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Side Projects

  • This website - designing and building it to launch my first blog in who knows how long. I used to have a Tumblr at some point, but I mostly just shared new artists I liked on that. The colophon has the technical details.
  • A macOS menu bar DSP app - I am trying to create a simpler solution for my existing vocal chain hack. I use OBS to host VSTs to mix my microphone input. Because OBS does not create a virtual output, I then hijack the monitor output from OBS using this open source loopback solution called Blackhole and use the virtual output to route the mixed signal into Zoom, Slack etc. I am working on a simple macOS menu bar app that has built-in DSP and bundles Blackhole that solves this niche problem of mine. Using Tauri and React.

Learning

Things I'm actively studying or exploring:

  1. HTML, CSS and Typescript - one of the goals of building this site is to also get a better understanding of the modern state of web standards. I’ve wrangled data and built tools, but I’ve never really written any mission critical front-end. I especially like how far modern CSS has grown. It’s still slightly intimidating to me, but the resources out there are awesome and at least the folks I’ve found that write, talk and care about CSS seem like pretty nice human beings.
  2. atproto - I am pretty excited by what’s happening on the Atmosphere. I am trying to understand the ecosystem and protocol better. I have some seedlings of ideas for stuff to build on it.

Reading

My reading has not been very productive recently. During 2026 I’ve mostly been reading or re-reading Terry Pratchett books. And by reading, I mean listening. I’ve gone through about 10 of his books this year, some of which I have read before. I find some kind of comfort in his writing.

Listening

Two notable mentions at the moment:

  1. Angine de Poitrine - you’ve probably seen them in your feed by now. The polkadot covered alien duo playing microtonal math rock. Here’s a performance of their song "Fabienk" from their their viral performance on KEXP. Angine de Poitrine are Khn de Poitrine (microtonal guitar and bass) and Klek de Poitrine (drums). These are of course not their real names, but their dadaesque alien personas. Their whole thing is awesome. Especially in this era of AI slop, I really enjoy the weirdness of their act, it gives me hope. And it does scratch a math rock itch of mine. I used to be deep into math rock as a teenager.
  2. After - After are Graham Epstein and Justine Dorsey. They make pop music reminiscent of early 2000s pop. Stuff that could easily fit as the soundtrack of a teen drama of those days. It’s simple, it’s slightly naive, but it’s comforting. Justine’s vocals are great, I get a slight Imogen Heap vibe from her. Here’s the music video for their track "Deep Diving".

Watching

  1. Shrinking - a series starring Jason Segel as a grieving therapist. It’s super wholesome (notice that comforting theme here?).
  2. The Pitt - a series starring Noah Wyle as the attending of an ER in Pittsburgh. It’s great.
  3. Project Hail Mary - Ryan Gosling talks to a space rock for 3 hours. Just saw this yesterday in IMAX. Full hopecore, loved it.

Podcasts

I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts. Here are some notable mentions:

  1. ShopTalk Show - Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier talk about the web and stuff.
  2. OffMenu - British comedians James Acaster and Ed Gamble welcome a guest every week to their magical restaurant. Just good, funny banter.
  3. The Pragmatic Engineer - Gergely Orosz talks to guests about software development. I find it decently, well, pragmatic.
  4. Revolution.Social - Evan Henshaw-Plath aka @rabble talks to guests about the state of social media and particularly open social media.
  5. The Rest is Science - Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens talk about various science topics.