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I’m publishing a crossword on this blog for the first time — I hope you enjoy it.

Today I’m releasing Fill Harmonics, a music machine that takes its rules and styling from the world of crossword puzzles.

A common pattern for building static sites on GitHub Pages (or similar) is to just trigger a new build every time there’s a change in the repository.

I’ve just wrapped a 12-week batch at Recurse Center, a self-directed coding retreat that provides an environment for people to become better programmers.

I wanted to fork my own GitHub repo the other day, and it turns out you can’t.

For a project I’m working on, I wanted to generate an endless looping soundtrack that felt like a sea shanty continuing indefinitely without a fixed melody.

A few weeks ago, my friend Malaika Handa nerd-sniped me with an interesting request.

Over at Michael Atkins’ blog, he’s released a lovely artist’s statement on Calendar of Song, a new (and old) project I’ve helped to get working over the years.

As a software developer who enjoys working on hobby projects, especially with less technical collaborators, I have found myself using Google Sheets as a good-enough database in a lot of circumstances.

I’ve got a new configuration for sending Signal messages on the command line, and it’s powerful and flexible and finally gives me a nice ergonomic interface to use from other programs.