Tributaries: Three Streams, One Current
My first job that wasn’t washing pots and pans in a kitchen was an on-air shift at Elkhart, Indiana jazz station WVPE in the 80s....
FISTFULAYEN
Everyone's turning into pigs and ponies. Can't let it happen to me.
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“Your memory won’t die in my grave.”
I met Rob in alt.fan.frank-zappa on Usenet in 1992, initially bonding over our love of Frank Z, the NeXT computer and The Shaggs. We took...
I am hearing Blame the Clown by Twisted Teens in my sleep
This is my favorite kind of album; it starts with “I dunno, sounds cool,” but by the 5th listen you are hearing the melodies and...
Did Neurosis, quiet for ten years, surprise release the album of the year in March?
No campaign, no singles, no press release. An Undying Love for a Burning World just appeared on March 20. The only announcement was the music....
My talk from SXSW 2026
If I had a time machine, I’d go back and tell 1992 me, “The Command Line will be sexy in 2026.” 1992 me would never...
We can’t say we don’t know anymore
Like many, I ve been saying, We can t know what to teach in schools because we don t know what the world looks like tomorrow. I don t...
Agent Payments with Ledger
Agents propose. Humans sign. Your Ledger enforces. Note: This is a hackathon submission, not an official Ledger product. Why This Matters AI agents are now...
Reflections on a Claude Code New Year
I started building things for myself with Claude Code many months ago. I ve built: But over this holiday break I, like many others, took time...
Au Moroc
Yancey found himself with some extra time and suggested we take a weekend trip. Neither of us had ever been to Morocco, or the African...
The Defiant Ones
In 2014, the day before we officially announced the aquisitition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music by Apple, I met Jimmy, Dre, Luke and Paul...