timp
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I’ve switched to using a new service for audio embeds called Wavekit - not sure about Substack but works very well with wordpress (and unlike soundcloud it has volume control, with permanence)
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Dipping my toes with zero subscribers and no spam to my bandcamp subscribers (yet) into substack.
I just feel really disconnected with any music scenes around me, felt pretty directionless for a good few years now but found a new focus it seems. So, I thought apart from speaking into the empty rooms of insta, bluesky and threads, why not also write to no audience on substack.
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I was about to do the same. But with a slightly different focus. Subbed
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As long as it is also with a strong no audience focus…
Let me know when it is up!
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20 Characters of will do.
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mdh
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I really like this idea of creating a sonic diary. I’ve often attempted it but found it difficult to commit to doing it every day.
Another idea I’ve had along similar lines is to create a kind of “non-linear” (in a temporal sense) diary or geographical / spatial diary which is basically just a dump of a hard drive full of field recordings / fragments of sounds. Maybe more like a chaotic, disorganised library of sounds.
Perhaps with a novel way of presenting them rather than just a list, e.g. just picking out one random sound per day for a listener to hear? Or doing some kind of analysis on the sounds and organising them into a kind of cloud / cluster graph
Anyway, carry on with this! Its a great idea
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Recently, I started dipping my toes into testing mymind. 6 months ago, I stumbled across it on Product Hunt when I believe it was much less developed than it is now. It’s a really interesting concept with potentially many useful applications when it comes to a second brain, journaling, personal productivity, and with some sharing features enabled, perhaps even a ‘blog’ of sorts.
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Thanks for this, I’m now trialing it
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You’re welcome. Same here. Honestly, it’s the first bit of AI + productivity that has gotten me just a little excited as I might be able to replace 2-3 pieces of software with it. 
LNDF
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Didn’t noticed this thread before !
Thanks @disquiet you are one of the core reason I’m writing a blog for a year or so. Thanks also to @neauoire, the requirement to enter the webring got me to write more and keep better logs of my stuff.
I find this blog to be pretty useful, especially when I get back to a project that I haven’t worked on for some month.
Recently moved it from github pages to a VPS to learn some stuff about server config.
You can find it here : lndf.fr
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Great idea. I can’t remember stuff I’ve done with pure data, faust, daisy, bela etc. as well as music stuff. Would be nice to have a diary I can refer back to as my memory is not the best. On it… Now up https://donnerbono.wordpress.com/
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It’s been really nice to see so many people this week get off of substack and start their own personal websites. 
I noticed some hesitate on the format of their posts and site. If I had to recommend anything, it’d be to start with a wiki/digital-garden type format, where things are not ordered by date but by name, it allows someone to keep a record of the changes in a project or idea, without it being pilled on with unrelated entries, but more importantly it allows space for someone to change their mind about something.
The wiki, or digital garden, format can still allow for dated lists of posts, like a blog, but categorized by their topic name.
The year is ending, and like many I wrote a sort of recap of the year, do anyone else do this?
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I used Notion + Super for a contextual CV at the height of the pandemic, before relegating Notion almost entirely to the dust bin, in favor of Craft Docs for a little while, and then eventually Obsidian. I have yet to use Obsidian’s publishing feature, but the sync + personal vault + markdown = killer app to me.
I did try the HEY.world branch of HEY when I signed up for Basecamp (37 Signals) email. After a few posts, again, it was abandoned.
Having spent the better part of my 20’s rushing to be the next great American writer, one would think I would embrace all of this tech to scatter my words into the world.
Might have been the case before I read two books that caused me to pause and reflect and stay paused:
Jaron Lanier - Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Verlyn Klinkenborg - Several Short Sentences About Writing
After parking myself on a substack page for over a year I finally decided to start using it.
I invite you to subscribe if you feel like it 
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I think of my blog for making music as an open notebook. Once in a while a friend reads it. Once in a while a non-friend finds one of the posts useful. Otherwise it’s a scratchpad for writing.
(It lives at playingintongues.com).
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clwilla
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I’ve been blogging a long time on various sites. I. Decided to start my own Modular blog a little while back. It isn’t as filled out as I’d like, but with Jamuary here that’s starting to change.
I’d originally started it because I was frustrated at the lack of tangible patch documentation outside of vague descriptions on YouTube videos (maybe). I wanted to have a resource where I could post patches, along with a patch diagram, and a description or something about it. I don’t always succeed in my aim, but I’m hoping to do better and perhaps start a trend of patch documentation.
Enjoy Peaks And Nulls!
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I recently updated the technology stack for my creative journal (aka blog). I replaced jekyll with eleventy, and moved hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I never got along with Ruby, so customizing jekyll was a chore. Eleventy uses Javascript, which isn’t the best of programming languages but I can work with it and have already tweaked things that I couldn’t begin to do in Ruby.
Recent posts have been about my modular synth pursuits: modules and performances. I also post about photography, although I haven’t done much photography in a while.
If you care to follow, it’s at https://blandcanyon.com with an RSS feed at Blandcanyon
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Recently started my blog on substack after reading about it here. Thanks for the great recommendation!
I’m dealing with a profound hearing impairment that makes me nearly deaf (tendency to deteriorate) and I document in an essayistic way how I deal with that as an Audiovisual Artist.
Hope some may enjoy it!
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I enjoyed this read a lot! Also first time I have heard others talk about the sub tinnitus that someone close to me sometimes experienced.
Subbed via RSS!
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lo! i have been laid off from my 4-year corpo gig. not the worst thing.
after 7 or 8 years of fulltime work, i’m now back in the consulting / freelance pool. a good time to polish up the personal site, which is now at ebuchla.com. mostly to host distasteful things such as CV and discography… but!
the notes section will be a blog of sorts. i’m kind of fired up to put actual time investment into personal projects, including a small bit of music technology. (first up is some kind of loop pedal, big surprise.) but i will also put performance / music release announcements there, and maybe rants / rambles. (better than deleting them here perhaps.)
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