Notices by 🕷️spooky jepyang 🕸️ (jepyang@wandering.shop), page 5

I…just saw a pro-diamond-mining commercial?

It was just some white lady being like “i went to Botswana and everything there seemed like it was awesome, all the diamond stuff was a-ok”

it was so fucked up i actually thought it might be some sort of elaborate satire but i looked it up and i regret to inform you it really is literally just a diamond cartel PR campaign

@forestine 😂😂😂 omg I was just looking at the page right now and almost commented like “yes Apple Music I know squarepusher has a new single out, I don’t care at all, I really just want to listen to hard normal daddy on repeat plz”

How about this:
- We tell all the techbros they can have unlimited free land on Antarctica to build their AIs and mine their crypto
- They are also enticed by reduced cooling costs; practically salivating at the thought of greenwashing all their current water use
- We drop them off on the coast and then just leave them there

@logo @siege The double S reminds me of this optical illusion

Omgggggg why did I stay up till 2am

Answer: KiCAD and ADHD

Laying out PCBs triggers my hyperfocus SO BAD. This happens every time, I set down to “get started” on a project and then I lose six hours.

It’s one of those tasks that is made up of infinite smaller tasks of inconsequential duration. I can *always* convince myself to lay out, yknow, *just one more* trace.

I received a few modules in a trade, and between those and the Mac Salad modules I had finished but not yet mounted, it seemed time for a rearrangement.

New additions:
- Pam and Pam expander
- Mordax Data
- 3x Mac Salad

Gone:
- Plonk
- VCLFO
- 2HP Arp
- the 42HP :anarchy: blank

I ended up with the three Mac Salads racked, not because I think three is “correct,” but because I had space in that top row for a third one and couldn’t think of a good reason not to.

#stateOfTheModular #eurorack

Pretty stoked about the Data. I always tell myself I can just use my analog scope or my LED-Jack if I need to visualize signals, but truth is that having a scope in the rack is just ridiculously handy.

I tried to build an oscilloscope module a few years back and it’s one of the few hall-of-shame modules that I never got working correctly. So having a (better) scope module in the rack also feels like banishing the ghost of that failed project too.

Got rid of the LFO partly because Pam’s, Maths, and the Looping ADSR can all do LFOs…and partly because I didn’t leave enough space to reach in and plug in the power cable, and didn’t want to unscrew any more modules.

Another centralized web platform in flames…

The computer people have come out to advise us all to self-host instead…

While the non-computer people whisper furtively amongst themselves: “how the fuck do I do that? what does self-host even mean?”

@mattly The upshot is that fun, affordable frames are more of a thing now than they’ve been in the past

if you want to be a gate, TOO BAD, i will never allow it

Did you know?

LL Bean stands for Ladies Love Bean

I took the RE-808 PCBs out of the packing for the first time earlier today. I actually feel a bit better about it, seeing them in person. Still real big…but doable.

@forestine Good god, the quest to find menswear that satisfies even *one* of those categories

@funkula @forestine I really like merino as well. It’s like “treat yourself” cotton. More expensive and less durable but it’s just about as soft and usually feels drier and more temperature regulated. It’s amazing, I’d wear it every day if it wouldn’t cost a zillion dollars.

@tillshadeisgone …

Sudden Pine