# episode 6

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## notes

This episide gosh darn amazing, i bet you cannot wait to plug it into your ear holes and relax into the sweet, sweet tilde sounds and go on a joy ride on the cosmic tilde whirl 🚀

We talk about tildes, static site generators, significant whitespace, recfiles, origami and folding paper, the tildetown zine, bots, and more!

This episode’s special segments include:

- a special birthday message
- hey gamers!: let’s play Baba Yaga Goes To Space
- science fun fact corner: nostalgia and hope
- a message from our sponsors
- poetry corner: programmatic sonnets from the poetrydb.org API
- magic and divination: dream magic
- story corner: Chapters 6 - 10 of Braxon by Joneworlds

Your secret message for this episode is:

    otkv gb xksn ihukndqb lhlbn hdnlfhjb kn kqtbn lhlbn ikfydjr hjy d vdff ibhqsnb dq kj qtb jbwq bldokyb

## links

Stuff we talked about on the show

tilde stuff:

- list of other tildes

recfiles:

- https://chrismanbrown.gitlab.io/28.html
- https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/

zine stuff:

- imaginary landscapes natalia’s zines for 1-2 nanogenmo
- tildeverse zine
- tildetown zine

tracery stuff:

- tracery
- tracer
- tracer (py3 port)
- itte: including source for ramen-kun and the tracery-inspired example

sponsors:

- Tip-Toe Thru’ the Tulips with Me

static site stuff:

- bake
- bake on the static generator list: it used to be called staticgen.com, but looks like they got subsumed by another site
- sigal
- simiki
- piecrust

folding stuff:

- red bull paper wings - paper airplane competition
- zine workflow
- dollar carp
- batman plane
- dozens’s plane

hey gamers!

- https://git.sr.ht/~eli_oat/babayagagoestospace
- https://twinery.org/
- https://github.com/inkle/inky
- Cadventure-text.c reddit thread

science fun fact corner

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed
- https://www.npr.org/2021/10/13/1045812865/the-nostalgia-bone
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59562260-the-hours-have-lost-their-clock
- https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/3310/
- https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/is-there-happy-nsr/347/15

story corner

- <gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/joneworlds/>

poetry corner

- https://poetrydb.org/index.html

## sources

happy birthday:

- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monk_Turner__Fascinoma/The_New_Birthday_Song_Contest/Its_Your_Birthday_1839
- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monk_Turner__Fascinoma/The_New_Birthday_Song_Contest/Its_Your_Birthday_Instrumental
- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monk_Turner__Fascinoma/The_New_Birthday_Song_Contest/Its_Your_Birthday_Simple_in_B
- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kaleidoplasm/tangerine-amoeba-apartheid-heartbeat-iv/its-only-fairmp3
- https://freemusicarchive.org/music/bound-unto-root/the-canopy/the-son-of-a-hoarse-throat
- https://freesound.org/people/neilraouf/sounds/484512/
- https://freesound.org/people/GaryEdstrom/sounds/322636/
- https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/421852/
- https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_5405837/sounds/406504/
- https://freesound.org/people/adriancalzon/sounds/219858/
- https://freesound.org/people/sironboy/sounds/132106/
- https://freesound.org/people/vtownpunks/sounds/63633/
- https://freesound.org/people/guamorims/sounds/391357/
- https://freesound.org/people/IanStarGem/sounds/269594/
- https://freesound.org/people/Vanyamba/sounds/524485/
- https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/397948/
- https://freesound.org/people/Victor_Natas/sounds/551569/
- https://freesound.org/people/Victor_Natas/sounds/551567/
- https://freesound.org/people/audiomirage/sounds/564952/