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I organized Brasswick 2026 in Industry City for the L Train Brass Band featuring Funkrust Brass Band, Purple Gravy, PRIZILLA, The Funky Dawgz, and of course, the L Train Brass Band. 2026 Poster

Playlunch at The Mercury Lounge on Friday, August 21st, 2026 Scroll for more → Bonus

Hot & Not (2026 Backpacking Edition) Just spent two nights in the Adirondack High Peaks and checked Gothics and Armstrong off my list (and repeated Upper Wolfjaw).

One of my all time fav bands Fever Dolls at Night Club 101 on Thursday, May 28th 2026 Scroll for more →

L Train Brass Band at The Debt Gala on May 3rd, 2026 at Music Hall of Williamsburg Scroll for more →

Tool - Explain Shell.

Review of the “Telesin Remote Controller for GoPro Hero 13/12/11/10/9/8/MAX” I often use a GoPro Hero 10 to record my bands.

Zoom H4n Pro file recovery after sudden power loss I’ve been using a Zoom H4n Pro audio recorder for a few years now.

My second concert playing bari sax with Press Start Orchestra!

It’s well known that hard drive prices have been rapidly increasing.

Grace Bowers at Night Club 101 on March 16th, 2026 Scroll for more →

Gladiators NYC in Central Park back on November 11th, 2025 Scroll for more →

Posting these graphs so I can easily reference them next time they come up in conversation Climate graphs from Weather Spark (NYC, Arroyo Grande) Ocean temperatures from Surf-Forecast.com (Asbury Park, Pismo Beach)

Relisten.net I just discovered Relisten (via a post about gapless.js on HN) a website with a slick multi-column layout for browsing live music recordings on Archive.org.

XKCD 949 from September, 2011 still rings true 15 years later.

1975 University of Connecticut Marching Band 01-The 1975 Pre-Game Show 3:40 02-1975 Street Series - UConn Husky 1:31 03-1975 Street Series - Old Connecticut 1:47 04-1975 Street Series - The Stars and Stripes Forever 3:26 05-1975 Street Series - The Star-S…

1965 University of Connecticut Marching Band 1/21 Fanfare #5 0:12 2/21 Temptation 1:45 3/21 Joshua 1:27 4/21 Lover 1:90 5/21 Saints in Concert 2:55 6/21 Bugler's Holiday 1:30 7/21 Latin Prelude 2:40 8/21 Keep on Dancing 0:45 9/21 My Fair Lady 3:00 10/21 T…

Notable Local Bird Sightings from eBird I’ve made some improvements to my eBird TRMNL plugin that displays notable birds in your area!

Lehigh University Jazz Band 1979-1980 01-Groovin' Hard 5:55 02-Gary 5:45 03-Tiger of San Pedro 4:54 04-I Remember Clifford 4:29 05-Wind Machine 3:13 06-West End 6:24 07-Jaberwocky and Titinium Blues 11:36 raw audio 44:40 Hosted by the Internet Archive ⓘ T…

Converting records with a USB turntable and Raspberry Pi Peviously I left a laptop sitting by my record player running Audacity but that was inconvenient so I stuck a Raspberry Pi over there and run these commands via SSH.

Moonshine And Marches from Old South Mountain (1963) 1 Entrance Fanfare 0:33 2 Down the Field 1:10 3 Victory March 1:00 4 Lehigh Salute - Royal Fanfare / Men of Harlech / Glory of the Trumpets / Hail the College (Hail to Lehigh) / Lehigh Triumphal 3:27 5…

TRMNL Earthquake Recipe TRMNL devices now support 2-bit color palettes (announcement).

Digitizing Tapes in 2025 My friend ended up with a big box of video tapes from their childhood from VHS, Video8, and MiniDV.

Yalc is a better alternative to npm link.

GoPro Manual File Recovery I’ve never actually used any of the labs firmware but I found this tidbit interesting for repairing an improperly closed file.

Trick - Manual Scrolling Capture (Shottr) I’ve been a convert to Shottr.cc for screenshots for a few years now but I’ve been frusterated that a MacOS update broke the scrolling capture feature recently.

My first concert playing bari sax with Press Start Orchestra!

1972 UConn Marching Band Vinyl (MC-1860) 1/16 Prance-On and Husky Fanfare 0:49 2/16 UConn Husky 1:33 3/16 Old Connecticut 1:44 4/16 When Johnny Comes Marching Home 1:44 5/16 Down by the Lazy River 1:40 6/16 Rockin' Robin 1:11 7/16 Yo Yo / Theme from Shaft…

Summer hiking in Northern CA and Eastern Oregon Scroll for more →

AlarmKit iOS 26 finally lets apps interact with the system alarms and timers.

Fickle Friends Tour Diary I’m a big fan and today they’re releasing a new, self-titled album.

where not in (Hugo) via jmooring I’ve been pulling my hair out over this for a little while, how do you write where not in in Hugo?

The Faroes A great photo travelogue by Nagarjuna of their trip.

NYC $20 Dinner Map (Paywall) I’ve enjoyed Hellgate’s irreverant but thorough coverage of NYC for a while and they finally converted me to a paying member with their current 34% off first-year sale.

Fallback Font Generator (via).

NY State Renn Faire 2025 Scroll for more →

Tool - Lossless Cut.

My go to commands for processing GoPro footage (or really any video) with ffmpeg: Merge all mp4 files in to a single file without reencoding the whole thing (Small amount of reencoding occurs where the clips are joined): This is very useful on computers w…

I organized Brasswick 2025 in Industry City for the L Train Brass Band featuring The Funky Dawgz, Summer Fling, NYChillharmonic, Big Blitz and of course, the L Train Brass Band. 2025 Poster

Summer Fling on September 7th, 2025 at Save Coney Island.

TRMNL Earthquake Recipe I’m having fun building TRMNL recipes!

NYC Subway Alerts plugin for TRMNL Trmnl is proving to be the internet connected eink screen I always wanted to build but never wanted to maintain.

Uploading an entire directory to the Internet Archive: I had a collection of files around ~50 GB in size that I wanted to upload to a single item in the Internet Archive directly from my NAS.

Geotagged videos of the L Train Brass Band in the Mermaid Parade My friend collected all of the YouTube videos that include the L Train Brass Band in the 2025 Coney Island Mermaid Parade and I’ve placed them on a map!

Songs of Lehigh (vol 2) 01 Klaxon 3:10 02 Victory March 1:26 03 Sunset in Bethlehem 0:54 04 Rearin' Tearing 0:53 05 Hail to Lehigh 1:14 06 Goblet 0:54 07 Campus Dreams 2:13 08 Men of Lehigh 1:60 09 Alma Mater 2:48 10 Noble Men 2:16 11 Hoo-Rah-Ray, Lehigh!

Whiteface Mountain and Mount Esther Scroll for more →

Grandpa hiked Mount Marcy in 1955.

SSH to server via Tailscale if possible: If Tailscale is not running fall back to a different IP Requirements: Tailscale installed via Mac App Store jq installed via Brew Replace the following values: {SERVER_NAME}: These configuration options will be used

POPS - Lehigh University 1 Salute to Lehigh University 1:29 2 Pride of the 97 2:17 3 Centennial Song 1:36 4 Commando March 3:28 5 Irish Tune From County Derry 3:40 6 Shepherd's Hey 2:10 7 The Sinfonians 5:90 8 March 4:35 9 Song With Words "I'll Love My Lo…