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Engineers often see no value in what marketers do. This video is what they don't do.

Chess players still play chess.

I grew some mushrooms at home for the first time. Ate one at 8pm at a concert tonight. Its now 3am and despite taking melatonin, I cannot get to sleep.

Apple is still a hardware company. A loss of revenue from software and services sales is far from ruinous for Apple.

Should I be blocked if I ask Claude Desktop to lower the prices in all of my Craigslist ads by 10%?

I recognized her name when this story dropped. She’s been on an Apple vendetta for some time.

Where did you get the music to train on? And how hard was it to get permission?

There are a myriad of reasons why living in a LA beach city is preferable to the SFV. The beach is there. The weather is better. You’re closer to LAX.

Yes. There are lots of us on enterprise controlled systems and can only install apps with homebrew.

No one becomes a billionaire from hard work. Typically some amount of theft, fraud, misery or abuse is involved.

I too would love a Bluesky invite

Piano lessons. I’m genuinely excited for piano lessons on this thing.

Similarly, post-covid, I don’t know if it will come back as good and engaging as it was before, but the Ableton Loop conferences. I went to the one in Los Angeles and bought flights for the one in Berlin that got canceled during the pandemic.

Awesome hands-on sessions and live music. Don’t need to be an Ableton user.

With a name like Stonks, the audience isn’t supposed to take this seriously, right?

Downie for mac is great

One is more likely to achieve success in the music business by selling “the dream” rather than selling music.

It wasn't artificial. Twitter started as a way to broadcast an SMS text to followers. SMS length limit was 160 characters at the time. They reserved 20 characters for usernames resulting in the birth of the 140 limit.

And 99.9% of artists still won’t get paid squat.

I often used the MLB app’s ability to play the local radio audio instead of TV audio. There’s still some good ol’ drunk radio announcers in baseball.

Gatekeeping is a hell of a drug

Speaking of BMs, WFH has me spoiled in that I get to use the bidet I installed at home every time. Once you’re used to using a bidet, anything less feels like living in the dark ages.