sexuality, Psychology
2022-04-02 Fancy playing Skidmarks in your browser against others?
- 🍿Amiga, Game, Classic
2022-04-01 This Kruder & Dorfmeister liveset in Vienna
- 🎵Liveset, Dub, Downtempo
2022-03-18 10 mins of Tetris before bedtime can positively affect sleep?!
- ✨Jane McGonigal, Tim Ferriss, Podcast
2022-03-13 Great resource about the history of radio broadcasting
- ✨Website, Electronic, Engineering
2022-03-12 Milkshake.app lets you make a ‘link in bio’-website in minutes
- 🔨Social Media, Webdev, Design
2022-03-11 Adjust Firefox devtools font settings via userContent.css
- 🔨Webdev, Legibility, Pain relief
2022-03-10 Fira Code is my new go-to monospace font-family for coding
- 🔨Development, Typography
2022-03-01 PUG is a pre-processor that speeds up writing HTML by margins
- 🔨Webdev, Productivity, Codepen
2022-02-15 typographicposters.com archives design across the ages
- ✨Design, Typography, Inspiration
2022-02-13 ❤️ Edgar Wright’s documentary about the Sparks brothers
- ✨Music, Perseverance, Creativity
2022-02-10 frontmatter.codes is a headless CMS for static site generators
- 🔨Webdev, SSG, VS Code
2022-02-03 csvchain.com is a great take on NFTs
- 🍿Humor, Bullshit
2022-01-30 Brandon rebuilds the machine shop he inherited from his grandfather
- ✨Craftsmanship, Engineering, Soothing
2022-01-10 ❤️ ‘Valuing All Kinds of Art’—Mr. Rogers’ Neighbourhood
- “Since each person is somewhat different from everyone else in the world, each of us would draw the trolley in a different way. Isn’t that wonderful?”
- ✨
2022-01-07 Recorded a special/unexpected mix for Breakfast of Champions cast
- 🎵DJ set, Country, Trip-Hop, Krautrock, Electronica…

