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8 Feb 2025

That moment when you're mid jam and come up with something better than what you were planning and you're like DAMNIT BRAIN STOP SABOTAGING ME

3D printed sliding nut rails prototype - not bad, but definitely needs some kind of solution for mounting to the sides other than friction fit, and either channels for the nuts or a little nut holder tool to go with it. VERY fiddly to get fully assembled, but I think could be sturdy when full.

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I somehow need the best of both worlds. I like my idea of channels open to the outside of the case to add nuts arbitrarily, and I like that there is no way for the nuts to fall inside the assembly, but I need to somehow add mounting points and I don't really know how.

There is physical space in the case for hardware, but currently the back face of the rail you're looking at here is that piece's first layer. Being flat on the bed is how the holes come out so clean but if course you can't print "below the bed". Little L-brackets maybe?

Trouble is I'm not sure how to add an end mount without dealing with bridging/supports. The big plus of this at the moment is both parts are printed flat on the bed lengthwise, with perimeters making the screw holes quite strong, and just a 45 degree overhang for the joining groove, no supports.

@chloecumming.bsky.social

This other design I downloaded a while ago has the long face going front to back, not vertically along the module case. Advantage: can print it deep and add captive nuts for mounting to the ends securely, disadvantages: the two halves flex and the sliding nuts fall in

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Chloe Cumming

19 Sept

Replying to @chloecumming.bsky.social

Look, I have a lot of nice stuff here if you like my work which I have to assume you might if you follow me www.chloecumming.com

I strongly dislike it in games when I'm handed a checklist of things to do or collect and not all of them are collectible yet. Currently playing through Psychonauts 2 and Indiana Jones and both are guilty of this.

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I find myself going in circles because I need to progress the main story before I can finish a side quest, but am refusing to progress the main story *until* I've cleared the side quest. Many of my neurodivergent quirks have softened as I've aged but my brain seems to stubbornly see games as a...

... safe place to be its full weird compulsive self, but that no longer seems to be compatible with the size and design of modern games. 🥲

Scavenger hunt in Psychonauts 2. I can only assume I can't access all the items yet because I've scoured everywhere I can scour. Ancient idols and other various map markers in Indiana Jones being visible whilst physically located somewhere I can't yet get to.

Us perfectionists will try to clear a checklist when given one. Either don't do that, and dole them out gently, or find a way to signpost "you aren't meant to be able to get all of these yet, don't stress yourself out trying". They're already riddled with icons, add a cross to inaccessible ones?

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Alpha Chrome Yayo

@alphachromeyayo.com

7 Sept

This is somebody's cue to make a new kickass dekotora game 🚛💥 (and hire me to make a ridiculous ass-haulin' hard-truckin' soundtrack)

Joel Stocksdale@geekygearhead99.bsky.social

How are there not more dekotora video games? About all I knew was the dekotora option in Sega's 18 Wheeler: American Pro Trucker game

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ECP

@ecppdx.bsky.social

8 Sept

Replying to @ecppdx.bsky.social

6 Sept

The cognitive dissonance is mind-boggling. Reform member says other Reform member is a genius and a brilliant communicator, who should close his Twitter [sic] account.

6 Sept

Sorry, "incredible" communicator. Well, I guess I can agree he's not credible, but unfortunately I don't think that's what was meant.

Like fuck is she going to "do herself in injury". She's not pulling her own hair, grabbing her own limbs, and trying to hit herself with a crutch, is she? That's your supporters, your fucking disgusting, reprehensible shit-stain of a human being.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social

To clarify: my comments above are aimed at Farage, not at @davidrvetter.bsky.social (in case it wasn't obvious)

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Alex Says Stuff

I can't tell if worse might have gone on before in the obscured melee, but the bit where what appears to be an elderly couple brutally yanking this young woman's hair to try and beat her in the face with a crutch is just a genuinely horrific distillation of current UK politics.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

Never been able to get this much of it on one desk before! Now I just need the time to actually use it. And maybe rethink the number of sequencers I have; the KSP is a bit redundant sat next to a Hapax and a powerful Befaco MIDI to CV converter. And fix the spring reverb. And finish the DIY kits.

In terms of raw productivity I was definitely finishing more tracks in Renoise with softsynths. But I'm having more fun with this lot, and still haven't properly kicked the tyres on multi-tracking/layering it into a DAW with a "real" audio timeline yet.

