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"Knobs" goes to EarthQuaker and makes a film about them. What small music companies look like on the inside.
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Some nice registrations, and a good way to wean myself off 8880000.
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Stephen Wolfram on "designing science" for Arrival. I always forget the Wolfram Language is real; it looks like movie-computer, but is in fact real-computer. Lots of nice points in here – especially about going from the scientific reasoning back to things that work in a two-hour movie.
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Eric Heisserer shares some notes on the adaptation of Story of Your Life into Arrival. Some good notes on adaptation (and: a clarification of why it was such a successful one) in here.
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This all looks really sane: proper, package-managed WordPress deployment. Except: it relies a lot on slightly unofficial packages, which makes me nervous. Hmn. Filed away for reference.
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Simple guide to flashing an ATTiny from a USBasp or similar. Might come in handy.
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[this is good]. I particularly liked "one damn thing after another", because yes, that's how I tend to think about these things, wrestling an essay into something that makes sense as a told narrative.
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Pretty, if a tad long, modular patch/track.
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Nice-looking Piezo buffer/amplifier.
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Greatly enjoyed seeing – and playing – Luisa Pereira's _Counterpointer_ at Loop last week.
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Beautiful, beautiful character design in this ident for the Style Frames conference.
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"I’m especially intrigued by reader reviews written by people unfamiliar with the vocabulary of literary criticism. They aim to describe experiences that most of us recognize but that can be hard to articulate, and they have to make up the language for it as they go along." This is a great article on the various assets of reader-reviews, and where they set on the spectrum of criticism.