2021¶

2021-12-24 “The only people we think of as normal are those we don’t know well yet.”
- ✨Perspective, School of Life
2021-11-20 New fave track: Aleksi Perälä—FI3AC2158010
- 🎵Electronica
2021-11-19 ‘The Sound of 16-Bit’ is a good video essay about trackers
- 🎹Amiga, Protracker, History
2021-11-14 Unpacking is an isometric pixelart game about unpacking stuff?!
- 🎮Windows, Switch, Xbox One
2021-11-13 Intriguing arguments for switching from QWERTY to Colemak layout
- 🔨Keyboard, Productivity
2021-11-01 Create or edit microtonal scales
- 🎹SCL, Tool, Browser
2021-10-26 SyntherJack DIYs synthesizers and tools, like:
- 4sum portable audio mixer
- Ocean Noise Generator
- Krautrock Phaser
- 🎹PCB, Schematics, Projects
2021-10-25 Leet is a series of cheap MIDI controllers you can build yourself
- 🎹DIY, Arduino, 3D printing
2021-09-22 Fave new album: CiM—Unselected Protracker Mods
- 🎵IDM, Electronica, Amiga
2021-10-19 Rick Rubin: The invisibility of Hip Hop’s greatest producer
- 🎹Portrait, Perseverance, Creativity
2021-10-15 Humans are born with an innate understanding of logarithms?
- 🤯Radiolab, Podcast, Numbers
2021-09-03 GrainyDays analog photography excursions are hilarious
- 🍿America, Roadtrip
2021-09-02 New fave album: Carbon Based Lifeforms—Stochastic
- 🎵Ambient, Drone, Electronica
2021-07-29 Tagspaces helps you organize your local files using tags
- 🔨Organization, Productivity
2021-07-28 Research: Tape/Reel machine resources
- Studio Reel-to-Reel Tape Dynamics and Double-Tracking Whitepaper
- The unpredictable Joys of Analog Recording (lots of reel machine curves)
- Tape Recording Equalization Fundamentals and 15 in/s Equalizations
- Noise Reduction and Tape Hiss
- 🎹DSP, DIY, Channel Strips
2021-06-28 XYplorer is a Total Commander alternative
- 🔨Windows, Productivity, Workflow
2021-06-27 ‘Being a human person’ portraits Roy Anderson
- ✨Creativity, Documentary, Film-Making
2021-06-26 Resonate in Peace, Peter Zinovieff (Founder of EMS)
- 🎹Electronic Music, Pioneer, Synthesis
2021-06-14 Adrienne makes Yoga accessible by being down to earth
- ✨Physical, Workout, Inspiration
2021-05-27 Dendron turns VS Code into a knowledge management system
- 🔨Markdown, PKM, Learning
2021-05-26 Midilar makes modular, customizable MIDI controllers
- 🎹DAW, Hardware
2021-05-23 ‘From Emptiness to Infinity’ portaits my fave architect, Tadao Ando
- Example: His Vitra Campus conference pavillion
- ✨Brutalism, Minimalism, Documentary
2021-05-20 Creating a VS Code Second Brain is a fine resource
- 🔨PKM, Extensions
2021-05-17 PowerToys FancyZones is a productivity upgrade, Download
- 🔨Microsoft, Window Manager, Utility
2021-04-23 kkrieger: Making an impossible FPS by Nostalgia Nerd is humbling
- ✨Demoscene, Farbrausch, Video essay
2021-03-27 **Mix buss compression: When and Why?
- 🎹Dynamics Processing, Gregory Scott, House of Kush
2021-03-13 ADHD 2.0 is an insightful book about developing strategies
- 🔨Neurodiversity, Focus, Mental Health
2021-03-10 “Comparison is the deadliest thing we can do to ourselves”
- 🎹Expectation, Management, Simon Sinek
2021-03-03 Fave new album: Sense—Inside
- 🎵Ambient, Covid, Reflection
2021-02-26 Andrew Huberman: “Awareness cues brain change”
- ✨Neuroscience, Learning, Podcast
2021-02-14 VSauce: How our brain fucks with our perception of time
- Introduced me to the protagonist syndrome
- ✨Biases, Fallacies, Illusions
2021-02-13 Todd Hido: ‘I Use Photography to Express Myself’
- ✨Minimalism, Intuition, People
2021-01-24 Don’t Try—The Philosophy of Charles Bukowski
- If you have to try to care about something, or have to try to want something, perhaps you don't care about it.
- ✨Creativity, Writing, Perseverance
2021-01-13 ’Brutal Sheffield’ is a photographic study by Martin Dust/Black Dog
- 📘Architecture, Brutalism, Photobook
2021-01-12 Print your own clips for Ikea Samla boxes
- 🔨3D print, Thingiverse
2021-01-11 About GAS: A purchase without a goal/purpose is a distraction in itself
- 📝Gear Acquisition Syndrome, Music Production, Thoughts
2021-01-10 Morkredd is a physics-based puzzle game for two, Steam
- 🎮Windows, XBox
2021-01-06 This ‘93 documentary about Laibach feat. a young Slavoj Zizek
- 🎵EBM, Philosophy, Politics

