n3wjack's blog
n3wjack's blog
n3wjack
n3wjack's spurts of the mind and other geeky ramblings.
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Number 3 of the seasonal Bonk Wave releases is here, and it’s a biggy. This time the community collected 54 tracks in total, spread over 3 albums.The amount of tracks submitted are starting to make us think we’ll have to come up with...
But it was probably never gone. Small personal websites are starting to pop up again, and people are starting to see the value of hosting your own site or blog somewhere outside the big tech platforms. Excellent. There are some nice...
It’s happening! Again! The 3rd album in the series of seasonal Bonk Wave releases is dropping soon, and you have the opportunity to join in the release parties on these dates: Friday the 10th of April at 21:00 GMT+1 Friday the 17th of...
Google announced it’s no longer going to allow people to develop apps for Android without registering centrally. The demanding registration process will probably mean a lot of open source developers will not bother and stop developing...
It’s time for a new installment of fun Fedi links! **Drumroll** Today we have a bit of everything as your doom-scrolling antidote. Let’s start with blogging. I heard it’s back, so if you feel like getting into it (again?) here’s a post...
KLITCH is my minimal electronic/glitch music project that came together during a road trip through South Korea. Now, it doesn’t sound Asian or Korean per se, but I bet the country had some influence on it. Right? It had to, with all the...
Do you remember the days of watching cool and weird music videos on MTV, with the quirky commercials in-between? Would you like to have some of that again? Or maybe you don’t have any idea what that was all about, and you want to check...
What does one do on a Christmas morning before heading off to a Christmas dinner with the in-laws? Well, post about this great music project called Acid December, of course! But what is it, you ask? It’s a project that asks people to...
To continue on the seasonal theme, the people of the Bonk Wave community have released another 2 albums in the last weeks. It’s time for summer now, so get ready for some sunny tunes. This time, the first album is all original summer...
The Fediverse is full of great people who post great things. I bookmark some of those, and I’ll dump some of the funniest and coolest ones here. Expect some geeky fun right here. How about a Comic Sans MS-influenced monospace font, for...
They are at it again. The so-called “Chat Control” proposal is back on the table to be voted soon. The plan is to weaken encryption for emails and chat apps, so law enforcement can read your messages, eavesdrop on your VPN connection...
Recently, I started making some music on the Android app Polaris (which is nice, btw). However, you always have to use headphones if you want to get a proper sound, because smartphone speakers make everything sound so damn thin. At some...