Automated digest from public RSS feeds. Generated as a free-tier backup when the Claude editorial loop isn't running.

Wider context

• World — Large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine leaves four dead and dozens injured (BBC News). The Oreshnik missile, which reportedly travels over 10 times the speed of sound, was used, Russia has confirmed.
• Toronto — How ‘toxic’ conditions at Toronto city hall fed union drive - Toronto Star (Google News). How ‘toxic’ conditions at Toronto city hall fed union driveToronto Star
• Good news — Stunning Mosaics Made by Londoners with PTSD Offer Pieces of Healing in Community Artwork (Good News Network). Tucked away in the parks and alleyways of East London lies one of the city’s most vibrant collections of public art. What makes it all the m…

Music

• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Launches Label With New Album Ruin: It’s Not Just Music — Pitchfork. The beat-heavy LP inaugurates her Someone Special label
• DJ Koze Drops New Song “Spiralen” — Pitchfork. The hypnotic, seven-minute track leads a AA-side single out next month
• 13 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Bladee, Fakemink, and Eli — Pitchfork. Stream new releases from Bladee, Fakemink, and Eli
• Philipp Jung, Co-Founder of Get Physical and M.A.N.D.Y., Has Died — Pitchfork. The German house DJ, producer, and label boss helped conduct transitions in electronic music as house spilled into adjacent scenes in the 2000s

Video

• Underwater Cameras Capture Seals Resting in Secret ‘Bubble Caves’ — PetaPixel. Scientists used remote cameras to reveal how some of the world’s rarest seals are resting in secret underwater “bubble caves” to stay out of sight of humans. [Read More]
• Student Captures Cosmic Radiation on Film by Sending Negative to Space — PetaPixel. A photography student sent a 5x4 color negative into space on April 19 and exposed it to cosmic radiation, capturing a beautiful, abstract portrait of space unlike anything done be…
• The Enduring Mystery Behind Iconic American Photograph ‘Lunch on a Beam’ — PetaPixel. A new book explores the untold and still-mysterious story of the many people behind one of America’s most iconic photographs Lunch on a Beam -- and the lingering question of who ac…
• Artist Sues Copyright Office Over its Refusal to Register His AI-Enhanced Photo — PetaPixel. After having his registration request rejected by the U.S. Copyright Office, the author of an image that combined a photograph with Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is suing. [Read…

Data

• Why Nuro thinks being a robotaxi ‘second mover’ gives it an advantage — The Verge. Waymo is the undisputed leader in the robotaxi space, operating a fleet of over 3,000 driverless cars in at least 10 cities across the US. A number of companies, including Tesla, Z…
• Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI — Hacker News. Comments
• All Lean Books and Where to Find Them — Hacker News. Comments
• Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out — Hacker News. Comments

Art

• Gabrielle Goliath, Richard Avedon, “Chicken Linda” — Hyperallergic. A Jackson Pollock sold for a record-breaking $181 million at Christie's auction. Should it matter to anyone?
• Karla Knight’s Cosmic Conspiracies — Hyperallergic. The artist’s game-like paintings and tapestries suggest an overactive imagination fueled by generations of crackpot supernatural lore.
• The Photographs that Shaped the Black Arts Movement in the Mid-20th Century — Colossal. 'Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985' features works by more than 100 artists, journalists, organizers, and more. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Bec…
• Anni Albers Wasn’t Afraid to Start From Zero — Hyperallergic. Nicholas Fox Weber’s new biography draws on their nearly 25-year friendship, allowing her dedication to textile art and her warm humor to shine through in equal measure.

Drums

I ignored the thinking I couldn’t do any of this and trusted Claude

Focus and retrospective growth. I’m grateful for everything.

Maybe be better grounded in the physical world

Automated digest from public RSS feeds. Generated as a free-tier backup when the Claude editorial loop isn't running.

Wider context

• World — 'Speed, money and compassion' - lessons from an Ebola survivor and other experts (BBC News). Those caught up in West Africa's Ebola outbreak a decade ago on how best to tackle the current epidemic.
• Toronto — Toronto auction nets record $5.7M for E.J. Hughes painting set in Sidney - Times Colonist (Google News). Toronto auction nets record $5.7M for E.J. Hughes painting set in SidneyTimes Colonist
• Good news — AI Used to Pinpoint Whale Heat Signatures to Prevent Ship Collisions in San Francisco Bay (Good News Network). Scientists in California are using heat-sensing AI to save grey whales transiting through San Francisco Bay. More and more sightings of grey…

Music

• Essential Releases, May 22, 2026 — Bandcamp Daily. Experimental club music, funk, and more. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily.
• Ital Tek, “Mind Abandon” — Bandcamp Daily. Alan Myson embraces imperfection on his most introspective, human-sounding music to date. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily.
• How Visible Cloaks Stitched Themselves Back Together — Bandcamp Daily. Spencer Doran on the duo's first album in nine years, their experiences scoring video games, and much more. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily.
• Takkak Takkak, “Abu” — Bandcamp Daily. The collision of gabber, gamelan, and metal becomes something strangely transcendent on Takkak Takkak’s second album. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily.

