Chris Johnson

PlayStation BIOS + SuperCollider + Bendr make for a suitably spooky generative ambient drone live stream. www.youtube.com/live/EZnojZ8...

A fun day to be managing huge number of WordPress websites.

Live footage of a vibe-coded project trying to reach v1.0.

This £40 synth, the M-VAVE FM-1, is my absolute favourite purchase of late.

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How long before the horrible future where people donate tokens (compute) to Kickstarter-esq projects or GitHub Feature Requests, and when the goal is met AI uses the tokens to make the project. 🫠

Just hypnotised by this cute web crawler #buildinpublic #webcrawling #CSS #JavaScript

This has now been streaming and mutating for days. 🥰

Heads up if you use the Google Analytics for WooCommerce plugin, an update late August changed how it reports revenue to GA4. Prior to the update revenue inc. shipping, and now it's excluded. So comparing MoM or YoY data won't be like-for-like.

Patiently waiting until YouTube lets me live stream.

I was recently introduced to straw.page, a maximalist Geocities-inspired drag-and-drop website builder. Apparently it's most popular with Gen Z, and it makes me so glad to know this sort of spirit lives on. 😄 🧵 A few examples in-thread.

Hold A to horse.

After careful consideration and a look at where the industry is spending it's funding we've decided to pivot #FFConf in a "new" direction. I present to you: ffconf.ai Please share with bots and humans alike.

hold up when did example.com get a redesign?!

@chris-spann.co.uk I've not tried it yet but the community is moving at a crazy pace. Custom FM1 firmware. baudgirl.com/work/FM-1+VA

Late to the party but RaspiMIDIHub and Patchbox OS are pretty magical uses for a Raspberry Pi. raspimidihub.com blokas.io/modep/ It's just a shame they're so expensive right now, unless you have a drawer full of them from abandoned projects.

Send this to a 30 or 40 year old to watch them stare into the middle distance about how fleeting life is

The Microfreak just got granular engines! www.arturia.com/products/har...

Where did all the Raspberry Pi Zeros go? They're out of stock everywhere.

Projects for this week: * Revive a 'dead' PocketCHIP. The NAND on them degrades over time meaning they need reflashing (and the tooling is harder to run on modern systems as the years go by). * Make a Pi Zero powered MIDI hub.

The snail now crosses my header over the course of the week (and you can feed the piggy lots more now fyi) keith.is

Look what just arrived in my inbox. 🤯 (For reference I had a 2027 eta)

@chris-spann.co.uk Bluetooth MIDI works perfectly between my OP1 and FM1, and I found an Android app that acts as a MIDI host called MIDI Hub. I still need to play with using a Pi as host instead. I let my 8yr old loose on the FM1 and she managed to make sounds I didn't even know were possible!

The summer is over and the autumn (or fall, for our American friends) is here, so we're offering a huge 35% discount on all courses if you use the coupon code PRICEFALL at checkout. piccalil.li/links/pricef...

I've been stuck in an eternal loop reading the same page of a @aptshadow.bsky.social novel on my Kindle and falling asleep with parent fatigue before I get to the bottom. To the point the author has released multiple books in that space of time!

My M-VAVE FM-1 arrived and just taking it out of the box I lost an hour to making music on the thing. The controls are very intuitive and it sounds great for the price. I'll make some videos next week!

I did a short workshop in learning to play the Kora and now it's another thing to add to my "definitely need to buy but can never justify the budget" list. 😅

Reaction Diffusion in Photoshop- Blur, Sharpen, Posterize, repeat

Oh no! Another electronic device for me to covet. torsoelectronics.com/s4