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Happy #8bitday!And happy Progammer’s Day! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day) — one of the rare annual ordinal date observations, based on the day of the year, rather than day of a specific month of the year.Piano Day is another, celebrated on the 88th day of the year:* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day* https://tantek.com/2024/088/t1/world-piano-day-ordinal-date-iso-8601Do you know of any other annual ordinal date observances?Besides New Year’s Day of course.Previously, previously:* https://tantek.com/2025/257/t1/happy-8bitday-255-bytes-max* https://tantek.com/2024/256/t1/happy-8bitday-binary-byte (more previous posts there)#ProgrammersDay #ordinalDate #dayOfTheYear #ordinalDateObservance #annualObservance #annualEvent

1-Bit Symphony

Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony (2015) is a beautiful, raw piece of art. Five movements, played by a single microchip in a clear CD case — not a recording at all, but a circuit that performs the music live when you switch it on, straight out of a headphone jack in the case itself. Absolute transparency: the hardware is visible, the code is the score, and on-and-off electrical pulses written in assembly are all there is between data and sound.

The sound…

https://knot.tilman.me/post/1-bit-symphony/

Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony (2015) is a beautiful, raw piece of art. Five movements, played by a single microchip in a clear CD case — not a recording at all, but a circuit that performs the music live when you switch it on, straight out of a headphone jack in the case ...

A while ago, I noticed that my headings did not look consistent across Firefox and Safari. I learned that this was because the font file I was using on my website did not contain bold characters. This meant that browsers were trying to “synthesise” a bold font. This synthesi...

Yesterday – September 13th – was the 256th day of the year. Tantek blogged about this in 2024 and in 2025 introduced a challenge to make a web page in under 256 bytes. After reading his announcement from yesterday his morning, I decided I would participate again. Last year ...

Panorama from Pacific Beach Today Session in the water was “meh” today. When the session is dull I will sometimes muse on what words apply to it. “Desultory” came up a few times. Also I didn’t have an accurate definition of that word in my head. I think I meant something closer to “dismal” or...

Learn how I use Bunny CDN Middleware Edge script to workaround the way Quartz SSG outputs its public HTML site files, fixing the limit of Edge rules.

This year I have been drinking more tea than coffee. I have around three or four coffees a week, usually all decaf, and I don’t visit speciality coffee shops as much as I once did (in large part because I am never sure whether there will be decaf available). I think the last...

The joy of the cool morning air and the seeing singing birds fly between trees. There is a light haze in the air this morning, the haze of an autumn morning. My cheeks are chilly right now — probably pink too. Light shines through the windows and casts a long glow on the flo...

When melancholia hits you hart, you’re done.

Absolutely love the depressing atmosphere in this movie. And what a scenario with another planet hitting earth!

Love the classic soundtrack. The space images are fantastic. The opening slo-mo sequences remind me of Crewdson photographs.

Part one might be a bit too long, but part two is absolutely perfect.

👍 Recommended!

the music of poetry. the poetry of music.

the feeling of architecture. the architecture of feeling.

the design of the space. the space of design.

the rhythm of the moment. the moment of the rhythm.

the story of the print. the print of the story.

the sound of the painting. the painting of sound.

the silence of the painting; the music of the painting.

The perspective of the painting; the painting of perspective; the perspective of the viewing. The contrasts of the colours between canvases. The contrasts of light between rooms. I have seen Turner’s Sunrise several times this summer, and every time I see something new. Tod...

Herein, vignettes of today. Silver-tipped trees, reddening leaves hanging over fences. Trees swishing like bristles of a brush, painting the day, or waving away the clouds. Morning — listening to music that makes me happy. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Two hearts drawn on a wall on the corner. I...

Tilman.me v5.0

I relaunched my homepage! Much more informative and actually a good introduction into what I am up to at the moment: supporting the independent web. Be my guest! http://tilman.me Feedback is very welcome!

https://knot.tilman.me/post/tilmanme-v50/

I relaunched my homepage! Much more informative and actually a good introduction into what I am up to at the moment: supporting the independent web. Be my guest! tilman.me Feedback is very welcome!

I updated gwenthegoblin.com with a backup of everything (from the beginning to May) using Memento Mori. Here’s the GitHub issue I participated in. I will be doing this again. I added to a page I started many months ago, with links to how AI is talked about and characterized. It’s my ‘AI’ is… page For...