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Toured Lemon Hill Mansion, overdue haircut, ballpark hot dogs.

Spring 2023 Artiphon, the company I was working for at the time, was officially headquartered in Nashville, but like many tech companies did, started to welcome remote workers after the pandemic, and by the time I joined in 2021, the team was fairly widely

and there were all these bathing caps that you could buy which had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them they were red and yellow and blue I wasn’t tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach.

Drove from Philly to Manhattan to hang out with Kiley and bring home some bins we had loaned for her recent move.

Beautiful day to walk to the river and watch some boats.

At some point it will be less of a surprise to open the front door and see 30 folks on horseback riding down the street in front of the house.

Back in college, I only remember having two conversations with the head of the jazz piano department.

Enjoying a walk almost back to New Jersey from our new adopted country of Philadelphia.

Linear arrays.

Brazil v Morocco.

Oh kimono, kimono, kimono Tokyo’s the town that I love the best East may be East, and West may be West Forget about the twain, it’ll drive you insane And teach you things you never knew before.

Signboard and text that says ‘M H ND R70K540 1K/-OKA 2K540 ARTISAN’.

Today’s schedule: extra glossy.

So: A year ago today, we bought this rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown neighborhood.

Yesterday we said goodbye to Scarlet Q Canine Porter, faithful companion since we met in 2011.

Xmas eve 1985, Radio Shack, Syracuse, NY (Mattydale, for the locals—the one right where the original Zebb’s was).

Assumed Audience Software developers, especially C++/JUCE developers, perhaps those frustrated working with JUCE’s ValueTree class.

When we were getting ready to buy this new house earlier in the year, we promised each other to not repeat one big mistake we had made in our previous house: we waited far longer than we should have to make some important updates to the place.

Following up on my report posted after our First 90 Days here.

Assumed Audience Software developers, especially C++/JUCE developers, perhaps those frustrated working with JUCE’s ValueTree class.

It was a beautiful day yesterday–a break between two heatwaves, so we walked down to the river and wandered a bit.

Assumed Audience IndieWeb bloggers, software developers One of my goals when redoing my personal site was to reduce my reliance on corporate silos taking ownership of what I write.

Assumed Audience Software developers/bloggers, perhaps skeptical of the current AI hype cycle In the early post here discussing my new online home here, there’s a quick mention of a ‘handful of custom scripts’ that I use to maintain things.

One of the things that made us settle on the neighborhood we moved into this spring was its proximity to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Assumed Audience Software developers, especially C++/JUCE developers, perhaps those frustrated working with JUCE’s ValueTree class.

Looking through the spreadsheet I maintain of concerts I’ve attended, I noted that 12 years ago today I attended one of the most deeply moving performances I’ve ever gone to, a performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Michaels Reise um die Erde,” which is…

Last night, Keenan visited (in part) so that we could go see the MLS match between the Philadelphia Union and the NY Red Bulls.

Today, July 7th, is a minor holiday in Japan – Tanabata.

Assumed Audience Software developers, especially C++/JUCE developers, perhaps those frustrated working with JUCE’s ValueTree class.

“Building ghosts” are the idiosyncratic remnants or imprints of demolished buildings, left behind on the sides of neighboring structures.

A big day in my world.

Walked from our house over to the Fairmount neighborhood where the Ukrainian League holds a monthly jazz night, it turns out.

Dan Weiss Quartet Weds, 11 Jun 2025 @ Solar Myth, Philadelphia.

on a trash can We saw it when turning onto the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on our first trip to Philadelphia to start looking at houses, someone had spray-painted on a Jersey barrier irregular. on a brown utility pole After we moved in, we ran into it every…

When we first started walking around the neighborhood after moving in 3 months ago, I started noticing small badges affixed to the sidewalk to identify the company that had installed it.

Long ago, I spun up a WordPress server here on my personal domain; at the time, it was the thing to do, and my hosting provider had a single-click option to provision it, so… done.

The last week in February, we sold our house in New Jersey where we had lived for 28 years, packed everything into two big trucks and bought a row house in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown neighborhood. move-in day Empty downstairs, waiting for the moving trucks

Assumed Audience Software developers, especially C++/JUCE developers, perhaps those frustrated working with JUCE’s ValueTree class.

Assumed Audience Software developers, especially C++/JUCE developers, perhaps those frustrated working with JUCE’s ValueTree class.

Assumed Audience Software developers, especially C++/JUCE developers, perhaps those frustrated working with JUCE’s ValueTree class. tl;dr Cello is a set of C++ classes to work with ValueTree objects from the JUCE application framework.

Assumed Audience Software developers, especially C++/JUCE developers, perhaps those frustrated working with JUCE’s ValueTree class.

Assumed Audience Software developers, especially C++/JUCE developers, perhaps those frustrated working with JUCE’s ValueTree class.

Editing and re-posting a twitter thread here from a few weeks ago for posterity.

Spent a chilly spring break day in NYC with my daughter, mostly at MoMA.

Victor Khoo Xmas eve, 1989, Singapore.

Misfit Toys I’ve given this a lot of thought.

Permits!

Yes, we skipped the entry for Week #29, partly because of my issue with seeing another prime-numbered number of weeks on this project, and partly because very little happened that week – the cabinet-maker adjusted some drawers and installed (but did not e…

Picking up the remaining pieces.

madeline goes out …in which we slowly inch toward final completion of this project.