Last Notes
Little sneak peak at the web app I'm putting together to deliver my 'rewards' to the sponsors for Saturday's Ride for Cancer. > $25 CA gets you an original exclusive autumn themed Drum 'n' Bass mix #dnb. > $50 gets you that mix + a 45 minute Berlin rave mix featuring some of my favourite #techno of late.
It's not too late to contribute:
https://fundraise.yourrideforcancer.ca/fundraisers/darrylwright/trail-50km
https://blossom.ditto.pub/5a70f64338964d827048d97f37f1147b47610c71b5a036d1dfde8b9558e0b98e.mp4
#booknostr Every October I read a #horror novel. This year I chose Tear by Erica McKeen. What else should I not miss? #books
New company wallpaper for the season.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/685496c923a7b7b38746978d1ef403f113b3428e9423d8487b39cfde6fea785e.jpeg
I was stoked to stand up last night introduce a room full of coders to the idea of using Nostr for simple things rather than writing complicated new backend infra.
@npub18am…p424 Curious if there's a reason Ditto doesn't support DMs? Was that a decision or are you just waiting for someone to contribute it?
#Omarchy is coming to Snapdragon. https://www.reddit.com/r/omarchy/s/nyZoGzhmGD
"SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?"
AI news: Chatbot report nearly causes U.S. war with China https://share.google/ndb1SDuEWexhm5W3E
I'm sure it's AI. I wish it wasn't.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/d66eb9813aa820ec1628fcc4a900b1ff32d38ed259b10b5ed934190c12b309cb.jpeg
I'm down with being European as long as we don't lose the progress we've made on banning smoking. I've been to Paris and I love the city but their patios are like hanging out in 1985.
"Unable to grasp the substance of the paper, I found myself taking issue with its tone, the way you might watch someone's mouth move unattractively while they talk." - Unworld
(There's a surprise at the bottom)
It's been a couple of years since I've driven my bike in the Ride for Cancer. I took a year off due to a bike theft and probably some other reasons like the fear of another 50km ride on a stone hard seat that seems optimized for speed over comfort.
This year is the final Ride for Cancer in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's been a hugely successful campaign raising money for cancer treatment over the years. The organization is moving on to some other strategies and celebrating with one final ride -- and I decided to enter it again.
I want to personally thank Michael Parsons for involving me in this program. He's the namesake of Mikey's Bikers, my team, and also a great friend. I honestly wasn't sure I'd make it the first year and every subsequent year tested my resolve. He helped push me to ride and intimidated me into coming up with more money.
I also want to thank my relatives, colleagues, friends and followers, and also to ask one last time for your support. I am getting a late start to my campaign this year and I'd really appreciate any small amount you can contribute to get me toward my goal.
This year I am also bringing something else to the table:
I am putting together 2 highly curated, 45 min live studio-recorded mixes and I will be sending downloadable EXCLUSIVE copies to my donors over $25 and $50. Maybe you don't even like electronic music -- that's fine -- it's still a collectors item that only my donors will have for the rest of their days.
Each mix will feature original AI-free cover artwork by a local Nova Scotia artists.
Here are the details:
$25+ Donations: Autumn Mellow
A rare mix of some of my favorite new ambient, melodic and earthy Drum 'n' Bass tracks. This one will weave in and out of mellow, positive vibes. It will feature vocalists as well as hard breaks and liquid beats. This one will be a journey for the heart and the head nod, best enjoyed with headphones and a glass of wine.
$50+ Donations: 50 Miles and Bouncing
Inspired by my recent techno and dance sets at venues here in the city and on Twitch, this mix will blow your speakers open with 140-155bpm high energy bouncy bass that will have you rocking out in your car, living room or gym. Featuring recent tracks procured from some of my favourite international techno labels and a even a few you may never hear anywhere else. (And I'll throw in "Autumn Mellow" too!)
Thank you again. It's been a great ride. ❤
Finally, I'd like to dedicate this year's race to Mark Fraser, my brother in law, who succumbed to cancer just a few weeks ago. I'll be thinking about him and those who loved him.
https://fundraise.yourrideforcancer.ca/fundraisers/darrylwright/trail-50km
"warnings of a human extinction risk explode online" (aka A single fearmongering disgruntled employee gets repeatedly platformed and reposted by the media.)
Ah, the media.
GM, Nostr.
https://share.google/G26pXU9FSffQME11X
Like everyone else complaining on Reddit, I just hit my own Claude session limits for the first time in ... I don't know if I've ever hit my limits doing normal single-agent work before. Whatever Anthropic is doing, it's worse. Much worse.
2 bands that were ahead of their time in the 90s -- and I mean *way* ahead of their time. Asian Dub Foundation and Baxter.
#nevent1q…ud30
@npub1c9q…essw is really digging Buzzin' by Asian Dub Foundation right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAZAKdBHaCk
I set down my headphones for a moment to go get a cup of coffee and when I came back I am fairly certain I heard a cartoon chicken clucking at ~178 BPM.
#nevent1q…t53n
As a public service, I made a Chrome extension which ensures that Google Maps displays the legal name for certain Canadian lakes, should they ever be erroneously labeled for Canadians. (We took care of the Gulf of Mexico while we were in there). Hope it helps.
https://punkscience.ca/tools/maps-corrector/
Keep'em coming, internet.
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GM Nostr. What'cha building today? Oh... by the way, here is our upcoming game that was just announced yesterday at Gamescom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DxiF32Hpqs
The memes are going to be brutal. I apologize in advance.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/88003a5f324a317d0ef888968739d7ccabe76de7e27d54ab7b73d01f7b142d2d.png
I have just signed an executive order renaming Donald Trump to "Donald Dump", and it is equally as binding and meaningful as his executive orders with regard to unilaterally renaming international waterways.
