Wonder
I used to look up into the night sky and wonder. Then I went there. Among the trillions upon trillions of stars, none had that kindred spirit I longed for. I found a machine civilization, a sentient…
Kye Fox
Writer, musician, and artist in Athens, GA.
26 posts
Athens, Georgia
Free and affordable music production resources
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This is all stuff I use or have used and still recommend as of publishing. * Black Octopus Sound has a 1GB royalty-free sampler. This was my go-to pack when I was just starting out and couldn't…
There is a best Digital Audio Workstation
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A DAW, or Digital Audio Workstation, is a big, fancy environment for working with sound. The common truism is, to an extent, true: you can do anything in any DAW. But the more advanced you get, or th…
TV on the internet before YouTube
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Just a little note to get this all in one place. This was prompted by my comment here: On-demand was a thing before, but it was mediated through slow, glitchy cable and satellite boxes. There was als…
The case against Threads
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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou It's the same case made against Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and every other profit-focused social me…
Pride
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Some people seem to have themselves figured out pretty quick. For the rest of us, identity is like a Matryoshka doll. Pull one layer off, and you don't seem to change much, but the process of comi…
How I draft stories
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I discovered that trying to write one big blob does not work for me. I can get as far as 2000 words before the volume overwhelms. As with many things in life, breaking it down into pieces helps a lot!…
The Ensigns of Command (Star Trek TNG s3e2) - silly text in the Treaty of Armens [with transcript!]
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This is one of those classic Trek moments. The Sheliak refuse to give the colonists enough time to leave before taking the planet, so Picard engages in a clever legal maneuver. Only, the text on the…
My First Furry Convention
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As much as I would love to put photos in here, I didn’t have the awareness I do now that furry is a majority-queer community, so I wasn’t very careful about obscuring faces in the photos I took. Furr…
Falsehoods programmers believe about community management
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1. You can launch without a content policy without different subcommunities declaring war on each other. 2. You can create a content policy that makes everyone happy. 3. You won’t spend your day…
Learn to code. Or don't.
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Reasons to learn to code: * You have an offer for a job that involves coding, or could benefit from it * Existing tools don’t serve your needs well, or at all * You enjoy it “Learn to code” is th…
Beyond Mastodon and Bluesky - Toward a Protocol-Agnostic Federation
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You’ve heard of stuff like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Make an account on one, and it only works there. You can’t send a DM to your friend on Twitter from Facebook Messenger. You can’t browse yo…