A mere Christian, aspiring minimalist, inveterate notetaker, budget audiophile and paper airplane mechanic.
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Moon Shots
The creator’s expectations for the adoption of a new software tool are now part of my evaluation criteria for that tool.
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I think we are starting to see how Ghost with ActivityPub will work for self-hosted sites. It will be interesting to understand how PikaPods will support this as it seems right up their alley.
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The Decline of Design
Sean Heber of Iconfactory brings the harsh realities of maintaining steady design work in the era of AI dominance. I am sorry to read about the challenges Iconfactory is facing. The first product I worked on after I got into software development used icons created by the studio. Their Twitter client, Twitterrific was what lured…
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Demon Haunting
Thoughts about how our culture deals with the supernatural.
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Parental Risk Assessments
I recently wrote about how skateboarding taught me a measure of resilience that I don’t necessarily see in my kids. They simply have a different relationship to risky activities. As I hinted at in the post, there are upsides to this from a parental concern perspective. It’s just hard to know where that line between…
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Nirvana
Glazyhaze released Sonic in March of this year. The sophomore album from the band has received a lot of positive press for its refined take on shoegaze, with physical copies selling out very quickly and having to be restocked hastily. With shoegaze being such a global phenomenon at this point, you wouldn’t necessarily pick up…
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Blessed Adjacency
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the importance of the gatekeepers. Even in an era where doing it yourself has never been easier, the patronage of entities like book publishers and record labels remains important. The case in point that revived my thoughts on the matter is the new EP I Call This One…
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Skateboarding and Resilience
Sometimes I regret that my kids never had the experiences I had with skateboarding.
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Scout Gillett – Enough
Years ago, a friend a colleague mentioned to me how she gets choked up at daddy/daughter songs. I thought to myself that I couldn’t even name a single song that would fit into that description. It’s interesting how our interest in different musical genres put us in touch with varied subject matters. With Scout Gillett’s…
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Private Show
Chris Stewart from Black Marble sets his Joy Division-like post punk to footage from a rodeo, what appears to be a county fair and a horse race. He plays his icy synth on the outskirts of a concert crowd watching a band that seems a much more likely rural attraction. Stewart doesn’t stray far from…