Composer and audio programmer // music lecturer at SUNY Geneseo I also like TTRPGs, fountain pens, mechanical keyboards, weird fiction, and I'm getting into analog photography https://reillyspitzfaden.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mususix2cc23I saw Polysics during (I think) their last tour with keyboardist Kayo before she retired. My tachycardia was acting up at one point and I had to lie down to get it to slow down, so I'm lying on the floor as they're playing "Rocket" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFLMjIIlOI4 — flash warning!)... [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Sep 2026 01:47 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mususix2cc23https://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mukqaemkoc2dI use CoMaps, which uses OpenStreetMap data, and it's worked pretty well for me. If you're on Android, you can even get it via F-Droid or Obtainium (in addition to the regular Play Store). [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukqaemkoc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mufveqqkok2q31 Aug 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufveqqkok2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mufng2m3jc2aI'm teaching a class on the history of rock and roll, and any time I hear the phrase "rock and roll" this bit pops into my head: "Hey hey, rock and roll manual Ooh ooh, lesson lesson manual Ooh ooh, commercial album That's mellow, hey!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Er1654hlo&t=107s31 Aug 2026 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufng2m3jc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mub7mmfvd22gFinally installed macOS 26, and I dislike the interface as much as I thought I would The only reason I did it right now is that the macOS Valgrind package in Homebrew only had "experimental" support for macOS 15, and I really did want to use that. That & charge limiting are the only things I like30 Aug 2026 01:13 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mub7mmfvd22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mtzdgb6pg22nIf you don't like the UI bar colors in LibreOffice 26.8: - Options/Settings > LibreOffice > Advanced - Open Expert Configuration - Set NotebookbarColorTransparency to 25526 Aug 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzdgb6pg22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mtzbn6zsx22gSPACE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM26 Aug 2026 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzbn6zsx22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mtwxabsnd22p> the timeline of the complaints preceding the death of Jason Arday makes it clear that Cofnas’s “whistleblowing” was not the cause for the university’s actions... We do not consider the accusations of fraud to be the problem... We do however object to the blatant racism to which they were linked. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2026 23:16 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwxabsnd22phttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mtuv7xpmrs2kI keep catching myself typing :w (i.e., the Vim "write" command) when I'm writing slideshows25 Aug 2026 03:35 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtuv7xpmrs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mtsbf7qaqs2cI'm reading a post about string search speeds in Lua, and I see this very fun fact: Technically, there are 5.9 popes per square mile in the Vatican city It's because the whole city is ~1/5.9 square miles, but still https://neil.fraser.name/news/2009/12/25/ https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1%2F%28area+of+vatican+city+in+square+miles%2924 Aug 2026 02:35 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsbf7qaqs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mtmswmksck2iThey did it. Goncharov really is on Poob: watchpoob.com https://watchpoob.com/21 Aug 2026 22:33 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmswmksck2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/reillypascal.bsky.social/post/3mtack2ua7k24I'm looking for recs on C/C++ package managers, especially Conan vs. vcpkg! TL;DR: in a vacuum, vcpkg looks nice, but it's made by Microsoft, and the repository has the "a user you've blocked..." warning (i.e., it has Claude contributions).16 Aug 2026 23:08 +0000at://did:plc:7bvcd7usebxsagbrjbgpb75u/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtack2ua7k24