Today we said goodbye to Pickles the Wonder Pug, aka Black Lightning. He gave our family nine years of unconditional love, snugs, snorts, and romps—guarding our safety, and protecting us from garbage collectors, mailmen, airplanes, and helicopters. He passed peacefully with his whole family around him. Rest in peace, Pick-pick. ❤️❤️❤️ Continue reading

I’ve been meaning to do this forever, and now the deed is done. I’ve been self-hosting my blog in one way or another, across many platforms and machines since 1997(!), and though I still run my own services for some stuff, keeping my WordPress site healthy, updated, and secure is work I can’t justify doing… Continue reading

My son Gabe interviewed me today about my take on how music has changed over the years with changes in the music industry, changes in music production and technology, and why the music he and I both love so much from the ’70’s and ’80’s is different than so much of the music of today.… Continue reading

It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: Much of 2020 has been an abysmal dumpster-fire of a year. Between election insanity, ongoing political divisiveness and disfunction, systemic racism, economic inequality, the still-raging pandemic and the vast number of individual tragedies that have been caused by it, and the ever-looming disaster of climate change,… Continue reading

What Trump thinks happened in tonight’s debate against Joe Biden: What actually happened: Continue reading

Two weeks ago I started a new job as a Technical Program Manager at Amazon Music, after sadly having been part of the COVID-19 layoffs at Rover.com back in the end of March. The collision of music and tech has been a recurring theme for me for decades now, going all the way back to… Continue reading

I’ve been saying for some weeks now that it’s going to be really fascinating to see how work culture will change over the coming months. I think it’s clear that there will be some companies that embrace the changes we’ve all made and decide to keep them – or at least some of them. And… Continue reading

It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything here. Too long. I’m going to try to start back up slowly, but given everything that’s happening these days I’m not sure whether that’s even possible. Maybe it is, or maybe it’s not – and if not then I might write a lot, or nothing, or… Continue reading

A couple of months ago, I started work on a new project – it’s big and complex, with a lot of smart and opinionated people involved, an enormous amount of “legacy” code (mostly C++), and tools and systems that are sorely in need of an update. In situations like this it’s always really tempting to… Continue reading

Someone was asking at work earlier about what computers people had owned or programmed on. I don’t think I’d ever made a list before, so I decided to make one. This list includes computers I’ve programmed on outside of a professional capacity, or owned personally. There are lots more machines I’ve used to greater or lesser… Continue reading