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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I also have "Inability to Perform Social Activities Is Considered Inferior" by Yasuyuki Uesugi, a short noise composition on floppy disc that's one of a run of 5. This one still feels a bit "basic" though; if you're looking to get into floppy releases, this is the one a Wired article reviewed.

A floppy disc inside a stapled paper sleeve.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Most of the *super* obscure stuff I have isn't necessarily my favorite music, but I do have some rare ones: Enon's "Long Play" and "Onhold" albums are both self-released on CD-R, and "Onhold" comes in a 5.25" floppy disc case with hand-glued art. I also have some vinyl-only releases from them...

A black 5.25" floppy disc case with hand-glued art of a portable turntable and typewriter text reading "ONHOLD ENON"

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also finding that converting database files to audio makes a nice mix of percussive and tonal tremolos:

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm noticing that a lot of macOS system daemons (`nfcd`, `rapportd`, `testmanagerd`, `uarpassetmanagerd`, `wifianalyticsd`, `xprotectd`, etc.) have a similar pattern repeated around the middle and end: this span of random, chaotic noises, followed by quieter static, a loud burst, then silence.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Some pretty wonky sounds from some of the files I converted to audio:

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have an external drive that's just an old laptop SSD inside a clear case, and I like how cheery the blinking blue/violet LED looks:

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is what popped into my head this morning

The "Labor Dabor" meme from Homestar Runner, but it says "todirthday is my birthday"

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My mom found an Olympus C-740 Ultra Zoom (a digital camera from ~2003, with an old-style CCD sensor) around her house and sent it over I've seen people playing with light in photos on old digital cameras, and I had really wanted to give it a try

An apartment parking lot photographed from a balcony. There is a tree covering most of the field, and a purple artifact from the sun shining just above the frame.

A college campus, taken through a shade with circular perforations

The sun shining through a pine tree, taken from a low, sharp angle

Trees along a residential street, with a burgundy house in the left foreground, and the setting sun just behind the edge of the porch roof, giving a golden halo.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I ended up getting a little travel French press and a kettle, and it's been very nice make coffee at my desk. Union busting is disgusting!

A black mug, a French press with hot pink plastic fittings, and a small electric kettle on a desk.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Under the list of Treesitter parsers (after running :checkhealth), Neovim is showing ".DS_Store" as one of the installed languages lmao

Results of :checkhealth in Neovim, showing the installed Treesitter parsers. At the top of the list is ".DS_Store"

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is reminding me: I saw this Splatoon graffito at some large, abandoned drums behind a park in my town that people have turned into a graffiti canvas

A graffitied concrete surface with a small, green cartoon squid and the text "woomy"

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

These memes immediately popped into my head

Gus Fring captioned in Impact font

"Take your age. That's your age."

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

With just the images I have on my computer, here's what it's like to be married to me:

manga of a boy and girl on a date

girl: even in other languages, starfish mostly have star-related names. for instance, in france they're called...

*thinking* he should be falling for me around now. even the aquarium employees couldn't give explanations this interesting.

boy: enough about starfish already. i wanna see penguins!

girl: no. the plan is to look at starfish for another 30 minutes.

boy: thirty minutes?!

An elementary school classroom with a harsh noise performer photoshopped into the front. "career day & your dad is a harsh noise artist"

Two panels from Serial Experiments Lain with altered dialogue. Lain's sister comes in to find her working on a computer, holding a screwdriver in her mouth. The sister asks "what are you doing, Lain?" Lain says "serial experiments."

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Another one from my high school days is Enon's “Believo.” The album closer, “Biofeedback” continues to be a favorite. It's extremely weird (rapping through a ring modulator, lots of wonky samples, etc.), but also has a great groove.

The album cover for Enon's “Believo.” In the foreground are illustrations of people with their arms outstretched in front, with numbered keys for different parts of the body. In the background is a page of a Spanish-English phrasebook.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Post an album you've listened to 100+ times Autechre's “Draft 7.30” is both one of my favorite albums of all time, and my go-to comfort album.

