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2022-08-01: Why are no samplers or digital recorders as easy as the OP-1 Field? There are a zillion samplers and recorders out there, so why do almost none of them work like we …

2022-07-26: Writers, musicians, artists — stop calling your work ‘content,’ FFS “Content” is what marketing folks, or platform builders, call video, music, text, and so on. For …

2020-09-01: Cross-processed

2020-09-01: Tri-X and Hyperspektiv

2020-07-10: If I disconnect my own domain name from my microblog, what will break? Apart from my site?

2020-06-23: iOS 14 is surprisingly stable on my iPad Pro. The best thing might be the new Scribble feature. …

2020-04-03: Song of the week 3: Penguin Telephone I started this song during the lockdown. No surprise that it’s even darker than usual.

2020-03-29: Is it possible to link to a category page from the top navigation on my microblog? In the …

2020-03-29: Uncanny Alley Episode 6: The Mall Cops' Dorkmobile Possibly never previously published This bonus episiode was possibly never published. It …

2020-03-29: Uncanny Alley Episode 5: A Merry Band of Digital Criminals First published 13-03-19 Andrea and Charlie talk about the utter lack of ethics at Facebook and …

2020-03-29: Uncanny Alley Episode 4: Podcast Vérité First published 27-01-2019 Charlie and Andrea talk about the content they consume, one infamous …

2020-03-29: Uncanny Alley Episode 3: Holding Gelato First published 23-12-2018 Like every single person who gets paid for writing, Andrea and Charlie …

2020-03-29: Uncanny Alley Episode 2: A Hipster Nordic Ø First published 04-12-2018 Andrea and Charlie discuss talk about why phone cameras will always be …

2020-03-29: Uncanny Alley Episode 1: A Doll’s Deadly Whisper Back at the turn of 2018/2019, I recorded and published five episodes of The Uncanny Alley podcast …

2020-03-28: New Song: Elk Mountain My second song-a-week release. This one was started on a trip to the Bavarian Alps late last year, …

2020-03-27: New Song: Hipster or Homeless I’m kicking off a song-a-week project with a song that has sat almost-finished for a few months now. …

2019-06-14: Just sent a Brydge keyboard for iPad Pro back after a day. It puts enough pressure on the screen to …

2019-04-08: Washing

2019-03-22: Harmony Grinder Music demo made with the OP-1

2019-03-22: Just one tap

2019-01-31: Uncanny Alley episode 4, Podcast Vérité A new episode of my podcast Uncanny Alley is up!

2018-12-26: _The Uncanny Alley_ Episode 3: Holding Gelato Episode 3 of our podcast The Uncanny Alley is available: Holding Gelato. Like every single person …

2018-11-20: If I host a podcast on micro.blog, is there any way to get the download numbers? That’s the only …

2018-11-20: Test Audio A description

2018-11-10: I’ve switched off multi-finger gestures for the first time since it was available. The new …

2018-11-09: It seems to me that almost none of the iPad Pro reviews were written by people use them regularly, …

2018-09-22: iPhone XS Camera Test Some more shots from my ongoing iPhone 7/iPhone XS camera comparison. The full review will be on …

2018-09-21: Having fun testing the new iPhone XS portrait mode. You can dial in the depth of field after …

2018-09-21: No.1

2018-09-21: Siri Shortcut to record guitar riff ideas, hands free This is pretty rad: With Siri Shortcuts and Face ID, I can say “Hey Siri, record this,” and then …

2018-09-08: I used to complete any cube I found, but now I leave it almost done, to torture the owner.

2018-09-04: 2018 iPad Pro redesign is both brilliant and stupid 2018 iPad Pro redesign is both brilliant and stupid – Cult of Mac The possibly-leaked pictures …

2018-08-28: Is anyone a using static blog software for longer posts, paired with their hosted micro.blog? …

2018-08-11: Fixing a friend’s iMac. Won’t reconnect to Wi-Fi after sleep, or other disconnection. I have set …

2018-07-27: Frame.

2018-07-26: Should I stop auto-posting links to my Cult of Mac articles here? Is is spammy, or are people …

2018-07-23: What iOS apps do you use for adding an audio track to a video? Must be controllable enough for voice …

2018-07-14: Finished reading: Gnomon by Nick Harkaway 📚

2018-07-11: If you install the Shortcuts beta in iOS 12, the Workflow folder gets renamed to Shortcuts. …

2018-07-09: Tech writers: when you write “traditional,’ you almost certainly mean “conventional,” “customary,” …

2018-07-09: What do you use for geotagging photos taken on a regular camera? I’d like to import photos to …

2018-07-09: White Lines

2018-07-08: Never Work

2018-07-06: Berlin church wall

2018-07-06: Hello?

2018-06-13: Somehow this happened…

2018-06-12: Toto’s Africa might be one of the greatest pop songs ever made, but the lyrics are nutso, even …

2018-06-11: The iOS 12 beta is so stable (and so fast!) on iPad that it’s tempting to put it on the iPhone.

2018-05-08: Don’t Touch

2018-05-08: Love and Hate

2018-04-23: Is there an iPad video app that uses the native Files browser, and just plays the videos from there?

2018-04-20: Home Build A few shots of my home-made Strat.

2018-04-19: Test post direct from Drafts 5. If you can see this, then Drafts is doing its job.

2018-04-18: I really don’t like circular avatars.

2018-04-14: While I’m posting SoundCloud stuff, here’s some of my own music.

2018-04-14: More M.RUX! soundcloud.com/mrux/sets…

2018-04-13: Micro.blog and Tumblr: Any reason not to? I have my Micro.blog hooked up to my Tumblr using RSS, and I’m wondering if there’s any downside to …

2018-04-12: I’ve only been here a few days, but already I’m getting much more/better conversations …

2018-04-10: I wrote an article about micro blogging.

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2018-04-10: Looks like I spammed my own microblog by connecting a bunch of RSS feeds. Sorry.

2018-04-09: My reply.

2018-03-01: Icy window

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2017-07-06: Fixed

2017-05-26: At the shoot