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Running Norns on a desktop computer – misc notes

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Connecting a REPL / editor

maiden-repl (CLI): build/maiden-repl/maiden-repl — defaults to ws4://127.0.0.1:5555/ (matron) and :5556/ (sclang). Tab cycles pages (matron ⇄ sc); Shift+Tab also switches. The matron page takes raw Lua; the sc page takes SuperCollider (it sends sclang’s ESC evaluate delimiter for you).

maiden web app: separate Go binary/release; serves the editor on :5000 and connects out to 5555/5556.

Loading scripts and driving params from the REPL

On the matron page (raw Lua):

Jun 1st, 2026

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The virtual OS museum: https://virtualosmuseum.org/ #history #computing

Installs a virtual machine that can be booted to various historical operating systems

Running WordPress Locally with WP-CLI

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Running WordPress Locally with WP-CLI

Quick reference for setting up a local WordPress instance and importing a database dump using WP-CLI.
Create a Site in Local
- Click + → name your site → “Preferred” setup → set credentials → Create Site
- Local provisions WordPress automatically
Import a Database Dump
- Right-click the site → Open Site Shell
- Reset the database first (fresh installs already have tables):
  - ```
  wp db reset --yes
```
- Then import:

The three maxims of synthesised ethnography

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

1. Whenever possible, use open models. If not possible, appropriate the capabilities of the proprietary model by training your model with it.

Fine-tuned open models match or exceed GPT-4¹
LoRA and RAG enable corpus-grounded, domain-adapted analysis²
Distillation via synthetic data legitimately transfers proprietary capabilities³
Smaller models sometimes outperform their teacher model⁴
Proprietary models in research require explicit justification⁵

2. Whenever possible, use your own, sustainable infrastructure.

Local hosting preserves data, technological, and infrastructural sovereignty⁶

Tools of the trade

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a list of software I use in my research, and a brief description of how and why.

Zotero¹ for reference and literature note management

There’s a lot to say about Zotero – and having trained its use for students, librarians and researchers for more than ten years, I have said a lot about it, but simply put, nothing else comes even close:
- It’s open source, so nobody will keep your notes hostage[note: The importance for open source for tools like this cannot be underestimated. See Digital Enclosures.]

Co-crafting code (a research project)

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

‘Co-crafting code: Changing nature of work at the intersection of programmers and artificial intelligence’ is my ongoing research project, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (2025–2027).

What I’m Studying

How do software developers work with AI coding assistants, and how is that changing what it means to be a programmer?
I’m doing ethnographic fieldwork in two very different settings:
- Moodle – a large, globally distributed open-source project with over a thousand contributors

Digital Enclosures

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Also known as: vendor lock-in.

But also, on a historical scale, the closing of commons and frontiers in the digital domain.

There is another conjuncture or momentum of enclosures happening right now (in 2026), which Anil Dash describes well in his post titled ‘Endgame for the open web’.

Mar 5th, 2026

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A study of 6 OpenClaw agents and a group of humans who tried to trick them: https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/ – I think it’s a great indication of how far into unknown terrain we are at the moment when it comes to LLM security. #LLMagent #LLMsecurity

My digital garden

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This is a digital garden, collection of resources and writings by Heikki. Everything is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Citation information can be found on every page.

Content is mainly in English (#en), but some of it in Finnish (#fi) and perhaps sometimes in Bahasa Indonesia (#id) as well. #meta #digital garden

You can subscribe to an RSS feed of new pages and new edits.

If you wish to comment on anything, link the page and mention me in the Fediverse.

front_page

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is a collection of resources and writings by Heikki. Everything is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. Citation information can be found on every page.

If you wish to comment on anything, link the page and mention me in the Fediverse.

en

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Pandoc lua filters

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

https://codeberg.org/tarleb/querverweis

crossreferences for markdown documents

https://github.com/pandoc-ext/info

collection of misc lua filters

https://github.com/topics/pandoc-filter

github search for pandoc filters

https://github.com/jez/pandoc-sidenote

Tufte-style sidenotes, to be used together with https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ or https://github.com/jez/pandoc-markdown-css-theme

fi

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

All pages that have content in Finnish

id

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Semua halaman yang memiliki konten dalam bahasa Indonesia.

Jan 30th, 2024

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Joustavat hihansuut: https://mezzacraft.com/crochet-a-stretchy-rib-cuff/ #virkkaus #fi

Pages on Adhocism

Running Norns on a desktop computer – misc notes

Connecting a REPL / editor

Loading scripts and driving params from the REPL

Jun 1st, 2026

Running WordPress Locally with WP-CLI

Create a Site in Local

Import a Database Dump

The three maxims of synthesised ethnography

1. Whenever possible, use open models. If not possible, appropriate the capabilities of the proprietary model by training your model with it.

2. Whenever possible, use your own, sustainable infrastructure.

Tools of the trade

Co-crafting code (a research project)

What I’m Studying

Digital Enclosures

meta

Mar 5th, 2026

My digital garden

front_page

en

Pandoc lua filters

fi

id

Jan 30th, 2024