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The Staircase - Official Trailer

posted April 25, 2022 #

If you have never seen the documentary that inspired this, stop what you are doing and go watch it now. This trailer is certainly intriguing but you’ll never top the insane true story.

The Future of CSS: CSS Toggles

posted April 22, 2022 #

CSS is becoming more and more like a real programming language. Pretty wild to see. Via @steveniebauer

Tetrisphere - Prophetic

posted April 21, 2022 #

via @dontstaylong - this N64 soundtrack "goes hard." This is some serious late-90s rave vibes.

Handshake

posted April 21, 2022 #

peer-to-peer root naming system. I can't say I fully understand this thing but I am intrigued. Blockchain TLDs as far as I can tell!

WOTT MUSIC 300: Community Makes It Go

posted April 19, 2022 #

Every week for the past few years I've posted a new episode of my We Own This Town Music podcast. I scour Instagram and Bandcamp to find new releases from the Nashville area and put them into a playlist format. It's akin to running a radio show but there's nothing in regular rotation; I really do my best to try and play something different every episode.
Today I released the 300th episode. It's a milestone for me and I'm honestly proud I've been able to stick with it for so long and continue to be so happy with the results. It's work but it's rewarding.

To celebrate the landmark occasion, I reached out to a bunch of members of the music community and asked them to submit one of their favorite local tracks (new or all-time). I'm quite pleased with the results and I hope you'll tune in to discover some new music; even if you don't live in the Nashville area.

To point a slightly finer point on it, We Own This Town (the entire endeavor) strives to be a destination to prop up the great creativity happening around where I live but it's far from the only destination for such a thing. A thriving music scene only works if everyone involved is promoting one another and not trying to hoard all the eyeballs (and likes and social currency) for themselves. Nashville's scene is so good because of all of the people that are involved in pushing awareness; not just WOTT. Maybe that's obvious but it felt great to ask others to participate and they were so willing to contribute.

Many thanks to everyone who submitted a track. Specifically, my gratitude to Patrick Rodgers, *repeat repeat, Negro Justice, Caroline Bowman, Six One Tribe, Olivia Ladd, Taylor Cole, Lance Conzett, Larissa Maestro, Wes Davenport of No Country for New Nashville, Villin dot net, Rebecca Delius from Memento Stori, Mary Mancini from Lucy’s Record Shop, Megan Seling from Snack and Destroy, Kathryn Edwards, The Groove Records, Leanne Merritt and Vinyl Tap.

DuckDuckGo for Mac

posted April 12, 2022 #

built on top of Safari rendering engine but with a focus on privacy. Sort of want to try this if only for the "we handle cookie alerts for you" feature.

In the Shadow of the Star Wars Kid

posted March 31, 2022 #

I had no idea Andy Baio was responsible for the Star Wars Kid making it to the Internet. He shares finally getting to meet him after 20 years and the conversations they had.

Sandusky Reminder

posted March 31, 2022 #

On this day in 1995, the Chris Farley movie Tommy Boy was released. Let this serve as a reminder that in 2018, Dave Paulson released a concept album about the entire movie. It's a track-by-track retelling but it also gets to the emotional core of the movie. In short, it's fantastic.
There's a great intro video explaining the whole record and a fun video for "Don't Let It Get You Down" - one of my personal faves from the record.

Tommy Boy director Peter Segal enjoyed it, as did Consequence of Sound, The AV Club, Ain't It Cool News and even FastCompany.

Everything you need to know about the record is on the official site sanduskyoh.co, there's a twitter for the album at @SanduskyAlbum, you can buy it on Bandcamp or stream it wherever.

I'm biased but I do recommend getting it into your life.
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