Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)
reillypascal@hachyderm.io
<p>Composer and audio programmer in Rochester, NY | Lecturer in music tech and film/game scoring at SUNY Geneseo</p><p>For music, I use Max/MSP, Tidal Cycles/SuperCollider, and Lilypond, as well as writing for acoustic instruments, and I like to mix glitchy, noisy, microtonal sounds with “cheesy” retro synths</p><p>For programming, I use Rust, C++/JUCE, and C; I made my IndieWeb-style website with 11ty; and I like using Neovim</p><p>I also like fountain pens, analog photography, and TTRPGs</p><p>No LLMs</p>
Posts
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Post #4300323
https://mk.asie.pl/notes/ap3juc046l &gt; &quot;Is this repo manually coded? If it&#39;s manually coded you&#39;re being left behind.&quot; &gt; Ma&#39;am, that is a twenty five thousand LoC slab of C++ code. It targets a console designed twenty two years ago and discontinued twelve years ago… It is a physical declaration of mankind&#39;s contempt for entropy. It is hubris manifest. &gt; We also have an SDL3 port if you would prefer that.
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Post #4300322
Today is Send a Friend a Webmention day — here&#39;s my note about that: https://reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2026/07/send-a-friend-a-webmention-day-2026/ #IndieWeb #Webmentions
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Post #3999408
Lilypond question: Lilypond is much nicer to engrave in than Dorico/MuseScore, but the latter two are much nicer for composing (e.g., when I need to quickly insert/re-order things), at least with my current Lilypond knowledge. Does anyone have suggestions on inserting/re-ordering material in Lilypond, or should I just do Dorico -> MusicXML -> musicxml2ly? #Lilypond #Composer #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #Notation #Engraving #MuseScore #Dorico
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Post #2543720
I&#39;ve seen Substack claim that they&#39;re important for growing your readership, and it&#39;s nice to see people leaving and disproving that Of course I would prefer people left because of the Nazis alone, but a win is a win I guess https://www.theverge.com/tech/927294/substack-tax-ghost-beehiiv #Substack #Beehiiv #Ghost #Newsletter #Blog
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Post #1544051
I&#39;m learning Tidal Cycles, and it turns out it&#39;s pretty easy to get cool J Dilla-style microtiming effects: #TidalCycles #Algorave #LiveCoding #SuperCollider #Neovim
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Post #1412726
Break them up! Break them up! https://www.theverge.com/policy/912689/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-monopoly-trial-verdict #Ticketmaster #LiveNation #Business #Law
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Post #453959
I&#39;ve been using Lilypond to write musical notation with code, and here I write about how to get a convenient, smooth experience while writing that code in Neovim! I&#39;m definitely planning to stick with this, and I&#39;ll be writing about some more fun things to do with Lilypond soon. https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2026/02/friendly-lilypond-with-neovim-audacity/ #Lilypond #Composition #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryClassical #Neovim #MIDI #Audio #Audacity