The Writing Shelf is full again!
The Writings shelf is full again — older essays sit next to a big wave of pieces that used to live only on Patreon and LinkedIn. Here’s a guided tour by topic.
Immersive audio & spatial craft
NEW — Out Of Space Vibration in Eclipsa Audio — Taking a Dolby Atmos master into Eclipsa so YouTube can ship a true immersive music video.
NEW — ReMixing for Immersive Audio — Reimagining older stereo work (Spinner / Binary Trees lineage) for immersive listening.
NEW — Sound in Space: Building the Future of Immersive Audio for Vision Pro — Building a Vision Pro app around spatial audio; process, screenshots, and what’s next.
NEW — What if your app could turn sound into a physical experience? — Pitch and thinking behind a haptic / physical listening experience.
NEW — Where is my Mind is now Sonic Zen Spheres — The rename and product direction from the VisionOS experiment to Sonic Zen Spheres.
Sound, Space, Time — Why immersive audio is having a moment, and how space + time reshape listening.
Spatial Audio and Physical Releases — Blu-ray / physical formats as a way to hold attention in a streaming world.
Get your own Dolby Atmos Studio — A practical walkthrough of a home 5.1.4 Atmos room.
The rebirth of quadraphonic modular synthesizers — Live surround modular culture (Ciani, Subotnick) and why quad is back.
Quadraphonic on Eurorack — Module choices and paths into quad on Eurorack.
An analysis of surround sound in streaming services — What “surround” actually means across streaming platforms.
360 video and audio — Why 360 video so often fails audio — and what to do about it.
Final Cut Pro and 360 — Lessons from editing 360 music / vlog work in Final Cut.
Music, releases & creative practice
NEW — How I made the AI music video for 2026 — From Instagram AI stills to a full music video for the track 2026.
NEW — What is experimental music? — Notes from an AES SF panel on what “experimental” still means.
NEW — Making Music That Resonates: Growth, Luck, and Perseverance — Building a real audience without overnight myths.
NEW — Self-Managing as an Independent Musician: Tips and Experiences — Day-to-day independence: admin, focus, and surviving the industry.
NEW — The speed of light — A short reflection that started on Threads — speed, craft, and attention.
"Binary Trees" - A Musical Journey — Origins of the first album and the Jarre / electronic lineage.
What DAW for a good music recipe? — Practical advice on picking a DAW (for a friend’s kid — and anyone starting out).
Courting the indie artists — Platform economics and what “courting indie” really looks like.
Why I moved from Facebook Live to YouTube (and Twitch) — Live modular sessions, corporate inDay, and why the stream moved.
Bay Area electronic scene & history
Resident Electronic Monthly — The Bay Area live-electronic open mic: what it is and why it matters.
Electronic Music History in the San Francisco Bay Area — From academic labs to underground scenes — a long-form local history.
Electro music in the San Francisco Bay – Some history and a list of on-going electro events — Buchla to Resident: history plus a living events map (MerciSF roots).
Electronica open mic events around San Francisco — Where to plug in as a live electronic player in the Bay.
San Francisco Electronic music scene — West Coast electronic culture, people, and places.
Building Peachymango, BookerPal & AI tooling
NEW — How Vibe Coding My Site Boosted SEO, Security, and Music Plays (And What I Learned Along the Way) — What changed after leaving the old CMS stack — SEO, security, and actual listens.
NEW — Behind the Scenes—Why I Rebuilt Peachymango.org from Scratch (And What It Means for the Future)— The quiet backend rebuild and why a custom site was worth it.
NEW — From Minitel to Golang: Why I’m Planning to Migrate Peachymango.org to a Custom, Vibe-Coded Site— The migration story across web eras — before the rebuild shipped.
NEW — BookerPal & the Art of Building with AI: A Behind-the-Scenes Story — AI as CEO / CISO / VP Product — the messy reality of shipping BookerPal.
NEW — Building BookerPal: Lessons from Vibe Coding, AI Collaboration, and the Music Industry — Early lessons connecting vibe coding to real music-industry workflows.
NEW — BookerPal Tutorial for Talent Buyers — Step-by-step: events, applications, and connecting with artists.
NEW — SEO and BookerPal – Making the Invisible Visible — Making a marketplace discoverable when the product itself is hard to “see.”
NEW — Collaborating with AI Agents: A Developer’s Journey — Planning, coding, testing, and shipping with a team of specialized agents.
NEW — Cursor’s New Planning Feature: A Game-Changer for Debugging and Development — How planning mode changed day-to-day debugging.
NEW — When AI Test Summaries Miss the Mark: Lessons from Debugging with Cursor — When the summary is confident — and wrong — and how to recover.
NEW — The Best Way to Solve a Problem Is to Delete Everything — AI speed vs. starting over: when delete-and-rebuild is the fix.
NEW — AI and Security: The Hidden Risks in "Where is my mind?" — Security lessons from vibe-coding a VisionOS app.
NEW — What never changes is change — A letter to subscribers about shifting platforms and staying in touch.
Internet, email & infrastructure (non-music)
NEW — Pigs, Packets & the Pacific — Inside the PIGNet archive and building the Internet across the Pacific Islands.
NEW — IPv6 in the Enterprise: Lessons from the Trenches — Real-world IPv6 adoption notes from the enterprise side.
NEW — The Hidden Rules of Email Deliverability — What actually happens after you hit send — reputation, filters, and inbox reality.
NEW — When UI design kills security? — How “helpful” UI can undermine anti-phishing and mailbox security.
NEW — Training Data Werewolves — Why “simple” SMTP isn’t simple — spam, data, and messy edge cases.
NEW — Books, Books, Books! — A short reading list worth sharing.
Is SPAM a Nutritional Supplement? — Spam, supplements, and media skepticism (John Oliver era).
The Cost of Email on mobile platforms — Roaming, islands, and what email really costs on mobile.
From IP to Domain reputation,... — How reputation shifted from IPs to domains in the spam wars.
The Robustness principle and email — Postel’s law applied to real-world mail systems.
The power of wireless for tourist businesses — Connectivity, reviews, and hospitality in the field.