What never changes is change
Originally published on Patreon (November 14, 2025)
I sent this letter to all my newsletter subscribers (sorry for the duplicate)
Hi,
It’s been a while... Hope you’re doing okay.
What I’ve been up to, you may ask—or not. I’ll tell you anyway.
I started coding a web app called BookerPal.
This web app aims to solve the problem of organizing open mics. For our Resident Electronic Music Monthly events, we currently use Google Forms and Sheets, which involves a bit of email wrangling with artists and keeping track of who has performed before. BookerPal is here to simplify this process for event organizers and, I hope, provide a place for artists to showcase their art.
At the same time, it was the perfect opportunity for me to refresh my coding and architecture skills. I used Cursor to help me build the site with Go, MySQL, Nginx, Postfix, and more. Cursor uses AI to assist you, and it’s truly a force multiplier—I was able to build this site in just a few days. Along the way, I learned a few things and started sharing them via my Patreon.
Speaking of Patreon, they’ve been making moves to position posts as newsletters. I like how it’s done: you can reveal part of the post as a teaser, and readers need to subscribe to access the rest. I’ve been using this format to create the first paragraph as a hook.
I’d like to move this newsletter to Patreon. I feel I write better there than in this newsletter. Here, I feel like I need to give you a summary or log of everything, while on Patreon, I can just post one idea as it comes to me. This format feels more natural and less taxing.
To make Patreon a viable place for newsletters, I’d need tools to migrate my 600+ subscribers from my mailing list to Patreon (where I currently have about 20 members). As you may know, importing a list of email addresses can be tricky, since people could import any kind of list. Patreon directed me to a support ticket to transfer my mailing list, but I often use paper sign-up forms to collect emails, and I’m not sure their system is scalable yet.
Additionally, they’d need integrations—like how Shopify integrates with Mailchimp—so I can collect email addresses from different sources. I’d also need an easy sign-up form on my site to join Patreon.
Finally, I’m not sure if people want to join Patreon just to receive news. On the other hand, it could be a way to make this cost-neutral. Right now, I pay for Mailchimp, but with Patreon, we’d share the revenue. It’s more of a symbiosis.
In other news, I’ve also been using Cursor to create a Vision Pro application. It’s going well, and my focus is on immersive audio. The app is simple, and I hope to release it soon. I’ve started writing about it on Patreon, too (I'm looking for people with a Vision Pro to test it).
I’ve also released Thanks for the Invite on all streaming platforms, but you might want the Dolby Atmos version. I previously released it in physical form as a Blu-ray.
I hope I can encourage you to move to Patreon.
To finish, Joachim Garraud is writing a book about his DJ life, and there’s a chapter on our adventure, Modular California Vibes. The book will include a QR code to view the documentary. It will first be released in French in early 2026, with an English version later in the year. You can pre-order it now.
Why the cryptic title? Well, I have some time to work on artistic projects. I’m watching how AI is affecting the tech industry—it seems like the perfect scapegoat for an economy that isn’t doing so great at the moment. So, I’m taking a little break until the end of the year before diving back into the grind, unless new opportunities arise or I create them...
Franck Martin