Pitchfork have an article on a crate-clicker, Music Place, on YouTube. It sound like an eclectic mix of stuff, but the thing that I liked was that the owner focuses on the found music. Crate-clicking, as a term, intrigues me as someone who enjoyed digging in boxes in record fairs and second-hand shops. On a […]
Ars Technica has an intriguing post on vibe coding from two different models that I think lays out an interesting question if this was done on production data. The article, “Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes“, discusses two models creating code and then wiping data or code. Both […]
I have recently started looking at retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for some project ideas and came across the concept of GraphRAG. My understanding is that it uses knowledge graphs rather than vector stores to identify additional information to create context for onward processing and Large Language Model use. It seems interesting and I am curious to […]
I have just come across the sapf (Sound as Pure Form) language (github source) from the creator of SuperCollider. I am currently looking through some of documentation and videos before diving in and exploring it properly. However, the examples are intriguing enough to want to investigate further and see where it might all go. More […]
I heard about Luis Felipe R. Murillo’s Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures (Stanford University Press, 2025) on a Digital Labour list. I wasn’t able to attend the advertised talk but did pick up the book and read on the flight to Lisbon for a conference. I have become slightly wary of Hackerspace books either […]
I read Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip last week as I am interested in the history of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). I did find it frustrating in that it is another great Silicon Valley man history, which is a tired trope really, but interesting in what […]
One job that I have been taking on over the last few weeks is archiving some old project sites using a CMS. We tend to render a copy into static HTML to keep them alive, but no longer updateable. Normally, I would use wget -r <site here> to flatten the site. Occasionally the –no-check-certificate option […]
I had the fortune of getting a paper accepted for this year’s Digital Humanities conference, which will be in Lisbon. I will be talking about computational audible infrastructures as extension of Kyle Devine and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier’s audible infrastructures. I will follow this up by talking at the MoCREN event that is straight afterwards. I will […]
I was recently playing around with an Arduino and Baltic Lab’s Baudot Code for a quick experiment. I do want to continue doing some work on this to understand some of the issues in Strachey’s code for the Manchester Machine as in David Link’s article on God Save the Queen in Computer Resurrection #76. I […]
I have been reading Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Atria / One Signal Publishers, 2025), which is an interesting trip into the work of Spotify playlists. I got it on a hunch and it plays out very well against the previous Spotify book that I […]
