Something I still hear all the time from creators: "What's the best time to post?" The typical answer: "it depends, just try stuff" 😅 That's exhausting. So we've made it less so, with ✨Smart Scheduling✨ It's part of a bigger shift to make Buffer smarter. Learn more: buffer.com/resources/sm...

imagine if someone was like "I'm an AI parent, I imagined everything about my child and had AI give birth to it and raise it into adulthood and I'm so proud of them and I'd love for you to meet them"

Made a vegetarian risotto for dinner

It was an absolute pleasure speaking with product manager, indie musician, and writer, @bgreen.lol. We got the opportunity to learn about his unique background, music career as Kid Lightbulbs, and the inspiring actions he takes to uplift his fellow artists. buttondown.com/blog/brandon...

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Surprise: I covered @honeycrushing.bsky.social for #Bandcamp Friday Listen now: kidlightbulbs.bandcamp.com/track/fruit-... All proceeds from sales will benefit the various orgs supporting Minnesota during their 🧊 occupation. Learn more at standwithminnesota.com #newmusic #musicsky #indie

In an attempt to be helpful and distract myself from *waves arms around* everything going on... I wrote 1900 words on how I use @buffer, the product I work on for my day job. bgreen.lol/how-i-use-bu... #social #creator #artists #indie #smallbusiness

I miss the time when we talked about space as “the final frontier” instead of “the lowest cost way to generate AI compute”

pov: you decide to post your app on product hunt and it's *not* AI or fintech

I still feel deep in my soul that the 80s were 20 years ago

Unstream is now out for Firefox! Perfect for supporting artists you love on YouTube or if you listen to Spotify in your web browser. (I'll be working on supporting Bandcamp, Soundcloud and other sites soon!) Try it out today at unstream.stream #music #musicsky #supportindieartists #indiemusic

Hot take: I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to "build hype" for a release, if you're small & unwilling to pay $$$ I don't mean this to poo-poo on traditional marketing for musicians - because it works! - but more to humor the idea of just releasing whenever something is done as a total surprise

Unstream for Chrome is back. Perfect for all you SoundCloud- and YouTube-listening folks. unstream.stream #fairtrademusic #indiemusic

Big #unstream update: the Mac app supports new release alerts! (Chrome soon, too!) Save the artists you want to support later; when they release something new, Unstream will let you know with a direct link to buy that release. Check it out at unstream.stream 🤘 #indiemusic #fairtrademusic #apps

I'm excited to share that, amidst the completely unnecessary cruelty and destruction happening everywhere, my collab with Unit is out. kidlightbulbs.bandcamp.com/album/in-win... #newmusic #indie #music #piano #alternative

Unstream, the app I made to quickly support the artist you're listening to, now has a Chrome extension! (+Firefox coming soon!) Useful if you often listen on YouTube Music, Soundcloud and the like. Grab it here: unstream.stream #streaming #indie #music #fairtrademusic #musicsky

Well, this is a very interesting development, #bandcamp source: www.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/c...

Viagra Boys appreciation post. Nobody else would come up with a song about shallow jealousy over the appearance of a highly preserved body based on a lack of understanding about the chemical differences between bogs and swamps

A friend of mine asked if they could run Unstream anytime Spotify is playing – they kept forgetting to open it. Unstream has a setting where you can automatically open when you log into your Mac, but you can also use macOS Shortcuts to launch Unstream whenever you open Spotify or Apple Music. How:

Tiny numbers but still kinda fun: since announcing yesterday, Unstream has had - 142 unique visits - 70 searches on the website - 10 Mac app downloads For something that was a purely self indulgent project idea, I’ll take it 😄

Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break! It’s called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming. You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: unstream.stream #indiemusic #musicsky #bandcamp

i want to make little tools to help people reclaim their agency & voice, and i want to make big art that shows what's possible when you have them

If streaming is the hyper-capitalist next stage of radio (payola scams & all), then Bandcamp (and its alternatives) in 2026 is the at-scale equivalent of a Sam Goody or Tower Records in the early 2000s.

someone buying my whole discography 12 hours into the new year was *not* on my bingo card, but i'll take it! thank you flora in germany, whoever you are!

In 3rd grade I wrote this terrible poem about how music, computers & space were my 3 favorite things, and (loved ones aside) it’s wild how that terrible poem still holds up

I think I get the Hayley Williams hype now

Bandcamp still committed to Bandcamp Fridays in 2026! There will be 8 of them, next one in February. This is good. This means they're doing better as a business and decided to invest in more in the artist community. Proof: blog.bandcamp.com/2025/12/03/b...

