Preach. It's a painful lesson for founders and this is coming from someone who gets hired to steps in as the design capacity along side them. It's very easy to underestimate the value, vision, and systemic product and design thinking a strong designer can bring.

M9R plugins are coming along nicely. While still prioritizing playback of local files, we're adding in the ability to connect, search, and playback from Apple Music.

I finally understand needing a vacation from your vacation. After you have a kid, getting back and settling in is so much harder. 😂😩

just vibing

Using AI design generation tools is like playing with a slot machine, completely random, usually a letdown with the occasional exciting result. By the time you're done with them, you're either creatively hungry or creatively depleted. You then ask "wtf am I doing?"

Concept test for BPM driven artifacts. It works, it's fun, and the performance seems alright. Scaffolded with Claude Code and heavily optimized by me because generated code is ya know...

Finally figured it out well enough to write it down. zed.dev/blog/why-llms-…

deep cut. no. 1. youtube.com/watch?v=FjahxW…

This is a good change. Excited to see how this all shakes out for Apple and Meta design.

Kevin and I have yet another music player we're unsure of releasing. It's adjacent to hardware we've been exploring. We'd release it as open source as there isn't really a viable market for new music players. Are folks interested?