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This, and last, week’s earworm: The Red Planet, by Rick Wakeman.
Started listening to this in 2021, while the pandemic was still raging. It fell out of rotation, but last week I thought I’d dig it up again. It’s quite good. Worth a listen if you like classic monophonic synth music. 🎵
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📺 The Lost Displine of the Alarm: What Notification Design Forgot
Watched this last night, and immediately saw its relevance while perusing the logs of a weekend sync job, and saw “errors” that didn’t need to be actioned. No! Log errors only if the operator needs to do something.
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Really enjoyed My Dinner With Skinner, a take on the “steamed hams” skit from The Simpsons but filmed as as a feature length film (well, a 45 minute film). 📺
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Another video recommendation is this charming series of someone trying to befriend the corvids in his area. No spoilers, but it does seem hard to win the hearts of European crows. I feel it’s significantly easier with our Aussie magpies. Not that I’ve tried (yet). 📺
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For anyone interested in the Melbourne Metro lines, I can recommend the line guide videos published by Taitset. He just released the latest one yesterday: the Lilydale line. It was a fascinating watch. 📺
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Listening to Antidote X by Van Sandano from Yuma 🎵
Yep, more stock music I heard on a YouTube video, fell in love with, and had to seek out.
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Listening to FLYING TOTEMS (movement 2) by Jean-Michel Jarre from Equinoxe Infinity 🎵
This is usually a Friday listen, but it’s been a bit of an earworm this week.
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Really enjoying the latest releases from Lee Rosevere. 🎵
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This week’s earworm: an arrangement of Svalbard Theme, from Orion’s Belt by Anders Enger Jensen. 🎵
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Really enjoyed the latest episode of Revolution.Social with Anil Dash. A great discussion around ethics of using AI. Can recommend listening to it. 🎙️
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This week’s earworm is Axiom Verge OST. 🎵
Well I say it’s this week’s earworm but the truth is that I wanted to listen to it today, and I keep forgetting the name of this album. I’ll remember that I posted about it here, though.
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I really enjoyed this video from Simon Willison giving a tour of his newsletter automation setup. Also made me aware of Observable, which looks like a JavaScript-based workbook (I’m guessing is a bit like Jupyter). Looks interesting. 📺
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This week’s earworm’s an interesting one. It’s Intro, on the album Recomposed, by Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald. Finding a legitimate copy is tricky: I’ve only found this version of questionable provenance on YouTube Music. It’s also on Music for Programming, which is where I discovered it. 🎵
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📺 Brian Will: Object-oriented Programming is Bad
Enjoyed this video about what makes OOP crummy. No spoilers but it’s not what you think (or it wasn’t what I thought). Didn’t agree with every argument but still quite though provoking.
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There’s also this series of videos by the same creator that goes in depth on how the Super Mario Bros. levels are encoded in ROM. This is even more fascinating, as they had very little memory to work with, and had to make some significant trade-offs, like allowing Mario to go left. 📺
In fact, some might say RGM “double clicks” on the level format of SMB 1. 😜
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If anyone’s interested in how levels in Super Mario Bros. 2 are encoded in the ROM, I can recommend this video by Retro Game Mechanics. It goes for about 100 minutes so it’s quite in depth. 📺
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This week’s earworm: Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (Original Game Soundtrack). Might be all the Godot stuff I’m doing at the moment. 🎵
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My latest YouTube binge has been Drew Gooden, and his videos on YouTube and Instagram influencers and trends: an area of online culture I know nothing about. I’m kinda glad that I stayed well away from that area of the internet. Seems like more drama than I can handle. 📺
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Finished Mind Over Magnet. It’s been a joy watching this come together over at GMTK, and it’s wonderful to see it finally released. Such a fun and delightful game. Two thumbs up: 👍👍
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This week’s earworm: Electric Light Orchestra, especially Livin’ Thing. 🎵
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If anyone’s interested in the history of Melbourne transport, I can recommend this YouTube channel. He has a few videos on the “forgotten freeways” — freeways planned in the 1960’s that never got built — that I found quite interesting. 📺
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A lot of people I follow online have been recommending Cabel Sasser’s XOXO conference talk. I watched it last night and thought it was quite good. Definitely worth a watch. And yeah, try to avoid the spoilers. 📺
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Really enjoyed this YouTube interview with Dr. Alok Kanojia on the Diary of a CEO channel. Very interesting talk about mindfulness, stressors, motivation, amongst other things. 📺
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Clip sharing is now available in Pocketcasts for Android! I was looking forward to this feature since I heard it was coming (this was why I was poking around About screens). Here’s my inaugural clip: a segment of Sharp Tech that I absolutely agree with. 🎙️
Gotta say, I don’t love the portrait videos it produces. I’d much rather landscape or even square. Would like to come up with some way to crop it somehow. Might need to start spelunking through various ffmpeg incantations.
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