Focus and Horror
My search to discover my preferred post writing style continues. This week, I’m feeling inspired by https://www.cool-supply.com, a site where Adam Molina posts about stuff he finds cool. I like...
Matthew M. Tong
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MMT Musings - April 22, 2026
Going to start calling these newsletters “musings” instead of a time-based term like “weekly”. I prefer to slowly gather up items that I’ve enjoyed and recommend them when I have...
MMT Weekly - November 8, 2025
The weekly post is turning into a monthly post. One of my resistances to writing the weekly post is the lack of content to write about, which is a result...
MMT Weekly - October 3, 2025
I’ve been thinking this week about akrasia, which is the lack of will to do what one wants to do, and instead doing something that isn’t ideal. It’s the feeling...
MMT Weekly - September 26, 2025
This week has involved more scheduled music-related work, so less time was given to my desired auxiliary studies of jazz and coding. Still, my brain has continued to ruminate on...
iOS 26 Experience On iPhone 13 mini
iOS 26 arrived this month, and I’ve been using it on my iPhone 13 mini since the beta releases. I ordered my 13 mini back in April 2022, and my...
MMT Weekly - September 19, 2025
I’m starting to wonder what sort of introductory paragraph would serve well for this newsletter. Should it be a recap summary of the things I’m about to share, or something...
MMT Weekly - September 12, 2025
Welcome to the second weekly newsletter! I decided I disliked the slightly unorganized collage look of the first newsletter’s banner image, so I decided to try doing something a bit...
MMT Weekly - September 5, 2025
I’ve always wanted to write a weekly newsletter that shared the things I enjoyed from the past week, along with some life updates. Why not start now? It’ll be a...
How I Transcribe A Song
This post goes into my process of creating sheet music from an audio track. I go through a series of steps to process to audio to make it easier for myself, and then I notate the song out using software.
SongStreamList: Using Firebase Studio to Make a Livestream Song Requester App
I used to use Streamer Songlist as the method of allowing users to request songs and also put up an overlay on OBS to show what was playing and what was up next on the song queue. The only downside: it only integrated with Twitch streams. I wanted to have something similar to use with YouTube streams, so I decided this was a nice time to try out Google’s Firebase Studio, which uses LLM tools to…
如何在 iPad 版 Zoom 上获取原声/原始音频
以下是如何在 iPad 版 Zoom 应用中将音频设置更改为原始声音的说明。
Playing Keyboard 2 for Newsies
I received the opportunity to play the Keyboard 2 part for a production of Newsies at Westridge. I’d like to share my experience with the MainStage instrument patches in the show and do some score review.
Keyboard Rig Setup for Musical Theatre
Playing keyboard (especially Keyboard 2) in modern musical theatre settings often involves a healthy mix of musicianship and technology (which makes it quite fun for me, considering my interests). Small theatre budgets create the necessity of small pit orchestras. Many shows often have a pit of two to three keyboardists and a few, if any, other instrumentalists. Thus, the goal of many keyboard…
YuanWords: Exploring Cursor to Make a Basic Vocab App
I’ve been interested in learning programming recently, and decided to see what the capabilities of LLM/AI tools are, as a complete coding n00b. My overall takeaway from using only Cursor? The LLM is pretty great at writing the basics of things, but my lack of coding knowledge and experience makes it incredibly difficult to implement things properly. I ended up being unable to get certain things to…
2025 State of the Apps
Cortex does one show each year dedicated to their usage of apps, and this post title is inspired by them. They go through their home screens and then break down apps into categories. I will go through my Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Widget Page, sharing the widgets and apps that exist on each of those zones. I’ll provide a bit of commentary behind the reasoning that each page looks the way it…
2024 Recap / 2025 Theme
As the end of 2024 appraoches, I want to recount the things that have happened in this year and the things I hope to look forward to in the coming one.