Headlines don't crash economies
Many years ago I asked on one social media site or another what the next big crash would come from after 2008. Subprime auto loans were the top suggestion. HN Search powered by AlgoliaHacker News Sea…
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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…
What's your imponderable?
I like trivia. Some influences: * Imponderables - The word imponderable itself is, according to Merriam-Webster, from 1794, but the series ran from 1986-2006. It asked the kind of questions I ask a…
The other technology adoption curve
I am thinking of a technology. This technology disrupts the spaces it exists in. This technology helps navigate the spaces it exists in. This technology is seen as good, ill, or neutral depending o…
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…
The case against Threads
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou It's the same case made against Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and every other profit-focused social me…
Pride
Some people seem to have themselves figured out pretty quick. For the rest of us, identity is like a Matryoshka doll. Pull one layer off, and you don't seem to change much, but the process of comi…
How I draft stories
I discovered that trying to write one big blob does not work for me. I can get as far as 2000 words before the volume overwhelms. As with many things in life, breaking it down into pieces helps a lot!…