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Joanna Adeele
@joanna.adeele.io
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🇪🇪 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 | 👩‍💻 Software Engineer.
I also do:
* Music production: @popmuusik.com @66.7metr.es
* Run a record label (+mixing+mastering): @7metres.com
* Photography: @adeele.photography
* Cinematography, VFX, Colour Grading, Editing
* UI/UX/Graphic Design
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20 minutes, no flow. Could be a fluke.

Interesting - now wondering if it’s just a filter scooping it up or a full-blown blockage in the pipeline, if you catch my drift
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October 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Despite my doomposting about tech today, my mood log entry ended up being a mildly positive one.

Got shit done at work today. Things finally clicked for me when it comes to a couple of new technologies I’ve had to learn.

Terraform finally feels like power, and not yet another mountain to conquer
A screenshot of the Apple Health app showing a mood log of a slightly pleasant day titled “Proud, Hopeful”, attributed to hobbies and work.
October 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Cannot turn the screen off an LG OLED and only listen to audio whilst the YouTube app is open.

Presumably so it could force feed me ads or upsell Premium, but this is with a Premium account.

Dystopian in a Black Mirror-ish way (literally S01E02) - yet somehow truly incompetent at it simultaneously
October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Oh, this? This one’s got the Dutch-ize knob.

It turns the Belgian synth preset into Dutch.

…Yeah, these definitely do go to eleven.
Screenshot of Arturia’s Analog Lab showing a preset called “Belgian Mainstage” Cropped in screenshot from an Analog Lab preset called “Belgian Mainstage” to the word “Belgian” Cropped in screenshot from an Analog Lab preset called “Belgian Mainstage” to a knob saying “Dutchize”
September 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Just realised I might be a bit out of the loop on not-so-dystopian and not-so-depressing European news…

This is how I found out that 2026 is the year Bulgaria is adopting the Euro as a currency…

By an email from Apple, of all potential sources.
A screenshot from gmail of an email from Apple Developer titled “Upcoming Currency Change in Bulgaria” saying: “Hello, Beginning January 1, 2026, Bulgaria will adopt the euro (EUR) as its official currency, replacing the Bulgarian lev (BGN). As a result, the currency for App Store purchases and subscriptions in Bulgaria will change from BGN to EUR on this date. Your proceeds from sales in Bulgaria will also change to euros.”
September 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Rendering a visualiser for a song.

Uncompressed floating point color TIFF sequence.

2160p, but at 2.4:1 aspect ratio, so each frame is 5184x2160.

~150MB per frame at 23.976 frames per second, for 5 minutes and 8 seconds.

>1TB for a 5 minute vid…

7 hours render time… aka sleep time.
A photograph of a part of a computer screen showing the render progress in After Effects, with 8 minutes 18 seconds elapsed and 6 hours and 52 minutes remaining.
September 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Someone’s been testing push notifications in Prod again… this time at Amazon.

Either that, or, much more sinisterly, Amazon is trying - and clearly failing - to remotely open up the Amazon app on my phone via a push notification…
A notification on iOS from Amazon saying: “Open Amazon 1h ago The request was denied by service delegate... The request to open "com.amazon.AmazonUK" failed.”
September 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Power cut in the area (an extremely rare event here) that lasted two seconds. 😱

My home network running off a UPS: immediately switches over to the backup LTE.

Zero internet downtime (ok, maybe a few milliseconds).

Wouldn’t have noticed anything had I not got the notification (+ the UPS beeping).
iOS notification from Unifi. Title: “Gateway: WAN2 Internet Failover Ac...” Content: “Internet connection WAN1 (Telia Eesti) on port 7 is down and WAN2 (Telia Eesti) is now active.”
September 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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In fact, I’ve now gone as far as buying their film.

tv.apple.com/gb/movie/kne...
A screenshot of Apple Pay in the Apple TV app, showing a purchase of Kneecap (the film) in progress. A screenshot of the Apple TV app, showing “Kneecap” purchased and playable.
June 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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As NY elects Zohran in what is a landmark victory for leftists worldwide…

Oh, hey Tallinn, how’s it going?

…

…uhhhhh, yeah…
ERR News headline: “Reform Party taps businessman Urmas Sõõrumaa as candidate for Tallinn mayor” ERR News headline: “Analysts: Reform's choice of Tallinn mayor could lead to conflicts of interest” and its first sentence summary of the article: “Political scientists say real estate developer Urmas Sõorumaa is a strategic choice as a mayoral candidate in Tallinn, but could lead to major conflicts of interest due to his involvement in several large-scale developments in the capital.”
June 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Oh noes!

My plans of staying at home and drinking wine by myself and binging YouTube this St John’s Day (a national holiday here, usually celebrated amongst people or crowds)…

well…

…actually might’ve been the best idea after all.
Screenshot of the Accuweather app, showing a MinuteCast of rain beginning in an hour.
June 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Zero plays. Not a single one.

Didn’t even stream my own music.

