Blog
I’ve been running an online journal since March 2002. For fifteen years, it had been published on another domain, exclusively centred around personal thoughts on life and work.
Check my favourite posts, or browse a few topics:
- sound design
- game audio
- music production
- independent artists
- web development
- personal
- sustainability
- video games
- more…
All posts
- I stopped using Feedbin for RSS
- ‘Love Field’ featured on ‘Turn Me On, Dead Man’
- Disconnecting
- A letter to Taylor Swift
- Using decentralised chats again
- RIP Molly Holzschlag
- Own your data
- Managing my personal website
- Switching to plain text
- Why I use so little software by Apple
- I guess I don’t trust the Cloud
- Interacting on social media while keeping its noise low
- Reading online
- How I navigate the internet
- Enjoy the difference Favourite
- Reply: You need a versioning system
- Yellow Brick Road
- More than 1,5 million streams brought me royalties
- The Atlantic on Social Media
- Human connection
- Venture capitalists buying out music production software
- Back to the UK
- Apple’s Bug Reporting Process is a Waste of Time
- Quickly create local folders matching the content of a Wwise Switch Group
- Notes on the historical concept album
- Andy
- Erasing things
- Clean, the cleanest I’ve been
- A personal manifesto Favourite
- Waves switched to subscription only and people are angry
- My experience releasing an album as an independent artist (part 2)
- Mix: ‘In Super-8’ by Ember Rev Case study
- My experience releasing an album as an independent artist (part 1) Favourite
- New reviews for ‘After 1989’
- Master: ‘Ipogeo’ by IsadoraD Case study
- De-brand Favourite
- Towards my audio reel: field recording
- Duolingo from Italian to English is not good
- Simplifying REAPER
- Happy with my current tech stack
- Email migration from Proton to Mailbox
- How I use the internet
- Ollo Audio headphones
- Degrowth
- Mix: ‘Nebbia’ by Arva Vacua Case study
- Installing Android 13 on an unsupported non-Google phone
- Making mistakes (and owning them)
- Bass: ‘The Rules Of Night And Day’ by Antiquity Case study
- Streaming regret
- Explorer by Sound Particles
- Ungoogled Chromium
- Indieweb and webmentions for my static site
- Automation for my static blog publishing workflow
- A human-readable RSS feed with Jekyll
- On the concept of frugal computing
- Implementing WebP images in Jekyll
- Unreal Engine 5 is out
- Content security policy on Netlify
- Life after social networks Favourite
- Bandcamp is joining Epic Games
- Michael C. Hall’s new band
- Website redesign
- Loops, transitions, identity
- ‘Berlin 91’ official music video
- Co-production: ‘Eclipse’ by Antiquity Case study
- Co-production: ‘Funky Bacterium’ by Antiquity Case study
- Release: ‘The Die Is Cast’ Case study
- Release: ‘Non sai chi sono’ Case study
- Audacity joins Muse
- Interview to Susan Rogers at Pensado’s Place
- Switch DAW: Logic to Pro Tools to REAPER (Pt 3)
- Switch DAW: Logic to Pro Tools to REAPER (Pt 2)
- Switch DAW: Logic to Pro Tools to REAPER (Pt 1) Favourite
- Co-production: ‘Shelter From A Storm’ by Antiquity Case study
- New album ‘Rings’ by Cameron Hassard
- Backup and audio archival
- Mix: ‘Hidden Music’ by Dan Ecclestone Case study
- ‘After 1989’ anniversary: new music video
- Leaving the UK
- Producing bass remotely Case study Favourite
- A Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot On A B-29
- Efficient productivity for music professionals Case study
- Secret Eclectic review for ‘13 Days’
- Escape from social media
- Bass: ‘In Our Dreams’ by Antiquity Case study
- Google rejects ‘Attentat 1942’ from German store
- ‘13 Days’ official video: the Cuban crisis
- Bass: ‘The Far Side Of The Sun’ by Antiquity Case study
- Sound design for ‘Tom the Tow Truck’ TV cartoon Case study
- Nova Music reviews ‘Skinny Kid’
- Bass: ‘The Road to Salvation’ by Antiquity Case study
- Bass: ‘The Evil Between Us’ by Antiquity Case study
- Angry Baby album review: ‘After 1989’
- ‘Love Field’ reviewed on YHHTMY podcast
- Strings production: Ciara Clifford Case study
- Production: ‘Without You’ by Callum Gardner Case study
- A Trip To Freedom: from Berlin to Berlin Favourite
- Sound design: editing vocals Case study
- ‘Skinny Kid’ song backstory
- ‘Love Field’ video: the JFK assassination
- ‘Skinny Kid’ video reviewed by Indiebuddie
- Release: ‘After 1989’ Case study
- ‘After 1989’ teaser video
- Release: ‘After 1989 Demos’ Case study
- Mix: ‘From The Country To The City To The Sea’ by Ember Rev Case study
- Bass: ‘The Experience’ by Antiquity Case study
- Production: ‘Wriggle a Little’ by Callum Gardner Case study
- Strings production: ‘Zoom In Zoom Out’ by Mally Harpaz Case study
- Production: ‘Eclipse’ by Method Sinik Case study
- Bass: ‘Shallow Grave’ by Antiquity Case study
- Co-production and mix: ‘Premonition And Ruin’ by Ember Rev Case study
- Recent live shows
- Production: ‘Hang Loose’ by Callum Gardner Case study
- Sound design: Drums restoration Case study
- Production: ‘Commit To The List’ by Callum Gardner Case study
- Sound design for ‘Ruff Trigger’ PlayStation2 video game Case study
- Shifting the blame
- Years just pass by
- Untouched notebooks
- Joining Playstos