2020¶

2020-12-06 Nick Carver talks about artistic intention in photography
- ✨Authenticity, Creative Process, Manipulation
2020-10-17 Struggle with reverb? Study the real thing everywhere, anytime
- 🎹Gregory Scott, House of Kush
2020-09-17 Fave new track: MOWUKIS—How Much A Body Can Achieve
- 🎵Trip-Hop
2020-09-16 Balanced mixes are boring mixes (especially in Dub/Techno)
- 🎹Goals, Mixing Gregory Scott
2020-09-15 Sound thinking with Arovane
- 📝🎹Interview, Sound-Design
2020-09-09 Korg Volca Beats: Add individual outputs
- 🎹Hardware, DIY, Modification
2020-09-04 Series recommendation: Dispatches from Elsewhere, Trailer
- 🍿WTF, Life, Perspective
2020-08-13 Mixing too slow kills your creativity
- “Shave your mix into being”—Gregory Scott/House of Kush
- 🎹Mixing, Strategy, Productivity
2020-08-08 Tamiko Thiel, the designer who inspired Steve Jobs
- ✨Design, Product, Industrial
2020-08-01 Photographer updates postcards of 60s resorts into abandoned ruins
- ✨Photography, Modernism
2020-07-30 How to pandemic with RTOEhrenfeld ft. Erobique 😍
- 🎵Funk, ZDF, Public German TV
2020-07-29 Nils’ K1v is a free 90s powerhouse PCM synth
- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
2020-07-28 The Snow Cruiser—Antarctica’s abandoned behemoth
- And the Soviet follow up Kharkovchanka
- ✨History, Engineering, Brutalism
2020-20-27 New fave track: Deadbeat & Paul St. Hilaire—Mind Control
- 🎵Dub Techno
2020-06-26 Hugh Jackman on the 85% rule, daily routines…
- ✨Tim Ferriss, Podcast, Life
2020-06-29 New fave album: The Exaltics & Heinrich Mueller—Temporal Matrix
- 🎵Elektro, Detroit, Futurism
2020-06-17 Encoderaudio develops interesting Ableton Live devices
- 🎹MIDI, Effects, Instruments
2020-06-12 Bass Worship: The influence of Dub & Soundsystem Culture
- 📹Documentary, Music
2020-05-21 Tom Chi: Everything is connected—Here’s how
- ✨TED, Talk, Science
2020-05-16 The Control Panel Archive: retro-futuristic dials and knobs
- ✨Brutalism, Engineering, Design
2020-05-15 The YT session where I talk about finishing tracks and stuff
- 🎹Music Production, Strategies, Processes
2020-05-11 Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living
- “Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points”
- 📘Book, Perspective, Philosophy
2020-05-10 Not automating your effects? Boring.
- 🎹Music production, Production value
2020-05-09 Tim Ferriss interviews Liz Gilbert, and I strongly recommend it
- “Grief isn't something that's mastered, it's something that's survived"
- ✨Podcast, Life, Creativity
2020-04-27 How do astronauts deal with isolation?
- Spoiler: Routines, routines, routines
- ✨Covid, Strategy
2020-04-23 Gollum is a git-powered wiki with a local frontend
- 🔨Ruby, Markdown
2020-04-22 Pask Makes: Neil’s wood-, and metalworking videos are soothing
- 🍿Craftsmanship, Processes
2020-04-16 Fave old music: Electro Music Union re-issue
- 🎵Album, Electronic, Detroit Techno
2020-04-16 The Olbers paradox renders the night sky black
- ✨3 minutes, Physics, Universe
2020-04-11 Wackelkontakt by Alcatraz & Prismbeings is 4kb intro bliss
- ✨Demoscene, Realtime, 4096 Bytes
2020-04-10 Recorded a VERY eclectic set for Revision Demoparty
- 🎵DJ set, Pop vs Electronic
2020-04-04 Auditory distance perception in humans
- 📝Research, Hearing, Space
2020-03-30 The Marvellous Mod World of Sci-Fi Supermarionettes
- ✨Thunderbirds, Craftsmanship, Production design
2020-03-15 What happened to the Ekranoplan?
- ✨Engineering, Brutalism, Russia
2020-03-14 A look at CEM3320 filter designs (OB-Xa, Elka Synthex…)
- 💡DSP, Analog, Circuitry
2020-03-09 James Brötorhead—Superkill’s my fave mashup ever 🤙
- 🎵Mashup, James Brown x Motorhead
2020-03-08 Cute things make us careful and focus our attention
- 📝Kawaii effect, Cognition, Neuroscience
2020-03-02 Blind magician Richard Turner does impossible things with cards
- Trailer for his documentary
- ✨Tim Ferriss, Podcast, Perseverance
2020-02-29 FontGoggles is a font viewer for MacOS
- 🔨Typography, Design, Utility
2020-02-27 The book of Drexciya tells an ancient story of slavery to repair the future
- 📝Afrofuturism, Detroit Techno
2020-02-27 Brian Eno ponders what happens when we virtualise our desires
- ✨5 minutes, Philosophy
2020-02-21 How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit
- ✨🤣TED, Talk, Mike Cannon-Brookes
2020-02-20 Sense—Peacefunction
- 🎵Ambient, Drone, Masterpiece
2020-02-19 Subwoofers: How and where to place them ideally?
- 🎹Acoustics, Studio, Monitoring
2020-02-16 ORCA is a live-coding environment for performing music, Intro video
- 🔨Sequencer, Experimental, Standalone
2020-02-15 Popular & Contemporary Music is a great series of mixes
- 🎵DJ sets, Eclectic
2020-02-09 What the worlds longest echo sounds like
- 🍿3 minutes, Sound-Design, Physics
2020-02-09 Bad Circuit Modelling explores the artefacts of failing components
- 🎹Plugin, Free, Experimental
2020-02-08 Turkish Disco rules: Teselliye Sen Gerek, Donme Dolap
- 🎵Disco, Turkey
2020-02-05 DJ Mag: Meet the illustrators pushing flyer design forward
- 📝Article, Design, Techno
2020-01-28 Fontfabric Age, File, VAL and MOD are great for 90s Techno designs
- 🔨Fonts, Design, Free
2020-01-22 Envelover is a free VCA with analog envelope behaviour
- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows
2020-01-19 Decisive is a book about biases and decision making, TL;DR video
- Narrow framing is a fallacy
- 📘Psychology, Philosophy, Self-awareness
2020-01-15 WTF: IGORRR - VERY NOISE
- 🎵Video, 🤷‍♂
2020-01-14 Psychedelicious is my playlist for Krautrock and related genres
- 🎵Spotify, Psychedelic Rock
2020-01-11 E-Phonic XPressor is a well rounded, free saturator and compressor
- 🎹Plugin, MacOS, Windows

