Stratagems, gambits and wiles. Blogging at canneddragons.net.
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.
https://bsky.app/profile/mayor.nyc.gov/post/3mkglvyflrs2f 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…
A few weeks ago, I saw Mark Robinson from Unrest/Air Miami/Flin Flon open for the Wedding Present at the Motorco Music Hall in Durham. Although the bill clearly stated that Robinson would be playing U…
This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduc…
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…
Inspired by Derek Sivers, this page includes a sample of what I’m thinking about and working on right now. Last updated April 12, 2026. Spring is here, despite the weather going from hot to cold and c…
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 …
