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@ioflow.wavelight.ws
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rain artist. makes music, reads books, writes words, talks with birds. site/blog: wavelight.ws music: ioflow.bandcamp.com video: youtube.com/c/ioflow mastodon: sea.wavelight.ws/@ioflow

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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 08/09/2026
a wide mountain meadow as a musical score, a serene wilderness hymn for the senses, divine sheet music expressed in nature's slow, subtle sounds and joys. wavelight.ws/blog/2026090... #nature #birds #mountains #summer
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montane music
a montane meadow as a musical score, a hymn for the senses.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 03/09/2026
plants, nature, technology. small combinations toward a hopeful future. fernware 🪴💻 poppydisk 🌼💾 sunpower 🌻🔋 #nature #plants
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 10/08/2026
detailed process on creating a zine of nature-themed CSS code poetry, and tiny websites, for html day. (my first-ever zine.) the resulting artifacts can now be viewed online. local habitats, kindness in technology, a commitment to care. #htmlday #zine #poetry #html #css #webdev #indieweb #nature
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zine.css
zine: nature-themed CSS code poetry, made for html day.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 07/07/2026
solar artifacts and bending rainbows. sunset nature walk. distant birds, mirror-dark creek, sunlight, shadows. #nature #forest #sunset wavelight.ws/blog/2026070...
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solar artifacts
photo series: a sunset walk through a canyon forest.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 27/06/2026
a marvelous nature encounter. grayscale photography shifts into color to narrate the moment of connection, that breathless wonder.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 24/06/2026
i reworked my `404 not found` page to have a message of encouragement. i've shared this as a kind of `404 poetry`. maybe liminal waypoints can also be soothing spaces for refreshment and finding new things. more kindness in technology. wavelight.ws/404/ #indieweb #webdev #poetry #404poetry
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 22/06/2026
hello, friends. my new ambient album is available: summer. music for the solstice. piano, electronic & acoustic instruments, field recordings. gentle melodies, quiet chords, hushed textures. birds, trees, slow trails. ioflow.bandcamp.com/album/summer #ambient #music #fieldrecording #nature #birds
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summer, by ioflow
14 track album
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 10/06/2026
two red-tailed hawks on our sunset walk! they were perched not far away, calling softly to each other. we normally see red-shouldered hawks in our region, so this rare red-tailed sighting was a delight, an unexpected blessing. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-ta... #birds #nature
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Red-tailed Hawk Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
This is probably the most common hawk in North America. If you’ve got sharp eyes you’ll see several individuals on almost any long car ride, anywhere. Red-tailed Hawks soar above open fields, slowly t...
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 23/05/2026
site updates: - removed unused CSS classes. - added `:active` and `:focus` states to links. - all links are now underlined. - also working on a print stylesheet, but this is challenging for edge cases. `break-after: avoid` isn't working for headings. #indieweb #webdev #accessibility #a11y #css
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wavelight
ioflow writes, makes, shares: music, art, process, (and related technologies), nature, inspiration.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 21/05/2026
effervescent haiku by @fractalkitty.com, welcoming the season, a moment of brightly colored joy: toground.link/to-be-on-thi... #nature #birds #poetry
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to be on this branch
sometimes everything overwhelms you with beauty an you sit in awe Yellow warbler on a branch full of lichen looking slightly up and left. The bi...
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 08/05/2026
‪site updates: - created a pure html audio shortcode that can play local and remote files. - moved the roll to its own section, and added several more adjacent reads. - inspired by @fractalkitty.com et al, might even have added a /caw/ section. 🐦‍⬛ wavelight.ws #indieweb #webdev #crows
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ioflow writes, makes, shares: music, art, process, (and related technologies), nature, inspiration.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 07/05/2026
listening in delight as a northern mockingbird sings a complex series of soundalikes, a lovely reminder of the slow shift of seasons. wavelight.ws/blog/2026050... #nature #birds #mockingbird #fieldrecording
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mockingbird melodies
a northern mockingbird sings in the seasons, winter into spring into summer.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 29/04/2026
sometimes creativity can be revived, watered, sprinkled, by working in another area of the garden, adjacent to it. 🪴🌿
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 22/04/2026
it rained at dusk, an unexpected blessing. this world is meant to be beautiful. when we care for it, we care for each other. #earthday #nature
looking up at a cloud-streaked pale sunset sky. low, dark rain clouds obscure the faint dusk colors and higher, hazy ceiling.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 11/04/2026
a soft, perfect wind swished the leafy bamboo tops. a pleasant rustling, curving and swaying. an ever-shifting frame for sun, sky, and clouds. #nature #sound
looking upward at very tall bamboo leaning over the viewer, leaves partly eclipsing a blue patchy sky, the sun hidden behind bright clouds.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 04/04/2026
birds and blossoms // a lovely moment of seasonal beauty. a perspective in poetry and pictures. 🐦‍⬛🌸
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 31/03/2026