An abstract grayscale computer illustration, showing twisting, liquid strands that look like thrown swirls of paint.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Every time I see somebody claim they've totally found an ethical use case for LLMs, you just gotta believe them bro

Matthew McConaughey saying "be a lot cooler if you didn't"

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I have a Python tool I made to glitch up MP3s (see below). I figured out how to package it as a CLI tool that can be installed with e.g., pipx, plus I moved it to Codeberg: codeberg.org/reillypascal... I really like the warbles and click/chirp noises that come out of corrupting the data in an MP3!

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I also figured out how to get the “neighborhood” of a given note as a Graphviz graph! I can set how far away from the initial note to look, although there are enough topic index notes that things get dense pretty quickly.

A network graph showing the notes in the immediate neighborhood of “SuperCollider Reference.” Neighbor topics include Csound, ChucK, Tidal Cycles, Musicians & Sound Artists, and SuperCollider Dev, Projects, Notes, and Environments.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I'm working on a Python tool to parse the links in my digital notebook into a Graphviz graph showing connections between the notes It's essentially the same thing as the graph view in Obsidian, but since I prefer to do my notebook in the terminal with Neovim, I wanted to try doing this

An enormous node graph, with a web of lines running between ovals with text labels. Node topics include music composition, C++/C/Rust programming, and personal life organization.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Now I'm imagining an earring with the Perl programming language logo:

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A friend made this version that I always think of:

Justin Timberlake singing “im wunderschönen Monat May”

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I asked this question on the music Stack Exchange, and if anyone has an answer that would be greatly appreciated! I'm looking for how to get the doubled trill line here in Lilypond, as well as ideally, multiple noteheads in the parentheses: music.stackexchange.com/questions/14...

A book excerpt from Elaine Gould's _Behind Bars_, showing a trill symbol with two parallel wiggly lines instead of the usual one.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I'd been thinking it would be nice to have a decent fidget, and I found this little mechanical keyboard strip that should be very nice. It came with Kailh Arctic Fox clicky switches (which I wanted to try), but I'm also giving it a go with U4Ts — it's easy to switch them out.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Weird macOS keyboard behavior: it *sometimes* inserts a non-breaking space instead of a standard one when I type a space after an em-dash. I noticed because I have Neovim set to mark different kinds of whitespace characters (gray square brackets below) Any ideas why/how to change this?

A narrow terminal window with the following text:

“At least half of the time when I type an em-dash followed by a space — which macOS allows via Alt-Shift-- — I get a non-breaking space, indicated by the bracket character.”

There is a horizontal square bracket character in the space following the em-dashes.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It's so cool and beautiful to see images from this far away from earth, and to know that people are currently traveling to the moon images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

A view of the earth from the Artemis II capsule as it flies away. The earth is fully illuminated, and the distance shows the whole globe clearly. There are green auroras at the poles, and a white haze on one limb from the zodiacal light.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

More success porting Lilypond/Frescobaldi capabilities over to Neovim: I can now easily do musical transformations on Lilypond notation! I can transpose passages, double/halve the durations, dot/undot everything…

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My partner's pomade is “Suavecito” brand, and the the “V” on the logo is bigger than the surrounding text. Every time I look at it, I imagine a Rust developer using it and saying they “put the Vec<T> in ‘Suavecito’.”

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I both grew up on tapes, and I've bought a few tapes in recent years (as well as the floppy disc releases at the end). The Lead Pall and Magnetic Coroner ones were bought at local experimental shows.

