Plutonic Rainbows

Nurse With Wound’s Salt Marie Celeste is not just an album — it’s an immersive séance, a slow-burning invocation of the unknown. A single, unbroken track stretching beyond an hour, it feels less like music and more like an aural ritual, channeling something ancient, spectral, and submerged.

Built on two slowly shifting minor chords, the piece drifts through a fog of unsettling textures: distant wails, the creaking of unseen wooden structures, and a wind that could just as easily be whispering voices from another realm. The soundscape is reminiscent of an abandoned ship adrift in dark waters — an audible ghost story with no clear resolution. This sense of unease is deeply tied to the album’s occult leanings; it operates as an auditory sigil, a slow-motion descent into a liminal space where time dissolves, and reality bends.

Much like the esoteric practices that inspired parts of Nurse With Wound’s discography, Salt Marie Celeste requires deep patience and surrender. For some, its repetition and minimalism may feel like an endurance test, but for those willing to fully immerse themselves, it offers a deeply meditative and unsettling experience. The album doesn’t just evoke the supernatural — it inhabits it. Whether as a dark meditation tool or an eerie background for an introspective night, Salt Marie Celeste stands as one of the most evocative ritualistic soundscapes ever crafted.

For more complex editing, I have switched over to Claude Code, an agentic coding tool developed by Anthropic that integrates directly into your terminal, offering AI-powered assistance to enhance development workflows. Currently in beta as a research preview. At present, Claude Code uses claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 by default.

• Claude Code can edit files, fix bugs, and refactor code across your entire codebase, providing explanations of architecture and logic in natural language.

• It handles routine tasks such as testing, linting, and interacting with version control systems like Git, including searching, merging, committing, and reviewing pull requests.

• The tool is capable of generating structured, multi-file code solutions, managing large codebases, and utilizing tools within intricate programming workflows.

So far, I have been impressed but the API is quite expensive.

Second album from Richie Culver due on Friday. This follow-up release builds on the limited-edition debut by offering a diverse mix of soundscapes. The record shifts seamlessly from the raw, intense noise assault of 'Army Crawl' to the sparkling techno energy of 'Dream Pills', and it also delivers a robust warehouse vibe in 'Docker', reflecting the artist’s expertise as a DJ. The album’s most captivating moments are found in its central tracks, where 'Death Happens Here' creates a sublime ambient tension that hints at transformative euphoria, while 'At Your Worst' presents a rich, gothic ambient atmosphere. Overall, the album takes the listener on a compelling journey through varied electronic landscapes, blending intense energy with refined, immersive textures.

Listening to the latest albums from Antoine Caline, Marco Shuttle, and Rod Modell. Each of these releases delivers a unique sonic experience, with deep, immersive ambient soundscapes that are both meditative and thought-provoking. Caline’s compositions are intricate and emotionally charged, Shuttle explores the organic textures of the jungle with a hypnotic edge, and Modell’s work, as always, is drenched in atmospheric, weathered beauty — perfect for moments of introspection.

I also dedicated time this week to refining and tidying up various projects, including my blog, my prompt refinement application, and my flux image generation templates. Wrapping up this work feels like closing a significant chapter — an intense but rewarding stretch of creativity and problem-solving.

On the reading front, I picked up books from Chris Dixon and Scott Turow. Dixon’s insights into technology and innovation always provide thought-provoking perspectives, while Turow’s mastery of legal thrillers promises a compelling narrative journey. Looking forward to diving into both.

Finally, as the week comes to a close, I noticed that Lightbox wasn’t serving my images from Cloudfront, and I have now resolved the issue.