recent nature joys: dark-eyed juncos, spotted towhees, say’s phoebes. tiny feathers, little cheeps. the cloud-veiled moon; bright disc blurred by hazy vapor. brushstroked sunset skies. midnight sea fog billowing between hills. mountain ebony & jacaranda trees. birds & blooms season. #nature #birds
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 04/02/2026
i've been reviving and reevaluating my old thinkpad and mac mini, which meant working through many hardware and software issues after years of being shelved. wavelight.ws/blog/2026020... #thinkpad #linux #archlinux #macmini #macos #sysadmin
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obsolete revivals
the process of reviving and reevaluating two old computers.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 01/02/2026
a quiet midnight migration: soft starshine, gentle moonglow, stippled cloudshapes, constant companions, pale-capped mountains, and forest-ringed lakeshore. wavelight.ws/blog/2026013... #nature #birds #secondpersonbirds #indieweb
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liminal darkness
a perspective: an evening migration high above a sleeping world.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 22/01/2026
musical instruments are pathways to inner uniqueness.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 17/01/2026
an ethereal transformation. a hushed, diffuse world of light. soft, close-wrapped timeless moments in nature.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 13/01/2026
my new song and video, "chromadrops," and a detailed look at the process of creating it. ambient piano improvisation and ppooll. created for @disquiet.bsky.social junto project 0732, "color drenching." wavelight.ws/blog/2026011... #ambient #piano #ppooll #dsp #disquiet0732 #disquietjunto
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chromadrops
music and video: gentle ambient piano and glitch droplets from ppooll, a modular DSP environment.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 07/01/2026
my review of "bedrock and paradox" by @tteejj.bsky.social on @auralcanyon.bsky.social. moments of tranquility unfold as ephemeral soft-grained memories. wavelight.ws/rev/20260107... #ambient #ambientmusic #pinyonpine #auralcanyon
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pinyonpine - bedrock and paradox
review: pinyonpine's meditative remembrances and dream-textures.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 07/01/2026
an exceptionally smooth, lush, late-night journey into deep space (dub space). 🌌 #dubtechno #dubambient #ambient
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 02/01/2026
nature walk for the new year. a hushed forest in between rains. a world transformed, reshaped, renewed. wavelight.ws/blog/2026010... #nature #rain #moss #forest #newyear
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lothlórien vii // rainshapes
photo series: nature walk for the new year.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 01/01/2026
calm moments at the edge of the world, beneath gentle rains. quiet morning tides. hope and light in the new year. wavelight.ws/blog/2025123... #nature #ocean #rain #newyear
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calm shores
photo series and moments from a rainy morning walk along the seashore at the end of the year.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 30/12/2025
twelve field recordings of birds as an audio journal, a sonic journey into joyful memories and beautiful nature spaces. an avian advent calendar. created for @disquiet.bsky.social junto 0730, "calendar advent" wavelight.ws/blog/2025122... #fieldrecording #birds #nature #disquiet0730 #disquietjunto
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avian advent
a year-long sonic journal comprised of bird field recordings.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 25/12/2025
hello, friends. happy christmas. i've released my song "tanagers in paradise" as a free/PWYW single. it was originally released on the "Friends: An Ambient Compilation" tape on @seilrecords.bsky.social. ioflow.bandcamp.com/album/tanage... #ambient #fieldrecording #birds #piano #modular #synthsky
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tanagers in paradise, by ioflow
1 track album
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 24/12/2025
on our cold dusk walk, between rains, we watched a cassin’s kingbird and a tiny kestrel quietly perched, facing west, enjoying the last of the twilight. the heavens were heavily overcast, yet the oceanward skies were open just enough to be painted with vivid gradients. #nature #birds #sunset
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 21/12/2025
quiet riparian woodlands and luminous chaparral scrub bring peace in the waning sunlight, as winter solstice gently draws near. wavelight.ws/blog/2025122... #nature #winter #solstice
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early solstice
photo series: a sunset nature walk through a riparian canyon, near solstice.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 01/12/2025
my first project with the sewing machine: i made a dust cover for it. wavelight.ws/blog/2025113... #sewing #diy
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dust cover
making a dust cover for the sewing machine.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 27/11/2025
after recent rains, the appearance of moss is a small seasonal joy. mosses renew and soften the contours of the world. wavelight.ws/blog/2025112... #nature #moss #rain #autumn
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moss
verdant moss is a small joy after recent rains.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 13/11/2025
cloudfire // lastlight while we haven't been able to see the aurora, we were awed by yesterday's sunset. perhaps it was a prelude, or accompaniment, to further celestial glories. vivid firebands stretching across the dark stormclouds. #nature #sunset
a vivid sunset of dark stormclouds: a thick band of reds, pinks, and a touch of orange stretches across the sky, with smaller streamers above and below.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 06/11/2025
cloudmoon // fullness. i looked up as i was returning from yesternight’s walk, and saw the overcast darkness open up for just a few wispy moments. and tonight, the moon was even more piercingly luminous; a silvershine disc ascending the eastern horizon. #nature #moon #supermoon
looking up at a bright full moon visible through a hazy gap in the cloud-covered night sky.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 01/11/2025
