Digital Garden of Travis Briggs

Suno In the preface of my site Null Rail, in which I document and show off my usages of Suno to create songs, I say: Can AI make art?

If you've ever tried editing Wikipedia, you might have been instantly reverted.

In April, I wondered if there was an AI bubble in the US stock market/economy.

When I talk to creative people, I love seeing and hearing and reading examples of their work of course!

The famous saying attributed to Steve Jobs when they were way overdue on finish the original Macintosh.

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Ever since the LLM wars started, people have been developing benchmarks to try to compare which ones are "better", which ones are the best.

As I write this, it is April 13th, 2026.

Many have theorized that the coding harness matters more than the backend model when doing AI assisted or "vibe" coding.

2026 has been getting much better!

Kiwix is an organization that helps make web content available for offline viewing.

Once I started using OpenClaw (then switched to nanoclaw), one of the coolest main takeaways was that I could get AI bots to message me on Telegram.

Abby is my lovely wife.

Here I'd like to discuss some of my plans, hopes, aspirations and whatnot for this digital garden.

I'm not sure if this page should be completely empty, completely full, or if it already is both.

DBT is Dialectial Behavior Therapy (also on Wikipedia).

From what I've been researching, intrinsic motivation is largely defined in terms of it's opposite, extrinsic motivation.

Turns out not where but who you're with that really matters Dave Matthews, Best Of What's Around, from the 1996 album Under The Table And Dreaming You can't control what happens, only the way you respond to it.

I don't have a ton of opinions on philosophy.

Vibe code whenever you want!

At some point in the past year, I upgraded my version of Reason from version 10 to version 11.

Suno is vibe coding for my songs/music/songwriting.

In 2026, I've now really embraced AI and vibe coding.

Vibe coding.

Before the 1950s, a kitchen cabinet or a dining table was often the work of a local carpenter or a specialized regional workshop.

The problem with Java is that everything has to be a class.

I learned a little bit of Perl in college, and even coded some simple web apps with it.

Ruby on Rails is probably the first frontend framework I ever used.

Vue.js is an awesome frontend JavaScript/Typescript framework for making all kinds of interactive, reactive, web applications.

I think I started this project in 2011 or 2012.

I realize that I've written a lot about different programming languages that I'm familiar with in this digital garden.

I just read Shane Friedman's account of creating his "new" blog.

They said to practice my coping skills.

A few weeks ago, Abby and I saw A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet.

Here are some things I'm either currently excited about, or at least I was excited about when I wrote about them.

This year, for the holidays, my wife Abby and I spent 16 days in Massachusetts with her family.

I have been a Spotify user since they first launched in the US, which was (checks notes) July 2011.

Travis Briggs is a software developer, amateur musician, and digital gardener (formerly blogger).

Early attempts I have been working on personal song hosting since 2018, when I created songs.travisbriggs.com (Github).

Ableton Live version 12 was released the first week of March, 2024.

I've started to think of bands as sports teams.

I think I'm starting to realize one of the major roadblocks I've encountered in my music career -- career meaning all the times in the past I've tried to write, record and perform music.

I don't really want to give a detailed history of my experiences with writing and recording music here.

Sometimes I think I need to just NIKE the shit out of some songwriting (just do it).

Today I sent a cold email to someone who has 90k subscribers on YouTube, asking if they could maybe give me music production lessons.

I have had some different recording setups over the past 20+ years I've been making digital music, but all of them were based around recording instruments into a DAW.

Here is a collection of snippets of writing that I creeated between 2014 and 2017.

I first started writing Python in 2009, in my first Github repo: sudoku-solver, an open source library for solving Sudoku puzzles that I did in my free time (I had a lot of free time back then because I was unemployed and living in my parents' basement).