Surprise – SOLO PIANO 2 is out now on Bandcamp. This came together quickly a few weeks ago. It's mostly piano reductions based on material from my latest album INFINITE NORMAL, with a few other pieces thrown in. Listen here: kidlightbulbs.bandcamp.com/album/solo-p... #newmusic #piano #indie

Very kind review of my latest, INFINITE NORMAL, on the Other People’s Music blog 😄 www.etherdiver.com/2025/11/27/o...

Can’t wait for the inevitable firehose of ai-generated holiday music to start in the next 2 weeks

ok so i did it: here's SOLO PIANO 2 it's exclusively up at cult of lightbulbs. free to stream, optional pay to download in any format. cult.kidlightbulbs.com/solo-piano-2

the great thing about having a self-hosted music site with zero fees or strings is that i can impulsively upload an album of piano music i impulsively recorded and you can just listen to it so i'll probably do that later today cult.kidlightbulbs.com #faircamp #diy #indieweb #music

I am so excited about this one: Buffer now has a fully-packed comment management toolset built in 😊 It's called Community! The whole idea is that building an audience on social isn't just about posting bangers all the time. You need to engage with those folks too.

I may or may not have just impulsively recorded a second album of #piano music

Hey have you heard my latest album yet? It’s called INFINITE NORMAL and tbh it’s pretty timely 😬 If you’re into alternative rock, dry & honest lyricism, and minimalist sprawl, you may dig it. cult.kidlightbulbs.com/infinite-nor...

okay, powered through and wrote up a li'l thing about my new Faircamp site, cult of lightbulbs bgreen.lol/i-built-my-o...

This is arguably the feature I'm most excited that we're bringing to @buffer.com since I joined the team. A calm (seriously, it's so... just calm) way of keeping up with your community across social platforms. It's truly going to be wonderful for all types of creators. Coming next Wednesday 😉

Something I thought would be fun: a diagram illustrating all the connective tissue across my music. So I made one in Figjam. I present to you: The Kid Lightbulbs song map buff.ly/a7wyjBO This does not go entirely into the archives, but shows the recurring references & motifs across my 4 albums.

Major dad mode this afternoon

Thank you everyone who came to my listening party for INFINITE NORMAL yesterday! These are always fun. As another means to celebrate, I just published a big ol' 3200-word mess called "the INFINITE NORMAL story" on my blog.

I'm doing a li'l listening party on Bandcamp this afternoon (evening if you're further east than me!) for my new album infinite normal! Come hang out? (and if you do, be sure to show up a couple minutes early, these things always start *right* on time 😬) kidlightbulbs.bandcamp.com/merch/infini...

If the stuff I yap about here generally resonates with you, I have a newsletter where I elaborate a bit more on that stuff. You’ll also actually find out when I release new things instead of hoping it shows up in your feed. Subscribe if you like!

“Making great things requires immense patience”, he said to himself as he repeatedly swiped to refresh his feed to see if more people liked this thought

I think the thing that bothers me most about the whole "use AI to generate music" thing is that it's not hard at all anymore to express oneself creatively *without* AI Friendly reminders:

I'm gonna do a listening party for INFINTE NORMAL on Bandcamp! Next Thursday, 1pm ET / 10am PT / 7pm central europe time This time I'd love to have European friends around to hang out and listen to the album. RSVP here: kidlightbulbs.bandcamp.com/merch/infini...

Today I said "screw preorders, YOLO" INFINITE NORMAL is out! Listen to the whole thing now, consider a purchase. Pay what you like (minimum asking price $5 because, hey, it's a whole freaking album). I'll schedule a listening party soon, but for now: kidlightbulbs.bandcamp.com/album/infini...

I'm going to open up a preorder for INFINITE NORMAL (kid lightbulbs lp4) probably today or tomorrow. I haven't yet gotten a test pressing of the CD edition and I want to make sure it is all looking good first before I "publish" that. So here's the deal:

I used to worship the time The time where we could just leave But now I know that I’m needed Sometimes I need a release But I can’t fill up my lungs And I used to feel so young And I’m not sure it’s true but I convince myself that I don’t have much time to live 11.7

I came across something in Derek Sivers’ bio that stopped me in my tracks – the idea that he does not like live music, and instead much prefers “great recordings.” It me

Reframing my music release strategy to this: I don't care much about maximizing reach anymore. I release music for myself, friends, and current & potential followers of my work. I go about finding those potential followers in community spaces where I can be myself and my ideas resonate.