peter KIRN

@pkirn
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Musician and journalist. I make cdm.link, a home for electronic music and expressive technology, work on the #meeblip synthesizer, and I'm a composer / media artist / DJ and activist. Lebanese-American heritage, based in Berlin.

have a nice transgender day of visibility fellas, remember to support your fellow queer peers and mentally explode transphobic folks so they rot in the deepest pits of hell


#PixelArt #Art #Trans #TDoV #AnubiArts

It's Trans Day of Visibility everybody! We cannot even begin to stress how important our trans contributors are in pushing KDE's project forward.

Thanks 🏳️‍⚧️folks!

#transgenderdayofvisibility #TDOV

Sure enough — here’s a dev doing it before. What are the odds that what we’re looking at is basically just sophisticated plagiarism?!

https://fluid.felixmartinez.dev/

Felix Martinez

This is the site of Felix Martinez, graphics developer and technical director

Updated with various FAQ (see bottom) -- most interesting, the mechanism is "based on a Japanese Sony-derived architecture and uses an electromagnetic AC erase head." And they detail shipping & customs, too, for us:

https://cdm.link/bb-777-boombox-for-2026/

Massive power, every format: the BB-777 brings back a boombox icon - CDM Create Digital Music

It was arguably the moment the boombox peaked: the GF-909/GF-777 from Sharp boasted dual cassettes, radio, and massive sound. Now, Bumpboxx has decided to reboot that boom box, with a modern machine that can do everything -- CDs, tapes, radio, USB, Bluetooth connectivity, the works. It could be a holy grail across every generation burned out on soulless streaming and ready to love music all over again.

CDM Create Digital Music

Despite everything, these folks are still getting aid into the south of Lebanon at enormous risk. I didn't focus on this in the most recent write-up, but this is a good project to follow, support, and share.

https://www.instagram.com/humansofdahieh/

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Intrigued by the discussions of Pretext, the current shiny new "CSS killer." But will wait until I see some folks working with the actual code.

It is definitely generated by AI -- the dev writes (in reference to the engine): "This was achieved through showing Claude Code and Codex the browsers ground truth, and have them measure & iterate against those at every significant container width, running over weeks"

https://github.com/chenglou/pretext

Breakcore and mouneh: High Hats music supports relief kitchens in Lebanon:

https://cdm.link/breakcore-and-mouneh-high-hats-music/

This is a story about music, but also a story about food and care. So let's do both. If I make you hungry *and* I get you to get active, job done.

I would really love to see this shared. If Western music outlets don't pick this up, we can do it ourselves.

Holy... yeah, a boom box inspired by the 1981 Sharp GF-909/GF-777, with 2x cassettes, multi-band radio, CD, USB, Bluetooth, and a whole lot of power.

https://cdm.link/bb-777-boombox-for-2026/

Elastic OSC, Plaits as an instrument app, now supports Android, MPE.

https://cdm.link/elastic-osc-android-mpe/

Dust off that tablet! Open-air synthesis season is coming...

In the sound of Wukir Suryadi's kentongan, there's a warning to the world:

https://cdm.link/wukir-suryadi-titir/

"The sound of the kentongan shifts from a local communication tool to a symbol of global crisis."