2019¶

2019-12-31 The man who invented the 80s talks about the art of record production
- ✨Trevor Horn, Sampling, Music Production
2019-12-30 Tim Harford explores cautionary tales about ~~oracles~~ predictive algorithms
- ✨Podcast, Biases, AI
2019-12-10 rktic @Kraftfuttermischwerk Adventskalender
- 🎵DJ set, Dub Techno, Drum & Bass
2019-12-06 New fave track: Samurai Drive—I would never have to know
- And Neon Side
- 🎵Trip-Hop, Indie

2018¶

2018-06-10 New fave blog: Unintendedconsequenc.es
- 📝Systems, Complexity, Unknown unknowns

2017¶

2017-10-17 Alex Atala is wholesome (Chef’s Table @Netflix), Trailer
- ✨Craftsmanship, Processes, Preparation
2017-04-13
2017-04-10 Cheryl Strayed: How to be creative like a motherfucker
- “Surrender to your own mediocrity”
- ✨Tim Ferriss, Podcast, Creativity

2010¶

2010-01-25 Kirk Degiorgio’s Bodytonic Podcast #066 🔥
- 🎵DJ set, Techno
2010-01-12 Alex Roman’s ‘The Third & The Seventh’ is a CG masterpiece
- ✨Architecture, 3D Animation, Short

2009¶

2009-10-18 Hard/Wax Treatment Podcast got a great selection of mixes
- 🎵DJ sets, Dubstep, Techno
2009-10-15 Fave new DJ set: Surgeon Live @Bunker NYC
- 🎵DJ set, Techno, Podcast
2009-08-09 Variety of Sound releases Density mkII compressor
- 🎹Plugin, Windows
2009-08-09 Fave new DJ mix: Surgeon’s 3hr set @Fabric London kills it
- 🎵DJ set, Techno, RIP filter27.com
2009-03-30 Fave new music: Ronny Ragtroll—Bedubs EP
- 🎵Dub Techno, rohformat
2009-04-27 ‘Look around you’ is as British as it gets
- 🍿Humor, Maths
2009-03-07 Farbrausch fr-025:the.popular.demo is available in HD
- 🍿Demoscene, Realtime Art
2009-02-19 This Ghetto House mix by DJ Guy 🔥
- 🎵DJ set, Chicago
2009-02-09 My website got Smashing Magazine’d for excellent menu design
- ✨Design, Inspiration
2009-01-23 Fave new album: Yagya—Rigning
- 🎵Dub Techno, Iceland
2009-01-21 Move D’s Bunker Podcast mix is a must
- 🎵DJ set, House
2009-01-20 New fave track: Equalized—EQD#002
- 🎵Dub Techno, Bomb
2009-01-18 “Band meeting”: ‘Flight of the Conchords’ SE2 finally airs, Trailer
- 🍿Series, Recommendation
2009-01-18 Little White Earbuds interviews echospace
- 🎹Dub Techno, Podcast
2009-01-15 Netvibes is great custom portal to the web (RIP)
- 🔨WWW, News, Startpage
2009-01-09 Paniq’s ode to Microsoft Songsmith (Chacarron)
- 🍿Music, Humor, Demoscene
2009-01-02 Flickr is now home for my photos
- 📷Photography, Social Network