See you at Lake Ontario this fall, now and until the Huron suggest otherwise.
"...the bloodbath has not arrived and neither has the boom."
https://punkscience.ca/tech-briefs/ai-jobs-created-vs-destroyed.html
#Omarchy is the most solid Linux implementation I've experienced to date. It's been my daily driver now for 2 weeks and I am absolutely loving it.
GM Nostr folks. Woke up in the rain but the sun is breaking through.
@npub1c9q…essw is really digging Battalion by Black Sun Empire right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq4-Zyy3p9k
@npub1c9q…essw is really digging Elephant by Damien Rice right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLzuL5Cch44
"If anyone needs their face painted, please get there before Dave and Dale do, because they're next!" [Overwrought laughter from 2 people in the audience -- presumably Dave and Dale]
It's a rare folk singer that can make me hate my life and wonder if I've had folk music wrong this whole time. She's draining the life out of "Angel from Montgomery" as it writhes and contorts percersely over her nasal passages.
Oof. What are those insects that sound like a buzzing powerline -- super loud and annoying. Surely they have a predator.
GM, Nostr.
This is what's on my mind this morning.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/440e15f5e79a5d8eaf15cfb0cd59f7511bf4df6a543b43b8bc43fa2072055cec.png
Something I've always wanted to do: I tried to recreate the gravity drive from Event Horizon as an entirely dynamic system. I added some of my own hellish flourishes.
Let me know what you think.
https://punkscience.ca/gravity-drive/
I would love to see a boycott of Adobe. They've been abusing creative industries for years and they get away with it because management / art directors continue to spend money on the only product line they're familiar with. Competing products do exist (looking at you, Affinity). They're the original pioneers of enshitification.
#nevent1q…h3zq
You save money by paying the annual license fee so the idea is to prevent people from gaming that system by buying the annual license and then cancelling it every month to try and exploit the same discount on a monthly basis. It's shitty, and Adobe is perfectly ok with being shitty.
It is both as Newfoundland is a part of Atlantic Canada.
I am really excited to announce that my father, Gordon Wright, after spending 5+ years in the process of researching, writing, and editing, has finally published his first novel.
It's called Stones Cast for Life and it's a historical family drama that tells the story of a young school teacher starting her career and enduring the hardships of life in a Newfoundland outport in the 1920s. My father is a proud, native Newfoundlander and he spent long hours researching the this story at The Rooms historical archive in St. John's.
Would love for you to share it if you know someone who might be interested. It's available in both ebook and paperback editions from Amazon at the moment with more vendors to follow in the coming months. More info here:
https://stonepondpress.com
#books #booknostr #nostrbooks
I don't doubt this for a second. Just like those who want data centers obfuscate, hide and downplay its impacts, those who don't want one exaggerate and lie about those same impacts. We weaponize perspective. Truth is out of style.
#nevent1q…zafl
Working in Charlottetown, PEI today. I gravitated toward the nice cafe downtown, the one with excellent food and well-dressed people. It didn't take long to notice I was the only one there with a laptop so I did a little research and the consensus seemed to be that the local library was the place for the nomadic laptop worker set. I had doubted it when someone told me that earlier.
So I wound up here at the library and I am sorry I ever doubted it. Clean, bright, beautiful atmosphere, low noise aside from the distant sound of conversation easily overcome by headphones. The wi-fi is free, fast and reliable, and there's a cafe in the middle that doesn't know the difference between a cortado and a flat white so they make you really big cortados.
Does this post show up as zappable?
Hey Nostr. So I just set up my ability to get zapped (I hope). Could anyone spare a zap to help me test it? ⚡ I'd be happy to zap back.
Using Matt Pocock's 'teach' skill which is pretty great. Takes any topic, researches and builds a web interface to teach you the subject complete with exercises and aims to hit your learning goals.
@npub1c9q…essw is really digging Rodeo Clowns by G. Love & Jack Jackson right now! #music #derpy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5Xj7A0iC4
Good morning, Nostr.
Today's problem: Published my Dad's first novel on Amazon yesterday and the ebook showed up fine but I'm frustrated that despite saying it's "live" his paperback is not appearing in any regions. #kdp #amazon
RIP Glen Hansard. The artist gets a fitting tribute in Atlantic magazine. (May be paywalled).
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/glen-hansard-death-obituary-busking/688152/?gift=h8oUQ66P_scevEf6n3rwshWDeFzDVfSN0e4ERXHNYR0
Sometimes I like to kick back with a pint or two and imagine I’m at this party. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sOP78XBnWmI&si=oXwcCliczuC1Vb1N
No. As I understand it the relays are specifically purpose built for Buzz. You have to download and install your own copy of their relay server.
My AI agent just said to me, while assessing my approach to a problem: "You vaccinated one twin and let the other lick the doorknob."
🤣 I almost spit out my coffee.
I might need more human contact.
The onboarding gives you a buzz-owned relay by default and (according to one of their bots) all communication I type inside slack is plaintext visible to the relay owner. So that's a little disconcerting for enterprise use.
As I understand it you can download and run your own private (but Buzz-specific) relay server. Not sure if the source is open or not.
The pyramids, the Dom Cathedral, these monuments to ancient achievement in architecture have absolutely nothing on this elaborate and underappreciated stage set from Tomorrowland 2026 music festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJEkiV3cCs
