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a photo of an F-35 as seen from the mirror of a pickup truck

one of the perks of volunteering at airshows is being able to take mildly entertaining photos of planes

cigarette pack calculator

logging on

a screenshot from a PCB design tool showing a rat's nest of poorly routed traces

you design 2-layer PCBs because you're good at making efficient layouts. I design 2-layer PCBs because I'm a cheapass. We are not the same

A gold enamel pin of two flags, the NATO flag and the trans pride flag

I didn't realize that many people had these lmao, my friend designed them and gave one to me in exchange for a box of miscellaneous electronics bits

spent two hours with a wrench and a torch to try and figure out why my 6GHz calibration standard was dead. If it wasn't broken before it sure is now. Tiny little ceramic substrate PCB with two carbon traces that combine to make an extremely precise 50Ω load, and now unfortunately in two pieces.

meme showing tux, the tuxedo penguin linux mascot says: "I'm still using a signed 32-bit integer to store the time." hearing this is xenia, an alternative anthromorphic female fox mascot that's made to represent linux as well. she rips out a section of the calendar only to see it go from january 2038, to december 1901.

A workflow diagram: Have great idea Finish project Start project Tell everyone The finish project is missed out.

Morning

super secret sneak preview of a song for an upcoming @newgrounds.com collab with a bunch of other super talented artists! (and yes I love writing piano sections that would require 3 hands to play)

#musiciansky #musicfriday #art #music #newgrounds #orchestral #composer

a point-of-view photo looking down at many flights of metal, industrial stairs

I end up in the strangest places sometimes

a blank prototyping board ready to be soldered

a fully soldered prototype board filled with enamel wire and jumpers

it's always fun to build up a circuit the "old school" way

the string libs sound great! What lib is it?

Setting Sun Written for the semifinal round of the Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch: https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1550602/1 Real life, as it sometimes does, gets in the way of funny internet music contest. I

finished my entry for the #newgrounds audio deathmatch semifinals!

soundcloud.com/papkee/setti...
www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen...

Rose Petal Through some bracket fuckery, I somehow managed to brute force my way back into the main NGADM bracket after having technically lost in round 1. Because I've been gifted a second chance, I'm pulling o

forgot to post this to bsky (only two days late!) but I managed to survive to round 3 of the #newgrounds audio deathmatch, so here’s my latest track

on.soundcloud.com/MuPQULttpDJv...

and on newgrounds if you want to give it a rate/review:

www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen...

Skip Stop Since I barely squeaked by into round 2 of the Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch this year, I figured let's do something wild. This is the first time I've tried to write a

tried writing some bebop jazz for round 2 of the Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch

on.soundcloud.com/AKSV6YlGPtOe...

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

Horizon The NGADM (Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch) is back again and so am I! After rewatching both the TRON movies, and with the announcement of the new one in the works, I thought it would be fun to do a comp

And on soundcloud as well:

soundcloud.com/papkee/horizon

Horizon NGADM Round 1 - Back in the Game

The #Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch is back for 2025!

For those unfamiliar, the NGADM is a yearly single elimination tourney where you have to write a new song from scratch every 2 weeks.

just finished my round 1 track with a whole hour to spare! Listen below on NG

www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen...

a photo of a lighthouse

a mediocre pixel art representation of the same lighthouse

first stab at doing pixel art (thanks wplace for the motivation)

thought I wrote some crazy polyrhythm shit in FL until I realized it was just the washing machine in the basement shaking itself apart

Papkee - Our Vows (Sovereign of Wrath Original Score) YouTube video by Papkee

Trying something a little different with this song - it's a score to a story I've been reading, "Sovereign of Wrath" by MadMaxine on Scribblehub/Royal Road. Check out the description for download links & a full breakdown of the themes and sections.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7az...

Hot Works I got the NI Session Horns library and wrote the world's simplest pattern to test them out. Things spiraled out of control after that.

I mostly wrote this to test out a new brass library, but just kinda kept adding to it and suddenly it was a whole song

on.soundcloud.com/6LoDJWtyzryJ...

Inspiration Ringing in the new year with some new music! Here's another eastern-inspired track making heavy use of everyone's favorite pentatonic scale. I wrote this one in reverse order, with the ending climax

New orchestral song is out!

soundcloud.com/papkee/inspi...

www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen...

I found a YT video with the clean brass stems from Superstition and one thing led to another

cranking out the tunes (sneak peak of a new song)

Timekeeper Created for the NGADM 2017 round 1 last year. Uploaded so that other people will stop uploading my music without asking >:(

And of course, I have to end with the song that still has the most plays out of anything I've ever written, despite being over 7 years old now. I've improved so much since then but I'm glad so many people still enjoy this one.

Separation So here we are - the semifinals of the 2023 audio deathmatch. I'm beyond excited that I even made it this far, and I'm up against one hell of an opponent this round - Lordant, who is a master of blend

This is still one of my all-time favorite tracks. I tried blending my orchestral and electronic stuff together and it worked way better than I expected.

Red Vox - Stranded (Papkee Orchestral Arrangement) See the FL Studio Project on Youtube >> https://youtu.be/Rsv-rCSSB7E I've always been a fan of the Red Vox song Stranded, and the idea for this one has been kicking around for two years at this point

One of the bigger projects of mine last year and something I'm still super proud of, an orchestral arrangement of Stranded by @redvoxband.bsky.social

Resolution The Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch 2023 is finally over! I still can't believe I made it all the way to the end - even if it's just the battle for third place. I wrote the most music I've probably ever w

Posting some of my better works over here - this one nabbed me 3rd place in the 2023 Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch and I'm still riding that high a year later.

it's only been a decade of making music, might as well get a social media presence