• Defining My Own Reality

    I’ve been having deep discussions with friends of late, and in one of them, I said that I am slowly coming to the realization that anyone, at any time, can just create their own version of reality and their version of it can spread to envelop the world depending on how many people believe them. […]

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  • New Music Friday: A.G. Sully, Emma Ogier, Jessie Mazin

    My Instagram Reels algorithm served me up a couple of Nashville singer-songwriters on what I assume is the come up. Who knows in the current music landscape? Both have two very DIY looking videos that have garnered many plays from me over the past few weeks. A.G. Sully has a trip-hoppy sound straight out of […]

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  • OG Internet Music Revisited

    I am in my 40’s now and I’ve not only been on the Internet since 1995, but chronically online for the entire time. The Internet is at the center of nearly everything in my life, including music, but I have been obsessed with music for much longer than the Internet was available to me. The […]

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  • Using Karabiner-Elements For Sudo Authentication via 1Password

    Karabiner-Elements is an incredible free tool for customizing your keyboard, mouse, and other input devices on macOS. Its most powerful feature is the ability to create complex modification (macro) scripts that can perform a variety of actions when a key — or a combination of keys — are pressed. I’m going to share the scripts […]

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  • Switching from MacOS to Windows

    I’ve been alive for 43 years at this point and I have been using a Microsoft operating system as my daily driver for the last 37 years, starting with MS-DOS running on a Commodore Colt PC in 1988. I have used every version of Windows from 3.0 in 1990 up until Windows 11 in 2025, […]

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  • Deconstructing my ghost encounter…

    Sike! I saw definitely something but I don’t believe that ghosts are a thing. I really enjoy the mythology around them though, so it’s not that I’m not a ghost hater. I just don’t think that the souls if Victorian children are floating around us in forms that match the ones they had in their […]

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How are the featured images generated?

When a post doesn't have its own featured image, the artwork you see is not generated by AI, but rather by an algorithm, and no two are alike. Each image actually tells you something about the post. Each post's URL slug is run through a hash to seed a small deterministic random-number generator, which picks the grid's resolution (some come out chunky, others finely pixelated) and one base color from the site theme's palette. How many cells light up in the mosaic is driven by the post's length relative to the average across all posts — so a fuller, busier graph means a longer read, and a sparse one means a quick one.