Stratagems, gambits and wiles. Blogging at canneddragons.net.
Phil Collins invents gated reverb.
Saturday's song is a cover of an early Coldplay track by Hoops.
It's certainly not bug-free, but the ATmosphere integration in WordPress is a lot more straightforward right out of the gate than the ActivityPub implementation.
John Burn-Murdoch writes for Financial Times about the single unifying theory around the decline in fertility. The number of births fell first and fastest in the areas that received high-speed mobile …
I’ve been on a post-punk x new wave kind of kick the last several days, after I learned Black Marble (who I blogged about last year) are going to be playing nearby in September. The algorithm overlord…
Trying out some headphones I've been keeping an eye on.
Niko Stratis writes about the comfort of physical media and older technology. Let us suffer no worries or troubles, we have salvation in our walkmen and their analogue batteries. Never mind the truth …
I tend to avoid podcasts in the style of Joe Rogan, those that begin with a 15-minute long ad block selling mushroom supplements followed by hours of meandering conversation between two people who may…
The opinions on AI that you find on the internet tend to fall in the extremes of the other side. Either AI is the downfall of humanity or its savior. My thoughts on the subject, as on many others, rid…
Hacktivism can sometimes be understandable. Yet it amazes me that some people would think that to attack school teachers and students is to live a meaningful and purposeful life.
Whether marching for a Sikh holiday, visiting a Jewish children”s center or attending Divine Liturgy, I’ve never seen a politician put so much effort into respecting the faith traditions of others as …
Olly, the developer of the Pagecord blogging software, just published a post on something I was thinking about with regards to music. I’m not buying a lot of physical media these days, but when I do, …
Shelly Ridenour penned an article for Qobuz on the stellar alternative albums from 1991. One observation that I found particularly poignant from having grown up during this period was around the chang…
Everyone has been posting about the Aadam Jacobs collection. Since I love indie music from the 90’s, I’m certainly going to spend some time with the massive 10,000 live recordings collection. I went t…
One of my greatest joys in 2026 has been the release of new material by British riot twee band Heavenly. I’ll admit I approached the release of this year’s brilliantly named Highway to Heavenly LP wit…
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the adaptation of The Forsyte Saga that aired early in the aughts and starred Damien Lewis, among others. The generation spanning historical drama scratched my itch fo…
I just signed up for access to Attie, a new AI-based app from Bluesky, which allows you to shape your feed on the social network using plain language. To be honest, I wasn’t that excited about the app…
With the announcement on the A New Social blog that Bridgy Fed — which has been helpful in syndicating my Fediverse posts from Ghost to Bluesky — was bringing longform to the Atmosphere, I found mysel…
Charlotte Cornfield is the latest musician to put out something via Durham, NC’s Merge Records. Hurts Like Hell is also the first long player by the Canadian singer/songwriter since becoming a mother.…
Jay Graber from Bluesky on how the major social media platforms are dealing with AI. In her post, Graber introduces an app called Attie that helps you customize your feed. As far as I'm concerned, Gra…
Widowspeak has a new record coming this June and produced a video for the lead single, “If You Change.” I first heard the band when they covered Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet," a song that never lan…
"For the memory can both provoke the dragon and the memory can also subdue him." - St. John Chrysostom This site follows the POSSE “Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere” model, which is des…
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Ghost CEO John O'Nolan built a CLI (and MCP) for the platform. This allows a user to tweak config settings through chat instead of going through the traditional UI. O'Nolan claims it's much faster, ev…
The announcement by Brid.gy about supporting long form posts through standard.site led me down a rabbit hole of exploring services that take advantage of that capability using AT Proto: Leaflet, Pckt …
Fresco of the Fifth Ecumenical Council Most of you may know that I joined the Orthodox Christian church two years ago. I came from a lifelong background with mainline Christian churches. The Orthodox …
Widowspeak has a new record coming this June and produced a video for the lead single, “If You Change.” I first heard the band when they covered Dire Straits’ “Romeo and Juliet,” a song that never lan…
Field Music We all know by now that it’s getting tougher to make a living as a musician. While tools for producing music have gotten cheaper and more accessible, the ways to make decent money as a pro…
This week’s Saturday Night Video is a bit different than the usual fare. It’s technically more of a skate video than a music video (but it does feature music). Powell Peralta-sponsored skateboard pro …
If you live in a first-world country with a sizable knowledge work sector, you might find it hard to escape the subject of AI. That’s probably an understatement. We are saturated with talk of artifici…
The lead track and first single off Sonic Youth’s album Dirty felt like a big deal when it dropped. By 1992, the decade already felt like a dramatic break from the previous one, and videos like the on…
The best take on Americana this year.
It's getting harder in the U.S. to obtain art from overseas.
37Signals tries its hand at making an operating system for devs.
