My band's RSS feed stopped being valid. It took me a while to see what was breaking. Something with my date format was causing things to not validate. Once I spotted it, things started validating.

I had this for my date which seems correct...

Mon, 30 October 2023 08:00:00 +0900

Turns out that you need to use the short version of the month...

Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:00:00 +0900

So use "Oct" and not "October".

My bandmate has an emoji system for keeping track of how far a long a song is. I am totally going to steal it for my random projects:

• 🥚= a new idea is beginning
• 🐣= a new idea in process
• 🐥= a new idea is finished

This blog is definitly 🥚. Not even close to 🐥.

Apple Music has been lame on my laptop lately. When I click play on the first song, it just skips to the next song, then the next, and then the next. Nothing gets played. Sometimes it works trying playing it again.

What usually happens it I just say "eff it" and listen to a podcast.

I am working on a 15 second video for the mpls ltd record label. My first inspiration was to do a frame-by-frame animation. Sketched the idea out and might have to go a different direction. My idea seems really rushed in that short of a time span. Second inspiration is to grab pieces of the bands videos and animate over it.

Had a robot deliver pizza to me today.

Yesterday was gnarly but today wasn't. We're leaving on a weekend trip tomorrow so I think it might be the time pressure from that that gave me a boost. I notice that boost on rehearsal days as well.

Today sucked. Could get a thing working on a website and I let it get into my head. Utterly deflated.

I found 17 dance steps from the 1960s and animated them in Rough Animator. I used them in LumaFusion and made video for a song today. Looks pretty cool. I've been forcing myself to edit more on the iPad. Just making sure that I am as quick on it as I am on a laptop.

Shift-option-volume incrementally adjusts the volume on a Mac.

Spending this summer updating old websites in between real tasks. I really love simple, light sites as a breather from them grind of the larger database sites.