tonight, we listened to pairs of great horned owls call to each other, duetting in the darkness. hidden hoots from the silhouetted tops of towering eucalypts. #nature #birds #owls
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 27/10/2025
suddenly, at the end of twilight, a huge flock of turkey vultures streamed silently overhead, intermittently eclipsing the crescent moon. the black cloud spiraled upward in the darkness of dusk, then settled into the trees silhouetted against the hills. #birds #nature
looking up as a flock of turkey vultures, black shapes against a dark sunset sky, stream toward the silhouettes of trees and hills in the distance. beyond their blurred wings is the rising crescent moon.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 12/10/2025
quiet, ephemeral autumn moments. sunset and evening walks beneath fields of silver diamonds that became rain in the darkness. wavelight.ws/blog/2025101... #nature #clouds #rain #autumn #fall
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silver diamonds
sunset and evening walks beneath fields of silver diamonds that became rain in the darkness.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 07/10/2025
poignant words on a last enfolding of nature. a loss that my own heart knows each time that it happens here. and in this moment, this presence, is the remembrance of life: growing upward, spreading outward. the providence, blessing, and grace that have flowed into so many.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 02/10/2025
on tonight’s walk, as the last rusted gold faded from the horizon-swift cloudbelt, and the skies shaded to indigo: a barn owl flew overhead, screeched twice, and disappeared into the darkness. autumn has arrived. #nature #bird #barnowl #fall
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 28/09/2025
a small companion piece in addition to my contribution to this month's indieweb carnival theme, second person birds, hosted by @fractalkitty.com. a perspective: gatherings at the end of a day. wavelight.ws/blog/2025092... #secondpersonbirds #nature #birds #crow #indieweb #indiewebcarnival
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midnightcircle
a perspective: gatherings at the end of a day of mysteries and joys.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 26/09/2025
a small companion piece in addition to my contribution to this month's indieweb carnival theme, second person birds, hosted by @fractalkitty.com. a perspective: sable, sapphire, chorus. wavelight.ws/blog/2025092... #secondpersonbirds #nature #birds #redwingedblackbird #indieweb #indiewebcarnival
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sablesounds
a perspective: a sable coat, a sapphire morning, a montane chorus.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 21/09/2025
drifting through an afternoon of iridescent colors and ever-shifting radiance. my contribution to this month's indieweb carnival, hosted by @fractalkitty.com: second person birds. wavelight.ws/blog/2025092... #secondpersonbirds #nature #birds #hummingbird #indieweb #indiewebcarnival
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jewellight
a perspective: arrayed in iridescent tones, drifting through an afternoon of glittering colors, familiar voices, and nature's ever-shifting radiance.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 29/08/2025
to be a bird in the last moments of twilight, when painted sunset skies are flecked with star droplets, and feathers gradually blend with quiet darkness.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 29/08/2025
impressions from walking through a season of colors; gorgeous hues at the end of the day. my contribution to this month's indieweb carnival: colors. wavelight.ws/blog/2025082... #nature #birds #colors #indieweb #indiewebcarnival
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colors
impressions from walking through a season of colors; nature's manifold gorgeous hues at the end of the day.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 06/08/2025
i wrote a guide to installing, configuring, and running a single-user mastodon server. highlights: local disk, subdomain redirect, improved config files, security and performance, privacy and safety considerations. ⁂ wavelight.ws/blog/2025080... #mastodon #fediverse #mastoadmin #indieweb #smallweb
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mastodon server
a guide to installing, configuring, and running a small single-user mastodon server.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 01/08/2025
nature walk through summer mountain forests, each trail revealing new joys and wonders. #nature #birds #mountains #forest #summer wavelight.ws/blog/2025073...
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summer mountain
photo series and moments from a nature walk through warm mountains in the summer.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 30/07/2025
my review of "almost an island" by kenneth james gibson, @marineeyes.bsky.social, and @jamesbernard.bandcamp.com on @pastinside.bsky.social . serene ambient textures in a quiet mountain wilderness. #ambient #ambientmusic #pastoral #nature #soundscape #almostanisland wavelight.ws/rev/20250730...
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almost an island - almost an island
review: almost an island's gentle, pastoral ambient self-titled debut.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 29/07/2025
marvelous longform nature poetry. an essay on embodying terrestrial glory, a cloudscape all the more wondrous for its impermanence.
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 15/07/2025
recent nature reads: braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer wild soundscapes - bernie krause ocean - david attenborough & colin butfield the wild places - robert macfarlane gathering moss - robin wall kimmerer #nature
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ioflow @ioflow.wavelight.ws · 12/07/2025
my review of "hrafnamynd" by @patriciawolf.bsky.social on balmat. a wondrous sonic journey into icelandic wildlands, raven imagery, and scenic memories. #ambient #ambientmusic #nature #soundscape #soundtrack #iceland #ravens #patriciawolf #balmat wavelight.ws/rev/20250711...
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patricia wolf - hrafnamynd
review: patricia wolf's dreamy, gentle soundtrack to a film exploring scenic memories of iceland's wondrous landscapes, centering on ravens.
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