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hello i am josh millard

I ~~work at~~ own and run Metafilter
I tweet as @joshmillard
~~I webcomic at Larp Trek~~

I used to podcast about horror movies on We Have Such Films To Show You
and about everything else on The Crapshoot

I paint and make stained glass

Email me at josh@joshmillard.com

what i'm up to

I'm working on a game called Shai Hulud

I made a little game called tilde.bird

I'm collecting games on relvokcor.xyz in the tilde.arcade

Here are some jokes

neat relvokcor.xyz pages

(some of this is probably super ephemeral)

An FAQ
anthonydpaul's tilde primer
joeld is tracking site lore (fwiw I'm responsible for "swintons")
Paul Ford's blog is good
all about frogs
and Chi-town hotdogs.
javier, what even is this
dphiffer's lovely cityscape
gif fonts, motherfucker
check out those eyebrows
a literal webring
HI JESSAMYN

~~work at~~

hello i am josh millard

what i'm up to

I'm working on a game called Shai Hulud

I made a little game called tilde.bird

I'm collecting games on relvokcor.xyz in the tilde.arcade

Here are some jokes

neat relvokcor.xyz pages

(some of this is probably super ephemeral)

An FAQ
anthonydpaul's tilde primer
joeld is tracking site lore (fwiw I'm responsible for "swintons")
Paul Ford's blog is good
all about frogs
and Chi-town hotdogs.
javier, what even is this
dphiffer's lovely cityscape
gif fonts, motherfucker
check out those eyebrows
a literal webring
HI JESSAMYN

~~I webcomic at Larp Trek~~

hello i am josh millard

what i'm up to

I'm working on a game called Shai Hulud

I made a little game called tilde.bird

I'm collecting games on relvokcor.xyz in the tilde.arcade

Here are some jokes

neat relvokcor.xyz pages

(some of this is probably super ephemeral)

An FAQ
anthonydpaul's tilde primer
joeld is tracking site lore (fwiw I'm responsible for "swintons")
Paul Ford's blog is good
all about frogs
and Chi-town hotdogs.
javier, what even is this
dphiffer's lovely cityscape
gif fonts, motherfucker
check out those eyebrows
a literal webring
HI JESSAMYN

used to

hello i am josh millard

what i'm up to

I'm working on a game called Shai Hulud

I made a little game called tilde.bird

I'm collecting games on relvokcor.xyz in the tilde.arcade

Here are some jokes

neat relvokcor.xyz pages

(some of this is probably super ephemeral)

An FAQ
anthonydpaul's tilde primer
joeld is tracking site lore (fwiw I'm responsible for "swintons")
Paul Ford's blog is good
all about frogs
and Chi-town hotdogs.
javier, what even is this
dphiffer's lovely cityscape
gif fonts, motherfucker
check out those eyebrows
a literal webring
HI JESSAMYN

hello i am josh millard

what i'm up to

I'm working on a game called Shai Hulud

I made a little game called tilde.bird

I'm collecting games on relvokcor.xyz in the tilde.arcade

Here are some jokes

neat relvokcor.xyz pages

(some of this is probably super ephemeral)

An FAQ
anthonydpaul's tilde primer
joeld is tracking site lore (fwiw I'm responsible for "swintons")
Paul Ford's blog is good
all about frogs
and Chi-town hotdogs.
javier, what even is this
dphiffer's lovely cityscape
gif fonts, motherfucker
check out those eyebrows
a literal webring
HI JESSAMYN

paint and make stained glass

Iiiiiiits' Been

Septemeber 16, 2019

Five years. I don't know if any given five years would have felt long—probably so—but it has been a long five years even by standard metrics and I am trying to wrap my head around how strong that sense of time and space is, coming back to relvokcor.xyz now.

I left dormant a manually formatted single flat file blog that has every disadvantage in the world as a CMS but which I am able to hop right back into now, and which has in its hiatus managed to stay intact while I've nuked basically all of my erstwhile Wordpress-powered stuff.

We're well into a sociopolitical clusterfuck now that could only have been hinted at in 2014; I own and run the site I just worked for five years ago, and the financial and social challenges of that have only grown; none of my ongoing creative projects back when are still ongoing, but I have since taken up painting and stained glass.

My hair is long again.

I will have to sit down and revisit all of this tilde stuff when I have the time and energy, probably archiving what's here in the process. But I do still like that Dune web font, maybe that'll stay?

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Don We Now Our Satan's Power

December 18, 2014

Yes sir, writing every day.

So I built a thing last weekend, and when I was building it I was doing so on my tilde space but then moved it over to my own Dreamhost stuff because it involves serving up a couple megabytes on every page load and that seemed sort of rude if it was gonna get a bunch of use to do on someone else's dime. Given the competitive nature of commoditized servers that cost might have literally been a dime, but somehow it made a difference to me vs. just posting some text or something on my blog here.dime

Which is interesting; I don't know yet, still, what my sense of boundaries for this place are. I love sharing stuff here; I love thinking as stuff as "relvokcor.xyz" stuff; but I also feel some sort of need to not abuse it, not treat it like some fungible web resource, even though it is literally just a unix box where people post stuff they make.

The thing, in any case: Endless Jingling, a simple JS script that loads up a few of the 36 holiday songs I recorded last weekend, all at 120 bpm in C (but shifted up to Eb for elfiness), and then jumps around from half-measure to half-measure more or less at random to create newly synthesized hybrid cutup carols, forever and ever. I am reasonably happy with how it came together, given the amount of effort and shameless hackiness in the code; if I decide to do a more robust take on this idea at some point, I'll have a good place to start in terms of what I learned about what did and didn't work.Endless Jingling