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  • Transistor Riot is No Longer on Spotify

    My band Transistor Riot, with our five-song EP Fear the Future, and two subsequent singles Burn and Arson, have voluntarily removed our music from Spotify. I’m sure you’ve heard from other musicians who have also removed their music about the evil done by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek. Our reasons for removing our music from the…

  • Default Settings Are Eating The World

    It’s started to feel to me over the past few months that one of the most insidious things about daily life is the way the average person is pushed away from making informed choices, and is instead driven towards choosing the default options which are by-and-large worse for themselves and the people around them. If…

  • Sayonara Red Gate

    After three years of working as a sound engineer at Red Gate Arts Society my time at the venue has come to an end. I’ve seen the venue’s sound equipment move from an analogue board to a digital one, and leadership of the sound team change once over as well. I’ve treasured every opportunity I…

  • Graveyard Smash

    Bandcamp Link Graveyard Smash by Rougaroux was released on April 11th, 2025. I had the pleasure of recording, mixing, and mastering five songs from the album: Panic Room, Fever Dream, Wasted, If I Go Down to One It’s All Over, and Eschew the Meat. Recording took place on February 23rd and March 2nd, 2025 at…

  • Death to Spotify: a Survey of Alternatives

    Streaming music sucks. It’s this great powerful vortex of tech miasma reaching out to swallow all culture. It’s this great context destroyer, where everything is instead simply reduced to content. It sucks! I hate it! Like so many musicians online I’ve made a measly $20 from years of streaming, where in the same time I’ve…

  • My History with Ludum Dare

    Ludum Dare 56 has just begun! Participants have 48 hours (or 72 hours, in a particular category) to make a video game from scratch. I’m tremendously excited to taking part this year. Because of this, I’ve decided to take a look back on the games I’ve made as part of previous Ludum Dare competitions. Ludum…

  • VR for General Computing

    About a month ago I acquired my third VR headset, the Meta Quest 3. I’d previously owned an Oculus Rift CV1 which I had acquired in 2017, and then an Oculus Quest 1 which I had acquired in 2020. The Meta Quest 3 is noticeably superior to both of those previous headsets. The displays are…

  • Bouncing Signals off the Space Station

    The International Space Station has equipment on it to facilitate radio communication with Earth, including radio communication with amateur radio enthusiasts. I picked up a handheld VHF/UHF radio for the first time a few days ago, with one of my goals being to receive signals from the ISS. It takes 93 minutes for the Space…

  • The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

    One of the biggest reasons that the early internet was a wonderful wild west of creativity and new culture was because it was decentralized. This public good has gradually been co-opted and enclosed upon by large internet tech companies, destroying this free platform and turning it into a machine designed to constantly generate profit off…

  • Smartphones Aren’t Evil, Notifications Are

    Push notifications are one of the worst paradigm shifts in computing, possibly ever. It fundamentally shifted the way that we interact with computers from a system where we checked in on our friends and digital lives whenever we chose to open the internet, to instead a model where smartphones directly influence our behaviour by choosing…

  • The Mastodon Box

    Last week I got the parts in for a Raspberry Pi Zero that I intended to use as a portable FLAC player with a display, similar to an iPod Shuffle in function. It has a 1000mAh battery thanks to the UPS HAT from Waveshare, alongside a Audio DAC SHiM and Inky pHAT e-ink display both…

  • The Joys in Living

    The newest album by Raw Nerve Endings is out now. I handled recording, mixing, and mastering it for the entire two and a half year long process. We recorded it at CHOMS in Vancouver. The album can be purchased on Bandcamp. Working with the band has been a fantastic experience as they’re all voracious songwriters,…

  • Printing MiniDisc Labels

    For the past few months I’ve been printing labels for my MiniDisc collection using a Canon Ivy 2 mini printer. It prints on 2×3 inch sticker sheets that cost roughly $0.60 CAD per sticker. At first I attempted to use publicly available templates for it, but quickly I found that I had more success if…

  • Toki Pona Anki Deck

    I’ve made a deck of flashcards for use with Anki for you to study the Toki Pona vocabulary list with. Each card includes audo clips, grammar details, as well as the Sitelen Pona writing system. You can either download it here or through the AnkiWeb website.

  • This One (Is For You)

    Bandcamp link

  • Sin & Tonic

    Spotify link

  • Arson

    Bandcamp link

  • Spooky Times (Atop the Clock Tower)

    Bandcamp link I handled all production: recording, mixing, and mastering, for Spooky Times Atop the Clock Tower by Raw Nerve Endings. It was recorded through 2021 primarily at their rehearsal space in Port Coquitlam.

  • Burn

    Bandcamp link

  • Fraying Hearts

    Bandcamp link

  • Love is a Weapon

    Bandcamp link

  • Fear The Future

    Bandcamp link

  • Raw Nerve Endings

    Bandcamp link

  • Jesus Was a Trans Girl (Demo)

    Bandcamp link