2008¶

2008-12-30 Closing the musical year with ’Fuck off 2008’-DJ mix
- 🎵DJ set, Techno
2008-12-03 Fave album: H.U.V.A. Network—Distances
- 🎵Ambient, Electronic
2008-12-01 ’Let the Right One in’ is a disturbingly beautiful surprise
- 🍿Movie, Horror, Sweden
2008-11-30 Richie Jackson’s Better than Life part is pure bliss
- 🎵 The Attack—Too old (1968)
- ✨Skateboarding, Style, Creativity
2008-11-20 Monty Python’s finally got a YouTube channel
- ✨Humor, British
2008-11-17 Shorpy.com archives historical photos from America
- 📷Analog, Glass Negatives, 1800s
2008-11-12 ‘Gsellmann’s Weltmaschine’ is a weird mechanic installation
- ✨Art, Engineering
2008-11-06 Fave new/old music: Huong Thanh—Bakida
- 🎵Vietnam, Folklore
2008-11-04 The 3D-animated classic Gas Planet from ‘91 is finally online!
- ✨Animation, Short, Pacific Data Images
2008-11-02 Published the ’Music for grey days’ mix
- 🎵DJ set, Dub Techno, rktic
2008-08-11 Dropped the ‘Interstellar Disco Express—Station 1’ DJ mix
- 🎵DJ Set, Italo Disco
2008-08-09 The 1^st season of Heroes features the most evil villain ever
- 🍿Series, Recommendation

2007¶

2007-02-24 Abduzeedo is an inspiring design-blog to follow
- ✨Typography, Branding, Illustration

2006¶

2006-11-30 ‘Ghetto Tracks’ is a short doc about Dance Mania/Chicago
- With DJ Funk, Waxmaster, DJ Deeon, Rated X, Jammin’ Gerald, Ray Barney
- 🎹Ghetto House, History
2006-10-13 Universal Extractor unpacks any archive or installer
- 🔨Windows, Unpacker

2003¶

2003-12-106 Dave Shea’s csszengarden.com got me into learning CSS, archive.org
- 🔨Web, Design, Inspiration
2003-07-01 em411.com is a community for electronic music producers (rip)
- 🎹HUB, News, Culture
2003-06-11 Magnus Ambience is the 1^st reverb with freeze
- 🎹Plugin, 32bit
2003-06-03 rgc:Audio Triangle II is a fat mono-synth
- 🎹Plugin, 32bit
2003-02-01 James Nachtwey is a War Photographer
- “Is it possible to put an end to human behavior, which has existed throughout history, by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet that very idea has motivated me.”
- ✨Documentary, Food for thought

2002¶

2002-02-17 urbanlog.org is a simple one-liner log for sharing links
- 🔨Inspiration, WWW, Culture

1998¶

1998-11-01 Signalgrau’s eyesaw is an inspiring web/design/thing
- ✨Typography, Layout, Inspiration

1997¶

1997-04-02 TBL’s Captured Dreams is next-level Amiga perfection
- ❤️Demoscene, Fave, Electronica

1996¶

1996-08-18 Dubius releases Machines of Madness at Assembly demoparty
- ❤️Demoscene, Fave, PC
1996-05-12 jodi.org is a mindbending rabbit hole of awesome weird shit ❤️
- I spent hours revisiting the index
- 🤯Web, Design, Glitch

1994¶

1994-12-24 Recorded this 303 infested mix on a lousy chrome cassette
- 🎵DJ set, Techno, Trance
1994-04-10 Fave new album: Future Sound of London—Lifeforms
- 🎵Electronic, IDM, UK

1993¶

1993-04-20 Fave new album: B12—Electro Soma
- 🎵IDM, Techno, Futurism

1986¶

1986-06-04 The Tripods BBC series had me right at the intro
- Watched the series with my son decades later. And can still recommend it as a great series for kids. It asks valuable questions about what it means to be an individual in society, courage and so on. You can find it here.
- 📺TV, Series, Science Fiction

1982¶

1982-??-?? Williams Centaur pinball attract mode is mesmerizing
- Something about the BBD echo and sound design was very evocative.
- 🤷Space

1976¶

1976-07-13 Hello world.