https://hypertexthero.com/ Recent content on Hypertexthero en-us Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/25/you-matter-more-than-you-think/ Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:32:48 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/25/you-matter-more-than-you-think/ This text by Karen O’Brien with beautiful pencil and watercolor drawings by Tone Bjordam will almost certainly be added to my list of best books once I finish reading it. Our beliefs about the nature of reality influence our relationships, including our relationship to nature. For many of us, our relationships to concepts and ideas such as self, other, and nature have been influenced by a classical, mechanistic view of the world. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/22/ten-steps-towards-happiness/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:44:23 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/22/ten-steps-towards-happiness/ By Peter Hintjens. See also, The Cretan Method, which talks about many things, including learn-play-work-teach vs the unfortunately more common play-learn-work-die. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/19/placid-lassie-douglas-c-47-n74589/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:02:46 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/19/placid-lassie-douglas-c-47-n74589/ Just saw this plane fly by, probably headed to Oshkosh. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/17/noita-65-reanimal-vein-demo/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:40:07 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/17/noita-65-reanimal-vein-demo/ The smoke is clearing and I’m slowly getting back to the games. Played a bit of Noita and the Reanimal and Vein demos with my friend Artwo. Vein seems like a 3D Project Zomboid. Reanimal brought to mind Pink Floyd’s The Wall, and Munch’s The Scream, which may be a “sign of the times.” I may return to it, if I muster enough courage to play it alone, but I think it’ll be another game. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/17/diy-air-cleaners/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:05:12 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/17/diy-air-cleaners/ Looks like the current administration here has not completely destroyed the Environmental Protection Agency yet. Might want to get some weatherstripping insulation tape for the fan edges, too, and get going with that solar installation you’ve been putting off. Buckle up. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/14/nature-society-economy/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:03:18 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/14/nature-society-economy/ If the economy collapses, society and nature might still survive. If society falls, it takes the economy with it yet nature can still survive. But if nature: the ecosystems of the planet, the biodiversity, and the climate as we know it today collapses, then everything falls apart. The social and economic systems we have built cannot exist independently from the environment. Therefore, in a conflict between these three systems, nature must always come first. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/14/earthset/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:56:44 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/14/earthset/ Photograph by Christina Koch, taken aboard the Integrity capsule of Artemis II in 2026, 58 years after Earthrise. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/12/streetwork/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:44:29 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/12/streetwork/ The explosion of the school into the urban environment is the primary concern of this book. It views the town as the educational resource in a new approach to environmental education, and shows how this ‘streetwork’ can be put into practice by means of fresh educational techniques: perception studies, town trails, environmental games and simulations, and streetwork centres. This valuable study includes much practical classroom advice, and will be of interest to those who are concerned about the pupil’s involvement, particularly the non-academic secondary-school pupil, with the world outside the school. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/10/the-end-of-reading/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:17:28 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/10/the-end-of-reading/ But what if you consistently replace one kind of action (reading a word) with another (watching an Instagram Reel)? One of the most robust findings in neuroscience is that people’s brains master what they practice. If we fill our time with short-form videos instead of books, our reading skills atrophy. We have less background knowledge to aid comprehension. There’s no danger of spontaneous mass illiteracy, but the complex cognitive skills that reading fosters start to degrade. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/06/tunebat/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:46:29 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/06/tunebat/ Song key & beats per minute (BPM) database. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/06/exanima-episode-10/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:14:38 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/06/exanima-episode-10/ Sound buzzing issues from the prior episode of my Exanima series are now fixed. They were caused by a forgotten compressor filter that had been turned on in the audio routing setup, and probably some electromagnetic line noise that is hopefully fixed. Still testing, but last night’s stream sounded alright. https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/04/on-the-declaration-of-independence/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:11:17 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/linked/2026/07/04/on-the-declaration-of-independence/ I was a ‘pocket-constitution’ kind of fellow in college, but one is regularly shocked by how little the average American citizen understands about how their government functioned or what the ideals of the framers were and one is regularly disappointed, but very much not shocked, by the endless parade of political entrepreneurs looking to exploit that gap in knowledge. I will also note, for my international readers, that I think the exercise of looking at these documents is valuable, for the same reason I’ve made my students read Magna Carta or the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: these are documents of world-historic significance (hardly the only ones, of course, but they make ready examples). https://hypertexthero.com/hydrasynth-notes/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:19:28 -0400 https://hypertexthero.com/hydrasynth-notes/ Ongoing notes on the Hydrasynth Explorer (manual) to help me remember how to do things with it as I swim deeper into synth worlds. First off, some user interface and own particularities: Orange buttons = selecting something. Repeatedly pressing orange buttons goes through different pages White buttons = doing something Hold Shift & press buttons with orange letters under them to select orange letter things Main Systems = Browse, select, favorite, save, initialize and randomize patches, and system setup Master Control & Module Select = main place to do sound design, contains secondary display Knobs = encoders Home = home view, macro display Exit = Exit current view going back to previous one Oscillators 1 & 2 = Identical, Single waveform or Wavescan mode, latter meaning you can pick waves from a wavetable and morph between them Oscillator 3 = Single waveform mode, simplified oscillator, has ring noise options Mutants = Effects applied to raw output of oscillators instead of end of signal chain Mixer = Many options like soloing individual oscillators, specifying whether the two filters run in parallel or in series, etc Amp = Bring volume of patch up (also Drive/Morph) among other things Env = Envelope (attack, decay, sustain, release, etc) Lfo = Low frequency oscillator, a wave below human hearing range that can be used to modulate the sound.