Hypertexthero / Linked List / June 2025

Linked List: June 2025

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Jonathan Livingston Seagull ✶

I read a first edition of this wonderful book about the freedom of flight and of thought.

By Richard Bach, with black and white photographs, some on transparent paper, by Russell Munson.

Warmly recommended.

♫ Piano Place Hold in Am ✶

While first learning to play piano I was pressing keys without paying conscious attention to my fingers, letting the sounds flow and listening, testing Logic’s basic recording functions, and this came out, “wrong” notes and all.

An ambient audio track recorded by a creek was then layered on top with an audio pitch experiment mistakenly added in the end.

My first published song, available Tuesday, 2025 June 17, as audio waves of music transmitted from all major music websites for streaming or downloading.

Saturday, 7 June 2025

Gravity waves in the sky ✶

Beautiful photograph by Miguel Claro of a sky phenomenon also known as airglow.

Goodbye, Bill Atkinson ✶

Thank you for helping make the digital tools I use almost every day.

Monday, 2 June 2025

Get weird and disappear ✶

One of my favorite new tech writers, Nik Suresh:

But other scripts, especially the ones that are too small to think about or too large to see, drive insane life decisions. When I was studying psychology, almost everyone, including me, picked the course because we weren’t sure what we wanted to do with our lives, but the script says finish high school and then take on ten of thousands of dollars in debt. That script is so large that it basically encompasses your whole upbringing. When you try to look at it, you see grey, and think “there is no elephant here, just a cement wall”.