YouTube timestamps to Markdown tool ✶

My vibe-coded tool of the day: Paste a YouTube URL and video description containing video chapter timestamps to make clean blog-ready Markdown links.

Tiny Little Office ✶

Looks like Paul Ford started yet another company, and they sorta vibe-coded an office suite that stores data in the URL.

Saturday, 7 November 2026

Logic Pro Tips

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Tips and reminders to self and others while learning Logic Pro to record music.

Keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl+Home = Go to start of selected region
Ctrl+End = Go to end of selected region
Ctrt+Opt+’ = Create marker (at precise location, without rounding)

Here’s all of the Logic Pro keyboard shortcuts.

Recording

Click R. It will also automatically turn on input monitoring for the track. To hear what you recorded, turn off input monitoring by clicking on the I.

Reduce file size

If your Logic Pro .logicx files are massive, do the following (I went from 1GB+ to ~50mb on some files):

  1. Browser F > Edit > Select Unused > Delete
  2. File > Project Management > Clean Up… > Ok

Repeat (set cycle region)

  1. Look at the ruler at the top of the arrange window (where the timeline/bars are)
  2. Click and drag across the section you want to loop - click in the top half of the ruler area and drag left or right
  3. A yellow bar appears showing your cycle region
  4. Make sure the Cycle button is turned on in the transport (the circular arrow button, or press ‘C’) - that activates the loop

To reset/clear it:

  1. Click once in the ruler area outside the yellow cycle region, or
  2. Press ‘C’ to turn off cycle mode, or
  3. Click and drag to create a new cycle region somewhere else

To adjust it:

  • Hover over the left or right edge of the yellow bar until you see a resize cursor, then drag to adjust the boundaries

The cycle region loops whatever section is highlighted when you press Play.

Reset MIDI

Click on “No In”.

“Wave” effect

For an illusion of a wave passing through an audio section, causing it to momentarily slow down, speed up, and then return to its normal tempo, or just slow way down to a stop for the end of a song like Piano Place Hold in Am.

Fade tool

Rapid “tape-style” fluctuation in speed. Stylistic touch without delving into complex automation.

  1. Select region: Use Marquee tool or split audio region where you want the effect to happen.
  2. “Slow Down” fade: With the region selected go to the Inspector window (I). In the “Region” section, you’ll find parameters for Fade In and Fade Out. For the first half of the “wave” use Fade Out but change its mode. Right-click (or Control-click) on the Fade Out value and from the dropdown menu, select Slow Down. You can then drag the fade handle directly on the audio region to adjust the length of the slowdown effect.
  3. “Speed Up” fade: For second half of effect where audio speed returns to normal use a Fade In. On the adjacent audio region, right-click (or Control-click) on the Fade In value in the Inspector and select Speed Up. Adjust the fade handle on this region to control the duration of the speed-up.

By placing a Slow Down fade immediately followed by a Speed Up fade, a smooth, wave-like dip in the playback speed is created.

There are other ways to do this that I’ll expand on later.

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Thursday, 29 October 2026

Goodbye, Patrick Stewart

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If only more leaders in the world were like Captain Picard.

The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it’s scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based! If you can’t find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don’t deserve to wear that uniform!

—Star Trek: The Next Generation, The First Duty

A 2023 interview in The New Yorker.

So many thoughts and memories…here are some:

Patrick Stewart collage by

“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, and we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

“Seize the time… Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.”

Goodbye, Captain.

Thank you A drawing of a flying heart balloon.

Space

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Sunday, 25 October 2026

Sand castles ✶

The best thing I’ve read this week, called Sand Castles in the print version of The New Yorker, about how the semiconductor industry depends on many small artisan-like companies around the world.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus:

And yet we take it for granted that we can build them. We shouldn’t. The chief determinant of that unlikely success has been not individual genius in the lab, or individual prowess in the boardroom, but collective planning and coördination at a breathtaking scale. Globalization has become tainted in our eyes, as if it necessarily constitutes a zero-sum enterprise. And its mercenary form—which is also its most common form—has indeed inflicted harm. But the global semiconductor supply chain reflects an alternative pathway. It has united its participants in the pursuit of something profoundly difficult that could not have been achieved in the absence of intercontinental solidarity.

Noita 71 outro piano synth improv ✶

Another Noita session with music improvisation. I used RealityRipple’s Home-Made Emote Wall for this one and it worked : )

Friday, 23 October 2026

How is music possible ✶

A good article, this. And Bridge of Waves: What music is and how listening to it changes the world, by W.A. Mathieu, is a sound book about how music is possible.

Thursday, 15 October 2026

Drawpile ✶

Collaborative drawing software.

Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Goodbye, Margaret Hamilton ✶

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90.

Here’s a lovely photograph of Hamilton.

Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Big Walk

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Big walk sunset.

Find one, two, or three friends and go for a Big Walk around sound-light-scapes to talk about life while solving light puzzles.

Realistic environment graphics and sounds combined with low poly character charm charm me, like in Valheim.

Hypertexthero Big Walk video list:

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Wednesday, 16 September 2026

♫ More Data ✶

By Negativland, who “make records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sounds, images, objects, and text.”

Sunday, 6 September 2026

BidWix’s a fast, fair way to agree on a price ✶

Chloe just opened a small bakery and needs a logo. Ben is a freelance designer whose work she loves. But how much should a logo cost? Neither wants to go first.

Ben’s absolute minimum for the work is $100. Chloe could stretch to $900 if she absolutely had to. That’s her honest maximum.

They use BidWix to each submit their true limit price in secret.

Result: $300.

Ben earns three times his minimum. Chloe pays a third of what she feared. Both gained by the same factor, so both feel equally happy about the deal they made.

That’s the geometric mean at work. No awkward back-and-forth — just a fair price, found in one step.

Made by MyNoise.net’s Stéphane Pigeon, who’s also written some interesting thought experiments about the concept.

I haven’t used it, yet, but if you want to hire me, we can try it together and see.

Tuesday, 25 August 2026

The Truman Show ✶

It’s a visually stunning, spiritually powerful conclusion. It is the point of The Truman Show that we don’t know what world he is stepping into, and can’t follow him to see what happens next. This is about more than just turning off the TV, or setting down a smartphone; it’s about someone making the difficult choice to be himself outside the context of what others see and expect of him.

What a strange time we live in. Keep bringing more graphite, paint, and paper, musical instruments, and non-phone cameras to life.

Via Jank.cool

Saturday, 22 August 2026

♫ Just in Time ✶

Nina Simone live at Casino Kursaal, 16th June 1968. Remembered this one while thinking about the Before trilogy of films.

Friday, 21 August 2026

Self-playing games ✶

Games that play themselves are like using AI for writing, drawing, and thinking, or, at the risk of making many people angry, watching others playing with balls on TV instead of playing yourself and rediscovering the pleasure of physical movement.

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

AI hysteria’s effect on global decision making ✶

Hoping it ends soon 🤦

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