The Blog

Big Balls, Small Excuses

On defending bad apples, fake friendship theater, big talk and small excuses, and why neutrality beats aligned hypocrisy.

Everyone Argues About Tools While No One Listens to the Music

Everyone argues about tools—AI music, presets, DAWs, frameworks—but almost nobody listens to the actual result anymore. Music and software have become endless debates about “real” creativity while audiences only care about one thing: does it connect? This is a reflection on AI music, developer culture, and why chasing pitchforks is easier than building something meaningful.

Detective Pikachu of MH Twitch

Do I Look Like I Need Help

The Main Character You Never Meet

We Forgot to Love the Games

Somewhere along the way we stopped playing games and started farming them. A reflection on what we lost, using Where Winds Meet as the latest example.

I've been paying for Claude Max since December. Last week I hit a wall I didn't expect.

Not a usage cap. Not a model deprecation. A policy. I want to write this down because the version of it I keep rehearsing in my head is either too angry to be useful or too measured to be honest, and the truth is somewhere I can only get to by actually writing it out.

The Petty Theater of Small Twitch Communities

Working With Claude Code: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

I've been using Claude Code daily across 5+ projects for the past few months — personal Laravel apps, a self-hosted radio station manager, infrastructure automation, a portfolio site, and this Monster Hunter fashion set community. Here's what it's actually like after the honeymoon phase wears off.

Steam Charts Journalists and the Content Leech Pipeline

Moving Away From Publishing AI Music on Streaming Platforms

AI Music Isn't the Problem. The Sameness Was Already Here.