week 145

– Went to the always great Theorizing The Web, got to hear two of my internet heroes (Laurie Penny and Ingrid Burrington) speak. – Jawdropping…

week 144

– Google / Nest might just turn your house off, one day. – Verilog for cells is a thing.  I was talking to a neuroscientist friend…

under the water, carry the water

I’ve been trying to draft a “Things I Learned From Working At Drip” post that is useful, interesting and not fodder for Our Incredible Journey – which is…

week 143

– Systems thinking as LARP.  No, really. – At the last MMHD, Halley Young spoke about sonification of algorithms, and played a great example of running…

week 142

– Genetically modified mosquitoes are being released in Brazil. – I think I’ve mentioned Jukedeck, who algorithmically generate royalty-free music, before, but they’re worth talking…

comrade spotify, comrade apple

I went to a hack day, and finished a thing!  It is called Socialist Streaming, and it lets you see what would happen if streaming…

turning off the faucet

As you may have seen on the internet, we’re shutting down Drip, as of March 18th. I’ll write more about things that I did and…

week 141

The more things change. – Audio feature extraction in JavaScript.  The JavaScript-only world continues to arrive. – Iffy branding aside, it looks like Serato Pyro…

week 140

New York City remains too too warm. – A video game character is modelling for Louis Vuitton.  Of course. – Pauline Oliveros has a Second…

new york is killing me

Not really – but if you go to the DJ sets page, you’ll see my latest series.  It’s been a tough year, with not enough…