Yet another average user.
More than a year ago , I hosted an edition of IndieWeb Carnival . It was indeed a great experience that made me feel the small web; after so much time, however, I thought nobody would ever look at it anymore. It turns out I was wrong: Zach reached me and asked me a couple questions about it. Since the questions are the same for every host, I would highly recommend checking out what other hosts had…
Rummaging through my archived technology drawer, I found my old Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo, dated 2015, sitting between the PSP and the walkie-talkies . It was already old when I was given it, but it was my longest-lasting phone nonetheless and played a significant role in the latter part of my high-school years. The reason I changed phones wasn’t obsolescence, but rather frequent charging issues: it…
Lately, I had the chance to listen to a lot of music in the background. I wanted to avoid electronic nonsense and bad Tiktok techno , so I collected some suggestions by friends and by Spotify’s algorithm, in particular some pillars of Western music. I didn’t have the chance to jot down, as I usually do, the things I liked about each track, but I don’t want to relegate my discoveries to my…
It’s been a while since the last Music Wednesday, so I don’t mind posting one of them on a Sunday. Some days ago, a colleague of mine told me that “ From Zero ” by Linkin Park would be released soon. As I’ve already repeated many times in this blog series, real-instruments music is not my strength; however, that song with Steve Aoki helps me remember the band, although there are at least three to…
October is over. This means that the edition of the IndieWeb Carnival I’m hosting is over as well. To be fair, I didn’t expect this number of submissions. My best bet was about ten posts to discuss today. Instead, we’ve got twenty-two participants from all around the world. Sincerely, thanks to all of you, who spent a bit of your time for a theme I’m quite fond of. Since you’re a lot, I don’t want…
It’s my turn now: I will host the October 2024 IndieWeb Carnival . While I’ve never directly contributed to any previous edition, I’ve been skimming through many articles in the round-ups, so I’m quite curious to see what will happen this time. The theme If you’ve been on the Internet for more than ten minutes, you will realise that English is the language of most of the Web, albeit with some…
I’m almost certain I first learnt about tetration during high school, advanced maths class. I mean, it is not that difficult to envision: to create a new binary operation, you can just repeat the previous one many times and you’re done. A simple example of tetration may be 3 ↑↑ 4 = 3 ^ (3 ^ (3 ^ 3)) = 3 ^ (3 ^ 27) = 3 ^ 7625597484987 This number, for the records, has approximately 3.63833E12…
For an EDM-head like me, going too much outside the already-heard is hard: acoustic soundscapes such as “ The Kick Inside ” hardly make me come back, even if they don’t challenge me that much. However, if I find an album like “ The Great Electronic Swindle ” by The Bloody Beetroots, not only I will come back, but people will pray I go away. The mixture of dubstep, drum ‘n’ bass and metal sounds…
They say the truth: in January, good intentions begin and end. Before March begins and amuses me with projects and endless assignments, I’d like to introduce “ Recess ” by Skrillex. By pure chance, this is one of my favourite albums. I’m not particularly proud of this fact, but it could be worse. None of the eleven tracks really bothers me; only Doompy Poomp is a bit too over the top for my taste.…
I’m sorry, I had to do it. I must include some cheesy, loud music in this section. Honourable mentions to Skrillex, Metallica and any terrorcore album; two of these will be dealt with in later posts this year. But for now, this Music Wednesday features a sort-of-new album that opened my eyes about the modern dubstep scene, beyond the old-school Zomboy and Virtual Riot. Let me introduce “ FRACTALS…
Rather than a Music Wednesday , this is a “ village Music Saturday ”. I hope you will excuse me, for I have been quite busy. This doesn’t mean I had no chance to listen to something new (to me). Without further ado, I’d like to share my opinions about a particular album, “ Love Over Gold ” by Dire Straits. The first track, Telegraph Road , is more than fifteen minutes long, so it’s worthy of that…
If I have to be honest, I haven’t looked into the vaporwave scene recently, for a number of reasons: some artists I would like to listen to are not on Spotify (for copyright reasons or other things out of my control); I have less time to actively listen to music; I want to explore other genres. However, when I saw that Windows 96 released “ Dated New Aesthetic ” some days ago, I decided to get…
In this first Music Wednesday , I decided to break out of my comfort zone: no cheap electronic music; no nostalgia-driven vaporwave. I went on /mu/ (no questions) to look for some inspiration, and I found “ The Kick Inside ” by Kate Bush. It wasn’t a bad choice for testing out my new headphones . At the first listen, the album was quite diverse in regards to rhythm and tone, which I didn’t expect…
2023 is coming to an end, if you didn’t notice. The only thing I can say about this year is something along the lines of “Wow, that’s a lot of change!”. I graduated, I sought professional help, I met awesome new people, I gave myself the luxury of some small, crazy experiences. The end of the year usually comes with resolutions for the next Earth cycle, even though they don’t seem to help personal…
Studying ancient Greek during high school wasn’t a mistake, after all: I still get to appreciate the sublime works of hundreds of clever people from ~2000 years ago . This becomes particularly useful when designing jokes for people who graduated in History, like a friend of mine. First of all, let me introduce the Greek Anthology , a collection of a specific type of poems (epigrams). Then, you…
After only some time , here we go again. My personal website, Mark III. I didn’t think I would nuke everything again, but I felt I needed it . After the fall of Yesterweb thanks to one of its admins, I wondered what was the use of the vanity metrics I was checking on my Neocities page . I think I found the answer: nothing, both because I shouldn’t care, being in a Small Web environment, and…
It’s been a while since I got such a stuffy nose. I hope it isn’t CoViD, otherwise I may need to reach my watchlist after a long time. Or maybe not, since there might be an extra call for my Financial Mathematics exam; while I should study for that from page one, the tests themselves are quite easy, if I remember correctly . While waiting for a DIY test to tell me whether I should lock myself down…
Last night, I watched The Immaculate Room after seeing it on my trusty tracker. It’s been quite an experience. The movie’s main gimmick is clear from the beginning: a somewhat rough couple is chosen by an anonymous rich man to play a weird game: they have to stay in a white, almost empty room for fifty days, with no outside connections/communication nor even entertainment. The situation obviously…