Video

• Grab an Affordable Panasonic Zoom Lens For Your Bag With These Killer Deals — No Film School. In the film and video game, it's never a bad time to make an investment in yourself. You can make those investments in a lot of ways, of course, as you can always learn a new skill…
• What Lawrence Kasdan Can Teach You About Making Your First Film — No Film School. The Criterion Collection just dropped a 4K release of Body Heat, and with it comes a new interview with writer/director Lawrence Kasdan. And we always love learning from the greats…
• Yashica Brings Beloved Characters to the Cheap Keychain Camera Segment — PetaPixel. Yashica has announced the Funtastic, a tiny camera that bears much more than a passing resemblance to last year's smash hit Kodak Charmera and even more so the knockoffs that inevi…
• Scoring the Tension: An Interview with 'Dirty Hands' Composer Andrew Meehan — No Film School. Breaking into the world of feature film scoring requires a perfect mix of technical skill, creative intuition, and pure serendipity.For composer Andrew Meehan, that moment arrived…

Data

• FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack — Hacker News. Comments
• SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket — Hacker News. Comments
• AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots — TechCrunch. People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
• SpaceX launches Starship V3 for the first time, but loses booster on return — TechCrunch. The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years to come.

Art

• Husband Found Guilty of Scheming Murder of Art Dealer Brent Sikkema — Hyperallergic. Daniel Sikkema was accused of hiring the hitman who stabbed the gallerist in his Brazil townhouse in January 2024.
• An Artist’s MFA Show Confronts Columbia University Over Gaza — Hyperallergic. Alejandro Valencia’s multipart installation alludes to the institution’s failure to come to terms with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
• Human Connection Cuts Through Technology at Focus Art Fair — Hyperallergic. The show, New York's only art fair dedicated to contemporary Asian art, featured uniquely tender subversions of this year’s topical theme.
• Workers Push to Rename Wexner Center for the Arts Over Epstein Ties — Hyperallergic. The union said the Victoria’s Secret billionaire and Epstein associate’s name “does a profound disservice” to artists and community members.

Wavgen daily — 2026-05-22

This is a one-off seed briefing. It covers roughly the last 30–60 days to fill out the new news sections so they aren't sitting empty. Daily 24-hour briefings start tomorrow once the scheduled trigger fires.

It's been a busy stretch for the tools half of Wavgen and a quieter one for the art half. Ableton finally shipped Live 12.4 with Link Audio, MUTEK Montréal locked its August lineup, TouchDesigner pushed Point Operators into the 2025 cycle, and Anthropic released Opus 4.7 alongside Claude Design. On the AI-video side the field consolidated — OpenAI retired Sora as a standalone product while Runway pivoted to being a multi-model hub. The art beat was quieter, but Midjourney's V8 progression and the Neverness To Everness AI-art controversy gave it a pulse.

Music

• Ableton Live 12.4 ships with Link Audio and Push/Move overhaul — Synth Anatomy, 2026-05-05. Public release May 5. Link Audio sync, MIDI mapping for Push, expanded Delay LFO modes, tighter Move workflow.
• MUTEK Montréal 2026 announces full lineup, Aug 25–30 — MUTEK Montréal, 2026-05-08. 120 artists from 28 countries, 80+ live AV performances, plus a public installation village in Quartier des Spectacles.
• RNBO turns Ableton Move into a Max-for-Live hardware target — Synth Anatomy, 2026-03-20. RNBO patches now run natively on Move. Ableton's standalone hardware becomes a programmable target.
• Doepfer launches a micro series: ADSR, MIDI-to-CV, VCA in tiny HP — Synth Anatomy, 2026-04-12. Compact utilities for dense racks.
• Erica Synths Konstrukt-8: a build-it-yourself analog drum machine — Synth Anatomy, 2026-03-15. Eight analog voices, patch points, sold as a kit.
• Best ambient releases on Bandcamp, April 2026 — Bandcamp Daily, 2026-04-30. Curated drone, generative ambient, and field-recording-led work.
• Bandcamp Daily Essential Releases, May 1 — Bandcamp Daily, 2026-05-01. Weekly cross-genre picks.

Video

• TouchDesigner 2025.32820 lands, POPs reshape 3D workflow — Derivative, 2026-05-06. New Point Operators (Text, Trace, Triangulate) shift 3D work onto a high-performance node family.
• OpenAI shuts down the Sora app, API to follow in September — OpenAI, 2026-04-26. Standalone Sora retired. Compute costs cited.
• Runway becomes a multi-model hub for AI video — Runway, 2026-05-12. Aggregates Kling 3.0, Veo, Seedance 2.0, Sora 2 Pro. Seedance brings keyframe + audio control.
• 2026 TouchDesigner community tools roundup — Interactive & Immersive HQ, 2026-04-10. Annual community-tools survey.

