Media on Leon Mika

Wed, 06 May 2026 06:51:57 +1000

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.

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:46:59 +1000

Really enjoying the latest releases from Lee Rosevere. 🎵

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:50:42 +1000

This week’s earworm: an arrangement of Svalbard Theme, from Orion’s Belt by Anders Enger Jensen. 🎵

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:32:32 +1000

Really enjoyed the latest episode of Revolution.Social with Anil Dash. A great discussion around ethics of using AI. Can recommend listening to it. 🎙️

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:11:07 +1000

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.

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:35:06 +1000

This week’s earworm: Tango 3.0, by Gotan Project. There is a reason for this which I’ll hope you’ll find out in a day or so. 🎵

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:05:57 +1000

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. 📺

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:30:50 +1000

New album discovery: Immunity, by Jon Hopkins. 🎵

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:32:50 +1000

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. 🎵

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:14:25 +1000

📺 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.

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:36:13 +1000

This week’s earworm: QE2, by Mike Oldfield. 🎵

Tue, 27 May 2025 22:28:18 +1000

Might be a bit early in the week but I’m calling it now: this week’s earworm is very likely to be songs from Eurovision Song Contest 2025, in Basel. 🎵

And I make no apologies for this. Well, maybe some apologies to Kev Quirk. 😁

Sun, 25 May 2025 22:51:49 +1000

📺 Andor: Season 2 (2025)

Mon, 12 May 2025 07:52:10 +1000

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. 📺

Mon, 12 May 2025 07:46:24 +1000

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. 📺

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:46:40 +1000

This week’s earworm: Chronology, by Jean-Michel Jarre. 🎵

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:27:41 +1000

📺 Reacher: Season 3 (2025)

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:45:12 +1000

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. 🎵

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:50:38 +1000

This week’s earworm: 140 OST. 🎵

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:20:24 +1000

Recent earworm: Samplextra, by Lee Rosevere. 🎵

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:49:32 +1000

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. 📺

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 11:28:00 +1000

📺 Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:54:43 +1000

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: 👍👍

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:16:24 +1000

📺 House of the Dragon: Season 2 (2024)

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:00:49 +1000

📺 House of the Dragon: Season 1 (2022)

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:42:24 +1000

This week’s earworm: Electric Light Orchestra, especially Livin’ Thing. 🎵

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 06:38:57 +1000

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. 📺

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:34:23 +1000

📺 Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:29:01 +1000

Discovered that Enya is still releasing albums. Started listening to this one over the weekend. Quite good. 🎵

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 07:51:48 +1000

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. 📺

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:40:35 +1000

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. 📺

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:00:43 +1000

📺 Office Space (1999)

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:47:32 +1000

This week’s earworms, two tracks by Lee Rosevere: Should I Run, and Midnight Runner. 🎵

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:29:07 +1000

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. 🎙️

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:39:35 +1000

📺 Dune: Part 2 (2024)

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:19:50 +1000

The whole segment on incorrect names on Hemispheric Views #120 was very enjoyable but this story from Scotty J. was the capper. I burst into laughter when I heard it. 🎙️

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:47:12 +1000

This week’s earworm: The Wind Chimes by Mike Oldfield. 🎵

This one’s a bit surprising since it’s not a new addition to my collection. Maybe because I haven’t been listening to it all that often.

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:05:45 +1000

Been listening to The Truman Show soundtrack after watching it again on Friday. One of my absolute favourite soundtracks. So good. 🎵

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 16:28:16 +1000

Falling behind on posting a couple of weekly ear-worms, so here are two:

Last week’s: Before Too Long, by Paul Kelly

This week’s: An Extraordinary Life, by Asia (this one via Reconcilable Differences).

🎵

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:54:48 +1000

This week’s earworm: Warsaw in the Sun by Tangerine Dream. 🎵

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:42:03 +1000

📺 Everybody’s Free (to Make Websites)

One word: this!

Edit: Kev Quirk shared a link to the post by Sarah Joy, who wrote the narration for this video.

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:41:17 +1000

Really enjoyed the conversation between Sam Harris and George Saunders. I’ve not read anything from Saunders, but they had quite an insightful discussion about writing and culture (and a hint of politics) that it might be worth looking at some of his fiction. 🎙️

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:48:13 +1000

📺 Fallout: Season 1 (2024)

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:48:12 +1000

Must say I enjoyed The Rest Is History’s recent podcast on Dragons. They go into how these mythical beasts developed over the years, how they’re seen differently in different cultures, and how they entered the mainstream. Just watch out for the odd spoiler for House of the Dragon series 1. 🎙️

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 07:54:39 +1000

I found this video on the failure of the Star Wars Hotel by Jenny Nicholson to be absolutely fascinating. A great example of Disney enshittification and promising more then they can deliver. Many of her other videos are great as well (I actually went on a binge session over the weekend). 📺

Mon, 06 May 2024 22:02:27 +1000

📺 Taitset

Discovered another YouTube channel about Victorian railways this evening. This one’s more about history and operations and less pure cab-rides. A lot of fascinating information about locations that I’m very familiar with.

