Are we—the hesitant, the conflicted—all alone? Can that be? In a leveling climate of summations, crowded with public figures who speak exclusively from positions of final authority, issuing an endless stream of conclusions, I get a wary sense in my gut of a world that’s making its appeal to my indolence and emptiness, asking only for surrender.
Alison Wilder
How to Delete Facebook – Developer Edition
In which I explain the dark pattern keeping Facebook users from deleting their accounts if they have apps in the developer console
Acoustic guitar. Scatter.
Just an improvised bit of solo acoustic guitar playing after I found a sound I love.
The time for reacting is over. It’s time to act.
The system is burning. We must stop clinging to what’s already on fire and start planning for what can be built from the ashes. It’s up to us to imagine the government we want, and to take action, over and over again, to make it a reality.
For the 4 people with Faderport Classic using Bitwig on Linux
I have a Faderport Classic. It’s the PERFECT transport device — small, with only what you need to survive, and fits in my keyboard drawer beside my keyboard and mouse. But alas, it’s pretty old-fashioned, and isn’t supported in most places. Bitwig has never liked it, even on Windows.
But as of today, it’s working with Bitwig in Linux!
The Sign of a Teaspoon: Magical Realism in “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes”
I’ll never forget hearing Paul Simon’s album Graceland for the first time. As a kid growing up in West Texas surrounded by country music and perpetually drowning in the blood of Christ, the South African musicians on that record blew my world apart. At the same time, Paul Simon’s songwriting pulled my world together. I … Read more
Studio POV: Organizing my DAWless Setup
I needed to do a little housekeeping on mah banks before some upcoming performances, so I strapped a little gimbal camera to my chest and talked my way through it. Come for the rambling, stay for the Clark Kent drinking game.
Further Than The Eye Can See
I just came across this video on the DECtalk, an early and famous speech-to-text synthesizer. And then I wondered if I could use it on my modern, decidedly-not-Windows-NT computer. And the answer is: yes! Huzzah!