Last night’s rabbit hole started began with Thom Yorke’s recent solo show at the Sydney Opera House. I love that it was made available. It was a great show, though I have to admit it was a bit weird seeing him play Radiohead songs without the band. The last time I saw him play solo (just him) was in 2002 at the Bridge School Benefit. I hadn’t heard Rabbit In Your Headlights in a while (great music video btw). It was the first single from Psyence Fiction, an incredible album/project from the late 90s that Josh Davis (a.k.a. DJ Shadow) and James Lavelle (founder of Mo’ Wax) put together. While I was on YouTube, I got served Zane’s interview with Josh from four years ago, which was one of the rare Zane interviews I watched until the end. Throughout the interview, I would pause and listen to tracks from Endtroducing….., which is one of the greatest albums in the history of music.
You know what would be really nice? If a company lowered prices! I am so sick of these subscription price increases where the apps and services provide no incremental value or delight. In most cases, it’s quite the opposite! Spotify, I’m looking your way.
I will say though that YouTube Premium is one of the best subscriptions I pay for.
Few do the kind of deep investigative reporting that Ronan Farrow is known to do. His latest piece on Sam Altman in The New Yorker is something.
Friday night is movie night in our house and we’ve gotten to the point where coming up with a movie is especially tough. Last Friday we chose Uncle Buck, but we ended up stopping it. The 13yo (daughter) was creeped out by it and the 11yo (son) didn’t think it was all that great, despite Kevin McCallister starring in it.
When you save the book for after the movie, it’s like getting an extended director’s cut that includes so much more material, and lets you dive into that world even deeper with characters and details that weren’t captured on screen.
As is the case for many macOS users, I have an overcrowded menubar, especially since my MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have the notch. I’ve been a long-time user of a little macOS menubar utility called Ice, which hasn’t received updates for a while. It seems to still work pretty well, but I have been low-key looking around for something to replace it. To my surprise, I ran across a fork of Ice called Thaw, which is under active development and adds some welcome features.
So cool to see what artists wear. I love this. /via clone.fyi
Definitely installing the WarGames Terminal Fonts in iTerm.
One quick follow-up to my post about Leonard’s handy Twitter archiving tool. I ran into an issue where I had a couple older archives that were done with the Grailbird format, Twitter’s old archive format used before ~2018. I had Codex and Claude collab on a Python script that converts old archives like mine into the modern Twitter archive format so they can be imported into tweetxvault. It does a few things… Reads ‘’tweets.csv’’ from Grailbird archives, extracts account metadata from user_details.js, transforms the CSV data into the modern JSON structure Twitter uses today and generates the files tweetxvault expects: manifest.js, tweets.js, and account.js. I ended up submitting a PR to have this added since I’m probably not the only one with archives in the older format.
Thanks to my friend Leonard’s new tool and the fact that I archived my tweets before I deleted almost everything, I now have a database with all of my tweets, likes and bookmarks in a database. While I haven’t tweeted in a while, I do still log in for AI Twitter. Absolutely nothing else like it.