Data

• Claude Opus 4.7 launches alongside Claude Design — Anthropic, 2026-04-16. Frontier Claude with stronger long-running coding and higher-resolution vision. Paired with Claude Design for prototypes and slides.
• Hugging Face ships ml-intern: open-source agent that runs LLM post-training — Hugging Face, 2026-04-21. Reads papers, picks datasets, runs training scripts, iterates on eval.
• AI agent framework field consolidates to six majors — Medium, 2026-03-25. Claude Agent SDK, Strands (AWS), LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, AG2.
• Hugging Face: Spring 2026 state of open source — Hugging Face, 2026-04-08. Mean size of downloaded open models jumped from 827M (2023) to 20.8B (2025).
• LangChain open-sources Deep Agents — a Claude-Code-style replica — Medium, 2026-03-15. Subagents, lifecycle hooks, planning loop.

Art

• "Neverness To Everness" launch ignites AI-art controversy in 24 hours — Backyard Drunkard, 2026-05-03. Game shipped April 29 amid allegations of AI-generated assets. Hotta Studio silent.
• Midjourney V8 Alpha ships, V8.1 already in preview — CogitoDaily, 2026-04-15. ~5x faster, native 2K, better text rendering.
• Codrops: WebGL for designers, not just engineers — Codrops, 2026-03-04. Long-form tutorial on shader-driven browser graphics.
• Verse × EXPANDED.ART: Generative Abstraction and Beyond, Part III — Verse, 2026-04-01. Algorithm-and-code abstraction survey, in-person Berlin + online.

Seeded manually as a one-time fill. The scheduled daily run is configured separately per docs/daily-news-loop.md and will produce tomorrow's briefing automatically.

• Gallery: 5 scrolling rows on homepage, 3 on subpages with alternating directions
• Variable animation speeds per row (15s–27s), hybrid real images + generative canvas
• All gallery cards clickable with modal view, 75×60px with wavgen-yellow borders
• Homepage now aggregates images from ALL section folders (art, music, video, data)
• Ken Burns effect slideshow cycles through combined images
• Fixed video player auto-scroll on load (added skipScroll parameter)
• Fixed code playground Monaco Editor stealing focus on page load
• Removed duplicate hero sections from music subpages (ambient, melodic, breaks)
• Removed unnecessary dark overlay divs, consistent 2×2 grid layout

Technical:

• GSAP startRowMarquee() for individual row animations
• Scroll position save/restore pattern for Monaco initialization

Email MD Local test

Email MD

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This comment will be saved to the site using a local application. One question is, how this will run in the browser when deployed to Github Pages? Here is the test :-)

This comment will be saved to the site using a local application. One question is, how this will run in the browser when deployed to Github Pages?

• Point one
• Point two

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• Context or links.

• Local dev options:
  • Two terminals: npm run build-css and npm run serve.
  • Or one command (recommended): npm run dev using concurrently.
• Production build check: npm run build runs Tailwind then Eleventy.
• Deploy via Git:
  • git add ., git commit -m "…", git push origin main.
  • GitHub Actions builds: Node setup → npm ci → build-css → eleventy → deploy _site/.
• Quick cheatsheet:
  • npm run dev → edit → commit → push → wait for Pages.

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• Eleventy-powered, teaching-grade portfolio with comprehensive commenting and GSAP-driven visuals.
• Sections: Music, Video, Data & Tech, Art; responsive navigation; purple/yellow theme.
• Real multimedia: SoundCloud (10 tracks) and YouTube (5 videos) with robust UX and error handling.
• Interactive Code Playground: Monaco Editor with modes (Tailwind, GSAP, Eleventy, Site Snippets).
• Tech stack: 11ty, Nunjucks, Tailwind, Node, GSAP, GitHub Actions/Pages.
• Purpose: living reference and playground blending creative tech, pedagogy, and portfolio.

• Scope: every meaningful line across templates, JS, CSS, config, docs, and data is commented for teaching clarity.
• Native comment styles: Nunjucks ``, JS // and /* ... */, CSS /* ... */, Markdown <!-- ... -->.
• Teaching blocks at file tops explain structure, purpose, and decisions.
• Heavily documented systems:
  • GSAP gallery (hero slideshows, background slideshow, infinite marquee, modal gallery).
  • Media players (SoundCloud, YouTube) with robust UX and error handling patterns.
  • Interactive Code Playground (Monaco) with 4 learning modes.
• Result: a beginner‑friendly, maintainable, and pedagogically strong codebase.