Sparks from the forge.https://shanesanders.com/https://shanesanders.com/blog/the-ouroboros-of-online-anger/https://shanesanders.com/blog/the-ouroboros-of-online-anger/On the psychology of chronically hostile online posters — grievance as identity, an inability to tolerate curiosity and ambiguity, and how anonymity and the like button turn contempt into a performance.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shanesanders.com/blog/superintelligence-and-the-future-we-could-lose/https://shanesanders.com/blog/superintelligence-and-the-future-we-could-lose/What happens when humanity builds systems whose capabilities exceed its ability to supervise them — recursive self-improvement, the alignment problem, economic disruption, AI warfare, and the quieter risk of losing the ability to say no.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shanesanders.com/blog/spaceage-purposeful-finite-ecosystem/https://shanesanders.com/blog/spaceage-purposeful-finite-ecosystem/Why SpaceAge is built as a bounded, coherent instrument rather than an all-purpose DAW — conceptual economy, shared modulation logic, and the case that a closed but deep ecosystem builds mastery faster than unlimited plugin support ever could.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shanesanders.com/blog/nori-ubukata-moving-beyond-fm-synthesis/https://shanesanders.com/blog/nori-ubukata-moving-beyond-fm-synthesis/An interview with Nori Ubukata, one of the original Yamaha DX7 sound designers and co-creator of the Shofuku cartridges, on trial-and-error patch programming, the DX7’s missing filter, revisiting Shofuku for Arturia’s DX7 V, and his Thérésyn and Therewaves theremin-synthesis instruments.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shanesanders.com/blog/the-closed-studio/https://shanesanders.com/blog/the-closed-studio/A follow-up experiment in deliberate limitation — four instruments, one preset each, one reverb, one delay — and what happens to arrangement, sound design, and revision once the studio closes almost completely.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shanesanders.com/blog/eight-instruments-three-presets/https://shanesanders.com/blog/eight-instruments-three-presets/A thought experiment for a home studio with too many options — eight VST instruments, three presets each — and what The Beatles, Kaizen, and deliberate limitation can teach about finishing music instead of endlessly auditioning it.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shanesanders.com/blog/flux-nodes/https://shanesanders.com/blog/flux-nodes/Designing SpaceAge’s Hat Lab synth led me to a simple idea, Flux Nodes, which let a parameter wander within a musically useful range instead of jumping between wildly different sounds.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shanesanders.com/blog/sample-squad-sound-station/https://shanesanders.com/blog/sample-squad-sound-station/Sound Station began as a desktop media player and is growing into a place to explore, organize, edit, and transform sound, then carry finished kits into SpaceAge.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shanesanders.com/blog/buckle-up/https://shanesanders.com/blog/buckle-up/A new place to publish, now that Facebook is gone. Subscribe to the RSS feed and buckle up for what’s coming.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT