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Composer and programmer who likes noise, obsolete media, electronics, and nostalgia Website: https://reillyspitzfaden.com Blog: https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog Mastodon (bridged to Bluesky): https://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them. Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...

“‘What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,’ he said.” www.huffpost.com/entry/israel... #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

“Daniel Levy, the president of the U.S./Middle East Project think tank, said that Israel’s government was ‘desperately trying to find soft power venues’ and that Eurovision was one of the few opportunities it had left.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/a... #Israel #Netanyahu #Eurovision

Some cool photos from a walk through Highland Park today: reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/0... #Rochester #RochesterNY #Park #Parks #Architecture #Reservoir

In my wiki/digital garden I have a collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! Hope it can be helpful to someone reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-gard... #Webmentions #IndieWeb #Microformats #Eleventy #11ty #WebDev #HTML

“These are the fracture lines in the Trump coalition, the places we should apply ourselves to if we want to neutralize the movement, shatter it back into a mob of warring factions.” pluralistic.net/2025/05/21/e... #USPol #Trump #Politics

I'm still looking for reviews of my new album! Any outlet, any size is welcome! Happy to give you a code! Blogs, zines, TikTok, whatever, it's all good! I don't care if it's your 5000th review or your first! Get at me! etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-me... #musicsky #MusicDiscovery

My Swedish textbook publisher wanted me to listen to audio examples on their site or in their app. I had other ideas. A fun little project combating enshittification, and some practice with Node JS and web scraping! reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/0... #NodeJS #JavaScript #Enshittification

A growing number of apps are using the Play Integrity API to enforce installation from the Play Store. This is clearly highly illegal anti-competitive behavior. It doesn't impact GrapheneOS users installing apps with the sandboxed Play Store but does impact other install sources.

WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A MEAL?! A SUCCULENT CHINESE MEAL?!

“…as decades of academic research have shown, it serves mainly to help far-right parties while hurting centre-left parties, which end up losing (young, female) progressive voters and barely gaining the (male) reactionary voters they court.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm having some typography fun on my site: reillyspitzfaden.com I'm using the CSS :before pseudo-element to put a chunky dark magenta opening quote before <blockquote>s. I also switched from a bit font for headings/Open Sans for body to just Libre Franklin — turns out I love grotesques! #CSS

A centaur that's half small herding dog and half synthesizer The KORG-i

I recently heard somebody use the phrase “all that is rebellion melts into content” when talking about brands mining counterculture aesthetics for profit (www.tiktok.com/@eugbrandstr...)

I'm getting back into my software-defined radio hobby — here I'm tracking planes with an RTL-SDR and Raspberry Pi reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/0... #RTLSDR #SDR #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #ADSB #Aviation

my boyfriend says that I don't "need" to buy a bunch of transparent electronics on ebay like a 13in tv and a landline phone and alarm clock, because it's "not practical" and I "dont have money right now" this is a hard time for me for me and my family please respect my privacy at this time

Liked | Your Own Core Rope Memory | Hackaday ⭐ hackaday.com/2025/05/14/y... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... “This was famously used in early UNIVAC computers and the Apollo guidance computer.” #Retrocomputing #Maker #Electronics

I added a digital garden section to my site! reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-gard... I'm using it to put tutorials, research/project notes, and other things that I will return to and build on over time. #WebDev #IndieWeb #DigitalGardens #DigitalGarden #Eleventy #11ty

Liked | The Tyranny of Public Opinion ⭐️ stringinamaze.net/p/the-tyrann... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... “The voters weren’t switching candidates based on their policy positions, they were switching policy positions based on their candidate.” #Trans #TransRights #Politics #Democrats

Liked | Welcome to the IndieWeb - Serverless Industries ⭐️ serverless.industries/2025/05/07/w... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... #IndieWeb #WebDev

i would imagine hasan knows, rationally, not to talk in situations like this. he did anyway because cops of all stripes are very good at making you feel like in *just this one particular situation* it makes more sense to talk a bit. don't ever give in to that impulse.

RSVP | Front End Study Hall #028 | May 20, 2025 | IndieWeb Events 📆 events.indieweb.org/2025/05/fron... 🔗 reillyspitzfaden.com/interactions... #IndieWeb #Frontend #frontendDeveloper #HTML #CSS #Coding #Programming

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

@benji.dog made some IndieWeb stickers that look like a metal band logo, and he sent me one — thanks! reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/0... #IndieWeb #Sticker #Stickers

Cool synth plugin I came across today: github.com/Mrugalla/Ham... It's a modal synth — resonant, keytracked filters where you can drag partials to custom locations and then play the filter like a synth using noise/sample “exciters” #VST #Plugin #MusicProduction #Synth #Synthesizer

I ask once again, who is going to get this man on Bluesky? Who is going to bring him to where he needs to be?