Writing
A mix of what I write here and pieces from Bitstream Media. Posts marked Bitstream open on the studio site.
What ten years of breaking my own home lab taught me about production
The lab started because I wanted something I was allowed to break. A decade on, the value was never the stack — it was…
05 AUG 2026Read →
How to get your whole family onto one gifting system (including the holdouts)
A gifting system only works if the whole family joins. How to pitch it, onboard the reluctant, win over grandparents and survive the first…
01 AUG 2026Read ↗
The long gifting season: why our family starts planning in July
Fifteen birthdays, Christmas, and a dozen secret group chats. How our family’s gifting season really runs — and why the planning starts in July.
31 JUL 2026Read ↗
Routing audio between Mac apps without the virtual cable mess
Every virtual cable you add is another device that can vanish on reboot, another sample rate to agree on, and another thing to explain…
23 JUL 2026Read ↗
What a crowd game needs from your venue
A checklist worth running before anyone commits to putting a crowd game in a show. Every item here has broken a test…
22 JUL 2026Read ↗
How to revive a neglected website (the no-jargon recovery guide)
Website gone stale, broken, or you’ve lost access? Here’s the calm, step-by-step way to get it back under control — no shame, no jargon.
16 JUL 2026Read ↗
Long-distance gifting: coordinating family gifts across cities and countries
Half the family in another state or overseas? How to run gifts across distance — shipping deadlines, local delivery tricks, time zones and staying…
15 JUL 2026Read ↗
Running a show on Apple Silicon: what actually changed
The headline is performance. The parts that affect show day are unified memory, hardware decode you may not be using, and a plugin still…
09 JUL 2026Read ↗
Why it runs on one Mac and not a server
An architectural decision that looks lazy and is not: the whole thing runs on one Mac, locally, with no server involved. What…
08 JUL 2026Read ↗
Buying gifts for teenagers without the eye-roll
Teenagers are brutal gift critics with fast-moving tastes. How to buy for teens — the safe lanes, the cash question, and getting a usable…
01 JUL 2026Read ↗