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:41:17 +1000

📺 Sugar: Season 1 (2024)

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:18:41 +1000

📺 Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:52:29 +1000

Anyone looking for a really polished YouTube channel about the history of PCs and game consoles from the 70s to the early 2000s (think Apple, Commodore, MOS, Nintendo, etc.), I can recommend LowSpecGamer. They’re also on Nebula. In fact, their videos is why I signed up there yesterday. 📺

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 06:57:38 +1000

📺 Andor: Series 1 (2022)

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 06:42:36 +1000

Enjoying the latest ShopTalk about home cooked apps. What an amazing term for it: perfect. Also good to know that I’m not alone in doing this. 🎙️

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:54:16 +1000

If there are any Victorian gunzels out there eager for cab ride videos, I can recommend driver667. They produce some quality cab ride videos of greater Melbourne and regional Victoria, plus some in Tasmania that I’ve yet to see. 📺

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 06:29:40 +1000

📺 Dune (2021)

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:12:13 +1000

📺 Keen On Keys

The YouTube algorithm surfaced this delightful channel this evening of someone reviewing home music keyboards from the 80’s and 90’s. Really enjoying it.

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:46:46 +1000

🎵 Stationary Loops, by Lee Rosevere

Bought when I needed a few screenshots of Alto but growing to like it. Quite nice ambient chill out music. Got hints of Tangerine Dream and Jene-Michel Jarre.

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 20:10:30 +1000

Enjoyed the discussion about AI and independence on Ruminate #179. I agree with Robb and John: websites created by people will definitely have a leg up amongst all the sites that are little more than AI generated “content”. 🎙️

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:45:23 +1000

📺 Nintendo’s Luckiest Accident

So apparently the “watch” in Game & Watch actually references the time piece. Until I watched this video, I actually thought it meant watching the demo that played while in Time mode.

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:28:26 +1000

Discovered a new artist through a YouTube channel I watch. They make some pretty good chill-out music. I can recommend Synths Working Overtime and Music For Podcasts 6, particularly “Cloudloop” (track 6) and “Systematic” (track 7). 🎵

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:12:04 +1000

More YouTube watching this evening. These three videos about scam Chrome plugins were amusing and, I guess, a good argument for human curation of these “marketplaces”. Kinda pains me to say that. I wish it wasn’t so. 📺

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:42:38 +1000

So apparently tonight’s earworm is lesser known songs from Men At Work’s “Business As Usual” album, like People Just Love To Play With Words, I Can See It In Your Eyes, and Be Good Johnny. 🎵

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 15:10:24 +1000

Speaking of Anders Jensen, he’s composed a few songs for the 8 Bit Keys YouTube channel. Usually he’ll release them as tracks on his albums, but I couldn’t find the last one he wrote, and I’ve been liking it a lot. So I’m placing a time-stamped link to it here so I can go back to it. 📺

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:23:53 +1000

Have been on Bandcamp buying more music from Anders Enger Jensen. Started listening to both Retro Grooves Version 4 and Version 5. Can recommend the first track on version 4. 🎵

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:36:32 +1000

I’ve been watching that YouTube video about plagiarism that was mentioned on the latest episode of Shop Talk (some other podcast I listened to recently may have also mentioned it, although I can’t remember which one). I’m only an hour in — it’s more than 3 hours long so it’ll take me a couple of days to watch the whole thing — but it’s been fascinating. It’s quite something to see how blatant some of these cases of plagiarism are. 📺

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 11:08:53 +1000

📺 Dave’s Garage - the Dave Cutler interviews

You know the feeling when you see a YouTube interview of someone talking about their work, and you’re left feeling “gosh, I wish that person also had a YouTube channel.” This is one of those interviews. Fascinating, if short, discussion from the architect of Windows NT.

Edit: This YouTube video might be the full interview. Via Michael Tsai.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:04:47 +1000

🎵 Epic Grandpa, by Izioq

This has been a bit of an earworm recently, after hearing it in this YouTube video (thank-you to those who credit composers in their videos). I think the Mellotron was the hook for me. Reminds me of Phaedra.

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 17:17:01 +1000

🎵 Pippin, the New Broadway Cast Recording, by Stephen Schwartz.

One of the defining memories of my life was in Year 10, playing the viola in the pit orchestra of our high-school production of Pippin. Good times.

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:32:41 +1000

🎵 Stages, by Elaine Page

One of a handfull of albums I use to play constantly on the record player when I was a kid.

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 07:51:04 +1000

My recent YouTube watching has been about theme-parks, predominantly Disney. I’m not an theme-park enthusiast but I found both Theme Park History and Defunctland really interesting channels to watch. HT to Reconcilable Differences and Really Specific Stories, which mentioned the two channels. 📺

Thu, 11 May 2023 08:00:00 +1000

Also rediscovered Fleetwood Mac, after a long pause since hearing it when I was a kid. Seems “Dreams” is the more popular one (I keep hearing it at the gym), but for myself, I just love the instrumentation of “Little Lies”. 🎵

Thu, 11 May 2023 07:55:49 +1000

Rediscovered Nigel Westlake’s Antarctica — Suit for guitar and orchestra. First heard it in Year 11 Music, when we had to study the score. Started listening to it again about a month ago. You’d want the version with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Slightly more refined than the original. 🎵

Thu, 04 May 2023 09:27:11 +1000

📺 Sophie Koonin – This Website Is under Construction, a Love Letter to the Personal Website

Saw this boosted on social.lol. A really good talk on why having your own place on the web is worth it.

