Minutes to Midnight
Minutes to Midnight
Simone
I'm Simone, a gen X with a straight to the point attitude. Based in the UK, I play bass and design sound under the moniker Minutes to Midnight.
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This song by Antiquity was released in January 2025, but I had forgotten to post it on my website. <a href="https://sessions.antiquity-music.com/track/rain-from-the-clouds-3">Rain From The Clouds by Antiquity</a> Notes Gerald says: "If...
I co-produced, mixed and mastered Rythur's debut album. He's a friend from the US, currently living in Colorado. <a href="https://rythur.bandcamp.com/album/alien-pop">Alien Pop, by Rythur</a> Today's the day I met Rythur online on the...
First of a short series of posts, where I introduce my switch to an operating system released in 2013, running in a computer built the same year. I can't possibly explain all the fine details of how it works, it'd require a book, but...
Enough with the whining. Silvia and I have decided to kickstart the process that will ultimately lead us to share a dual citizenship. We came back to the UK two years ago, after failing to find common ground with our home country, and...
Once again, I find myself kind of forced to stop reading the news, in any form or shape. Filtering shit from the interesting bits is like trying to put a barrier to a fastidious tinnitus (which I have, by the way). After a long time...
A Mastodon post by Denny Henke, made me realise something that is currently making me really angry. He said: A lot of Apple enthusiasts are disgusted with Tim Cook and Apple given the recent display of bootlicking. I'm going to keep...
A year and three months later, a follow-up on leaving the web industry. I was supposed to have distanced myself from that by now, to speak about it lightly. Not true. Disclaimer: most of the content for this article comes from a few...
Six months ago, I offered to produce, mix, and master the debut album for a friend. One out of several good reasons to do so was selfish: use their project to complete a process of re-igniting my music production workflow, and rekindle...
Adding some flare back to the current uninspiring design of Mac OS wasn't enough. After spending a day using an old Mac running Mavericks, I realised how I probably need to find a tiny place somewhere in the past. A certainty formed...
Over the last ten years or so, a dominant theme has been nostalgia. While initially convinced it was strictly related to my personal struggle with ageing, I've now changed my mind. A constant in my journal, a constant in other people's...
I undid it. Leaving Linux to go back to Mac OS after several months was something that I did not foresee. However, this thing is more nuanced, and it's not the end of the line. Technically, I had never left Mac OS, as I kept my MacBook...
From The Dystopian Dream Team, a nice sum up of what I keep saying about the ultra-capitalist inability to being satisfied with what we have: There’s this unkillable idea in Silicon Valley right now that there will be another thing...
I did it. Leaving the Apple garden for Linux has been easier than anticipated. A new era of personal freedom has finally started. The intro is of course misleading — making it look like I suddenly jumped into deep waters, when in reality...
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I travelled to my home country yesterday, and for the first time in a very long time, I printed my tickets. All of them, train to the airport, flight. What did I notice? Ryanair don't apparently allow to print a ticket. At least from my...