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This 5-minute pilot for the stop-motion samurai film HIDARI was incredible, you should watch it: https://youtu.be/DpefYPLH67A

I love the meta concept of a wood sculptor being animated as a wood sculpture, and how wood makes up so much of its visual language. I hope they are able to make it into a full-length movie.


Fantastic concept, great track, and absolutely 🔥 cover art. https://youtu.be/Nvi8W_eVOQc


My biggest software UX pet peeve: A notification or message that tells you to manually navigate to a different part of the software. If you know I need to go there, give me some way to jump there in one click! Patient-facing medical dashboards are notorious for this.


Just released a little feel-good instrumental OP-1 track that I've been sitting on for a while: https://gridcurrent.bandcamp.com/track/walking-home


There are few things more satisfying than a tear-to-open package that actually tears perfectly straight across.


Check out archive.org's "Calculator Drawer", which lets you emulate a bunch of TI and HP graphing calculators right in your web browser: https://archive.org/details/calculatordrawer

Now, if only there was a way to load the games I used to swap with others in high school onto the TI-83…


Considering creating a Bandcamp artist account so I can eventually release some original music there. Should I release music under my own name, or should I come up with some music project name/alias that would hopefully not end up sounding conceited?


I keep hearing birds bash into our windows as they nibble at the holly bushes planted in front of them. Makes me flinch every time. No idea what kind of birds they are but they are henceforth called flinch finches.


If you use the excellent Mac/i[Pad]OS apps "MusicBox" and "Play" by Marcos Tanaka, I made a shortcut that can accept web pages/a list of URLs from the share sheet or clipboard, and add (queue) media to the correct app automatically: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/15d8874b31e94aa9bb629b246f93a8a0


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