parker higgins

parker higgins

@xor.blue

computer person, dancing animal

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parker higgins
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πŸŽ‰ new release today: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal @natanlast.bsky.social read more: parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill... and play around with it: fillharmonics.com

parkerhiggins.netFill Harmonics, the crossword puzzle music machineToday I’m releasing Fill Harmonics, a music machine that takes its rules and styling from the world of crossword puzzles. The name is a pun: in crossword lingo, β€œfill” is the stuff that goes into the ...
parker higgins
@xor.blue

have your antisocial tendencies been bottlenecked by the limitations of existing consumer software? well have i got the technology for you!

parker higgins
@xor.blue

I encountered multiple sold out showings of Digger last night. I think we're experiencing delayed-onset Diggermania

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Ana Marie Cox
@anamariecox.com

Someone at Apple News games having a little fun today. This is how the grid was arranged when I opened the puzzle.

parker higgins
@xor.blue

heyyy today's the fifth anniversary of my first mainstream crossword publication! what a ride those years have been

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Jon Bois
@jonbois.bsky.social

it sounds like apple is once again charging money for their products. i don't know why any of you are surprised – that's how they get ya. it all comes down to the almighty dollar, my friends

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jenny (phire)
@phirephoenix.com

I've looked at literally thousands of online event listings over the past year and a half and now I have Opinionsβ„’ about how they should be structured, perhaps you would be interested in these if you also run events or you just enjoy a slightly exasperated blog post phirephoenix.com/blog/2026-09...

phirephoenix.comthings I wish every event organizer would do for their event listingsHello yes, I am aware that it’s been almost a full year since the last post. This is largely because running Show Up Toronto and writing a newsletter for it every week takes a lot of time and energy. ...
parker higgins
@xor.blue

I have the sense that tech companies intentionally outsourced editorial control of their maps after hand-wringing in the past decade about them having too much cartographic influence. Times are different now but that's a tough break

parker higgins
@xor.blue

we didn't love google resolving disputes over place names and borders so it magnanimously delegated that to a neutral third party. which, unfortunately, was the federal government

parker higgins
@xor.blue

earlier this summer I had the immense privilege of seeing Dolly Parton's personal fax machine on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame

parker higgins
@xor.blue

just thought of a fun question: what time of "the middle of the night" are you equally likely to experience as late night or early morning

parker higgins
@xor.blue

i have been thinking lately how much i would like a little REPL in my spreadsheets that could read from the different variables in the doc. probably too weird a combo for most users! are we still talking about spreadsheets

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The City Reporter
@thecityreporter.nyc

Brooklyn Cyclones management acknowledged they had failed to pay employees the appropriate amount of tips and reimbursed at least one employee for lost wages, following a recent investigation by The City Reporter.

buff.lyBrooklyn Cyclones Admit They Dropped the Ball on Worker TipsA manager from Diamond Baseball Holdings addressed concessions staff about a recent City Reporter investigation that uncovered rampant wage theft, promising to make workers whole.

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parker higgins
@xor.blue

the fact that "rare books" often means "rare texts" is a policy outcome of our copyright law and it doesn't need to be that way

parker higgins
@xor.blue

if copyright terms were dramatically shorter, the public domain of common culture would be far richer but some lottery winner grandchildren of the top sliver of commercially successful authors would be marginally poorer, so it's impossible to say if it's good or not

parker higgins
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they should invent version control software that works offline and can be synchronized later

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with the GitHub website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; the outage started at 13:40 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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The City Reporter
@thecityreporter.nyc

NEW: Brooklyn Cyclones concessions workers have been getting stiffed on some of their paychecks this season, as tips disappeared under new management, according to interviews and records obtained by The City Reporter. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/13/b...

thecityreporter.nycBrooklyn Cyclones Withheld Tips From Concessions Workers, Records ShowFederal and state laws require that all tips go to workers, but for weeks this season, young fast food workers at Maimonides Park were only paid an hourly wage.
parker higgins
@xor.blue

just finished COOL MACHINE, and can't say enough good things about the whole Harlem Trilogy. a strong recommendation for their (charming! human!) portrait of 20th century new york's seedy underbelly