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Hypertexthero’s no hero but plays one online, improvising music in real and virtual worlds.
Music ♫ hypertexthero.com/music & hypertexthero.com/sound-space
Design & observation ⏿ simongriffee.com
Writing 𓏟 hypertexthero.com/articles
Tools 𐦮 hypertexthero.com/tools
Livestreams 𓈗 youtube.com/@hypertexthero/live & www.twitch.tv/hypertexthero
Buy me a moment of time 𓄤 ko-fi.com/hypertexthero
Contact 𐦂 simon@hypertexthero.com
- Brought REM’s ÜBerlin to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITh-XIikgI
- Vinyl record covers are nicely-sized artworks for displaying in a room.
Listening to an album you love, while taking the time to flip the record or tape, or taking the time listen to an entire album in your streaming service of choice, helps you to notice things and be present.
Recommended film: Perfect Days by Wim Wenders - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Days
Recommended book: Bridge of Waves by W.A. Mathieu - https://www.shambhala.com/bridge-of-waves-288.html
In 02026: Slow down, and fix things.
Slow is smooth.
Smooth is fast.
- I think 2026 will bring many to Linux because of Steam Machine: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
- I watched a performance by Donnie Rankin on a classic Wurlitzer organ at Grand Rapids Public Museum in Michigan this past November.
https://tickets.grpm.org/events/01998223-5b9a-deac-f45e-f0d7...
My favorite pieces he played were the themes for Princess Leia and Star Trek TNG.
It’s an amazing instrument.
- It took me a long time to notice that the word in the title is “massage”, and not “message”, in Marshall McLuhan’s and Quentin Fiore’s The Medium is the Massage (An inventory of effects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage
Links to various editions: https://www.biblio.com/the-medium-is-the-massage-by-marshall...
Also of interest, notes about the observer being the observed in Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Think on These Things — https://www.biblio.com/9780060916091 — and The First and Last Freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last_Freedom
- The following from clicking on the i on the top-right after starting the show:
> Created by Neal Agarwal
> Illustrations by Julius Csotonyi
> Production by Liz Ryan
> Music & SFX by Aleix Ramon
> Cello performance by Iratxe Ibaibarriaga
Beautiful work.
- I just saw a ship that looks like some of those pictures earlier today: The Beckett-Class science vessel in the Cygnus point of interest by the current Elite Dangerous community goal station at HIP 87621.
- Graphic and web designer and general problem solver looking for part-time work in a relaxed place. I like nature, music, art, education, writing, typography, general aviation, and video games. 1–3 days per week would be ideal. I speak English, Portuguese, Italian, and a bit of French.
Location: West Michigan. Remote: Yes please. Willing to relocate: Possibly. Interested in spending time in Sweden. Technologies: HTML, CSS, creative suite, static site generators. Able to ask LLMs the right questions to help make things work. Résumé/CV: https://www.simongriffee.com/Simon-Griffee-Resume.pdf Email: simon@hypertexthero.com - If someone at Yamaha is reading this, could you please release a firmware update for the Yamaha Reface CP so that the toy piano setting plays the hidden grand piano sound instead?
To get the hidden piano sound:
1. Turn Reface CP off.
2. Turn piano sound knob so it rests in between any two settings.
3. Turn Reface CP on.
The Reface CP is one of my favorite small keys piano instruments, and I got one specifically for the hidden piano sound, but it’s annoying to have to go through the above steps and I’m not experienced enough to mod the circuitry.
- In case it’s useful, some healthy recipes by two people who’ve traveled around the world in a small boat:
- Thanks for the heads up. I never noticed before, but now I see it.
Doesn’t bother me enough to change the technique at this time, but I’ve put it in the things to do list.
I like the idea of having it automated by the system-set user preference in addition to having an option to set it manually with a link.
- Thanks, I didn’t realize that.
- Here’s what I use, with localStorage instead of cookies to remember user setting: https://hypertexthero.com/dark-mode-website-theme-switcher-l...
- Anyone reading at Kodak, please consider making a camera that has:
1. 35mm-equivalent basic plastic lens, 6 megapixel sensor with big pixels, autofocus, center-weighted metering.
2. No screen to see photos. Only a tiny LCD for basic settings like remaining pictures and remaining battery power.
3. Pictures saved to replaceable built-in SD card, downloadable to computers via USB-C to USB-C connector.
4. Long battery life (one whole day of shooting). Powered by rechargeable AA batteries.
5. Splash proof.
6. Photo sensor that adds grain to blown highlights and lost shadows.
7. Less than $100.
8. Bonus: Open source firmware.
Basically a competitor to the Camp Snap, but better.
Thank you!
- A tuner, either built-in or stuck to the guitar is also very helpful.
Recommended to anyone starting to play.
If you stick with it eventually you learn to tune the instrument by ear.
- When playing guitar, instead of gripping the neck tightly as if your hand was a vise, grip it lightly and pull the neck toward your body instead. Make sure the action of your guitar is not too high; if it is, get it adjusted.
Listening is more important than talking, but don’t automatically believe what you hear. Find out for yourself.
Observing animals and plants can teach one about humans and living in harmony with nature’s cycles.
Some people are not capable of feeling empathy. Learn to recognize them.
Your initial intuition is often wrong about numbers and statistics and many things, even if you are an expert. Double check. Triple check. Discuss with others you trust.
A little at a time goes a long way (understanding compound interest).
Certainty leads to insanity (regarding the “trade” of life).
References:
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music by W. A. Mathieu
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The First and Last Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti
- The Psychopath Code by Peter Hintjens
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Fingers Pointing to the Moon by Jane English
- Amazing work, beautifully presented.
Geordi LaForge reminds me of Aaed.
- Goodbye, Ozzy :(
Two of my favorite Sabbath songs:
Zeitgeist, 2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ofrYzMU6cw Planet Caravan, 1970 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm2N2nHqITY
- Here’s how to disable PPA: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attr...
- A film that explores this is Antonioni’s Blowup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowup
- Recording my first EP!
1st published song, Piano Place Hold in Am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUOhb-wHdFQ
- QuarkXpress for typesetting, Photoshop for painting pixels, and Macromedia Freehand for turning scanned drawings into vector graphics.
Was still using these in the early 2000s. Good times.
https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/american-overseas-scho...
- See also Orwell’s Politics and the English Language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langu...
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
- Solution: Edit the # Print the current date section in…
…to read:/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/espanso/match/base.yml# Print the current date - trigger: ":date" replace: "{{mydate}}" vars: - name: mydate type: date params: format: "%Y-%m-%d" - Anyone know how to change the default :date output to YYYY-MM-DD instead of MM/DD/YYYY on macOS?
I’ve tried the following in default.yml and reloading the config, but it’s not working and Claude, Gemini, and myself are stumped :)
matches: - trigger: ":date" replace: "{{mydate}}" vars: - name: mydate type: date params: format: "%Y-%m-%d"
When it doesn’t anymore I’ll need to get something else, probably an iPad so I can also use it as a 2nd screen.