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stretta @stretta.com · 23/09/2026

Really really good with a beer. And football... but I don't think the bag will survive until the weekend.

screen capture of a product image of kirkland rice crackers. It's a bag filled, presumably with the japanese-style crackers associated with bars

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stretta @stretta.com · 14/09/2026

This zoom audio interface is tiny.

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stretta @stretta.com · 26/08/2026

Incredibly detailed, $800 grey triangle coming October.

image of the new lego super star destroyer, assembled. a lego set that needs its own bedroom. a lego set that will be an exhibit in a divorce

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stretta @stretta.com · 15/08/2026

The Dark Star was a little outside my normal circle, but it transformed a collection of video games into an entire experience. No windows. Very dark with blacklights and running floor path lights. The entrance was a light vault with a CCTV of the lot so you could see when your ride arrived.

vintage photo of the outside of the Dark Star arcade from the early 80's

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stretta @stretta.com · 26/07/2026

Might be derived from this original EMS ad. (1972)

A scan of the 1972 ad for an EMS synthi, featuring a photo of a nun playing an EMS Synthi A, with what appears to be a DK-type keyboard. The headline reads 'EVERY NUN NEEDS A SYNTHI"

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stretta @stretta.com · 12/07/2026

100 photos from the red line from insta@k.siew.d @onlyinbos.bsky.social

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stretta @stretta.com · 11/07/2026

I'm having a really difficult time describing how I ended up here.

1010music blue box acting as a mixer for one shadowbox and three shadowscore clients

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stretta @stretta.com · 04/06/2026

Compose a melody in smol and share it as a link with the share button. stretta.com/labs/smol/#p...

Screen shot of the smol interface. Four modules are connected in a graph using the react flow frameworkl

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stretta @stretta.com · 03/06/2026

A smol list-based sequencer that runs in a browser window. stretta.com/labs/smol/ stretta.com/matthew/blog...

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stretta @stretta.com · 27/05/2026

Made a two osc 1982 wave table synth running on shadowbox. Mapped the params to a pc12. Glorious. Instant Exit/construction time again.

Photo of Roland a50 controller, shadowbox and a fader fox pc12.

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stretta @stretta.com · 21/05/2026

Shadowbox Touch Assembly is eight screws and one ribbon cable using off the shelf parts, no soldering.

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stretta @stretta.com · 07/05/2026

I don't need another drum machine... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuiD...

Polyend Drums product photo, from above.

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stretta @stretta.com · 27/03/2026

A router should not be this cute. I need a set of googly eyes.

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stretta @stretta.com · 13/02/2026

I'm old so I can't see. I buy referbs, cause I'm cheap, only large size available My wrists are bird legs. Behold! Apple 45mm on my tiny wrist

Apple 45mm series 8 lookin like dick tracy on my tiny wrists

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stretta @stretta.com · 02/02/2026

the 970 set from 1978?

photo of lego a pair of light bricks 4.5v

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stretta @stretta.com · 03/01/2026

How does this make you feel?

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stretta @stretta.com · 30/12/2025

I'm beginning to understand how I can be a frustrating person to be around.

screenshot of a MacOS error dialog box: sdfsdfsd.maxpat already exists. Do you want to replace it?

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stretta @stretta.com · 13/12/2025

The name's Assachusetts. M, Assachusetts.

Scan of a 1984 DEC Rainbow marketing/support media image. Shows a woman at a computer keyboard and monitor, plus a selection of 5.25" floppy discs. On the screen is a freaking color bar chart. We absolutely were so bonkers on bar graphs in the 80s because this is how you demonstrate what you need computers for. It has to be color because as much as we love bar charts, having bar charts in color is NEXT LEVEL. In the background is a poster extolling the virtues of Massachusetts as a Scenic Discovery with an image of a rocky beach. I can imagine myself there, freezing from the cold air, wishing I was inside and warm. It never would have occurred to me to use an all caps serif face and then smash the kerning together. Kerning is too kind of a word here because that would imply some individual adjustments to each letter relationship. Nope, it is just default kerning, just uniformly scaled to be much tighter. This results in a very nice snug fit of the A and C due to the slope of the A and the bowl of the C nestling together, but at the front, the M absolutely refuses to touch a single serif to the neighboring A, as if it is a red lined Boston neighborhood. Sad.

