did the thing; resources for me latest record are now up at
https://heckscaper.com/resources/halley labs resource center
redid the isopod (and millipede, but you don't really ever see them) housing.
i had found a deer skull on the trail and decided it would be a wonderful thing for them to have, especially given the amount of calcium in it. it took a couple days to get it to the point of disinfection i felt comfortable with, and they have been exploring it thoroughly.
sphagnum moss and thread moss were added and there is a moisture gradient from left to right; rightmost being perpetually damp and loaded with springtails, leftmost being very dry, and i fill it with new leaf litter when necessary.
the wood is all found on the trail as well, baked before being added for safety of course. substrate is sphagnum moss & fir shavings, wood chips, and charcoal
the plants are living and rooted (for now) but i have no qualms with their potential death, as they're just trimmings from some of my houseplants.
overall i'm very happy with the enclosure, and i am curious to see how much self-regulating it will manage.
found a giant puffball

... it was hosting some isopods, so i gave those guys their own colony and cooked up some of the rest of it with the basil and green onions i've been growing. doesn't taste like much, general good "absorbs everything else" ingredient.
"a bountiful harvest" - neural net diving for text and letterforms with questionable (and often funny) results
(several merged stablediffusion checkpoints & loras for Mega Chaos. img2img of original text -> feed output into deepbooru for tag estimation -> feed tags back into prompt -> restart when it gets "too insane", which happened very frequently. denoising amount varies, sometimes very low, sometimes comically high)
warning, loud-ish
learned how to do delta modulation

super fun evening project

more work on no-param "drum" synth. it makes so much sounds. a bit cpu heavy (like 2-3% on my fx8350 lol) but not really a huge deal considering how i plan to use it