2026-04-11 11:27:38
And tonight, the category is: covers that go hard.
These madlads are back in the kitchen throwing down hard to perhaps my favorite System song.
How dare they. How dare they.
My daughter is gonna go nuts for that alto sax solo.
Of course that song won a Grammy this year.
From that first strum in Tema de Guile, I was hooked.
2026-03-31 01:02:00
I have loved listening to Giant Steps since college, but never knew why so many musically-literate people love this album. I just liked it because it sounds good.
This is the first video that explained the circle of fifths in a way that made me want to learn more about music theory.
2026-03-24 22:53:29
I was totally sobbing by the end of this beautifully illustrated version of Danny Fenster, an American journalist who was arrested for months in Myanmar for the crime of... uh, journalism.
One of the big things I took away from his story was how he trained himself to embrace boredom. I really should try to get into meditation.
2026-03-16 10:37:00
Is there anything more punk than spending your snowy Sunday listening to The Rezillos, piling up a mountain of snow, and digging a big hole into it, just because it's fun and makes you happy?
Yeah, I'm really proud of this igloo, we kicked butt on it.
Next time, we'll make the roof higher and the room bigger to accommodate two adults and two kids.
2026-03-16 08:07:26
This is a great list, saving this for later.
Another item I’d add to it is this aspect ratio calculator. I’ve used it for years to help me figure out dimensions for cropping photos for use with social media.
Come to think of it… these one-off generators are incredibly trivial for coding agents to whip together. I should host a bunch of my own. 🧐
2026-03-15 12:15:00
Curation was once something we did for ourselves, a ritual that shaped our taste and gave us joy. I worry that in our rush toward convenience, algorithms, and now AI agents, we’re letting go of that agency piece by piece. Maybe what we need isn’t smarter technology to choose for us, but the space and intention to start curating again — for ourselves, on our own terms.
I’ve been aggressively curating my digital gardens lately.
I used to hit “shuffle all” on my music library and cringe at roughly half of the songs.
Lately, there’ve been consecutive days of listening on shuffle where I don’t skip a single song. And often, I pull up my phone to see who the artist is.
The more I curate, the happier I am.
Cull, weed, curate, clean... all synonyms for the same thing. Do the work, reap the benefits.