8 cassettes and 3 floppy discs at the end of a row of CDs on a bookshelf. The tapes are:
- Cruel Diagonals, “Pulse of Indignation“
- Dis Fig, “Purge”
- Fonema Consort, “Fifth Tableau”
- Lead Pall, “Live From/Banned From Eastside Bond
- Magnetic Coroner, “Spectral Doppelganger”
- Namatamago, “Do Not Freeze”
- Helen Newby, “Dialogue”
- Noxious Upsurge Records, “Senseless”

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I'm learning Tidal Cycles, and it turns out it's pretty easy to get cool J Dilla-style microtiming effects:

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I've started writing my own SuperCollider synths to use in Tidal Cycles! This one is a classic acid bass, and I'm using it for the bassline from “365”

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Firefox 148 is finally out, and it has a toggle to block all new “AI“ features:

The Firefox settings menu. The “AI Controls” section button on the left and the “block AI enhancements” toggle in that section are circled in red, and the toggle is engaged.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

While I prefer to bring my own text editor, the dedicated Frescobaldi editor is useful to play MIDI output into a virtual bus, and send that to Max to host some VSTs and my MIDI keyboard performance patch.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Finally taking the plunge and learning Lilypond! It's kind of like LaTeX for sheet music. I'd been interested since the Finale debacle, and while Dorico has been nice, I'm finding that in many cases I prefer writing text files to working in a graphical program, so it made sense to give it a go.

A desktop screenshot. Neovim is open in Ghostty on the left, with a split window showing two Lilypond text documents. On the right is the beginnings of a PDF score, titled “Forget your name,“ with oboe, clarinet, and MIDI keyboard.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Especially nice to put them all through the same drive effect and get that nice intermodulation distortion:

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I added all the tones together, which I imagine means I get to speedrun enlightenment or something /s It does actually sound kind of cool (as someone who likes experimental music), but the spiritual/conspiracy stuff is so tiring and obnoxious

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I got a free kazoo today! Some pep band people had gotten a whole box and offered me one.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Anyone know how to remove this “AI” menu option on Firefox? When I have no windows open, there's a “new AI window” option in the “File” menu, but it disappears after I open a new window. I would prefer the menu option to never show up.

MacOS desktop. Firefox is running, but there are no open windows. The “file” menu dropdown is open, and there is a “new AI window” option.

A new Firefox window open on MacOS. The “file” menu dropdown is open, and this time there is no “new AI window” option.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I recently re-watched some of “Fringe,” and this is what I imagine every time I see the title card:

A promotional image for the show “Fringe,” but the last “E” has been edited out, and Gus Fring's face is superimposed over all the characters' faces.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Ope, I did that wrong lol. Should have been this: I was wondering why I was getting negative values from the FFT amplitude, and it's because that wasn't the amplitude — I needed to convert from real/imaginary to amplitude/phase

A Max/MSP patch. Two fftin~ objects are converted to polar w/ cartopol~. Based on which side's amplitude is lower/higher (depending on settings), I let one or the other side through.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I made a native Max tool that does the same thing as the fftz.ether~ external! This compares two sounds and picks the one that is either louder or quieter at a given frequency, depending on the settings (here it's choosing the quieter one) Here it's combining a numbers station & electric piano

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I removed the “NFL Playoffs” button on the bsky web interface w/ uBlock Origin/Firefox Use the eyedropper (“element picker”) to click on the element/create a filter, use the gear icon (settings), go to “my filters,” and apply each filter (1 for the football image, 1 for the whole element)

The right sidebar of the Bluesky web interface, showing a green rectangle reading “NFL Playoffs” with a field/football in the background, and a dot/radio waves icon

The right sidebar of the Bluesky web interface, this time without the NFL badge

The uBlock Origin menu with the eyedropper (“element picker”) tool circled in red

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Also this reminded me of the way I always hear the donut jingle from the Homer Price books (this was from back in 2018)

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

My mom gave me this replacement board (www.sensorwatch.net) for a retro Casio watch for Christmas, and it turns out there's a watch face for it that will simulate a d2, d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, and d100 Definitely bringing this to my Pathfinder 2e group next week!

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