hypertexthero

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Hypertexthero’s no hero but plays one online, improvising music in real and virtual worlds.

Music ♫ hypertexthero.com/music & hypertexthero.com/sound-space

Design & observation ⏿ simongriffee.com

Writing 𓏟 hypertexthero.com/articles

Tools 𐦮 hypertexthero.com/tools

Livestreams 𓈗 youtube.com/@hypertexthero/live & www.twitch.tv/hypertexthero

Buy me a moment of time 𓄤 ko-fi.com/hypertexthero

Contact 𐦂 [email protected]

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قبل 15 ساعةdiscuss

Ditto!

Love reading and writing on paper, but do read and write quite a bit on computer screens, too. Phone screens are too small and uncomfortable for me.

No TV at home, either. And even videogames, which I love, have held less and less interest unless they have good coop modes, an unusual mechanic, or excellent sound and story.

Leaning more and more towards playing music, which has felt like a present from the gods.

Having read McLuhan — https://archive.org/details/bwb_P8-ASW-848 — and Lanier (You Are Not A Gadget), I worry about the future, but am hopeful young people will indeed rebel.

قبل 18 يومًاdiscuss

Ditto.

I use Macs for work and PC for games, and this little box seems a good opportunity to play The Legend of Linux on a desktop or a couch, and make it true.

قبل 3 أشهرdiscuss

> These tests blew me away.

Made me laugh : )

قبل 4 أشهرdiscuss

Guitars certainly have a more intimate connection between the touch of fingers and the sound, including the bending of the tone, one of Hendrix’s virtuosities.

Keyboards can approach that with polyphonic touch keys like the Hydrasynth (lean into keys, pressing them harder, for bending the tone in a configured patch), sustain pedals, and pitch bend/modulation controls, but not the nuanced touch of skin on a vibrating string.

I think synth guitars exist, too, but don’t know anything about them. The pedalboards are enough, maybe :)

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

Hmmm, I disagree, having played electric and acoustic guitars for over two decades and begun learning piano and synths for the first time in 2025.

For one, you can’t easily play two melodies simultaneously across several octaves, using both of your hands, with an electric guitar.

Stringed electronic instruments do have their advantages, but so do the others. Each music making thing has its place in the spectrum.

Two books that have helped me greatly in my musical life, in case people haven’t heard of them, are The Listening Book, and Bridge of Waves, by W.A. Mathieu.

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

This brings to mind this question:

Should HN allow links to sites that break the back button, like all Meta sites (Ig, Fb, etc)?

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

My favorite part of the video is when Stéphane “makes a mistake” and shows it, like enlightened people, such as Cliff Stoll — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUZTTLpDtk — do :)

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

Potentially unrelated tangent thought:

The Man Who Listens to Horses (1997) is an excellent book by Monty Roberts about learning the language of horses and observing and listening to animals: https://www.biblio.com/search.php?stage=1&title=The+Man+Who+...

Video demonstration of the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYtTz9GtAT4

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

The F-15C (and the F-16), yes.

The F-15E was a different story, which I remember from flamewars at flightsim forums over how slow of a climber it was :)

قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Yes, but Wacom recently discontinued macOS driver support for older versions of the Intuos, and I had to downgrade to an older driver to make it work.

When it doesn’t anymore I’ll need to get something else, probably an iPad so I can also use it as a 2nd screen.

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Brought REM’s ÜBerlin to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITh-XIikgI

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

Vinyl record covers are nicely-sized artworks for displaying in a room.

Listening to an album you love, while taking the time to flip the record or tape, or taking the time listen to an entire album in your streaming service of choice, helps you to notice things and be present.

Recommended film: Perfect Days by Wim Wenders - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Days

Recommended book: Bridge of Waves by W.A. Mathieu - https://www.shambhala.com/bridge-of-waves-288.html

In 02026: Slow down, and fix things.

Slow is smooth.

Smooth is fast.

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

I think 2026 will bring many to Linux because of Steam Machine: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

I watched a performance by Donnie Rankin on a classic Wurlitzer organ at Grand Rapids Public Museum in Michigan this past November.

https://tickets.grpm.org/events/01998223-5b9a-deac-f45e-f0d7...

My favorite pieces he played were the themes for Princess Leia and Star Trek TNG.

It’s an amazing instrument.

قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

It took me a long time to notice that the word in the title is “massage”, and not “message”, in Marshall McLuhan’s and Quentin Fiore’s The Medium is the Massage (An inventory of effects): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage

Links to various editions: https://www.biblio.com/the-medium-is-the-massage-by-marshall...

Also of interest, notes about the observer being the observed in Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Think on These Things — https://www.biblio.com/9780060916091 — and The First and Last Freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_and_Last_Freedom

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

Merry Xmas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMNtEKHURU

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

The following from clicking on the i on the top-right after starting the show:

> Created by Neal Agarwal

> Illustrations by Julius Csotonyi

> Production by Liz Ryan

> Music & SFX by Aleix Ramon

> Cello performance by Iratxe Ibaibarriaga

Beautiful work.

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

I just saw a ship that looks like some of those pictures earlier today: The Beckett-Class science vessel in the Cygnus point of interest by the current Elite Dangerous community goal station at HIP 87621.

قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

Graphic and web designer and general problem solver looking for part-time work in a relaxed place. I like nature, music, art, education, writing, typography, general aviation, and video games. 1–3 days per week would be ideal. I speak English, Portuguese, Italian, and a bit of French.

  Location: West Michigan.

  Remote: Yes please.

  Willing to relocate: Possibly. Interested in spending time in Sweden.

  Technologies: HTML, CSS, creative suite, static site generators. Able to ask LLMs the right questions to help make things work.

  Résumé/CV: https://www.simongriffee.com/Simon-Griffee-Resume.pdf

  Email: [email protected]