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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Also finding that converting database files to audio makes a nice mix of percussive and tonal tremolos: #Glitch #Databending #ExperimentalMusic #SoundDesign #NoiseMusic

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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 #Photography #OutdoorPhotography

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.

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

A college campus, taken through a shade with circular perforations

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

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

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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. This is, again, something Obsidian can […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

I'm working on a Python tool to parse all the links in my PKM notebook and turn them 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

@catsynth dang, that's a lot of notes! I only have about 300 notes in mine, although that is partly by choice — I regularly consolidate things because that seems to work for me.

A graph of about 300 dots with text labels connected by an irregular network of lines.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

There's a music event on the lawn and one of the bands is playing “Hotel California,” and this is my face on recognizing the song coming through the wall

A Black man smoking and holding his hand to his forehead, looking tired. The image is edited so there are an absurd number of cigarettes between his fingers, and one over his ear.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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/art002e0001… #NASA #Space #Artemis

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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, apply a completely new rhythmic pattern, or […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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’.” #Rust #Rustlang #Shitpost

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

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

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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” #TidalCycles #SuperCollider #Algorave #Acid #ElectronicMusic #Neovim

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

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

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

The “I SPIL MY JICE HELP HEP” meme popped into my head, and when I was looking up the origin, I found this “catgirl who spilled her orange juice pride flag”

An anime catgirl with a spilled cup of orange juice in front of her

Below that is square with 5 colored stripes based on the colors in the previous image: dark greenish tan, medium tan, light desaturated pink, medium blush pink, and desaturated yellow-orange. It is captioned “catgirl who spilled her orange juice pride flag”

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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. #Lilypond #SheetMusic #Composition #Composer #MaxMSP #Neovim

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

And here's all the frequencies through the same drive effect, for that lovely intermodulation distortion:

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Apparently the A432/“solfeggio” conspiracy (www.williamohara.net/blog/2026/2/15…) is making the rounds on IG/TT I added all the tones together, which I imagine means I get to speedrun enlightenment or something

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

I very much like the new Markdown import/export function in LibreOffice 26.2, but I discovered a very weird behavior. I imported some notes from Obsidian to test it, and anything I have as a [Wikilink]] gets parsed as a Wikipedia link. When I mouse over what […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A LibreOffice document. I imported the index file from my Obsidian notebook, and when I mouse over what was the wikilink to “Music Coding Reference,” I get the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music Coding Reference

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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. I set “browser.ml.chat […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

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

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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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) I have it combining […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

My mom got me a microcontroller board to replace the workings of a classic Casio watch for Christmas It'll be fun to write custom firmware, but it already has something I really like, which is a countdown timer that only beeps a few times, and doesn't require […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A black Casio F-91W digital watch on my wrist showing a countdown timer at 1 minute and 15 seconds.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

I figured out writing my own statusline for Neovim! I'd been using lualine, but I didn't like that to configure anything I have to explicitly specify everything, while at the same time I'm just learning an abstraction of the actual API. I figure the more I […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A Neovim window with a dark theme and Lua code. The statusline reads:

NORMAL [git branch icon] main +10 ~1 [warning icon] 1 [lightbulb icon] 4 statusline.lua lua utf-8 lf 71:17 33%

The git and LSP status information are color-coded

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025

I coded my own external in C for Max/MSP! You can load a file (either in the object box, or w/ a "read" message) and convert the binary data to a control signal for phase-shift keying (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-shift_k…) telecommunication noises. […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

Does anyone know how to turn off/reduce the transparency in Android 16? I can't seem to find anything online, and I didn't see anything in the UI or accessibility settings, but I want to check before I conclude that it's impossible GrapheneOS' latest update […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The pull-down menu on an Android phone showing that the buttons and notifications are translucent

The app drawer on an Android phone showing heavy translucency

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

I'm teaching Sonic Pi in a music tech class, and because we were using the TB-303 synth in class, I felt compelled to modify what we did to make the Charli XCX “365” bassline: #SonicPi #Ruby #Algorave #CharliXCX

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

Since I've been enjoying photographing clouds, my partner got me a book on cloudspotting/cloud types. It was very sweet and I appreciated it.

A small book with a purple cover and an illustration of a cloud. The cover reads:

“CLOUDS: A GUIDE FOR THE CURIOUS

FEAT. 30 TYPES

SUSAN E. CLARK”

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

I've been getting into film photography, and here are some photos from the first roll I took. I'm finding I like clouds, especially with the sun shining through them in interesting ways These were taken at the Cobbs Hill Park reservoir in Rochester Minolta […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A film photograph of a cloudy sky above a reservoir. There is a jagged rent in the otherwise smooth and opaque clouds with sun shining through. A fence in front of the reservoir, with a small globe-shaped lamp on a curved pole. Behind the reservoir is a line of trees. The foreground is dark, silhouetted against the sky.

Same scene as before, but framed further to the right. A film photograph of a cloudy sky above a reservoir. There is a jagged rent in the otherwise smooth and opaque clouds with sun shining through. In the background behind the trees, there are 4 radio towers visible.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

I've been getting into photography lately after I found my old film camera (Minolta X-370), and my partner found their old digital camera. Even though my phone's camera is nicer than the digital one, it's been nice to use both of them and not have to bring my […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A dimly lit room with gray walls and carpet, office tile ceiling, and various chairs, tables, and a chest against the walls. The only light is coming from behind the viewpoint.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

Would people recommend using Rohrer & Klingner iron gall ink in a nice pen w/ gold nib (Pilot Custom 823)? I've been really enjoying this R&K “Ebony” ink, and it would be nice to use it in my favorite pen. I hear R&K iron gall inks are pretty gentle and gold […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A black fountain pen with gold trim and a “cigar” design that gradually tapers to rounded tips. There is a black bottle of ink behind it, and they are resting on a cream journal.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

My camera has an “AE lock” (upper left label in diagram) and I immediately thought “Autechre lock” #Photography #SLR #Autechre #IDM #Shitpost

A diagram of a Minolta X-370 SLR camera with the lens removed and parts labeled. Of interest is the upper left:

“AE lock/self-timer switch
• AE lock for holding close-up or adjusted-viewing meter readings
• Self-timer with triple-rate blinking LED”

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

My mom was visiting for my wedding and brought my old SLR camera — I've been wanting to try out photography, so this should be fun! It's a Minolta X-370. I don't know anything about photography (I don't think I actually used this more than once or twice), so if […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A black and silver SLR camera sitting on an external DVD drive.

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