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stretta @stretta.com · 27/11/2025

CBS, you’ve seen a turkey, right?

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stretta @stretta.com · 28/10/2025

Exhibit A: The TQ-5, the bastard child of an FM synth and Braun coffee machine. Honorable mention to the YS200.

Top down image of a Yamaha TQ-5 with a replaced display.

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stretta @stretta.com · 11/10/2025

Maybe you're thinking of Poe?

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stretta @stretta.com · 08/10/2025

This is one reason why AI is a bubble: all this money is flowing around in a circle. It is a mirage.

a flow diagram of AI money moving in cicles

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stretta @stretta.com · 06/10/2025

Sir, we've identified the problem. You're trying to sleep standing up.

An employee wearing a very official-looking white coat is doing high-tech stuff to figure out exactly how much money a customer is willing to spend on a mattress. A man leans against something that looks like a window shade. He is smiling and clearly impressed at all the science stuff.

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stretta @stretta.com · 04/10/2025

This is a Tascam 688 8-track. I did not own one of these, but I lived with someone who did. I used it every chance I could. It sounded terrible. I loved it.

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stretta @stretta.com · 04/10/2025

This is a Fostex X-15 4-track. I did not own one of these, but I lived with someone who did. I used it every chance I could. It sounded terrible. I loved it.

Photo of a Fostex X-15 four track recorder.

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stretta @stretta.com · 04/10/2025

Am I a bad person because I fully expected this Lego set to be fully playable?

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stretta @stretta.com · 04/09/2025

This is the EA of my youth. MCS, but also Pinball Construction Set, featuring drag and drop editing of objects with physical rules. On an Apple //. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

screen shot of Pinball Construction Set editing interface on an Apple //

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stretta @stretta.com · 31/08/2025

Remember when bread didn't have flavor? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Pepperidge Farm white bread product image

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stretta @stretta.com · 22/08/2025

It kind of feels like a two-channel stereo mixer, FX processor, wav recorder, and headphone output could be consolidated into one module.

snapshot of a corner of a modular synth showing a cluster of four modules bristling with patch cables.

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stretta @stretta.com · 21/08/2025

If you're making dumplings, please do not give them eyes. I can not stress how wrong this is. Please, do not give dumplings eyes.

A koi dumpling bathing in soy sauce. The dumplings have eyes and a tiny little mouth that you can imagine is screaming noooooooooo

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stretta @stretta.com · 29/07/2025

I'm not sure where my fascination with an adaptable grid of LEDs and buttons with different programmatic behaviors came from. It's a total mystery.

merlin hand held game by parker brothers

By Junkyardsparkle - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26111052

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stretta @stretta.com · 19/07/2025

The point isn't the soundtrack work, it is the brand dissonance.

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stretta @stretta.com · 19/07/2025

Need one of these bad boys with the Disney mouse logo next to it.

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stretta @stretta.com · 25/06/2025

Can't wait to order this new Harlan Ellison edition.

proposed book cover for I have no mouth and I must scream featuring hello kitty

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stretta @stretta.com · 22/05/2025

Editor: You get those photos of Jony Ive and Sam? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin romantic just like you asked. Editor: what.

Jony Ive and Sam Altman announce their engagement

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stretta @stretta.com · 21/05/2025

Neuromancer started filming in January, but can it actually come back from this?

Can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace

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stretta @stretta.com · 13/05/2025

A moment of silence for the people who have to repurchase their TX–6 field mixer, TP–7 field recorder and CM–15 field microphone because they're the wrong color.

Promo photo of a e TX–6 field mixer, TP–7 field recorder and CM–15 field microphone in a murdered-out colorway.

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