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  • Taste the Rainbow

    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 Cut, chips came in Plain, Salt & Vinegar, Chicken and Barbecue. What’s more,…

  • Light My Bricks 2.0: Good, but,

    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 qualified improvement, but it still has flaws.

  • The Australian Bureau of Meteorology public FTP server, part 0: overview

    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.

  • So Sad They Had to Fade It

    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 skills weren’t up to the job I would spend…

  • How to run Fedivision

    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 notes are for posterity, and a cautionary tale for…

  • This site is now Fediverse-enabled

    You can follow this WordPress blog at @blog@www.icemoonprison.com.

  • Deploying the Takahē Fediverse server on Debian 11

    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 require a fair bit of understanding of Linux system administration. In this article I show the individual…

  • Resonator: a Karplus-Strong synth unit for Korg drumlogue

    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 extended Karplus-Strong physical model synth which produces sounds reminiscent of plucked strings, struck metallic bars, and…

  • Rompler Cosplay: a multisample patch pack for Korg modwave

    Using the Korg modwave’s sample playback feature to turn it into a ROMpler.

  • Peer Gynt quilt, Part 4

    Number four! The home straight. While I was working on the first three Peer Gynt quilts, I was contemplating and tweaking the quilt design for the fourth movement of the Peer Gynt Suite 1, In the Hall of the Mountain King. This movement is one of the most well-known pieces of classical music and easily…