If you’ve spent anytime at all on YouTube watching videos of guitarists you know that they range in quality from quick and dirty iPhone videos to more elaborate multi-screen, multi-track presentations. Until this week and being quarantined and all with the Coronavirus pandemic, I had never really given much thought to posting my own videos…

10 Ways to Ease Your Coronavirus Anxiety – These simple tips will help you relax and put things in perspective — in between washing your hands, of course. A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers – Good tips from HBR A cough, and our hearts stop: Coping with coronavirus anxiety and fear – More…

We are on mandatory lock-down here in NJ to help flatten the curve. Yesterday, late in the afternoon I made the mistake of looking at Facebook. I should have known better. Facebook just seems to bring out the worst in people. So I figured I might try to tilt the scales a little bit more to the positive…

Desktop-Class Productivity for iPad – Things Blog – Cultured Code – Release notes with cool tips. Individual vs collective climate action – Those who are concerned about the climate crisis need to do a better job at highlighting that more than 70% of the climate problem is caused by just 100 corporations Not a ‘math…

One of the challenges of working remotely is conveying your presence/availability to your colleagues while working at home.

A High-Resolution Audio Primer – a report on a scientific article presented at last year’s AES meeting, in which the authors used test tones and a modest audio system (albeit in an anechoic chamber) to prove that listeners can discriminate between high-rez and CD-rez audio. Don’t think twice – Billy Strings – I recently learned…

Opinion | Who’s Profiting From Your Outrageous Medical Bills? – Who’s Profiting From Your Outrageous Medical Bills? The same people who should be fixing them. Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be? – Alberto Acerbi & Charlotte Brand | Aeon Ideas – Are popular songs today happier or sadder than they…

  Getting the iPad to Pro – excellent review of the iPad usability issues by Craig Mod. Pollstar | Hotstar: Billy Strings Goes Beyond Bluegrass – more backstory than I’ve ever seen before on Billy. 5 Cheap(ish) Things to Make the Perfect Cup of Coffee – The New York Times – I switched to black…

Dark Mode for Web – Some css tips for making a dark mode version of a website. Putting this on my list of things to tackle. You Are A Strange Loop – YouTube – Was speaking with some friends about Doug Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach the other day and then serendipitously came across this great,…