Matthew M. Tong

My search to discover my preferred post writing style continues.

Going to start calling these newsletters “musings” instead of a time-based term like “weekly”.

The weekly post is turning into a monthly post.

I’ve been thinking this week about akrasia, which is the lack of will to do what one wants to do, and instead doing something that isn’t ideal.

From left to right: Mimestream, Pick Me Up Infinite Gacha This week has involved more scheduled music-related work, so less time was given to my desired auxiliary studies of jazz and coding.

iOS 26 arrived this month, and I’ve been using it on my iPhone 13 mini since the beta releases.

Left to right: selfie mirror, MagSafe battery, Flexi Hose, Siege and Storm, iOS/iPadOS 26 review I’m starting to wonder what sort of introductory paragraph would serve well for this newsletter.

From left to right: archive.today, Focus for YouTube, Shadow and Bone, Poladr0id.

I’ve always wanted to write a weekly newsletter that shared the things I enjoyed from the past week, along with some life updates.

This post goes into my process of creating sheet music from an audio track.

I used to use Streamer Songlist as the method of allowing users to request songs and also put up an overlay on OBS to show what was playing and what was up next on the song queue.

以下是如何在 iPad 版 Zoom 应用中将音频设置更改为原始声音的说明。

I received the opportunity to play the Keyboard 2 part for a production of Newsies at Westridge.

Playing keyboard (especially Keyboard 2) in modern musical theatre settings often involves a healthy mix of musicianship and technology (which makes it quite fun for me, considering my interests).

I’ve been interested in learning programming recently, and decided to see what the capabilities of LLM/AI tools are, as a complete coding n00b.

Cortex does one show each year dedicated to their usage of apps, and this post title is inspired by them.

As the end of 2024 appraoches, I want to recount the things that have happened in this year and the things I hope to look forward to in the coming one.