Today is Send a Friend a Webmention Day! Webmentions are a way to make posting on your own website more social, and I think they're pretty neat. I have a page with a bunch of info about setting them up on your site — the basics are pretty straightforward! Today I'm mentioning Joe, Naty, Ross, and Jo. They all have...

I recently wrote about using Lilypond with Neovim. My current composition has a mix of wind instruments and a MIDI keyboard controlling a Max/MSP patch. Crucially, the Max patch plays a variety of custom samples, sequencers, and other things that don't necessarily correspond to the pitch of the key being pressed. To...

James is hosting this month's IndieWeb blog carnival on the topic “museum memories.” One of my favorite museum trips was when my spouse took me to see the Antique Wireless Association's Communication Technologies Museum for my birthday a few years ago. I didn't know about this museum before we went — my spouse had...

I've been enjoying writing music using code in Neovim — I recently talked about using Lilypond to write sheet music this way, for example. Another way of writing music with code is Tidal Cycles. This is a set of pattern-sequencing tools that talk to the SuperCollider synthesizer. Tidal Cycles allows a highly compact...

Lilypond is a program and language for writing musical scores using only text. The syntax is similar to LaTeX, and this can be easily converted to nice-looking PDF scores, as well as MIDI files for previewing/making mockups. In addition, there are e.g., Python libraries such as Abjad that allow for algorithmic...

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January's IndieWeb movie club is Alien (1979), and it's hosted by Al Abut — here is his introduction post for the month. I've been in the mood to see some space horror lately. I saw a promotion for Ash (2025), which looks like a solid B-movie, and that reminded me to add Sunshine (2007) and Event Horizon to my watch...

I came across a convenient way to send webmentions from my terminal using a simple Bash script. This page on the IndieWeb wiki includes a shell script one-liner. It references an older version of the webmention standard, but I was able to figure it out and get it working with my setup. I have the following in a file...

Robb Knight has a page listing people's descriptions of their default app choices, and he just did an update for this year. I thought it sounded fun, so here are some of mine as of the end of 2025: Adblocker: uBlockOrigin Browser: Firefox; FFUpdater to keep vanilla Firefox for Android updated without the Play Store...

Here's some of the music I've listened to in 2025 — things in regular rotation, things from a while ago that I've revisited, and new (or new-to-me) music I've added to my library of digital downloads/CDs. New Listens Charli XCX I've listened to Charli XCX since before Vroom Vroom came out, but as is often the case...

The clouds cascade above you in incredible detail. In places, their bases form an impenetrable ceiling, but that ceiling is temporary. Wisps of shadow float against glowing shards of the sun, illuminating another layer behind. The effect continues below the clouds. As you move forward, you can see the boundaries...

I discuss some lovely-sounding reverbs that make echo densities build up over time, as in a real room. They're available in my VST/AU plugin, and I link to Max/MSP versions as well.