A quick (and almost complete) retrospective of what happened in microcosm's first year
Microcosm | Granular Looper & Glitch Pedal
Microcosm reinterprets your sound in exciting ways using various granular sampling, delay, pitch-shifting and micro-looping techniques. Create ambient, glitch, and other wild sounds with your guitar, synthesizer, or other instrument. Features include Stereo In/Out, MIDI sync, tap tempo, hold sampler, and built-in looper.
2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
microcosm.blue/microcosm-rs
Constellation, Spacedust, Slingshot, UFOs: atproto crates and services for microcosm
A year into the wreckage and salvage
It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things would turn out differently. The research and thinking I came
2025-26 Microgrants Awardees!
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewi…
It’s Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself
Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.
Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass - The …
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Pirat_Nation 🔴 on Twitter / X
One of the big three RAM manufacturers, Micron, has announced they are exiting the consumer market completely. pic.twitter.com/hgZcNIm9Nk— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) December 3, 2025
Dan Shipper 📧 on Twitter / X
this is true and is a big reason why you don’t need to be a highly technical researcher to use LLMs in surprising and novel ways https://t.co/TuxNzXzToU— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) July 27, 2025
Andrew Ho on Twitter / X
Not really observations that others before me haven’t made, but:- Despite the seemingly magical nature of LLMs, reflection over a >3 month timescale suggests my total productivity hasn’t increased by over 100%, or perhaps even by over 50%, and a lot of time is actually wasted…— Andrew Ho (@andrewho03) September 3, 2026
in my head i think of microcosm services as targeting audible-frequency request rates. right now constellation is receiving 150 req/sec, which is within fundamental human vocal range and sounds like this: szynalski.com/tone#150,squ,v0.5
Online Tone Generator - generate pure tones of any frequency
szynalski.comIntroducing the Micro.blog PDS: manton.org/2026/08/11/introducing-the-mi…
Atmosphere sync: Tap, Hydrant, roll-your-own?
updates.microcosm.blueThis is the summer of micro-papers: small ideas, shared freely, archived for posterity. I've had 2 separate emails and multiple new citations based on my micro-paper I wrote for micro-papers back in 2023.
The Micro-Paper: Towards cheaper, citable research ideas and conversations
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