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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 01/10/2026

at.atmosynth.patch PDS records can now be played with a VST plugin in DAWs like Ableton Live. atmosynth.at #atproto #abletonlive #daw #synths

Screenshot of Ableton Live with Atmosynth VST3 plugin opened. Live is playing some notes from a MIDI track. In the plugin, a patch called "FM Piano" is loaded and the user can edit several settings like detune, attack, sustain, release, output level.

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 26/09/2026

Atmosynth got featured in German music gear news blog Gearnews ❤️ Lasse Eilers writes: "I think this is a very exciting and promising approach!" (translation by deepl) www.gearnews.de/dtronics-dt-...

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DTronics DT-DPROG: Pimp deine Vintage-Drum-Machine – Synthesizer-Journal

DT-DPROG ist das ultimative Upgrade für alte Drum-Machines, Etches ist ein DIY-Synthesizer und Atmosynth ist eine neue Plattform für gemeinsames Sounddesign!

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 25/09/2026

Caldir by @t4t5.com is just great. Finally a backup from Google Calendar that is under my control. caldir.org

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 25/09/2026

If someone wants to build an application that builds Web Audio API graphs and stores them in a PDS, I have published a spec for this which describes the way atmosynth.at does it with the at.atmosynth.patch records: tangled.org/center.for.c... #music #webaudio #atproto #synths

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SPEC.md at main · center.for.cybernetic.beauty/atmosynth-patch-spec

Specifications on how to store web audio graphs for music production in ATproto lexicons

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Atmosynth @atmosynth.at · 23/09/2026

Even more has landed on atmosynth.at since the last update: - Multiplayer patch editing - Song arranger - Edit on your phone - Create without signing in - Remix any patch instantly - Multiple keyboards per patch - New modules: beat repeat, drive, 9-band EQ, pink noise - and much more

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Home · ATMOSYNTH

An atmosphere of synth patches. Playable in the browser. Owned by the community.

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 21/09/2026

Experimented around with Sample & Hold today which resulted in this progression. Kinda like it: atmosynth.at/patch/3mw272...

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Train Ride Progression by @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · ATMOSYNTH

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/09/2026

This looks amazing. I'll keep repeating it over and over: ATproto is not about rebuilding social media. It's about rebuilding the Internet with social connections built in.

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Jayhawkjeff @jayhawkjeff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is pretty rad.

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 19/09/2026

Multiplayer jam sessions with your Atmosphere account atmosynth.at #atproto #music #synth

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 17/09/2026

From my experience, SDD's viability falls as the share of bottom-up knowledge in a system increases. SDD is great for the green-field CRUD demo, it's bad for byte-level VST plugin wrangling where most knowledge about the system's desired behavior is learned while debugging.

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Atmosynth @atmosynth.at · 17/09/2026

Lots more has landed on atmosynth.at since the last update: - Infinite canvas editor - Sequencers with multiple patterns & live recording - Glide & unison - Likes - Import patches - New modules: oscilloscope, sample & hold, sync/FM osc, tempo-synced delay - Output meter - and much more

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Home · ATMOSYNTH

An atmosphere of synth patches. Playable in the browser. Owned by the community.

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 16/09/2026

Thanks for this great write up. Will try it out. I feel like there are two different philosophies currently: Typed graphs vs. token soups. E.g. @timkellogg.me writes LLMs reason fine in schemaless token space: timkellogg.me/blog/2026/04... I am still trying to find the best solution for my org.

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Agent Memory Patterns

A short HOW TO guide for agent memory systems. Especially the difference between blocks, files and skills.

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 15/09/2026

Cool drum groove by @woody.fm on Atmosynth. Nice side effect: I learn about drum synthesis. ❤️ atmosynth.at/patch/3mvj4y...

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 14/09/2026

I have added sequencer modules to Atmosynth. Now you can create not just synth patches, but entire grooves. I recommend watching with headphones or good speakers. atmosynth.at #music #synth #atproto

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 09/09/2026

Atmosynth now features a new Miro-like patch editor with infinite canvas. atmosynth.at

Screenshot of an atmosynth patch with lots of modules connected to each other. On the bottom the keyboard, on the right side the settings of the currently selected module.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 06/09/2026

We should stop thinking about software as anything other than getting the computer to do what we want it to do for us

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Atmosynth @atmosynth.at · 04/09/2026

Lots of improvements to atmosynth.at have landed in this week: - MPE support - Aftertouch support - MIDI CC param mapping - Arpeggiator - New effects modules: ring modulator, sine shaper, comb filter, bitcrusher, flanger - Waveshaping - Bypassing modules - UX improvements - and much more

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Home · ATMOSYNTH

An atmosphere of synth patches. Playable in the browser. Owned by the community.

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 01/09/2026

Here's a 2 minute video on #Atmosynth and what you can do with it. atmosynth.at

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 31/08/2026

Thank you so much for the kind words! Ha! A VST plugin is exactly what I was thinking of too. You log in in Ableton and play your favorite patches from the Atmosphere. I think it is possible to port the audio engine to VST/C++.

