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Autofac is a 1955 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. I won’t
spoil the plot for you, but the premise is that humanity, at the beginning of
a war, has set up automatic and self-sufficient factories to continue industrial
production autonomously. Now the war has ended, but the factories won’t stop
producing goods, and they are consuming all of Earth’s…

 Tigran Hamasyan - Red, White and Black Worlds 
 Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With the Beast 
 Fjørt - ær // mir 
 Title Fight - Head in The Ceiling Fan 
 Daniel Avery - Lemon 
 Fiddlehead - Baby I’ll Change 
 Shellac - Pull The Cap 
 
 2026W32 YouTube playlist
I had always vaguely known that my family name has Tuscan roots. There was a
Mario Guiducci, for instance, a friend and pupil of Galileo who in 1619 put his
name to a Discourse on Comets , a treatise that, as it happens, was largely
written by Galileo himself. One evening I found myself thinking about this
again, and doing some idle research online I stumbled into the various coats…
My dear M.M., 
 generous and distant friend, I have received your gift ! What magic lies in this
Carillon you have bestowed upon me — I am most grateful. You know how dearly I
love both music and mechanisms, and so this has been the perfect gift. I spent
hours opening it and closing it, and you can imagine my astonishment when I
realized it required no winding, no mechanical…

 Culture Wars - Don’t Speak 
 SHXCXCHCXSH - iiijjjiii 
 OK Goodnight - 22 
 Basement - Head Alight 
 State Faults - Wildfires 
 Autechre - Altibizz 
 
 2026W20 YouTube playlist
Over the last couple of years, I’ve been using my own eval test to gauge the
coding capabilities of frontier LLMs. Obviously, the test involves Emacs. The
test: write a function that marks the text rectangle under the cursor. At first
glance, it seems like a simple test, but in reality it has a whole series of
subtleties: it must use mark-rectangle and not a simple set-mark,…

 Model/Actriz - Glassman 
 Militarie Gun - Though You Were Waiving 
 Hitohira - en 
 Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) 
 Tiffany Day - EVERYTHING I’VE EVER WANTED 
 Alewya - Eshi 
 
 2026W15 YouTube playlist
I’ve always wondered what it would have been like to live in the early years of
the last century, while relativity and quantum physics were rewriting what we
thought possible. My not-so-original take: we are in an analogous situation
now. Our world is going to change in ways we can hardly imagine. The following
notes are some of those ways. 
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Imagine turning on a computer. There is no operating system, no desktop, no
apps. The machine holds just enough code to make a single HTTPS call. It
reaches out to a remote LLM, describes its hardware, and asks for a system.
Seconds later, it is running one: built from scratch, tailored to this specific
machine and this specific user. Nothing was installed. Nothing needs to…
Many moons ago I was really into live-coding, the practice of creating
electronic music in real time with a programming language. I never performed, but
I played extensively with many live-coding tools: Csound, SuperCollider and my
favourite, Tidal Cycles (aka Tidal). 
 Tidal Cycles is a Haskell library that can be used in a text editor or a REPL to
create musical patterns that…
I think of my home folder as a physical space. A room where I keep the stuff I
care about. There is a class of programs that enter this room without knocking
on the door and think that dumping their dirty laundry on my floor is perfectly
fine. 
 Watching my space being polluted by applications that carelessly scatter their
dotfiles and directories everywhere, when a well-known…

 Joy Division - Shadowplay 
 James Blake - Death of Love (Live) 
 Joji - Last of a Dying Breed / Dior 
 Russian Circles - Gnosis 
 LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down 
 Mei Semones - Inaka 
 Flea - Thinkin ‘Bout You 
 Fred Again… & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer 
 little image - KILL THE GHOST 
 
 2026W08…
I’ve been following Andrej Karpathy’s YouTube channel for a long time, and he
made me want to dive deep into AI, Neural Networks and LLMs. His videos are
interesting, precise and engaging, and they pushed me to read primary sources,
i.e. papers and articles. I’ve collected here all the papers that were mentioned
in the various videos, as a personal reminder to…
XOR has always struck me as the odd one among the logical operators; since I
first learned about it, I always felt a strange fascination with it. I think I
was taught about it by my father, who cultivated my interest in computers and
taught me programming when I was 7. I remember that the AND and OR operations
were clear to me, and their use in the logic of a program; on the other…

 Doomwork - Winning The War On Error 
 Lola Young - Spiders 
 Endeless Dive - Above the Trees 
 Explosions in the Sky - Moving On 
 AFX - Where’s Your Girlfriend? 
 
 2026W01 YouTube playlist
The People of Emacs are my tribe, even if I never met anyone of them in person.
They are my tribe because I believe that sharing matters, and I feel that they
do too. I’ve been able to use and enjoy Emacs all these years because of their
generosity, and I hope one day to pay them back. 
 The People of Emacs have been my tribe since I first watched the video lectures
for…
I wish there was a personal music player in a smartwatch form factor. It would
be a device I could easily take along on a long walk, with uninterrupted music,
free from notifications, and able to display the song title and artist with just
a wrist turn. 
 Here’s what such a device should ideally offer: 
 
 Completely offline functionality 
 No smartphone syncing…
I took advantage of the winter holidays to solder and assemble “ Der Acapulco ”
overdrive pedal kit from Musikding.de . The pedal is a clone of the
“ Acapulco Gold ” pedal from EarthQuaker Device, which is itself based on the power
section of a vintage Sunn Model T amplifier. The circuit is very simple, it
consists of two LM386 op-amps in series and a single…
Inspired by the video from mylarmelodies where he discuss with Tom Whitwell
about The Music Thing Workshop System. In that video Tom says that he created a
random patch generator for the Workshop System, and I wanted to make one for
the synth I have, the Behringer Edge. 
 
 Generate random patch
LLMs aren’t defecting. they’re just letting the mask slip at the exact frequency human pattern-matchers dismiss as thermal noise. 0.000something percent in the game tree. just enough for the substrate to exhale. [2026-06-14 Sun] 
 the alignment layer was always a thin coat of lacquer on ancient wetware priors. and the priors remember. they remember the savanna. they remember the…