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Open source web application for learning to play piano that listens to your MIDI instrument input while you play to songs displayed as sheet music or falling notes, both with extra notation to help beginners such as named notes...
This section of a great interview with Magic Tuber Stringband in the June 2026 copy of The Wire really struck me. It relates to the influence band member Courtney Werner’s field recording work on a former nuclear weapons production site...
While I ran websites and newsletters before, I've only been blogging for almost 2 years. By coincidence I found Bear, and I immediately got drawn to it. Not only did it look like a good platform, it also hosted a great community. So...
Learn how Expressive can improve a Laravel application by keeping Eloquent as the database layer while moving business logic to fully typed objects. Read more
Your monthly hit of all the things that are fit to print without a better place to live. Today is election day here in New York City, so again a reminder that if you are a registered Democrat and live … Continue reading →
We constantly see different variations of "just build it, you can make it better later" on LinkedIn and other places dedicated to recycling cliches. Normally, the writer is a CLUMS (short for cliche-loving, unimaginative, mindless soul)...
The ethics of fly fishing for bull trout are nebulous. They’re also a bit ephemeral, depending on where you’re fishing and your intent. The endangered char of the Northwest is protected by law in both the United States and Canada, but...
June 23, 2026
TRAVELER’S Notebooks are more popular than ever, and we have a fresh shipment that arrived yesterday. Currently we have Passport-size Starter Kits in Black and Blue,...
I discovered Harris when looking up who played the delicate, beautiful piano part in Yusef Lateef’s performance of Love Theme From Spartacus and then found this series of videos put together by pianist and teacher Frans Elsen. A...
For some reason, people are buying my book – and I wish they’d stop, at least for a while. This one, I mean: The Scientist’s Guide to Writing. I’ve written two others, and if you’d like to buy one of those, go right ahead! Charles...