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This article was first published in Crank Magazine from Pinknantucket Press in 2014. Things were simple in my youth. There were twelve VFL teams, four TV channels, two types of potato. And four flavours of potato chip. Whether Thinly Sliced, or Crinkle Cu

Here at Ice Moon Prison, we have a veritable village of Lego Modular Buildings. We've been adding the aftermarket LED lighting kits from Light My Bricks to them for years. Recently, Light My Bricks introduced a complete redesign called 2.0. It's a qualifi

Here at Ice Moon Prison, we've been talking about the weather for years. We've always used the free data supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology. This is the first in a series of posts outlining what data can be found on the BOM's FTP server. The Bureau of

This article was first published in Crank Magazine from Pinknantucket Press in 2014. Back in a previous life, I fancied myself as something of a musician. I was self-taught, so I would play on the family piano what I heard on the radio. When my listening

The Fedivision Song Contest was a popular event among amateur musicians on the Fediverse. It ran from 2021 to 2024, with musicians from all over the Fediverse writing songs to compete for the glory of winning a contest no one else has ever heard of. These

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I have a Mastodon server, but I'm always on the lookout for more lightweight Fediverse software. Recently I was made aware of Takahē, a Django Fediverse server application written in Python. The official installation instructions are high-level and requir

Korg's drumlogue hybrid drum machine (2021 2022) continues the tradition of the logue series of hardware (prologue, minilogue xd, NTS-1) in allowing end users to develop, install and use custom coded oscillators and effects. This unit, Resonator, is an ex

Korg's modwave (2021) is marketed as a wavetable synthesizer, but it's more than that. As well as being shipped with hundreds of wavetables, it contains thousands of multisamples in its flash storage. Yet in the factory patches the multisamples are seldom