Alternating Bit by Jega from Geometry, which samples Wendy Carlos’ Tron Scherzo. Was big into Jega bk at college https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nAMS9Y7k2E
Month: June 2017
Wendy Carlos, early electronic music pioneer – the amazing “Tron Scherzo” from Tron (1982). https://youtu.be/p4_xVg_w0IE?t=38s
Sounds of sci-fi – Jeff Mills, Sun-Ra, Bambaataa, Delia Derbyshire, Bowie, Kraftwerk, @algorave – http://blog.barbican.org.uk/2017/05/the-sounds-of-science-fiction/ … – great stuff
Great lecture by David Mortem outlining need of radical system change, for people and for planet. https://www.alternativeradio.org/collections/latest-programs/products/kord009
microdialectics: thesis, antithesis, antithesis, antithesis, antithesis, log off twitter
Really exciting to see peeps at @automattic getting excited about the open web and WordPress.
Trying to be indieweb and open source, I kind of feel 50% Kevin Flynn, 50% black-and-whiter in the Metaverse.
Mastodon seems like an example of decent UX in OSS. I’d wager that drove quite a lot of the new signups it got recently.
The 100 paper cuts thing that Ubuntu used to do (still does?) was a good idea. Pick off UX issues one by one.
There needs to be some kind of push to get UX designers working on open-source.