Author: Brad Root
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On Social Media
I’ve been thinking a lot about social media this past week. It’s been hard not to, since for many of us “internet people” the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk has become some sort of political watershed moment on par with the election of Donald Trump. I don’t think I am exaggerating how emotionally affecting…
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Diablo Immortal
Diablo Immortal came out a few weeks ago. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, this is the free to play mobile Diablo MMO that was announced to great fanfare years ago. I wasn’t planning on playing it at all, despite my love of ARPGs, because MMOs turned me off…
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The Staircase
The Staircase, the new HBO series that just wrapped up, was very entertaining. I didn’t watch the original documentary, but I had read an article all about “the owl theory”, which I had found very convincing, so I was vaguely familiar with the murder of Kathleen Peterson. To someone unfamiliar with some of the details…
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Mustang Micro & iRig HD 2 Comparison (for iPad users)
I recently purchased a cheap electric guitar setup so that I could take my third… fourth?… try at learning to play guitar, in the hopes that I can start writing songs. I knew from experience that I would want some sort of audio interface for the guitar (for recording) and that I wanted to use…
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What I’m Up To – Week 20, 2022
Last week I got my Panic Playdate in the mail. I preordered it last July, and have been following it since the May 2019 EDGE announcement, so you could say it was a long time coming. It’s such a nice feeling device, and good looking, too. Sure, the non-backlit screen can be annoying, but I…
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What I’m Up To – Week 11, 2022
What I got up to this week: some minor changes to the next version of MultiClock, and… well… not much else.
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New blog, who dis?
I migrated this blog from Gatsby to WordPress. I’m sure to many people that sounds insane. There’s so many tutorials online on how to migrate in the other direction, and even plugins that export all your content to Markdown files to stick into Gatsby, but nothing if you want to go another way. I’m doing…
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What I’m Up To – Week 49, 2021
What I did over the past week: I built and released dotBeat, a small macOS menu bar app.
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dotBeat Internet Time
This week on stream I built a small macOS menu bar app I’m calling dotBeat Internet Time. It’s a small, focused app with two features: 1) It displays the current Swatch Internet Time in the menu bar, and 2) It allows you to figure out how Internet Time corresponds to your local time, as well…