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counterpoint 06/26

miro@mtmn.name (miro) — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0200

Salutations!

We have been doing a bi-monthly residence with Filip at Infame Radio and last month's show is up in the clouds!

Yours truly for the first hour with an eclectic thinky-dancey tracks and Filip for the second hour with club heaters, go get some!

Tracklist

Geins’t Nait + LØ + Scanner - Callas
Anastasia Kristensen - Magpie Song
tibslc - You Just Want
Evitceles - Sink
Mike Cooper - Red Jungle Fowl
Inweys - B
Ostseetraum - Ende
rikardfvs - Adho Mukha Svanasana
Aquadab & MC A - Shape Decorated Screen
Torn - Stay
dadan karambolo - Downpour
Commodo - Deep Harbour
Andy Martin - Afrofuturism
Panda Lassow - Potencia De Kuduairo
Volruptus - Tapetum Lucidum
natsumi hirota - Epilogue
Phran - Un Poquito
KADAPAT, Nova Ruth, Siko Setyanto - Tedun
Paperclip Minimiser - TT A1
Praga Express - Till Next Time

how a stray "j" ruined my evening

miro@mtmn.name (miro) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Some time ago I decided to wrangle a silly link shortener that I called shirts linkener, shirts for short.

There's nothing special about it in particular, rather it's in my run-once-forget-forever shell script that copies the generated links to a clipboard using wl-clipboard.

#!/bin/sh

shirt=$(curl -s -X POST "$(pass show shirts/url)" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $(pass show shirts)" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d "{\"url\": \"${1?missing url}\"}")

echo "$shirt" | jq
echo "$shirt" | jq -r '.short_url' | wl-copy

Nothing out of the ordinary here. It shortens the link and copies it to a clipboard. By then I have been hapilly using it for couple of months without an issue.

The fun began when I decided to try out gurk, a Signal TUI written in Rust. Those who know me, know my obsession with terminal interfaces so this was an obvious match.

One evening I was sharing a link to an image hosted on S3 when I noticed people were saying it shows 404 to them.

After pasting the link into Firefox, it worked. What is going on? I send them the link and it works now...

Time passes and I get the same responses from multiple friends - 404. After some time looking at the messages I notice a pattern - each url ends with "j".

Turns out I was copying the link with a \n at the end, which in most cases went unnoticed, but in ANSI newline delimiter is translated as "j", hence the stray jay at the end of each link.

After having a solid five minutes of immense shame I found that jq has --join-output argument, which prevents exactly my case:

     --join-output / -j:

            Like -r but jq won't print a newline after each output.

Moral of this story is that terminals are fun and shooting myself in the foot repeatedly acts as a great learning opportunity.

Some of the sources around control codes and escape sequences.

moments eluding 04/26

miro@mtmn.name (miro) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

This one was fun to record.

Originally I wanted to play more club-friendly music in the second half, but Iceman Junglist Kru turned up being a drone mixtape, not actual jungle.

Maybe next month?

Tracklist

Echium - Glacial Rust
VHS MIDNIGHT STYLE - set for life
Isabassi - Gracha Razz
Nova Varnrable - Split (Sister Marion Dub)
matryoshka - Surface Tension
Misha Sultan & Purpurniy Dyadya - Babushka
Cloud Management, Vivien Goldman - Whoops Wrong Planet
Iceman Junglist Kru - Cold War Surveillance State 2-Step
Behnam Manahedji - Shushtari
Zbigniew Preisner - Effroyables Jardins (3 version piano)
Yin Sno - Violência
Kaazi - Light Drops On Violet Leaves
Mineral Stunting - Destiny Melts Like Ice Under a Warm Sun
Mathilde Nobel - WIDE AWAKE OPEN
A Ras - O
DJ Python - Acostados
Black Zone Myth Chant - Their Love for You