This is a really interesting article from Cory Doctorow, via Daniel Miessler‘s Unsupervised Learning mailing list. It talks about how unmonetizable content is kryptonite to established social-media-type platforms, and how he tries to “woo the muse of the odd.” I don’t have a lot more to add except that I think I’m trying to cultivate…
My favorite quote from this video is: “By making trying to make them proud, I then end up making myself proud.” I like the thought of that virtuous cycle — building something to help others, which helps me, too. The video talks about how to get yourself unstuck when you’re in the “Short, Stall, or…
A digital xylophone with Micro:bit and neopixels! What a cool project! https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16bfPuo8Jy
I’m going to have to test this out later since it looks like what I’ve been trying to do with other LLMs with mixed results. https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
This is just a fun use of a connect four game board as a musical instrument. It falls squarely in line with the original ideas that inspired Engineering Harmony.
For when you’re feeling introspective or reflective. Some more great songs. Maybe also for introspection, I’m not sure.
I just saw this cool music looping site that lets you create sounds from scratch and I wanted to post it here so I’ll be able to find it later. https://loopmaster.xyz
I love this video because it talks about rhythm and harmony in a way that aligns with the way that I think about using them for improving our lives, not just as musical constructs (though I like the musical constructs, too!)
If you’re not feeling creative because there is too much heavy stuff going on, here’s some inspiration to keep doing what inspires you