So I’m trying this thing as a way to get myself to write more. I used to think I should save my writing muscle for things that truly mattered to me, but that meant that the only things I wrote for a long time were code (which, let’s face it, is to writing what typing is to playing the piano), emails, and Jira tickets. If you don’t know what a Jira ticket is, let’s swap brains for a couple of hours, since I could use a break.

That’s changing. I’ve written more blog posts since the start of 2025 than in the previous six years combined, and I want to keep at it. But because my main obstacle to writing has always been that I want it to be good and meaningful, and have historically failed at either or both, I’ve also added a “Notes and links” section, where I’m giving myself permission to not write excessively personal posts, and, I suppose, to not be good or meaningful. But it’s also a way to store useful or interesting links for myself, and if someone else also finds them useful or interesting, tant mieux.

From the blog

• My rotting Apple
  It took me a while to process the 2025 WWDC keynote. (And I suspect I’m not done.)

Notes and links

• Lang Lang and the BSO Play Saint-Saëns at Tanglewood (July 27, 2025)
  We went, we enjoyed, we did not get soaked. And here’s a recording.
• Wirecutter on smart devices
• I too am tired of talking about “AI”
• Jazz Chain № 1
  The first of a series of playlists. Or maybe the only one, we’ll see how patient I am.
• Of course I fell for that article about Fivefingers that I swore I wasn’t going to read
• The six-smurfed flute
  A blast from the past.
• Lessons in Magic and Disaster, by Charlie Jane Anders