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Woody Melling @woody.fm · 31/08/2026

Dude! This is so cool! This is the first atmosphere music project that’s totally surprised me! Any chance of a vst eventually? It’d be sweet to use it in Ableton and have patches saved to my pds #atproto DAW eventually?

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Cameron Dershem @pinkhatbeard.com · 31/08/2026

I dig this so much. It's got such a good ATmospheric vibe that can only happen with #ATproto.

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 31/08/2026

I have created Atmosynth, an #ATproto #synth patch platform. You can create, fork, and edit synth patches and play them directly in the browser, via computer keyboard or MIDI keyboard. Patches are saved in your PDS. atmosynth.at

Screenshot of Atmosynth. You see an audio signal processing graph with nodes like Sawtooth oscillators, Mixer, Chorus, reverb, output.
At the bottom a virtual piano keyboard with level and latency settings.

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PurpleJillyscreams :YuriScream: @purplejillybeans.kind.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

I'm using a cheap 23" TV as a monitor. Works nicely, but it has one peculiar quirk: the pixels are backwards! Most monitors follow an RGB pattern, but this one is BGR. Under #KDE, you can compensate for this by going to System Settings > Text & Fonts > Fonts and setting sub-pixel rendering to BGR.

Close shot of an LCD monitor, zoomed in so that the individual sub-pixels are visible. They are arranged in a blue-green-red pattern.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 24/04/2026

I can already see that this article is going to become part of my personal canon of touchstones. “A career that would have carried you twenty years ago now requires continuous local work to move in any direction at all.”

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warpfork @warpfork.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This in turn is why the half of the local-first community I'm most interested in is the "files-first" fragment. If I can't make sense of and easily use the data at rest, with *no* sync service... What are we even doing. Sync needs to be subservient to first having legible data.

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 15/04/2026

Local-area social-networking. I want bad-blue without the feeds and ads. Map the social sphere of my city/region; help me find events in third places and liminal spaces. Let me signal out my interests/skills/needs to receive resonant signals back. Show me where living communities gather.

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 14/04/2026

Isolated web apps for everyone, when?

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 14/04/2026

I let Claude distill a detailed character description of me, based on my personal notes (~6k) from the past 6 years. I was moved by the result. Thinking of including my teenager diaries, too, and maybe reveal some unexpected continuities and discontinuities.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 14/04/2026

If I had to identify a list of skills in high impact engineers, it would include: - ecological awe - intellectual humility - respect for the complexity of unfamiliar problems - cross functional communication - resilience engineering - marketing and sales (“Technical skills” aren’t in my top ten)

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Kate Nave @kathrynnave.eurosky.social · 10/04/2026

New paper out in Adaptive Behavior! On why cognitive scientists need a better account of purposive of behaviour, why cybernetics and dynamical systems won't do the trick, and how biological autonomy might. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The aim of autopoiesis theory, as Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela declared it in 1980, was to understand living systems via a ‘mechanistic’ approach that involved only what can be found ‘anywhere else in the physical world… blind material interactions governed by aimless physical laws’ (p. 74). In service of such a mission, in Maturana's words, ‘any attempt to characterise living systems with notions of purpose or function was doomed to fail’ (p. xiii).
A lot can change in a few decades. By 2002 – to the presumed horror of those who had once rejoiced at this naturalistic ‘destruction of teleology’ (Beer, 1980) – we find Varela declaring that there is in fact ‘a real teleology implied in the notion of autopoiesis’, that it is a source of ‘subjectivity, intentionality and meaning’, and thus that, ‘organisms are subjects having purposes according to values encountered in the making of their living’ (Weber & Varela, 2002).

This search for an alternative ‘science of meaning’ is, alongside the rejection of a ‘representation-first’ view of cognition, one of the central pillars that defines Varela et al.'s (1991) presentation of the enactive approach. Yet the term ‘enactivism’ is also used more loosely to refer to the endorsement of the second, anti-representationalist, pillar alone. Disagreement thus persists about whether autopoiesis supplies an adequate basis for an alternative ‘science of meaning’, and indeed whether any such basis is even needed (Barandiaran, 2017; Ward et al., 2017).
This broad tent of enactive cognitive science has been pitched across a fault line. On one side: cyberneticists, who hew to Maturana’s machinistic view within which mind may be continuous with life, but only to the extent that both are continuous with non-life and all can be subsumed within the mathematics of dynamical systems theory. On the other: ‘organicists’, who take living systems to constitute a genuinely new sort of organisation – one that is necessary for a system to be cognitive and which cannot be straightforwardly approached via the same modelling strategies used in ordinary physics.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 17/06/2025

I deleted 10,000 notes. Because I was mistaking a database for a brain. Structure for thinking. Storage for insight. I was building a library. What I needed was a life. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-...

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I Deleted My Second Brain

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 14/04/2025

there I go thinkin' again shimmeringvoid.substack.com/p/why-detail...

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Why Details Matter

The abstract-to-specific pipeline

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