Journal
I've been running an online journal since March 2002, writing about music production, personal things, politics, some web development. There is a list of favourite posts, and some info about me.
2025
- Fleeting Glimpse
- More About Noise
- Noise
- Tape Machine
- Trip to Somewhere
- Call It Like It Is
- Getting Ready for the Winter. Part 2, Writing Music
- Riding the Wave
- Bass: 'A Fools Paradise'
- Bass: 'Rain From the Clouds'
- Production, mix, master: 'Alien Pop'
- Getting Ready for the Winter. Part 1, Switching Technology
- Settling
- Tinnitus
- Herd Mentality
- So Be It
- Acceptance
- Looking for a niche
- Nostalgia
- Handshake
- Content
- Moving On
- Bellissima
- Light
- A different kind of normalcy
- Changes
- If we want continued growth
- Growing old in the age of crap tech, and fascism
- Outside the Wall
- Simpler Things
- A new plan
- Production, mix, master: 'La matière même du temps'
2024
- People, not Roles
- Start Again
- Numb
- Love and Human Remains
- Rain
- Bullies
- Silence
- Four years
- Smaller
- Leaving the web industry
- Endless growth
- More Indieweb Automation
- Re: Blocking Bots
- JSON RSS feed
- People and Blogs
- Mastodon
- Minimalism as a product
- Looking from a distance
- Good news
- Leaving Netlify
- The Accounts Graveyard
- The snake eating its own tail
- Living in a corporate bubble
- Read later
- Instapaper on my Kobo
- Book review: ‘Leave the World Behind’
- A Kafkaesque digital relationship with ourselves
- The permanent commodification of arts
- How I learned to stop worrying and merge personal with work
- Leaving Soundcloud
- Quitting capitalism
- A brilliant quote from a terrible movie
2023
- Having Said That
- Giving context to a blogroll
- I stopped using Feedbin
- ‘Love Field’ featured on ‘Turn Me On, Dead Man’
- Disconnecting
- Using decentralised chats again
- RIP Molly Holzschlag
- Own your data
- Managing my personal website
- Switching to plain text
- Why I use so little software by Apple
- I guess I don’t trust the Cloud
- Interacting on social media while keeping its noise low
- Reading online
- How I navigate the internet
- Enjoy the difference
- Reply: You need a versioning system
- Yellow Brick Road
- More than 1.5 million streams brought me royalties
- The Atlantic on Social Media
- Human connection
- Venture capitalists buying out music production software
- Back to the UK
- Apple’s Bug Reporting Process is a Waste of Time
- Quickly create local folders matching the content of a Wwise Switch Group
- Notes on the historical concept album
- Andy
- Erasing things
- Clean, the cleanest I’ve been
- A personal manifesto
- My experience releasing an album as an independent artist (part 2)
- Mix: ‘In Super-8’
- My experience releasing an album as an independent artist (part 1)
- New reviews for ‘After 1989’
- Master: ‘Ipogeo’
- De-brand
- Towards my audio reel: field recording
- Duolingo from Italian to English is not good
- Simplifying REAPER
2022
- Happy with my current tech stack
- Email migration from Proton to Mailbox
- How I use the internet
- Ollo Audio headphones
- Degrowth
- Mix: ‘Nebbia’
- Installing Android 13 on an unsupported non-Google phone
- Making mistakes (and owning them)
- Bass: ‘The Rules Of Night And Day’
- Streaming regret
- IndieWeb and webmentions for my static site
- Automation for my static blog publishing workflow
- A human-readable RSS feed with Jekyll
- On the concept of frugal computing
- Implementing WebP images in Jekyll
- Content security policy on Netlify
- Life after social networks
2021
- Loops, transitions, identity
- ‘Berlin 91’ music video
- Production: ‘The Eclipse’
- Production: ‘Funky Bacterium’
- Release: ‘The Die Is Cast’
- Release: ‘Non sai chi sono’
- Interview to Susan Rogers at Pensado’s Place
- Switch DAW: Logic to Pro Tools to REAPER (Pt 3)
- Switch DAW: Logic to Pro Tools to REAPER (Pt 2)
- Switch DAW: Logic to Pro Tools to REAPER (Pt 1)
- Production: ‘Shelter From A Storm’
- Backup and audio archival
- Mix: ‘Hidden Music’
2020
- After 1989: Reviews
- ‘After 1989’ anniversary: new music video
- Leaving the UK
- Producing bass remotely
- A Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot On A B-29
- Efficient productivity for music professionals
- Secret Eclectic review for ‘13 Days’
- Escape from social media
- Bass: ‘In Our Dreams’
- Google rejects ‘Attentat 1942’ from German store
- ‘13 Days’ music video
- Bass: ‘The Far Side Of The Sun’
- Sound design: ‘Tom the Tow Truck’
- Nova Music reviews ‘Skinny Kid’
- Bass: ‘The Road From Salvation’
- Bass: ‘The Evil Between Us’
- Angry Baby album review: ‘After 1989’
- ‘Love Field’ reviewed on YHHTMY podcast
- Strings production: Ciara Clifford
- Interview with MySphera
- Production: ‘Without You’
2019
- A Trip To Freedom: from Berlin to Berlin
- Interview with Part-time Producer
- Sound design: Editing vocals
- ‘Skinny Kid’ song backstory
- ‘Love Field’ music video
- ‘Skinny Kid’ video reviewed by Indiebuddie
- Release: ‘After 1989’
- ‘After 1989’ teaser video
- Release: ‘After 1989 Demos’
- Mix: ‘From The Country To The City To The Sea’
- Bass: ‘The Experience’
- Production: ‘Wriggle a Little’
- Strings production: ‘Zoom In Zoom Out’
- Production: ‘Eclipse’
- Bass: ‘Shallow Grave’
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2017
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2003
2002
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