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Side Projects

  • A consulting project in Mozambique - helping Mozambique set up a national interoperability platform with X-Road. Just did a trip where I ran a 4-day training workshop for the X-Road Governing Authority team.
  • This website - designing and building it to launch my first blog in who knows how long. Looking into more atproto integrations now. 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 loopback driver. I think it's pretty feature complete now, at least for me. You can check out the GitHub repo. Disclaimer — I made heavy use of clankers on this project. But I ran extensive QA and it has been working for me for a while now.

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

Docs. A lot of docs.

Listening

Two notable mentions at the moment:

  1. Hovvdy - a long time favorite from Austin, TX. They make wholesome, hopecore indie rock. They're currently working towards a new album release in August. Just dropped a new single today.
  2. Jazz fusion - I saw Plini and Sungazer live. So now I'm on a pretty intense jazz fusion vibe. Seeing them play also made me feel like maybe I should actually try to master playing the guitar.

Watching

  1. From - a weird horror TV show where folks are trapped in a small town and strange creatures in human form come out at night.

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.