Ah, cicadas. Natureโs tinnitus.
13.07.2025 09:27
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Ah, cicadas. Natureโs tinnitus.
Love this!
Do you have any kind of journal entries from the time where you were weighing the decision? I bet that would be really cool to look back on.
More and more convinced that weekly song-sharing sessions with friends would be a great way to spend quality time while discovering new ways to experience music.
I wonder, are there lists of software, services, news outlets that have committed to abstaining from AI?
Sweet, sweet yogurt memories are the great unifier
Y(esterday)IL
1. Apparently Derek Sivers does reply to all of his emails!
2. He has a collection of โnowโ pages nownownow.com/p/jlg7 (yours truly)
3. โฆand there are a few dozen of us in Japan!
You know you had a good sabbatical when you at last see the local ่ถๅฑใฎใ็ฅๆฏใใ and she says you look โsportyโ, healthy, happy ๐ฅน
Shower thought since discovering fllight of the conchords 15 or so years ago:
One reason parody bands can make great music is because they use humor as a mask to disassociate their ego from their work. If it's a joke, they can freely explore their creativity with fewer constraints.
Updates since March: post-sabbatical thoughts, guitar and songwriting courses, software tinkering
mattlemmone.com/now/
Finally got around to Shazam-ing the music thatโs always on repeat at my gym.
Is it to balance out the testosterone? Or is it a certifiable boost to shatter personal bests?
His 2025 writing course also seems like it's worth a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUh...
I had a recent realization along these lines: itโs the doing that matters. I feel this a lot when trying to write music.
Even if the result isn't great, appreciating the struggle, the imperfection - the shittiness - builds skill and resilience.
That even if what you make sucks, goes unrecognized, unappreciated, youโre putting in the work and building the skills. He said he finds himself more willing to scrap entire projects because he doesnโt see them as a total loss, but rather cumulative experience gained.
I sat with this for a bit.
Really this podcast with Brandon Sanderson - which everyone has been raving about - found here tim.blog/2025/02/07/b....
Brandon said something that struck me: โyou are the artโ .
This reminds me of how I was indoctrinated by propaganda when I was a kid by watching dragon ball movies
My version of this is spending 1 hour vibe coding and 11 hours refactoring and begging Claude to adhere to cursor rules.
Any notable clones as of late?
Find My is truly the ultimate feature. Thanks to this notification, I realized that I left my keys somewhere on the main island in Japan.
Also: Theyโre in my pocket.
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
Excellent performance from ใคใ with a raw moment of vulnerability. Despite their level of success, they still have difficulty performing live shows and are most comfortable as a bedroom musician. we love u yams
TIL about dickspeed
> โUsing a freakishly high tempo in Mario Paint allows for bypassing the five-note restriction as well as having multiple notes play simultaneously at different volumes.โ This technique even has a special name. โThis is often called โdickspeedโ by the Mario Paint community.โ
How did you even find this? Tell me thereโs a collection of Mario paint songs out there
Closest thing I've had to video game style upgrades in real life has been updating my contact lens prescription
AI-generated google maps reviews are having the opposite effect.
People are leaving 5 star reviews with GPT-authored comments and itโs leading me to doubt authenticityโฆ ๐ค
It pops open Obsidian, creates a templated note prompting for my game plan, and only when Iโm done does it execute the query. Code and demo here: github.com/mattlemmone/.... The demo video is a bit slow, so I suggest you 2x it at least.
Fork it, tinker with it, make it better!
Following the blog post I shared a few days ago, I realized I can get sucked into unbounded queries that donโt have a definitive end goal/information I need isnโt available.
So I made a script that forces me to prepare that information before I'm allowed to start digging.
It pops open Obsidian, forces me to fill out a template with what my game plan is, and only when Iโm done does it execute the query. Code and demo here: github.com/mattlemmone/.... The video is a bit slow, so I suggest you 2x it at least.
Fork it, tinker with it, make it better!
Issue 2 of The Illustrated is up. All Japanese illustrators this time.
https://pencilbooth.com/takes/90d44b0a-0a8c-45bb-8a82-83a06e42f247
Absolutely love this idea, Luis!
Captured a few thoughts that have been poking at me every time I use Google or AI to quickly solve my problems
mattlemmone.com/notes/before...
thinking about now, but later
mattlemmone.com/notes/nostal...