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reillypascal.bsky.social
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)
@reillypascal.bsky.social
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Composer & programmer who likes noise, obsolete media, electronics, and nostalgia

Website: https://reillyspitzfaden.com
Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@reillypascal
Mastodon (follow from Bsky): https://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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“Music for 18 Musicians” in the style of Mamdani's campaign posters
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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(homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...)
“Good News for People Who Love Bad News” in the style of Mamdani's campaign posters
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Every time I see them, they make me want to beatbox:
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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anthropomorphic clock being threatened by figures with an axe and a hammer, caption reads SMASH YOUR CLOCKS! ending time opens all possibilities
November 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
reillypascal.bsky.social
My camera has an “AE lock” (upper left label in diagram) and I immediately thought “Autechre lock”
A diagram of a Minolta X-370 SLR camera with the lens removed and parts labeled. Of interest is the upper left: “AE lock/self-timer switch • AE lock for holding close-up or adjusted-viewing meter readings • Self-timer with triple-rate blinking LED”
October 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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I'm reading ”S.” by Doug Dorst and so far it's very interesting.

It's framed as an old library book called “Ship of Theseus” by enigmatic (fictional) author V.M. Straka, and two students have written notes in the margin discussing the book and their lives.

#Reading #Fiction #Books
An open book with multicolored handwriting-style notes in the margins and photocopies tucked into the pages. A book with an old-fashioned binding titled “Ship of Theseus” by V.M. Straka. It has a library catalog sticker on the binding.
October 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
reillypascal.bsky.social
My partner's mom gave me a lovely leather pen case for my birthday!

It's especially great because I was just thinking how I need something like this after almost knocking a pen on the floor.

#FountainPens #FountainPen
A black leather fountain pen case opened to show four fountain pens. The pens are two TWSBI Ecos (black w/ medium nib & Persian blue with broad nib), Hongdian Peacock, and TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR (Prussian blue with medium nib). A black leather fountain pen case with the embossed monogram “RPS” (my initials). It's sitting on a ledge on my desk next to a speaker and various journals, with a green and gold fountain pen laid next to one journal.
September 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM
reillypascal.bsky.social
My mom gave me this nice fountain pen ink for my birthday and it writes very nicely!

Ink: Sailor Yurameku Yoi
Pen: TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR
Notebook: GLP Creations, “The Author” (A5, 68gsm Tomoe River)

#FountainPen #FountainPens
A page in a dot grid A5 notebook with a teal/clear fountain pen and a bottle of dark ink that reads ゆらめくYOI 宵. The handwriting in the notebook reads “September 12 — Friday. This is Sailor Yurameku Yoi ink with a TWSBI medium nib on 68 gsm Tomoe River paper.”
September 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I've started knitting, and when I was looking for a bag to keep my supplies in, I realized the best one I had was from @yarnwire.bsky.social — not intentional, but it works!
A canvas tote with black text reading “yarn/wire.” There's a skein of dark burgundy yarn and a pair of knitting needles sticking out.
August 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I'm getting back into SuperCollider (and running it from Neovim!)

This is taking an MP3 I glitched up in Python (as discussed here: reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/0...) and looping random segments of it like a skipping CD.

#SuperCollider #Neovim #Python #Glitch #SoundDesign #ElectronicMusic
August 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I'm looking for Markdown display help for Neovim.

I have text wrapping at whitespace, but the link underlines still extend to the edge.

I have `vim.opt.linebreak = true` in ftplugins/markdown.lua, and here's my full config: github.com/reillypascal...

Any ideas?

#Neovim #Vim #Vi #Markdown #Lua
Several paragraphs of Markdown displayed in Neovim. The lines wrap at word breaks, but the underline in links extends all the way to the window edge even when there isn't any text in that location.
August 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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A man with a dark, trimmed beard and mustache, dark sunglasses, and a suit. Text overlay: ”Reviewer #1: "Recommended for publication" Reviewer #2: "The proposed framework is elegant, yet powerful" Reviewer #3: "Meticulous, and an exemplary work of linguistics" I retracted my paper. Why? I NEVER listen to reviewers. Don't let anyone but you assess your work. Reject your own papers. #grindset”
August 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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There's a second-floor balcony attached to my apartment, and it's really nice to be able to easily come outside to program, compose, and drink coffee
The view from a second-floor balcony. There is an old, painted wood railing and corner column in the foreground, and a deciduous tree and a roof in the background.
August 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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“During this time, 1.95 million people (93 percent) were classified in Crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3 or above), including 244,000 people (12 percent) in IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe) and 925,000 (44 percent) in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency).”