Say what you want about Soundcloud, but my stuff at least gets *some* plays there.
Email showing 0 plays and 0 shazams on Apple Music for Artists in the last week.
June 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Sums it up, really. #WWDC #Apple
A screenshot of a youtube embed on a website, of Apple’s “Introducing Liquid Glass” video, with the centered YouTube play logo covering part of the writing to read “Introducing Liquid ass”
June 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Soundcloud does appear to be staffed by morons.
A screenshot of the SoundCloud Copyright Claim Center saying that the dispute was rejected. Text in image: “Resolved disputes we are all just stories in the end (alternative mix) "we are all just stories in the end" by 66.7metres Unfortunately, your dispute was rejected.”
June 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Dear @soundcloud.dev, your detection of copyrighted content is impeccable.

The lack of a feature to link official artists’ accounts to “proper” distributor-sourced music seems like a massive oversight however.

Note: Track name is censored in the image as it is yet unreleased worldwide.
Screenshot of a message from SoundCloud in their on-site messaging system that says: “Hi 66.7metres, It looks like your track “[censored in screenshot] (alternative mix)" might contain or be a copy of “[censored in screenshot]” by 66.7 metres, which is owned by 7metres Records in certain territories. As a result, your track has been removed from your profile for the time being.”
June 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Excuse my ignorance, but is that really the definition of an EP, AVID?

And if so, how in the everloving fuck do you release a small EP (single with a “B-side”) when using AvidPlay?

Because the limit for a single is one track.

@avidprotools.bsky.social (since your AvidPlay team doesn’t use bsky)
A dialog box in AvidPlay saying “Missing Information For EP, if track count is less than or equals to 3, at least one track should be 10 mins long, and Combined tracks duration cannot exceed 30 minutes.”
May 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Oh noes, I may have accidentally created an instrumental 7 minute long indie pop track.

Worse yet — it might actually be somewhat good this time.

Needs lyrics though (and therefore also a vocalist).

Uhh, yeah… 😬

Maybe it’ll be finished next decade then.
(Still sooner than Rail Baltica… or HS2)
Screenshot of the Apple Music app on iOS playing a song without either the cover art or artist name present, with the title “2005 (Instrumental Demo) v5”.
May 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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So… I opened it in Lightroom, and spent 3 entire hours manually making it as convinving as possible. (Obviously, in my own signature faux-vintage style)

So here comes the philosophical question — can my derivative and transformative version of it be, in theory, be considered art?
My edit of the AI generated output from ERR’s “Von Fock” (…Yourself)
May 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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So, I took a selfie of mine, and uploaded it to the Estonian public broadcaster’s AI promotional tool for their period drama “Von Fock”which allows you to turn yourself into one of its characters

The result was as uncanny valley as expected, especially the face shape and glasses’… uh, deformation.
Output of the AI image generator with a photo of me as the input image, with the watermark “Von Fock” in the bottom right corner.
May 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Feels so weird seeing my own stuff in my Apple Music Replay playlist.

Well, at least *I* like the stuff that I make.
Screenshot of Apple Music Replay 2025 playlist showing “Year of the Snake” by Arcade Fire at #1 spot and “Textures for a New Reality” by 66.7metres at #2.
April 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Update: It was the latter. 😬
A screenshot of Apple Music with a song without an album cover titled “Obsession / Cringe (I Dreamt I Was A Second-Rate 19th Century Poet)” by 66.7metres playing.
April 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I believe this is what properly getting ratioed looks like.
A screenshot of UK’s Clive Lewis MP’s reply on Bluesky (quoted in post) with 421 quotes and 30 likes saying: “I've repeatedly stood up for trans. I don't expect any thanks. It's called solidarity. But a wee bit of advice. You don't demand solidarity. It's not how it works. It's freely given or it isn't.”
April 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Oh god, Arturia released their V Collection 11 of sw instruments and I’m incredibly tempted to upgrade.

€199 is still a big ask for an upgrade though…

I guess I’ll wait for some reviews, and then hopefully it’ll be clear whether it is worth it.
A screenshot of Arturia’s V Collection 11 page showing a price of €199 with €699 crossed out.
April 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Have to say, it does actually work though and tunnel the connection to the UK.
Image of a success screen of joining a public wifi network with a captive portal saying: Welcome to the UK. We hope you enjoy your stay. You can now browse as British. You'll have to buy your own tea.
April 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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You know how some people become really mature and boring as they age?

I’m 31.

My new router arrived today.

I just set up a secondary public wifi network with a captive portal that is quite literally a shitpost.

…I think it’s safe to say at this point that maturity may not exactly be my forte.
Screenshot of a list of wifi networks, with a unsecured network highlighted that is named “United Kingdom”. Screenshot of a public wifi network captive portal window displaying the following welcome text: “United Kingdom Welcome to the United Kingdom. This network can be used to leave the EU and virtually enter the UK. You need a visa to enter. Sorry about that. That's Nigel's fault.” Then, the following options: Enter Access Code or Select a package 5 minutes, 250 MB Limited Free Continued screenshot of the captive portal (scrolled down) with a checkbox to accept the terms of service and a button with really long text in it: “Click here to Brexit... uhh, I mean... Br-enetrate..? Yeah, that works I guess. This is most definitely a button.”
April 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM