My kiddo forgot the name of an instrument. So rather than describing it, she asked me to name every instrument in the house that isn't "wind, string, or percussion." I just assumed it was a random challenge until she stopped me and went on with a previous conversation.

How is everyone collectively forgetting that camera's exist? I'm seeing events around town now that use AI generated images of things you can walk 15 minutes down the street and take a photo of. You can use AI image _search_ in any photo app.

My Kindle Oasis isn't holding a charge, and I'm totally considering just trying to replace the battery.

Since everything's AI and RAM has ceased to exist: I did the rational thing and commissioned a Jimothy themed gourd tenor banjo.

I've already been annoyed at Plex (and how Plexamp behaves in Auto), but I basically had to hack my own server to get a playlist I made for myself and copy my own songs onto an offline MP3 player. This is probably my Jellyfin origin story.

Held hostage or measuring my IPD for an online glasses Rx? You decide!

"Don't click the AI button" is the hardest part of working in a big company right now. You're behind on your work, you have a problem you really don't want to solve, and there's a big button that's going to pretend do what you need and everyone's waiting to hand you a prize if you press it.

I got one of those Clicks keyboards -- and both love it and hate it. Love it because I miss typing like this. Hate it because my phone makes the whole thing too heavy: it's actually better to disconnect it and type wirelessly XD

I'm sad that I've finally listed my hurdy gurdy for sale, but excited to have an excuse to buy another weird folk instrument. Currently waffling between a nicer session-ready flute, gourd banjo, or upgrading my uilleann pipes to a 1/2 set. But I like ren faires and a gittern isn't out of question.

Ai is such monkey's paw programming. Promises the world, but if you don't phrase your instructions just right it will delete all your unit tests and force push to main.

I don't know why I never thought to install a custom Android TV launcher, but I'm loving Projectivy.

Customs is once again trying to take one of my folk instruments. I swear I'm personally funding a literal pirate metal band 😆

I've been running around this morning playing A Cruel Angel's thesis on the flute, and no one in my family appreciates it.

So this is really cool for two reasons: 1) it knows how to do editor side things (so it's not just jamming everything into C#) 2) This is the CLI/REPL I've always wanted developer.android.com/games/engine...

Use Antigravity with Unity MCP  |  Android game development  |  Android Developers

Configure the Unity Model Context Protocol server for Google Antigravity to enable AI agents to execute game editor operations.

developer.android.com

I started combining Harvest Home and the Wind That Shakes the Barley into a set. And either I'm triggering generational memory or there's something every millennial knows but forgets tied to those tunes 😆

I call this: the wall of hyperfixations past.

My favorite smart watch (the Pebble Time) is older than my oldest kid, still works, and is outlasting every other smartwatch and fitness tracker I've bought before it or since. I just harvested the band from an old/abandoned early Android Watch to replace the original on the time that finally broke

All I'm saying is that insanity is doing the same thing while expecting different results. And whenever I ask Generative AI the same thing I get different results. Therefore...

When Hunger Games was explained to me, I was like "oh, it's just Battle Royale". Well, when it was just explained to my kiddo, she's like "oh, it's just Squid Games." Sorry Hunger Games, you never get to be the reference point 😆

Current meltdown from my oldest: "you're only doing things so you can be the best dad in the world. You don't want anyone else to be the best." I'm not sure how this is an insult, apparently this is supposed to make me very upset.

My kiddo was just calling breakout a "classical game" (as opposed to classic).

I saw a spirit Halloween sign today... SUMMERWEEN HERE WE COME!

Mànran and Taylor Swift sound eerily similar. Especially when you're standing halfway between two speakers each blasting opposing albums and you're trying to figure out when Swift started singing in Irish.

I always wonder what the deal is with Irish vs American Folk. In that the keys are mostly the same. Irish folk there's an amazing resource at thesession.org, but everyone insists you should never read music. Then American folk everyone reads music/tabs, but there's no universal (free) resource.

The Session

An online community dedicated to traditional Irish music. Find tunes, recordings, sessions and events.

thesession.org

Babysitters during the week: "it's too hard to get your kids to take a nap" Me on the weekend: gets one playing Bach on a banjo. Gets the second with an Irish folk playlist (Kila and the High Kings)

A great reason to not only buy your music, but to buy it on physical media: about every other purchase has some bonus item. In this case, Kila sent me this cool postcard.

A kind of fun thing for Android developers, there's a new "Level Up" program that lowers the App Store fees for games that provide a great (platform) experience: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/06/play... With the games specific bits here: play.google.com/console/abou...

Expanded billing choice and lower fees on Google Play

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

android-developers.googleblog.com

The worst thing about coming back to uilleann pipes after a few months (I have a newborn, it's hard) is that: 1) this is the sound I want to play (vs. banjo, flute, &c) 2) but I just randomly sound like an angry cat chasing a goose

It's really weird that Unity keeps some plugins in the project level (ex: Visual Studio support).

One of my favorite hobbies is telling folks to use fortnightly instead of biweekly so I can set myself up to deliver the worst possible fortnite pun in a fortnight.