I feel like every web browser is “good enough”. There’s nothing I’m excited to use, and I keep switching defaults after one annoys me enough. 💽

I really like Neil Francis’s new album Return to Zero. I’m not playing it as much as I had his first, but it’s still early days. 🎵

To the applause of sixteen people that already own the album, the 2021 Deluxe edition of Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy is available on archive.org. 🎵

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.

A heard about Palestinian hip-hop group DAM maybe last year, I think on NPR of all places. I really like BEN HAANA WA MAANA, and I finally picked up the album a few weeks ago. Politically outspoken, although I had to look up lyric translations. Really tasty beats. 🎵

I picked up Viva Ngozi, by Ngozi Family, on a recommendation from The Best Show last month. Really cool ’70s Zambian garage rock. 🎵

My roommate turned me on to Mdou Moctar, and I picked up Funeral for Justice a bit ago. I haven’t listened to it as much as I thought I would, but it’s still really good. Hard Nigerian blues rock with great players? What’s not to like. 🎵

An older man told me I had a “magnificent beard” in line at the pharmacy yesterday. He told me he used to have “things like that” when he was younger, but couldn’t grow it anymore. I thanked him, and told him his stylish, close-cropped beard looked great. He told me to enjoy my beard while I can, because age comes for all of us. I guess I’ll…braid it?

God help me, I added my Threads account to my social list. Don’t go there, though.

I made some tweaks to my blog’s navigation styles so they’re less cramped on mobile. I’ve modified a pre-existing theme, even though my day job is writing custom themes. There’s lots I’d like to tweak, and one day I’ll carve out the time. 💽

I got turned on to ’70s Italian pop singer Jenny Sorrenti from Aquarium Drunkard, specifically her Suspiro. Smooth, summer psyche folk. 🎵

I bought melodic Brooklyn punk band SAVAK’s Human Error / Human Delight a few weeks ago, and have been really digging it. Enough to pre-order their upcoming album SQUAWK!. Who can’t get behind that? 🎵

I bought Betty Davis’s first album on Bandcamp. I already owned it on vinyl, but I need that deep funk digitally, too, you know? 🎵

I’ve been listening to internet radio via the slick Triode app.

My station staples:

• KEXP
• WFMU
• WFUV
• NTS

Let me know of any fun streams I’m missing! 🎵

Some photos of Cat’s Cradle from #XLFest2025, taken by Maddy Pryor.

The full video of our set is also up. 🎭

I’m starting a cosmetics/fortune telling company, called Nostradermis. For $20, I’ll tell your skin’s future.

A little stupid SNL joy on a Friday. Greetings and salutations, Kanish.

I’m listening to A Glimpse Of Light, by Enno Velthuys today. Lonely, haunted electronic explorations into empty space, that somehow connect to a deeply human place amidst, or perhaps because of, the alienation. 🎵

I’m a certified Twig Designer. Please, one at a time!

I saw Parlour Magic last night. My friend knows Luke, the frontman/songwriter. Great show. Made me a fan. Check it out if you’re into electronic disco grooves. 🎵

Stop all the news: I updated my Uses page.

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This newly renovated home has everything you need to move right in‭, ‬including a loving Cantonese family ready to welcome you with open arms‭.‬

🧅

I just got $10 from the Fandango class action lawsuit. That’s not enough to buy a movie ticket.

Texas Bans Being Different Around Children. 🧅

Ever in a #Neovim :terminal, and want to open a file without having to back out to normal mode, or have a nested Neovim instance? There’s several ways to do this, but here’s a simple one.

Add a shell function that tests $NVIM, which is set to the server pipe when inside a Neovim instance. If Neovim is running, replace the nvim command with an alias that passes the --server and --remote options.

Here’s a complete example for the Fish shell, but it should be easily adapted to others.

#!/usr/bin/env fish

function nvim --description "Open Neovim within the same instance, if one is running"
  if test -n "$NVIM"
    command nvim --server "$NVIM" --remote $argv
  else
    command nvim $argv
  end
end