Maxwell Neely-Cohen
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maxy.world/ thehtml.review/ https://10kdrummachines.com/
never forget the actual entire purpose of a "new tab" is to paste a bit of text so then later you can copy and paste it somewhere else without formatting (to paraphrase @everest.bsky.social)
Thomas Pynchon is the only realist writer.
Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 2mo agohey quick question, am I having a stroke
urbanomnibus.net/2026/04/danc... and another piece I commissioned for @urbanomnibus.bsky.social dropped—this one's an interview w/Rennie McDougall by @maxy.bsky.social about Rennie's forthcoming book on dance history in NYC!
Dancing About Architecture - Urban Omnibus
How have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return?
urbanomnibus.net
For Urban Omnibus, I interviewed the great Rennie McDougall about his amazing new book Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Made New York City urbanomnibus.net/2026/04/danc...
Dancing About Architecture - Urban Omnibus
How have dancers and their movements shaped the built environment of New York — and how has the city shaped them in return?
urbanomnibus.net
Paul Cadmus initial sketches for Ballet Alphabet (1939)
making a little Conway's Game of Life for the terminal, adapting some 1990s bootleg BBS turbo pascal code
My piece with The HTML Review just came out, on a digital and physical walk I'm planning across the Korean Peninsula. It is about a personal project a few years in the making. Thank you to Max & Shelby for being wonderful, patient editors: thehtml.review/05/tell-umma...
Always funny watching the internet bros think Nietzsche wanted young men to be ruthless, rules-exempt individualists who dominate others, when he actually just wanted them to be dancers
created photos.connie.surf as part of the html review this year!!! so honored :^)
Photographic Memory
photos.connie.surf
Maxwell Neely-Cohen@maxy.bsky.social · 5mo agoIssue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/
Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/
one of the great pleasures of using discogs to catalog records is the stunning regularity with which you acquire something that is not already part of the database. Tens of millions of releases cataloged, and still human musical production is so great that there are constant gaps
DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.
Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/
Today marks FIVE YEARS since I started this spreadsheet cataloging the songs stuck in my head when I wake up in the morning. It's the closest thing to a journal I've ever had - docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
New Session Issue 4: Upheaval now live on telnet: issue4.anewsession.com featuring work by: @asterolsen.bsky.social @mbbischoff.com @ultraviolet.gay @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social ...and more! web release coming on Saturday so STAY TUNED!
you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
henry.codes
look how big our monitors were before the turn of the century! big ol' things that had a degauss button
The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET.
tonight's deep rabbit hole obsession with a genius artist who had a truncated and underappreciated career is costume designer Mary Ann Nyberg, who only did five films, but absolutely crushed them all
"SHOSTAKOVICH'S 5TH PLAYED BACKWARDS IN A CONCRETE SILO" by Sheet Noise is the best album TITLE of the year
Scully: Four helicopters and a string quartet? Mulder, what are you Mulder: *throws file at her* In 1971, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen reported having dreams where he learned he was from the Sirius system,
I tried to "further the spread" of the World Wide Web as outlined in the original 1992 whitepaper. Outraged it doesn't still work come on
the latest 10k drum machines (by @maxy.bsky.social & friends) are so beautiful kubb.mingus.space 10kdrummachines.com/machines/wor... bmo-mpc.vercel.app they're all so gorgeous, so inventive..!! I wish/dream/would die for a 10kdrumhackthon and yes AM STILL procrastinating on making one.........x
Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that. Thank you, Greg, and rest well.
Internet Archive@archive.org · 10mo agoWe are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton. What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎
Katie Mackinnon | Library Innovation Lab
InterviewerIf you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?
lil.law.harvard.edu