A short piece for this month's IndieWeb blog carnival on Sophia's prompt “second-person birds”

I'm finally getting into TTRPGs!

Tracy Durnell's recent post resonates with what I've been doing lately to make my computer usage more pleasant. I've been in the habit of compulsively checking notifications (Mastodon, RSS, YouTube subscriptions, etc.), and I figured out that staying away from that, and using my computer for local things is much...

I took a few years of Japanese classes in undergrad, and today I'm returning to that and discussing some HTML markup for Japanese and other East Asian languages.

Jo has been using the code I use to get post locations for my /now page statuslog section to add locations to her notes. I realized it would be nice to add it to the script I use to generate note templates as well! While most of my blog posts are written from home and not associated with a place, I have a number of...

Eli and I are engaged, and we're getting married later this year!

For this month's IndieWeb Carnival, I'm writing about music that emphasizes timbre or “tone-color,” and how I use this kind of approach in my own composition.

My C++ reverb plugin is finally available for macOS, Windows, and Linux! Here's how I'm using JUCE's CMake API and GitHub actions to make that possible.

My partner and I took a walk at Powder Mill Park in upstate NY to look at the mushrooms and fish hatchery. While we were there, I came across the transmitter for a United States Geological Survey (USGS) stream gaging station—you can go to the link and see the data from this station. I've been interested in...

I went with my partner to the Natural Stone Bridge & Caves park in the Adirondacks for their birthday. They love rocks and geology, and really wanted to go here. From what they told me, this park was originally gifted to a family as thanks for their efforts in the American Revolutionary War, and after a long time as...

I've been mostly making music tools rather than writing music. Today I'm talking about getting out of this rut with a “take two” on my current composition.

I discuss how algorithmic reverbs work using the popular “Freeverb.” I give details on feedforward/feedback delays and allpass filters, and I include a Max/MSP patch to play with.