Started the day, after some writing time, with a five-mile walk that took me along the coast. Not sure I'll often have the time for such a thing, but it was a nice change of pace, so to speak.

Yeah, my birthday dinner was pretty darn good — thanks to Sichuan Home on Geary (in San Francisco).

You watch tutorials and reviews about various handheld gaming devices and you hear complaining about "quality of life" issues with Windows-based ones, and you think, who are these whiners? And ... then you try one, and you fully understand the mess they've been describing.

This generic note-taking app I'm installing so I can sync notes between my laptop and a gaming device is rated 3+. You have to be at least 3 years old to use it. You can't be 2, and presumably by 4 you're already onboarded and deep in the ecosystem.

Midway through a 20-mile walk a few weeks back. Radio on.

I made a little RSS starter kit. disquiet.com/2026/07/31/e...

Disquiet Junto Project 0761: When Doves Smile The Assignment: Make music for (anonymously) someone who’s angered or disappointed you. Deadline: Monday, August 3, 2026, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are. Details: disquiet.com/0761 #DisquietJunto

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (July 30, 2026) at disquiet.com/0761, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores animosity, kinda. Join in (the project, not the animosity).

Been re-watching Devs. Such a great score. I mean, it's Geoff Barrow (Portishead), the Insects (Bob Locke and Tim Norfolk), and Ben Salisbury, plus pre-existing music from Jan Garbarek and Hilliard Ensemble, and Low, among others.

Was suddenly confused, on SoundCloud, about how to add a track to a playlist — because the interface has changed. You no longer hit the three dots and then select it. You now click the plus sign as shown here.

Really hoping that this Beat group (Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai, Danny Carey) doing 1980s King Crimson songs soon reveals its begun writing and recording its own original material.

I didn't until now notice how popular "audio" is as a starting Wordle word. I like the idea of hundreds of thousands of people typing the word "audio" each morning and then seeing what iterates from there.

Regarding this week's project, number 0760: Remember that Benjamin Franklin — after whose 1727 Junto our Disquiet Junto collective is named — famously harnessed the power of lightning with his “kite experiment.”

Yeah, I kept pausing the "Jumpupw!nya" video to see what Eurorack synthesizer modules (and other instruments) Chad Hugo (of the Neptunes) uses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw0I...

Chad Hugo- Jumpupw!nya (Official Video) Ft. Tierra Whack, Leikeli47

Listen to 'Jumpupw!nya' HERE: https://stem.ffm.to/jumpupw1nya Follow Chad Hugo Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/chadhugo/ X …

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Disquiet Junto Project 0760. Details: disquiet.com. There is one step in this project: Utilize Michael Vorfeld’s shared sample in the creation of an original piece of music/sound that expresses and explores the pervasiveness (whether subtle or overt) of light and energy all around us.

A new #DisquietJunto music community project will appear at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (July 23, 2026) at disquiet.com/0760, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). The theme explores ... light bulbs. Join in.

Inspiration for managing desktop computer thermals

Yo, manga-headz: will there be more of the series Tatsumaki by Tomoko Yamashita (of Ikoku Nikki fame)? The web comic had five issues in January, four in February, and one in March — and silence since. Thanks.

More of this sort of public art / gesture / physical graffiti / intervention, please.

It helps when your game controllers perchance match your recently acquired vinyl

At the risk of centering one's own personal experiences, I feel like broken music file metadata is truly OG enshittification, and it just keeps enshitting.

Not all waveforms are created equal. Some are more readable than others. Some, even if they tell a story different in visually than sonically, still register as unique, individual.

So now everyone's in the West Coast Avengers?

Fresh video of Shane Parish doing another of one his Autechre transcriptions/covers www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un7B...

Shane Parish - "Slip" (Autechre Guitar) | Fretboard Journal

Guitarist Shane Parish performs Autechre's "Slip" at the Fretboard Journal. Parish is using his Taylor 214E-G. Parish's 2026 Autechre Guitar album features groundbreaking acoustic guitar…

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In the #DisquietJunto music community this week: Make music with nothing but rocks. (Yes, processing is fine, but the sense of the "rockness" of rocks should be present.) Full instructions at disquiet.com/0759. Tracks due Monday, July 20, at 11:59pm (your local time).

A new #DisquietJunto music project appears at 12:10am Pacific tomorrow (July 16, 2026) at disquiet.com/0759, and go out at the same time to the email list (juntoletter.disquiet.com). It would help to have access to rocks. I know there are places without trees. Are rocks fairly universal? Join in.

The Capture goes full Person of Interest in the third season

New categories of "media condition" for @discogsofficial.bsky.social: - Played by someone who has a life but gives a shit - Yeah, the vinyl rubbed through the cover a bit after 40 years - If you say this is lower than near mint, you need a Go Fund Me for significant therapy

Yeah, 1987 was an exceedingly great year for record releases. My top 10 albums and singles from our college music magazine, Nadine. Apparently I posted this 10 years ago this week, when Steven Young of M/A/R/R/S (and Colourbox) died.

Wasn't expecting this random portable monitor manufacturer to include a Teenage Engineering OP-1 in its demo