Plutonic Rainbows

I've improved my image generation app to ensure that prompt information is consistently saved with each image. Previously, sometimes the prompt text wasn't being properly written to the image files, which made it difficult to remember what prompts created which images. I've added better error handling around the metadata writing process, with specific fallback options if something goes wrong. Now, even if there's a problem with one method of saving the information, the app will try another approach and clearly log what happened. This makes the whole process more reliable and helps me track exactly what prompts were used to create each image, which is essential for my workflow.

I modified my templates to use a signed URL from cloudfront. Serving signed URLs from CloudFront offers a robust solution for securely delivering private content while enhancing performance. By embedding expiration times, IP restrictions, and custom policies directly into the URL, you can tightly control access and ensure that only authorised users view your content. At the same time, leveraging CloudFront’s global CDN means that content is cached at edge locations, reducing latency and speeding up delivery — protecting your origin resources from direct access and heavy load. This approach not only boosts security but also provides the flexibility and scalability needed for modern, forward-thinking applications.

A day later and I now find that I have settled on Cursor for advanced editing. Cursor is an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Anysphere Inc., designed to enhance developer productivity across Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. Forked from Visual Studio Code, it incorporates advanced AI features such as intelligent code generation, smart rewrites, and natural language codebase queries. These capabilities enable developers to generate or update entire classes or functions using simple prompts, predict subsequent code edits for efficient navigation, and query the codebase in natural language to retrieve information or refer to specific files and documentation. Cursor also supports the integration of existing extensions, themes, and keybindings, ensuring a seamless transition for users familiar with Visual Studio Code.

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.