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 07:10:53 +1000

🎵 Going Home: Theme from Local Hero

This week’s earworm. Apparently I loved this track when I was a little kid. Well, apart from the very 80’s sound (not a criticism), I’d say the younger me had great taste.

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:10:05 +1000

📺 Sash! - Adelante (Official Video)

No, you stop scouring the web for a music video from your childhood and get back to work! 😀

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:58:41 +1000

🎙 Really Specific Stories: John Siracusa

As an avid fan of all of John’s podcasts, I’ve been looking forward to this episode of Really Specific Stories for a while. I’m please to say that @martinfeld does not disappoint. A fantastic listen.

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:41:41 +1000

🎵 Twenty Four Hours from Café Del Chillia

Effectively intermission music but I have found myself liking it. I do, however, think that with just a few tweaks it could be much better. Changing the base line so that it no longer clashes with the melody, for example.

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:48:04 +1000

📺 The Computer Programme (1982)

Discovered from reading this Ars Technica article about the history of ARM. Was commissioned by the BBC in the early 1980’s to teach the British public about home computers. Found it to be quite charming.

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:49:26 +1000

🎙 The Talk Show: Grand Scale Foot-Shooting

A fascinating episode of the Talk Show. Couldn’t put it down, metaphorically speaking.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:28:51 +1000

📺 Victorian Drivers View

Now, I know what you’re thinking: watching cab-rides on YouTube is great, but there aren’t any of the Melbourne and Victorian rail network. Well friends, if you’re tired of the Shinkansen and TGV, this is for you. 😀

Via Waking up in Geelong

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 11:18:50 +1000

📺 The Early Days of id Software: Programming Principles

YouTube recommended this conference talk by John Romero on how id Software did their game development during the early days. Watched it last night, and I really enjoyed it. Amazing how much they got done with what they had.

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:05:30 +1000

📺 WTF are all these config files for

Web front-end developers need to find a way to get all their project configuration into a single file. There, I said it! If Java devs can do it, then so can you.

(link via. the front-end developers at work)

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:48:10 +1000

This week’s earworm: Hergest Ridge 🎵

Another Mike Oldfield album (surprise, surprise). I’ve only recently discovered this after my dad shared this YouTube video on prog. rock albums. I’m making my way through the list but I’ve naturally started from what I consider the best.

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 22:34:31 +1000

🎙️ Really Specific Stories, featuring yours truly.

Had the privilege of being a guest on @martinfeld’s excellent show about podcasting. Check it out, then make sure you listen to the other episodes because they are all really good.

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:54:04 +1000

🎙 Dithering: 13 Sept 22 - Discord AI

Enjoyed the discussion on Midjourney and AI images, but it was the final two minutes on the UIs of Slack and Discord that I found to be the most interesting part of this episode.

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:23:14 +1000

This week’s earworm: The Songs Of Distant Earth by Mike Oldfield 🎵

Not necessarily a new one in my rotation, but I’ve been listening to it non-stop all week.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 10:26:51 +1000

🎙️ No Mercy / No Malice: All Ears

First one of these newsletters that I actually listen to in podcast form, and I really enjoyed it. Happy coincidence that the subject today probably explained the reason why.

Mon, 09 May 2022 10:41:09 +1000

This week’s earworm: TUNIC (Original Game Soundtrack) by Lifeformed × Janice Kwan.

Favourite track: To Far Shores. 🎵

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:35:51 +1000

After a hard day of work, it’s great to live a little vicariously by listening to the story of how John Siracusa chose the indy life on Reconcilable Differences.🎙️

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:54:46 +1000

I’ve been listening to, and buying, a fair bit of music from Anders Enger Jensen over the last few days. My current earworm is about half the tracks on Retro Grooves Volume 2. Some pretty good retro synth music there. 🎵

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 10:38:00 +1000

This week’s earworm: Who Can It Be Now by Men At Work 🎵

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 11:43:26 +1000

Currently watching Halt And Catch Fire on SBS On Demand. An enjoyable watch but the the plumber problem is certainly there 📺

Sat, 07 Aug 2021 08:09:17 +1000

This week’s earworm: DiscoVision by Anders Enger Jensen 🎵

Sat, 08 May 2021 16:08:35 +1000

Stephen Hackett on 🎙 Flashback #18: The Google Graveyard Draft:

Never fall in love in a Google Service that’s not Gmail

So true.

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:30:23 +1000

It wasn’t until about a week ago, when I was looking very closely at the Robot Or Not show art, that I realised how cleaver the name and logo of this 🎙️ podcast actually is.