www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-...
Two maps of Gaza from the IPC color-coded to show famine levels. Left is current (April–May 2025), showing all red (level 4 of 5—“Emergency.” Right is projected (May–September 2025), showing added regions of dark red (level 5 of 5—“Famine”)
July 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Did not know you could do that! That's good to know, although even customized, mine are still pretty plain:
The “Customize Reactions” screen on Signal for Android. The emoji are the red heart, thumbs up, laughing face with tears, wow, grimace, and streaming tears.
July 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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An anti-AI song that sounds like Knower or something—I love it:

www.tiktok.com/@hakiim_m_m_...
July 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I was inspired by this post (nathan.ho.name/posts/dm-syn...) about using digital modulation schemes for sound synthesis

I've turned binary data from a block of text into a .WAV file, and In @cycling74.bsky.social's Max/MSP, I use that to modulate a sine wave (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-s...)
July 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I implemented an FFT algorithm in Rust! After running the FFT and inverse FFT functions in the main file, you can see here that the sine wave is reconstructed back to its original state.

#DSP #Audio #Rust #Programming #Coding
July 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I implemented my own VOX ADPCM (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogi...) encoder and decoder in Rust! The purpose is to apply the sound quality of a codec to a sample—in this case, it's a 4-bit telecommunications algorithm that sounds fizzy and crackly

#Programming #Coding #Developer #Rust #Audio
July 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The day after, we also stopped at the stromatolite fossils in Lester Park in Saratoga Springs

Stromatolites are my partner's favorite fossil, and we also went here before for their last birthday

#Fossils #Paleontology #Geology #Vacation #Travel
My partner standing in the middle of a field of stromatolite fossils, gesturing at them and smiling. The fossils are a series of concentric, wavy white rings embedded in rock. A close up of a stromatolite fossil, The fossil is a series of concentric, wavy white rings embedded in a rock. My partner gesturing with their thumb at a New York historical marker sign. The sign is blue with yellow lettering and borders and reads: “A NATURAL HISTORY SITE OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM LESTER PARK A 490 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED SEA BOTTOM DONATED IN MEMORY OF WILLARD LESTER, ESQ., 1914. THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 1998.”
July 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
reillypascal.bsky.social
I can't look at the Wikipedia page for the Mongolian language (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoli...) without thinking of “Brat”
Wikipedia page on the Mongolian language. The name of the language (and examples in its various scripts) is lime green like Charli XCX's “Brat” cover “Mongolian [note 1] is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau. It is spoken by ethnic Mongols and other closely related Mongolic peoples who are native to modern Mongolia and surrounding parts of East, Central and North Asia. Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and Inner Mongolia and a recognized language of Xinjiang and Qinghai. Mongolian Монгол хэл ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ Mongol khel”
June 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Apparently there's a queer zine (anewsession.com) that's only available over telnet! 404 media did a story about it (www.404media.co/queer-online...) which is how I found it.

#Telnet #Terminal #RetroComputing #Zine #Queer #LGBTQ
Telnet session in a iTerm2: [INDEX] 1 > [The Plague Book] // Cat Leeches ...changes every 1:43, every view 2 > [Once Recalled] // Sarah Clarke ...changes every view 3 > [Sanctuary] // Natassja Kistemaker ...changes every view, with the weather 4 > [Signature] // Kaia Peacock ...changes as you type 5 > [Sorry I Missed Your Call] // eri lucia kapling ...changes every day of the week 6 > [The Raffle] // Illimani Ferreira ...changes every view 7 > [Picked up a golf ball by the side of the road] // F.M. Cassandra ...changes every view 8 > [Moments &.. / Searching For Guarantees] // Purbasha Roy ...changes every view 9 > [Q & A / Mountainsong] // R Daniel Brown ...changes every view a > [Unfinished Exit] // Claudia Wysocky ...changes every evening and night (X to quit, ? for help)
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Every time I think about Futures in e.g., Rust I think of this Vine:
June 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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It went from calm to buckets of rain in just a few minutes. Here's the view out my home office window:
The view out a second story window, showing another house's roof, a tree, a residential street, and pouring rain
June 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Makes me think of the Blue Channel “Thalasin” video lmao
A chart showing increasingly absurd and horrifying emotions such as "humber," "nage," and "dorcelessness," with the example faces looking horrifying and distorted
June 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM