Photoblog: Natural Stone Bridge & Caves

IndieWeb Carnival: Take Two

I've been mostly making music tools rather than writing music. Today I'm talking about getting out of this rut with a “take two” on my current composition.

Reverb Part 1: “Freeverb”

I discuss how algorithmic reverbs work using the popular “Freeverb.” I give details on feedforward/feedback delays and allpass filters, and I include a Max/MSP patch to play with.

Bookmarked: Utah Lawmakers Say Gender-Affirming Care Harms Kids. Their Own Study Disputes That.

May 2025 IWC—More Easily Joining Small Web Communities

For this month's IndieWeb carnival on “small web communities,” I'm thinking about lowering the barrier for web independence and freedom

Photoblog—Highland Park

I Would Rather Spend an Evening on a Web Scraper than Use Your App

My Swedish textbook publisher wanted me to listen to audio examples on their site or in their app. I had other ideas.

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Liked | The Tyranny of Public Opinion

Reply to: https://journal.robbi.my/notes/250518114259/

Tracking Planes with a Raspberry Pi

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RSVP | Front End Study Hall #028 | May 20, 2025 | IndieWeb Events

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IndieWeb Stickers from Benji

Databending Part 5—Listening to Telephone Codecs

One way to get more variety when transforming data into audio is to change the encoding. Today I'm implementing the VOX ADPCM telephone codec—which I especially like—in Rust to accomplish this!

Databending Part 4—Data to Audio with a Rust Tool

Manually importing data as audio in Audacity sounds super cool but takes a while and slows down my composition. Today I'm automating it in Rust!

IndieWeb Blog Carnival—“Renewal”

I often feel compelled to tweak and redesign my website at the expense of other things I value. I talk about reconnecting with what I most enjoy about composing and coding, and avoiding treating my leisure and projects as if I need to impress someone.

IndieWeb Movie Club—The Castle (1997)

My watch and discussion of this month's IndieWeb Movie Club pick—it's nice to participate in a group blogging activity!

RSVP | Homebrew Website Club - Americas | April 16, 2025 | IndieWeb Events

A Grimoire of Shell Scripts

Today I'm discussing my thoughts on “home-cooked” and “situated” software, and how that's inspired me to start a collection of useful script tools for myself.

Photoblog—Stars with Carl

Databending Part 3—Glitching MP3s with Python

I'm continuing my databending series. Today we'll discuss how to use Python to easily glitch up MP3s, adding warbles, clicks, and other cool noise!

Photoblog—Grimes Glen & Canandaigua Lake

Today we went hiking in Grimes Glen in Naples, NY and stopped by Canandaigua Lake

Liked | In defense of unpolished personal websites

Liked | Rainbow Language (Is For Losers)

Liked | dumbphones as a new status symbol

RSVP | Front End Study Hall #025

Liked | Time at the Recurse Center

RSVP | Homebrew Website Club — Americas

Blogrolls as a Social Network

I added an OPML file of my blogroll, and I talk about some really cool ideas from around the IndieWeb for using blogrolls as social web infrastructure

Photoblog—Mendon Ponds Park

I went to the ”Devil's Bathtub” with my partner this weekend

Photoblog—Watkins Glen & Seneca Lake State Parks

State park trip in the Finger Lakes with my partner

Jamesg—Which HTML element are you [Quiz]?

I took James' quiz—I like doing these kinds of web games!

Webmentions Without Plugins

At yesterday's Pacific Homebrew Website Club meeting, I got some great feedback and was able to figure out making my own code to bring in webmentions!

Jan 28, 2025, 6:59 PM

My partner and I were coming home from Target and I liked how the snow looked

Databending Part 2—Hacking MP3s

I'm continuing my databending series with a look at MP3s. We'll talk about how to glitch and corrupt them into oblivion while still leaving them playable!

Adding multiple RSS feeds

Manually generating RSS feeds so I can have separate ones for different kinds of posts

Setting up a "notes" feed

Short posts, thoughts, and interesting things from around the web — it's like Twitter but I own all my posts!

Thanks for the info!

Thanks for the info! This looks like exactly what I was interested in…

Displaying Webmentions

I finally figured out displaying webmentions on my site without any client-side JavaScript!

Blog Tag Game

Tumblr-style tag game about blogging—I'd love if you join in!

Databending Part 1—Raw Data in Audacity

Did you know you can listen to pretty much any file as an audio file? Let's look at how it works and what it sounds like!

Radio—Listening Musically, Being Haunted

Listening to shortwave radio signals, discussing my emotive reaction to the signals, and composing music with them

Music Listened This Year

Artists, albums, and songs I've enjoyed the most in 2024

Hypertext, the Memex, and Collaboration as Socialization

What if socializing on the Internet were more like editing Wikipedia? Read on to know why I'm thinking about this!

Liked | The joy of bookshops

Liked | DM Synthesis

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Connecting Notation Programs to Max/MSP

Getting Dorico and Max/MSP to talk via MIDI—it really helps my composition!

Static Site Generators Are Nice

Making it easier to blog, and to use my site instead of social media