D. Schmudde

@schmudde
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The revolution will not be computed. Lead curator, Gallery 404. Researcher, Beyond the Frame. Born: 335ᵖᵖᵐ CO2. Find out more: `finger [email protected]`.

👥 CTO of Yorba in Turin, Italy.

bloghttp://schmud.de
GitHubhttps://github.com/schmudde
Gallery 404http://www.netart.today/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/dschmudde
Today's weather in Romania: warm, western winds, and eastern drones
I've just applied to be an Active member of @Codeberg, which means getting voting rights in the organisation. I really like it, and I've hit a few minor outages recently so I hope my support helps the team out. #freesoftware
Maryanne Amacher

Excellent (short) talk by @TodePond about the joys of automating music, including the perfect comment on yesterday's Google Gemini ad using #Strudel: "When you see something like, 'Oh wow, it can do that now', like 'Why? And can it?'"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=L4jdjPR75wQ

FULLY AUTOMATED COMPUTER MUSIC

YouTube
the way berliners talk about the u8, the L train would destroy them

"I’m not kidding, I really do enjoy computing like this."

http://ratfactor.com/ascetic-computing

Ascetic Computing - ratfactor

Didn't see this coming. Zulip's founder reorganizes Zulip so he can work on AI more at Anthropic. Huh.

We use Zulip at the School of Losing Time (https://www.theschooloflosingtime.com/) and I must say that they have a great community building program.

https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/t

The School of Losing Time - Home

With all this talk about GitHub recently, the most complete perspective comes from Armin Ronacher on what we have gained and lost over the years. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
Before GitHub

Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

The only thing that could make this manual sexier is spiral binding.

Also I think this is pre-Symbolics, so it's on the right side of history.

https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/object/1991.003.003.1-.3

I’ve been a big fan of Trevor Paglen’s work since stumbling on “I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me.” Excited that this new one is also published by Verso.
https://schmud.de/books/i-could-tell-you-but-then.html
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me

Trevor Paglen's critique of the paradoxes posed by secret operations, one patch at a time.