cold code

I was part of a very nice software engineering reading group at Spotify, just before I left. In addition to being around for the coining…

cartoons & classics

Want to save this amazing twitter thread of classical music in cartoons for a few reasons: One, it shows how much music we miss in…

solar protocol

http://solarprotocol.net/index.html is very nice: websites co-hosted around the world, with servers that might go down if there is not enough light. I have been thinking…

amulet

I am very skeptical / confused / old-man-ish about NFTs, blockchains, and so forth, but Amulet is very, very nice: poems that have repeating numeral…

the gutenberg game

I just finished the excellent The Printing Press As An Agent of Change, by Elizabeth Eisenstein, and wanted to get down a few notes about…

how to solve problems

This is a book by a man with the fantastic name of Wayne Wickelgren – and I want to mention it because Wickelgren was a…

2016: concerts of the year

Fuck this year.  With that said … Radiohead at Secret Solstice Woooooosh.  There were lots of other amazing bands at Secret Solstice, but the best…

week 149

For, as ever, certain values of weeks. Ada Palmer’s TOO LIKE THE LIGHTNING is dazzling – so dazzling, in fact, that I don’t know if…

week 147

– In the middle of The End of The West, I went to Iceland!  I can recommend it. – Some fine Canadians are working on…

remix is gone, but amen is here

On May 31st, 2016 the track/upload endpoint will be removed from the public API of Spotify / The Echo Nest, ending an era. I don’t want…