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il furto (2019-02-09 08:21:00)

• Steal this plot: 50 plot ideas from victorian and regency novels.
• The sight of sibyls.
• The Day, a poem by Anne Stevenson.
• Six Miracles.
• (it) Il Furto (o sulla sostenibilità economica del software libero).

two great repos (2019-02-04 08:07:00)

OpenScore: Liberating Sheet Music and Watercolour World.

bonus: Susanna and the Elders, Snow Days.

Kerfuffle (2019-02-02 07:10:00)

Play Kerfuffle by KKairos!

To play it you need DosBox and the ZZT engine. Move the .zzt into the engine folder, select a world with W and pick KRFFFL-C). The game is worth the setup pain, I promise!

Other: Dokmelody, (eo) Mazi en Gondolando.

More non-OC (2019-01-30 07:44:00)

• Could an astronaut's corpse bring new life to another world.
• Pond of Nuppa.
• (ita) Col mio amore non si discute, un fotoromanzo.
• Stinger Missile Buyback Poster.

of death and other things (2019-01-26 08:00:01)

<FSi> i think you may be the reason youtube keeps recommending me harp videos
<FSi> not to say i dislike that, quite the opposite

death: Comic book death, Wikipedia obituaries.

other things: If novels were formatted like bibles, Maria Sibylla Merian: naturalist and scientific illustrator.

frugal (2019-01-24 08:31:00)

• Pour un web frugal (fr).
• Why I use old hardware.
• Become a Facebook-free business.
• Massacre of the Innocents.

Death and Burial (2019-01-20 08:42:00)

• Death and Burial.
• The Immaculate Conception.
• Religion is Like a Fungus.
• Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings.

initials (2019-01-10 08:36:00)

• How illuminated initials guided medieval readers through books.
• Printmaking materials hacks.
• Morning light.
• Google just terminated our start-up google play publisher account on Christmas day.

something icky, something pleasant (2019-01-05 07:14:00)

icky: Eyelash mites under the microscope.

pleasant: The Birth of John the Baptist / Mt.Tokachidake, mid winter.

R.I.P. Blandine Verlet, one of the most renowed, most colourful interpreter of François Couperin (Les Barricades Mysterieuses).

read-list (2019-01-01 08:42:00)

Last year I decided to get back into reading more (I even compiled a handy list to help me in the selection process).

I read 60+ books in 2018: 53 from the public library, a handful of ebooks (I sold my ebook reader after realising paper is more comfortable to my eyes – and gets me in the mood to read more) and a few paperbacks bought in shopping sprees.

So here is a selection of the ones I liked most, if you want to start your 2019 with a similar goal:

• poetry: Romancero gitano by Federico Garcia Lorca and Medicamenta e altri medicamenta by Patrizia Valduga. Both are “painterly” poets, so if you know just enough of Spanish/Italian to pronounce words correctly, get the source-language version (or better, parallel text) too.
• witty books: Il sistema periodico (a collection of short stories, each one linked to an element in the periodic table), Candide, ou l'Optimisme (a satirical, adventurous journey all around the world, in search of beloved – and elusive – Cunégonde), L'Étranger (best introduced by its own author: “In our society any man who does not weep at his mother’s funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death”).
• art books: Cthulu Mythos: I am far from a comic fan and yet I was fascinated by the exquisite technique of Breccia, mastery of the medium and willingness to experiment. The Photographer's Eye: again, not a fan of photography, this book provided a solid introduction to the craft – enough to get me interested in other practitioners like Cartier-Bresson.
• drama books: Le chien couchant by Françoise Sagan, the story of an impossible love and gloomy Rashōmon by the father of japanese short stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

Can you paint better than Hockney? (2018-12-14 20:51:00)

"I did it on an iPad."

A fascinating introuction to a lesser known instrument, the European reed organ and its sounds.

“When I was a child, I used to ask for stories to eat”: Nothing.

Goodbye Mnemosyne (2018-12-07 07:44:00)

After almost ten years, the time has finally come to say “goodbye” to Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne is an amazing spaced-repetition software (with simply the best user experience of them all), but I simply find myself more and more weary of screen-time the older I get.

I will replace it with a pen and paper method: one of A Simple Vocabulary Memorization Method and the Gold Book method.

Transferring ~9500 cards will be quite a task, but I am sure it will be worth it.

gscholar-rss (2018-11-09 08:18:00)

Do you want to be updated of new research papers via RSS? Then you will like gscholar-rss.

org-mode mode (2018-10-30 20:21:00)

Happy to announce that lentil now supports Emacs org-mode (.org) syntax. Many thanks to Damien Couroussé for the patch!

Just played: Winter Storm Draco.

Bel fiore dança (2018-10-28 07:35:00)

Here is a small thing I transcribed and tried to play today (synth: aeolus).

If you want to play it yourself, grab the score (abc/pdf).

Jean Giraud's illustrations for the Divine Comedy.

cpp (2018-08-11 07:35:00)

I wrote some haskell hack.

Van Gogh pen & watercolor sketches.

Fun with FRP (2018-07-24 08:38:00)

Click on the image below to play a simple-but-smart chess puzzle.

I wrote this using reflex-dom, to check the capabilities of Haskell for the web. Some of it is still painful (long build times, no way to use repl/ghicd, bloated exes, extremely scant documentation), while writing FRP is alluring.

Joachim Breitner wrote on the matter and provides some relief.

Music keyboard (2018-07-06 08:18:00)

I wrote an article on travel friendly music keyboards.

Games (2018-05-20 20:31:00)

• New, explorey game by Bubblesoft: Nixy: The Glade Sprite.

  

  Excellent art, many rooms, very enjoyable all around. Get it here, and use your favourite ZX Spectrum emulator to play it.

• little mermaids, a very short IF made for a 300-words-limit jam.

animascii (2018-03-16 06:22:00)

I finally published animascii, a textfile-based ascii animator.

Writing it was a nice experience, making me acquainted with some lesser-known parts of cabal workflow.

Enjoy, feedback and bug reports welcome!