# crescent city (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover crescent city. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Sea, the Stone, and the Song](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/the-sea-the-stone-and-the-song) _2026-08-15 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ For the past six years now, I’ve been living right here in the middle of history in Palos de la Frontera. ## [Crescent City Read-Along: Book 2, Week 7](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/crescent-city-read-along-book-2-week-8a2) _2026-08-15 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ The ultimate companion to reading Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City books. ## [Reflections on Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/reflections-on-hilary-mantels-wolf) _2026-08-12 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ In this month's Side Quest, I'm sharing some of the highlights and rabbit holes I went down reading this Booker Prize-winning modern classic. ## [Arrivederci, Texas: From the Shadow of the Colosseum to the Maharajah’s Keys](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/arrivederci-texas-from-the-shadow) _2026-08-09 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ ~The Sacred Dust of Italy and the Crescent City Soul ## [Crescent City Read-Along: Book 2, Week 6](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/crescent-city-read-along-book-2-week-4c3) _2026-08-08 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ The ultimate companion to reading Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City books. ## [New books with ancient horrors, remote islands, and fairy-swapped children.](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/the-town-crier-ancient-horrors-remote) _2026-08-07 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ August 2026 round-up of my favorite recent reads, notable new releases, and screen adaptation updates. ## [Target Field to Wrigley Field](https://mttsptz.ai/2026/08/04/target-field-to-wrigley-field.html) _2026-08-04 · Matt Spitz_ In July, I joined two of my cousins and two of their friends on a 500-mile ride from Target Field in Minneapolis to Wrigley Field in Chicago over the course of a week. Cousin B had just left a job after 16+ years and was doing a 2026 bike tour frenzy, so why not ride to Chicago to see the Twins play the Cubs? On a personal note, my cousins’ mother (my aunt) died of colon cancer 20 years ago, and… ## [A Highway of Light and Shadow: 52 Cards, St. Louis, and Saying Goodbye to Gladys](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/a-highway-of-light-and-shadow-52) _2026-08-03 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ I spent the autumn of 2003 split right down the middle—half of my heart tethered to a fading light down south, and the other half carrying a heavy rhythm across America’s highways on a tour that would stretch well into the new year of 2004. ## [Crescent City Read-Along: Book 2, Week 5](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/crescent-city-read-along-book-2-week-c1a) _2026-08-01 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ The ultimate companion to reading Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City books. ## [Cosmic Vibrations: The Story Behind "Flight of the Angels" and the Album Artwork](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/cosmic-vibrations-the-story-behind) _2026-07-30 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ The Story Behind “Flight of the Angels” and the Album Artwork ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/q75bLazgghoj) _2026-07-30 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Surreal in Denton: Living with Dika Newlin and the Ghost of Mahler](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/surreal-in-denton-living-with-dika) _2026-07-29 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ Looking back, that wild season in Denton didn't just teach me how to play music—it taught me how to live inside it, oddities and all. ## [Crescent City Read-Along: Book 2, Week 4](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/crescent-city-read-along-book-2-week-ead) _2026-07-25 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ The ultimate companion to reading Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City books. ## [The Artful Dodger, The Dog, and The Tenor Sax](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/the-artful-dodger-the-dog-and-the) _2026-07-19 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ Beyond the Curtain: Memphis, Monroe, and the Music In-Between ## [Changing a team's culture](https://mttsptz.ai/2026/07/19/changing-a-teams-culture.html) _2026-07-19 · Matt Spitz_ In my advisory work, a common question I get from leaders goes something like, “how do I get my engineering team to care about \[customers, shipping faster, quality\]?” Their team is chasing the latest AI tool from Hacker News, polishing a low-value refactor, or holding an unstated quality bar that slips a deadline, and everyone is frustrated. For better and for worse, a team’s culture stems from… ## [Crescent City Read-Along: Book 2, Week 3](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/crescent-city-read-along-book-2-week-213) _2026-07-18 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ The ultimate companion to reading Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City books. ## [Greek Mythology Reading Guide](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/side-quests-greek-mythology-reading) _2026-07-15 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ In honor of Christopher Nolan's new film The Odyssey, here is a definitive list of books bringing Greek Mythology to life. ## [Crescent City Read-Along: Book 2, Week 2](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/crescent-city-read-along-book-2-week-799) _2026-07-11 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ The ultimate companion to reading Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City books. ## [The Night I Sang with Diana (And Brought the House Down with a Hand-Fart)](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/the-night-i-sang-with-diana-and-brought) _2026-07-10 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ And that’s the beauty of Vegas—you go looking for a show, and sometimes, you end up becoming the headline act your mother never expected to see. ## [The Gospel According to Mozart (and Me)](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/the-gospel-according-to-mozart-and) _2026-07-08 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ "Why I Had to Write "Preaching to the Choir." A Sunday School Boy’s Reckoning in a World of False Prophets ## [The View from the Porch: A Story of “Sundown Town”](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/the-view-from-the-porch-a-story-of) _2026-07-06 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ An American Reckoning in Song and Memory ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/roHyCvcD2KRm) _2026-07-06 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [The Canvas and the Crescent: Painting the Soul of New Orleans](https://johnleesanders.substack.com/p/the-canvas-and-the-crescent-painting) _2026-07-04 · John Lee Sanders · John’s Substack_ From the neon streets of the Crescent City to the canvas of my own life, join me for a deep, rhythmic journey into the heart of the music that defines us. ## [Crescent City Read-Along: Book 2, Week 1](https://hollyslitmagic.substack.com/p/crescent-city-read-along-book-2-week) _2026-07-04 · Holly Fairall · Holly’s Literary Magic_ Welcome to House of Sky and Breath as we read our way through all three of Sarah J. Maas's Crescent City books. ## [Reflections on building with AI](https://mttsptz.ai/2026/07/02/reflections-on-building-with-ai.html) _2026-07-02 · Matt Spitz_ As much as I enjoy writing software, I generally won’t unless I have a particular problem to solve, even if it’s a manufactured and silly problem to solve . I’ve been itching to try out this newfangled way of working with AI development tooling, and I finally found a complex problem to try it out! I write this post to capture my experience and reflections after building and shipping some real… ## [Now with more AI](https://mttsptz.ai/2026/03/20/now-with-more-ai.html) _2026-03-20 · Matt Spitz_ Of course, you can’t spell Matt Spitz without AI. I did some Cloudfront, Route 53, and ACM gymnastics, and now the default domain name for this website is mttsptz.ai . All of the links from mattspitz.me that my millions of followers have bookmarked still work – they’ll just redirect here. Welcome to the new revolution, where domain names cost $80/year for a dad joke. It’s worth every penny. ## [Crosscountry bicycle trip](https://mttsptz.ai/2025/07/08/crosscountry-bicycle-trip.html) _2025-07-08 · Matt Spitz_ From April to June this year, I rode my bicycle across the United States, from Washington DC to the Oregon coast. The ride was solo and unsupported, meaning that I rode by myself and carried everything I needed on my bicycle. It was an incredible adventure and one I’ll never forget. By the numbers: 4026 miles 127318’ elevation gain 11539’ above sea level at Hoosier Pass in Colorado 58 days 14… ## [Crescent City to San Francisco](https://mttsptz.ai/2024/10/20/crescent-city-to-san-francisco.html) _2024-10-20 · Matt Spitz_ Earlier this month, I rode from Crescent City to San Francisco. Together with my 2009 ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles , I’ve now cycled almost the entire California coast. S is also a recently-unemployed engineering executive and was surprisingly game for this whimsical journey considering that he didn’t own a road bike until July. S is familiar with endurance training (marathons,… ## [Retention and resilience](https://mttsptz.ai/2024/09/29/retention-and-resilience.html) _2024-09-29 · Matt Spitz_ I like to frame employee retention as tent stakes. When pitching a tent, one hammers tent stakes into the ground to keep the tent from blowing away in a brisk gust of wind. Similarly, in one’s employment, there are specific reasons, articulated or not, why someone sticks with a company. When reorgs, strategy shifts, and market downturns start ripping up some of the tent stakes, as long as someone…