Reilly Spitzfaden | All
Reilly Spitzfaden | All
Reilly Spitzfaden
Hi! I'm a composer and programmer, and I write about the intersection of those two interests, as well as the IndieWeb and web development around those principles.
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I recently wrote about using Lilypond with Neovim. My current composition has a mix of wind instruments and a MIDI keyboard controlling a Max/MSP patch. Crucially, the Max patch plays a variety of custom samples, sequencers, and other...
James is hosting this month's IndieWeb blog carnival on the topic “museum memories.” One of my favorite museum trips was when my spouse took me to see the Antique Wireless Association's Communication Technologies Museum for my birthday a...
I've been enjoying writing music using code in Neovim — I recently talked about using Lilypond to write sheet music this way, for example. Another way of writing music with code is Tidal Cycles. This is a set of pattern-sequencing tools...
Lilypond is a program and language for writing musical scores using only text. The syntax is similar to LaTeX, and this can be easily converted to nice-looking PDF scores, as well as MIDI files for previewing/making mockups. In addition,...
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January's IndieWeb movie club is Alien (1979), and it's hosted by Al Abut — here is his introduction post for the month. I've been in the mood to see some space horror lately. I saw a promotion for Ash (2025), which looks like a solid...
I came across a convenient way to send webmentions from my terminal using a simple Bash script. This page on the IndieWeb wiki includes a shell script one-liner. It references an older version of the webmention standard, but I was able...
Robb Knight has a page listing people's descriptions of their default app choices, and he just did an update for this year. I thought it sounded fun, so here are some of mine as of the end of 2025: Adblocker: uBlockOrigin Browser:...
Here's some of the music I've listened to in 2025 — things in regular rotation, things from a while ago that I've revisited, and new (or new-to-me) music I've added to my library of digital downloads/CDs. New Listens Charli XCX I've...
The clouds cascade above you in incredible detail. In places, their bases form an impenetrable ceiling, but that ceiling is temporary. Wisps of shadow float against glowing shards of the sun, illuminating another layer behind. The effect...
I discuss some lovely-sounding reverbs that make echo densities build up over time, as in a real room. They're available in my VST/AU plugin, and I link to Max/MSP versions as well.
A short piece for this month's IndieWeb blog carnival on Sophia's prompt “second-person birds”
I'm finally getting into TTRPGs!
Tracy Durnell's recent post resonates with what I've been doing lately to make my computer usage more pleasant. I've been in the habit of compulsively checking notifications (Mastodon, RSS, YouTube subscriptions, etc.), and I figured out...
I took a few years of Japanese classes in undergrad, and today I'm returning to that and discussing some HTML markup for Japanese and other East Asian languages.