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Nathan🌸
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Indie software developer • math lover • ML builder • 48 • NB they/them
Currently working on circuit simulation.
"i have hungry ghosts trapped in a jar that i use to match text between documents." seems ok

"i have hungry ghosts trapped in a jar that i ask what to eat for dinner every day" hmmm, makes me a bit nervous
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
January 13, 2026 at 1:13 AM
today i'm listening to TRASH CATS: LIVE ON LIMEWIRE by @deadposssociety.bsky.social

this is a great vr dj set. it's the kind of music that i don't want to like, it just gets stuck in my head.

deadposssociety.bandcamp.com/album/trash-...
TRASH CATS: LIVE ON LIMEWIRE, by ASH♞
15 track album
deadposssociety.bandcamp.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
January 12, 2026 at 5:07 AM
you've heard of javascript polyfills, have you heard of ponyfills?
github.com/sindresorhus...
GitHub - sindresorhus/ponyfill: 🦄 Like polyfill but with pony pureness
🦄 Like polyfill but with pony pureness. Contribute to sindresorhus/ponyfill development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:15 AM
this post made me look up Answer Set Programming, hadn't heard of that before.

there's a whole special issue in AI Magazine from 2016 (back when AI was AI, men were men, etc.)
www2.cs.sfu.ca/CourseCentra...
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
i got chicken pox as a kid and my parents were glad because it was safer than getting it as an adult (pre vaccine)
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Nathan🌸
today in "cross-language RPC": Rust and Swift have a different bit pattern for pi
January 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
@khayati.bsky.social is singing in a recital, you're invited if you're in the Tacoma area
January 9, 2026 at 4:08 AM
oh my god, this is how you had to do web audio generation in 2011
what the heck is mozWriteAudio???
January 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
found a very nice open source eurorack module that does a Roland Juno synth oscillator

github.com/wntrblm/Cast...
GitHub - wntrblm/Castor_and_Pollux: A Juno-inspired dual oscillator
A Juno-inspired dual oscillator. Contribute to wntrblm/Castor_and_Pollux development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
note to artists: please don't release totally different works with the exact same name. you will drive collectors crazy.

brought to you by: "Spring" from Hania Rani on the album On Giacometti versus "Spring" from Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher from Inner Symphonies
January 6, 2026 at 2:49 AM
listening to Hania Rani, a Polish composer/pianist/singer/producer

cool video of her ghosts concert, it's gorgeous stage footage
youtu.be/HNpBTyLIpYE
Hania Rani - Ghosts Album Launch: Studio 1, Polish Radio, Warsaw
YouTube video by Gondwana Records
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 4:17 AM
today i went into my "Archive" dir that has my old harddrive contents from 2021.

then went into the "Archive" subdir there that had my even older harddrive contents from 2008.

there i found a "backup" directory with stuff from 2002.

inside that i found some OCaml code for music stuff.
January 4, 2026 at 3:51 AM
awesome video on emulating synthesizer DSP chips

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_q...
39C3 - From Silicon to Darude Sand-storm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs
YouTube video by media.ccc.de
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
happy new year!

now i gotta remember that 20 years ago is 1986, not 1985.
January 1, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Nathan🌸
animal shelter + @digitalghostsmedia.com present :

the sanctuary - a night of uplifting, soft, and emotional dance music to help raise money for beautyafterbruises.org

coming soon to Boston, MA January 2026.
tickets + lineup go live soon!

#furrymusic #furrymusicians #animalsheltermusic
December 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
discovered Four Tet (just a bit late to the party)

here is a cool interview going over his artistic process for Sing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEUG...
Four Tet In The Studio With Future Music
YouTube video by MusicRadar Tech
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Reposted by Nathan🌸
insanely cool shit happening in hardware
Floating-Gate FPAA Now Commercially Available! (Field Programmable Analog Array from Okika Devices)
YouTube video by Lantertronics
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 1:24 AM
successfully helped remove this mut

just rust things
December 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
i can haz pretty hair clips (delayed christmas present)
December 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
in rust, i'm storing index values into an array. sometimes the index doesn't exist.

which is better?

(1): usize, where usize::MAX indicates invalid
(2): Option<usize>
December 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
woot, we have two offers on our old house in boise. hopefully one less thing to worry about soon.
December 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
kid almost had a meltdown when they thought they lost their new skullpanda in the park. luckily i found it chilling at home on the bed.

thank you santa, you are real.
December 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
successfully wore a dress at my dad's place! achievement unlocked.

so i can wear a dress, hoop earrings, sparkly bracelets, and put my hair up in a bun with a flower clip and no-one says a word, we just go play disc-golf at the park like normal. good, I guess?
December 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
wait a minute, rust has coroutines??? how did i miss this, coroutines are so cool

doc.rust-lang.org/beta/unstabl...
coroutines - The Rust Unstable Book
doc.rust-lang.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM