April 1, 2020 — More Satellites Than Planes
Good advice circulated early in the covid pandemic: take lots of notes, you'll want to remember this era. I tried! This was pretty much it. I'm doing a lot of retrospecting on a lot of things…
You Are Not Immune To Local Consensus
Human beings are prone to mistaking local consensus for global consensus. Most people never notice this process happening because they're never pushed far enough outside consensus to see its edge…
You won't read this
You'll skim it at best. If you're kind, you might offer sympathy. If you're an asshole, you'll look for a comment form to go off on a rant devoid of any connection to the thing you'…
Find your most used sounds in Ableton Live
Step 1: Grab DB Browser for SQLite Step 2: Find your Ableton data directory. If you're on Windows: press windows key + R, and put in %LOCALAPPDATA%/Ableton then click Run. The stuff you're lo…
Advice on advice
This started as a comment on Hacker News. I need a browser extension to capture comments on forums and social media as blog drafts. Here is one of a small number of things I consider indisputable: It…
Revisiting The Walking Dead
Circumstances aligned recently to allow me to catch up on The Walking Dead. I started with spinoffs: Dead City and Daryl Dixon. I had already watched most of Fear The Walking Dead and the first season…
4/4: A beat you can dance to
Spend any time immersed in music discussions and you'll see people ask why 4/4 is so popular. The short and most precise answer to all questions of music and music theory is: centuries of changin…
Nobody cares about decentralization until they do
A recurring line in discussion of federated, decentralized social media is that no one cares about it. They just want their Twitter without the Nazis. Which is okay. But how it looks on the backend m…
Wonder
I used to look up into the night sky and wonder. Then I went there. Among the trillions upon trillions of stars, none had that kindred spirit I longed for. I found a machine civilization, a sentient…
Free and affordable music production resources
This is all stuff I use or have used and still recommend as of publishing. * Black Octopus Sound has a 1GB royalty-free sampler. This was my go-to pack when I was just starting out and couldn't…
There is a best Digital Audio Workstation
A DAW, or Digital Audio Workstation, is a big, fancy environment for working with sound. The common truism is, to an extent, true: you can do anything in any DAW. But the more advanced you get, or th…
TV on the internet before YouTube
Just a little note to get this all in one place. This was prompted by my comment here: On-demand was a thing before, but it was mediated through slow, glitchy cable and satellite boxes. There was als…