mmalex
synth tinkerer (plinky); midjourney; NVResearch (InstantNGP/NeRF); cofounder MediaMolecule (Dreams, LittleBigPlanet); demoscene/vj (statix/bluespoon)
- Reposted by mmalexinspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
- Reposted by mmalexCan anyone *imagine* what would have happened if it had become public, at the height of the financial crisis, that Mandelson was leaking to Wall Street, and advising bankers to threaten his own Government? To stop a tax on bankers' bonuses! Would the Government have fallen?
- im a child of the late-90s-era-internet, so a project doesnt feel real until you've registered a vanity domain for it. so i registered plinky12.com and now oh shit its real i gotta finish it.
- @boggo.bsky.social i feel like you need one of these. need. youtube.com/shorts/yw5gk...
- Reposted by mmalexTake me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
- programming nice feeling editor UI is such an infinite rabbithole of polish.
- plinky 12" has an XY pad where you can draw LFOs / modulation, and it just occurred to me that if i label it 'LFOXY' maybe @jjbbllkk.bsky.social will love it at least, ooh, 350% more
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- rumour has it half life 3 is gonna have a soundtrack by boards of canada
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- Reposted by mmalexIt's getting very difficult to find #CreativeTech / #GameDev roles that don't require AI experience, and I simply refuse to engage in that. I am actively looking for new creative projects, and I would love to work with a small team. Portfolio: www.dcturner.co.uk (shares greatly appreciated x)
- Reposted by mmalexevery time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
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- mood: youtu.be/CqaAs_3azSs?...
- pcb delivery day! ✨
- Reposted by mmalexI ported Super Monkey Ball to a website. You can access it in the replies. (or just type what you see in the video, I'm not your boss.)
- this is a great (albeit wordy) article that really gives you pause for thought about how crap the workflows are in most creative apps. ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01... worth a read if you make any kind of creative tool
- Reposted by mmalexThis perfectly demonstrates the pernicious nature of BBC two-sidism. It almost always benefits the side with the most power. In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it
- Reposted by mmalexsorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings
- Reposted by mmalexProtester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
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- good god my laptop just updated to the new ios and... <must be positive must be positive> I'm really looking forward to that new head of design guy who apparently knows what he's doing absolutely sandblasting away AT LEAST the last 2 versions of ios + osx because ... fucking hell.
- Reposted by mmalexTrump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
- the lack of webmidi support on safari & all iOS browsers pisses me off. thankyou for your attention to this matter.
- was debugging some stuff to do with delays on plinky and ive been adding lots of randomisation and distress and noise and messed upness to it, and the more I do, the more I love it :)
- stumbled on this awesome DIY record lathe project via @miunau.com slyka.net/projects/rec... - see more on mastodon i believe - its by @slyka@pawb.fun
- occasionally chatgpt drops the sycophantic mask and i have to admit it makes me smile. I feel like this could be my epitaph. or maybe just 'Narrator: He enjoyed pain... too much. RIP'