3 Sept

From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves | Climate science scepticism and denial | The Guardian share.google/zZ5Nslp7WrCh...

youtu.bePeak Art, Peak SlopYouTube video by Jeffiot

2 Sept

I can't believe I only recently discovered Jeffiot on YouTube. Where has this genius been hiding from me? youtu.be/4-dPd2_i6pg?...

grim17.bandcamp.comBitter Shine (The Club is full of Wasps), by Depthbufferfrom the album Bitter Shine [SINGLE]

2 Sept

if I had a large enough discography this would be a deep cut, but it might also be my favourite work @grim17again.bsky.social has such an incredible voice and who'da thunk it turns out I kind of like making remixes I don't care if listening to my own music is gauche 🤡

THE LADS ARE BACK oh how I missed you now I must stop "testing" and go and eat something

MAH BOI oh yeah stuff be coming back out of storage #vintage #oscilloscope

The sticker, commemorating: Information Technology Year 1982 - Info Page - Computing History share.google/dOSGuengrX5F... It also came with a cool vintage rainbow Apple logo sticker, but that did not survive cleaning

I would have been -1 years old 🥲

20 May

yo dawg i heard you like waiting so i put a hiatus in your hiatus so you can wait while you wait (house move incoming. big modular dismantled back into two halves; decksavers, cling film, bubble wrap, storage unit. godspeed, blep.)

20 May

but hey, in the new place, my gear will at least be in the house itself rather than relegated to a garden room! that'll be something. will i get to use it more? will i ever finish a piece of music ever again? tune in next quarter, on "is phil still alive?"

28 Mar

yolo in moderation

28 Mar

@alphachromeyayo.com so I'm in this cocktail bar in Shoreditch playing Japanese jazz on vinyl and thought of you

13 Mar

To the tune of "There Was an Old Lady": We built the resistance to fight the robots We built the robots to fix the AI I don't know why we built the AI Perhaps we'll die?

8 Mar

Happy late 303 day! Memento Potato's cover is now made entirely in GIMP; no AI. It also has two more tracks: I finally uploaded Halcyon Days, and added Reflux, a gnarly, nasty little acid track, a rough mix of which debuted on Benn Jordan's 303 day acid stream. #acid #303day #tb303

youtube.com252: Acid Party!YouTube video by Benn [LIVE]

8 Mar

The stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc0b.... The track: depthbuffer.bandcamp.com/track/reflux. If you aren't aware of Benn Jordan, I suggest you become so. If you are, but didn't know about the monthly streams of themed community-submitted tracks, become a patron & join his Discord. It's worth it.

andertons.co.ukKorg Volca FM2 - Polyphonic Digital SynthesizerAdd the Korg Volca FM2 Polyphonic Digital Synthesizer to your Volca collection. Great for the Stage and the Studio. Order today at Andertons Music with Free UK Delivery

19 Feb

Six voices of polyphony, DX7 patch compatibility, runs off a guitar pedal PSU (*technically. If you add a polarity inverter and barrel jack size adapter, which having splurged on a nice clean multi pedal PSU, I'd be tempted to do), for under £120? Tempting... I didn't know Volcas had this power

Switch from Renoise to Reaper + Hapax is going well so far. Rebuilt a WIP track; getting external gear going. MIDI clock routed DAW - Hapax - MIDI Thing V2 - Model:Cycles. Audio from M:C and DAW into the modular, where headphones live, so I can sequence modular & drums on Hapax and monitor the lot.

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If I can figure out how the hell MIDI works on the SP404 MKII, I should be able to sequence that from the Hapax as well. I really want to try sending the audio from M:C into the 404 then have its mix of drums, samples, and FX all sequenced from one surface and recorded together.

I love all the sounds of the M:C and the FX of the 404 (and its sound is... well, it's a sampler, so whatever I load onto it), but both of their built in sequencers pale in comparison to the workflow of the Hapax, and it has FOUR. MIDI. OUTPUTS.

With a few mults, I can have DAW audio going out to be monitored, and route up to 4 channels of audio simultaneously back into the DAW for recording, AND into the monitoring mix with zero latency. So I can grab takes from the modular, drum machine, SP404 etc whilst hearing what's already laid down.

what I had planned: start learning Reaper, rebuilding a WIP track from Renoise, because I think that'll make it much easier to work with externally-recorded audio (I now have quite a lot of physical gear) what I actually did: re-organise modules so that one row of my case isn't dead

oh and I have a Hapax now, because I got tired of how buggy the Keystep Pro is, and wanted a sequencer that isn't rigidly grid-locked without just going back to sequencing everything in-the-box. haven't had it long, but so far I love it

yes, I'm still alive; yes I'm still "working" on the "album". both in scare quotes because either myself or my toddler have been ill since October (the two not being mutually exclusive), and coherency won't be its strong point given all the workflow changes and breaks I've had to take