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Tributaries: Three Streams, One Current
My first job that wasn’t washing pots and pans in a kitchen was an on-air shift at Elkhart, Indiana jazz station WVPE in the 80s....
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“Your memory won’t die in my grave.”
I met Rob in alt.fan.frank-zappa on Usenet in 1992, initially bonding over our love of Frank Z, the NeXT computer and The Shaggs. We took...
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I am hearing Blame the Clown by Twisted Teens in my sleep
This is my favorite kind of album; it starts with “I dunno, sounds cool,” but by the 5th listen you are hearing the melodies and...
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Did Neurosis, quiet for ten years, surprise release the album of the year in March?
No campaign, no singles, no press release. An Undying Love for a Burning World just appeared on March 20. The only announcement was the music....
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My talk from SXSW 2026
If I had a time machine, I’d go back and tell 1992 me, “The Command Line will be sexy in 2026.” 1992 me would never...
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We can’t say we don’t know anymore
Like many, I’ve been saying, “We can’t know what to teach in schools because we don’t know what the world looks like tomorrow.” I don’t...
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Agent Payments with Ledger
Agents propose. Humans sign. Your Ledger enforces. Note: This is a hackathon submission, not an official Ledger product. Why This Matters AI agents are now...
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Reflections on a Claude Code New Year
I started building things for myself with Claude Code many months ago. I’ve built: But over this holiday break I, like many others, took time...
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Au Moroc
Yancey found himself with some extra time and suggested we take a weekend trip. Neither of us had ever been to Morocco, or the African...
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The Defiant Ones
In 2014, the day before we officially announced the aquisitition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music by Apple, I met Jimmy, Dre, Luke and Paul...
Everyone's turning into pigs and ponies. Can't let it happen to me.