Chris Mills

[Personal Health]

My previous experience says that the pain and dissociative effects of fever meant tomorrow would have had me checking in to the hospital.

#DiverticularDisease is no fun when it flares up, but the best way to manage it is with the usual best practice of a diet high in fibre […]

[Personal Health]

I am lying on the couch and waiting for some heavy duty antibiotics to start working.

What sounded like an impossible wait of 6 weeks to see a GP has been dealt to on the same day through an online video doctor. This person has access to clinic notes and aside from the cost […]

And this would not be complete without a wee demo of what it sounds like. I've also added some #ShermanikFilterbank for extra growly acidic character.

https://youtu.be/X8hZLSB0N4g

Dear fans of #BonkWave #NotBonkWave and #ElectronicMusic made in #BitwigStudio - here is a new preset that I made in Bitwig Studio v4.0:

AS Complexification Bass v1.0

I like the sound, and complexity of Don Buchla's various musical instruments and the amazing VCV Hacks from Jakub Ciupinski. I […]

Congratulations #PeriZee on unseating the 8-term incumbent and earning the title of Honourable Mayor of #UpperHutt.

The tabby cat implies the existence of the   cat and the <br> cat.

Is it me, or is this latest build of #Mastodon for #iOS being particularly unruly and thwarty? Home button won’t work, crashes reliably in searches. Stutter scrolling. Not a fan of this. This is with Version 2025.06 on iOS 17.6.1 (avoiding iOS 18 for many reasons)

My #fatigue levels are very high today. #RedPandaAlert

@sundogplanets but you are a genius with actual qualifications.

Here is a video sample of my studio in action. A pleasant and trancelike #Benjolin patch is playing through #VCVRack

Studio

Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet.

So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me
#accessibility #AltText #blind

The 35th First Annual #IgNobelCeremony is an enjoyable 87 minutes of ridiculousness.

You too may need some distractions...

https://youtu.be/z1cP4xKd_L4

Helpful information for #BitwigStudio studios. I have been encouraged to use #CLAP plugins by the good people at #VCVRack - I look forward to seeing if this resolves some issues that I have been having.

I have just been introduced to the German proto #BonkWave project called #Schnute and their release "Foulcrey".
It seems very, very obscure, but I am thoroughly enjoying it for chill jazzy and weird qualities. Here's a link to the CD on German E-bay (sanitised link) […]

I just upgraded to #DaViniciResolve v20 and thought it had crashed while rendering my latest demo video because it finished so quickly.

It was just fast as anything and that rather quite surprised me.

I want to live in a world where the flags are lowered for Jane Goodall.

Weirdest work call of the decade. An Uber driver has called asking me to help them as their vehicle was trapped inside #Brewtown

Together, the distraught driver and I determined that they were actually stuck inside Tuatara Brewery’s yard and not @kererubrewing

Police apparently refused to […]

“Rise and shine, kiddo, we got a catch operation on runway 22. 1700pax onboard.”

“Second one this month. Heckin sloppy, boss.”

“You know, they used to just land airplanes on the belly if the landing gear got stuck”

“That’s wack. Surely it’d wreck the plane?”

“Pretty much yeah. They had the […]

@foxylustygrover.bsky.social time is clearly non-linear.

@foxylustygrover.bsky.social I found a bright and well informed representative of Gen-Z to share their views with me. It rather helped me.

Any #bpy thing-knowers able to help me out? I'm writing a script that relies on the psd-tools module. To make sure it is loaded I do
```
try:
import psd_tools
except ImportError:
subprocess.check_call([python_executable, '-m', 'ensurepip'])
subprocess.check_call([python_executable, '-m', 'pip' […]

@foxylustygrover.bsky.social but, Foxy! It proves the existence of Devils Food Cake (which I prefer because it is Chocolate Cake).

@minmi I may take this as a warning and avoid all news.

I found a bunch people on a forum discussing #ShermanFilterbank plugins and someone had referenced my work with the #BitwigStudio preset that I've been working on for close to a year now.

I wanted to discuss techniques and creative thought process with them, but it turns out that they are a […]

90 minutes later…

@alisynthesis the #ChaseBliss Clean #pedal looks and sounds amazing and has lots of capabilities. I don’t own one, but would consider it.

There’s a very thorough review on YT: https://youtu.be/cMQYERrLV2Y

Second pressing 15 minutes later and the dish is simmering away in the oven and starches from the potatoes are thickening the stock. This could become a new house favourite (assuming it tastes nice).