“Con Todo El Mundo” – Khruangbin
Took a little detour on revisiting my top 100 albums but we’re back with Con Todo El Mundo by Khruangbin. It’s easy to see why this album didn’t make the cut in 2016: It wasn’t released until 2018. I think I stumbled on Khruangbin via an NPR Tiny Desk...
Poking at Distrobox
I’m probably late to the party, but Distrobox has to be one of the best open source projects to drop in the past few years....
Macroblank: plundered vaporwave instrumentals to work or relax to
Music tip for your Saturday, if you’re looking for something that will slide into the background and give you a bit of a groove, check out Macroblank on Bandcamp....
Deep-dive into the “Dune” font, Davison Art Nouveau
Whether the Dune series is your cup of tea or not, anybody who’s spent more than a little time in the sci-fi section of a book store is likely familiar with the series’ book covers and the unusual typeface. I caught a link off the Orange site to a...
Coming soon: Instrumental album from Robyn Hitchcock
The past few years I’ve been seeking out more and more instrumental music. Khruangbin, The Comet is Coming, Material, Pharoah Sanders… but I wasn’t expecting to add Robyn Hitchcock to that list! Robyn has released a few instrumental tracks in the past. I Often Dream of Trains is bookended...
How have your social media habits changed since the Twitter takeover?
It’s been a few months now since the Twitter Takeover, and Musk’s gutting of the Twitter workforce and various antics. I haven’t deleted my account, but I set it to private and set up shop on Mastodon in mid-November. Curious about what others have done and how your habits...
Creating slides with Markdown using Marp
Need to make a presentation, but don’t like using a GUI app? Take a look at Marp, the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem....
Something I should’ve done a long time ago: Installing Pi-hole
Spent some quality Sunday time today refurbishing some older mini PCs that had been gathering dust so I could run a few personal projects. One of the projects I’ve had on my to-do list an embarrassingly long time is to set up Pi-hole for ad blocking / filtering. If...
Absolute silliness: Hampster Invaders
You remember Space Invaders? You remember the Hampster Dance? Get ready for Hampster Invaders....
The Looney Tunes purge, and the difficulty of collecting them all
Slate has a post about HBO Max pulling Looney Tunes cartoons from the service unexpectedly. Specifically they cut more than 250 cartoons from the service, from 1950 to 2004, including the classic “What’s Opera, Doc?” The thread on Hacker News led me down the rabbit hole (heh) to a...