This too shall pass.
Sometime within the last few years there s been a noticeable shift, or at least a trend, toward returning to a simpler time on the internet. Remember the World Wide Web? It was an exciting place to be where everyone seemed to have this shared goal of building a network of people, sharing knowledge and existing [ ]
On the drive to the beach I got annoyed at how every YouTube video starts with hey guys, so I made a bunch of videos that are just that. Then I built a network-radar app on the balcony. It was a good week.
It was driving me crazy listening to The House of the Dragon s opening theme music, which was composed by Ramin Djawadi, and has been such an iconic musical piece for 11 seasons of shows. I knew something was different, and I thought I might have been able to pinpoint it, but I wasn t for certain [ ]
As you may know about me, I like to make things in what little free time I have. Often that is music, but lately it s been apps. Since I also like collecting vinyl records, I have been making apps that fill gaps or fix annoyances along those lines. For a while now I ve had this [ ]
My annual physical in early March came back with some numbers that weren t exactly alarming, but weren t nothing, either. Glucose at 102 when normal tops out at 99. LDL cholesterol at 133. Total cholesterol at 205, just over the 200 threshold my doctor uses as a soft line in the sand. Her take was something [ ]
I was getting really annoyed by posts in /r/politics that pointed to The Daily Beast, whose articles are almost always click-bait with little substance to them. Since I already use uBlock Origin in my browser, I sought after a way to fix this. Adding this snippet to my custom filters in uBlock removes any post [ ]
I ve been recording music at home for a long time. My setup grew in fits and starts over the years, a piece here, a piece there, a few bad purchases along the way. If I were starting from zero today with a limited budget and no one to steer me, here s what I d actually buy. [ ]
I found this MCP server for querying your Discogs music collection, which is pretty handy. My primary driver for this was wanting to get a recommendation for something from my collection to play based on my mood, or a feeling, or a vibe. For example, instead of the de-facto Discogs random album picker, I wanted [ ]
Saw an interesting post on Hacker News today, which asserts that the personal blog has made a comeback. I, for one, could not be more thrilled. As someone who has maintained this blog for about 25 years, I thought it was a tragedy to watch the Internet lose its innocence and move on to the [ ]
My fourth album under the moniker Shadow Person was released yesterday. I wrote and performed all of the songs on this album, and I recorded them in my home studio. I am pretty excited about the way it turned out, and I am eager for people to hear it. The name Chronic Disappointment is derived [ ]