Been busy with life lately, but I wanted to throw up something real quick since it's been a while: the VS Battle Theme from Super Mario Bros. 3, and my first YouTube short: www.youtube.com/shorts/z060Q...

I've been using Sibelius for over 20 years, and I only just learned today you can press X to auto-flip note and beam directions. I want my hours of tedious engraving tweaks back.

Hey y'all we are delighted to share with you all our tribute album to Zelda the Wind Waker's music: "Songs of the Great Sea". It features 30 arrangements made by the members of our community, now on all major streaming platforms :) fanlink.tv/GreatSea

New video! This time it's an original tango duet inspired by our cat Opal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcy...

Whelp, even at the lowest settings Clair Obscur E33 only runs on my PC at like 10fps. 1050Ti, you've been great these past 8 years, but I think it's finally time for an upgrade...

One of these days it will stop raining, and I will be able to do yard work again. (Also I don't know when I started becoming excited about doing yardwork.)

For some reason 1 out of 4 of my Switch 1 joycons refuses to pair with the Switch 2, and between how new the Switch 2 is and the naming similarities, it currently feels impossible to search for any meaningful troubleshooting on the matter. 🙃

Switch 2: Acquired.

I don't know why, but I feel like mowing the lawn is the closest thing I have to meditation. I guess it's because it's one of the few times I can turn my brain off for an extended time while still doing something productive.

I thought it'd be fun to share a breakdown of the time spent on my most recent video project: Arranging: ~3h Practicing: ~1h Recording Audio: ~2h Editing Audio: ~1h Mixing Audio: ~3h Recording Video: ~2h Editing Video: ~4h Publishing and Sharing: ~1h Total: ~17h

Just played Slippi Unranked for the first time in 3+ years - although I played like hot garbage, I was teamed up with someone chill enough to just mess around with low tiers for a while, so all in all it was one of my better online Melee experiences. ggs

This is my entry to the #SoundoleChillOut2025 contest: an accordion duet (+) of Greenpath from #HollowKnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG5c...

I fear all my years of accordion playing has dulled my composition senses when it comes to harmony and voice leading. I'm too used to only thinking in block chords with only major/minor/7/dim at my disposal, and there's so much more music to be made beyond that...

What is next for Pixel Mixers ? Our next album "Songs of the Great Sea" is a tribute to #Zelda #WindWaker music! It will features 30 arrangements from that iconic OST. Art is WIP by @bg87.bsky.social Album organiser is Dewey Newt

Whelp, my Switch fan is dying. Now to figure out: do I try to get it replaced, or can I hold out until Switch 2?

I finally pulled myself away from my Home Assistant project enough to do a new video. I had fun learning this on the button accordion: youtu.be/_zM2FcBWekw

When I first heard of "vibe coding" I thought it was Gen-Z's way of saying they're "in the zone," but I'm sad to have learned the actual meaning is much dumber than that.

Hey y'all, we are working on the track-list of our 10th anniversary album, and we'd love to get some help :) If you have time, please do check this poll, you can pick as many tracks as you'd like! forms.gle/JyyXveXpytEN...

Home Assistant Integration, Week 4 - it was only a matter of time before I ended up forking the home-assistant-voice-pe repo...

I had a shower thought earlier today that it would be nice if there was a device that could boil water and automatically steep tea for an appropriate time, and dispense when it's ready... ...and then I realized I just described a coffee maker verbatim.

I'm pleasantly surprised to find out that connecting two Switch JoyCons to PC/Steam as one controller just _works_ with no additional config. We've come a long way from the tedious manual mappings I've done for PC controller support over the past 25 years...

Finally got custom wake words working on my Voice Assistant PE, with much help from the Home Assistant community - it's refreshing to be able to find documentation and other resources so easily (unlike some of my other projects...).

Home Assistant Integration, Week 3 - After spending 4 days getting everything set up to use a custom wake word, I discover that the Voice Assistant PE firmware has them disabled by default. 🙃 Now I get to learn how to set up ESPHome to reinstall a forked version of VAPE that supports custom names.

Just finished setting up Home Assistant's Voice Assistant, and it only took two hours of Docker configuration to make everything talk to eachother. Now to see if I can fix the problem where it takes over 30 seconds to respond...

TFW you're just about ready to install an NVMe SSD cache drive into your NAS, and suddenly you find some fine print saying you actually need TWO of them for read+write mode. Guess I'll have to get another one and wait a bit longer...

Thought of the day: I think at the end of the day we're all just people making stuff, and sometimes it can take some time and life experience to learn to become content with doing whatever you want however you want, despite what anyone else may think.

Home Assistant integration update, Day 12 - it took me way too long to realize they renamed Services to Actions last August, effectively obfuscating any helpful blog or reddit post more than 6 months old. Now I think I can finally start tinkering with advanced automations with the NVIDIA Shield...

My wife and I finished re-working our "fuzzy family wall" over the weekend with some new signs and a custom-made floral wreath symbolizing our dog Phoenix and two cats Jade and Opal. <3

Home Assistant integration, Week 2: you know it's getting serious when you start making direct edits to the configuration.yaml file.

Building my Home Assistant setup, Day #4: I can't believe how ridiculously complicated Google makes their API integrations. I feel like I'd rather replace my Nest at this point.

Just lost power this morning, and NYSEG says it'll take 4 hours to restore. Luckily I just got a generator hooked up to the house last month - didn't expect to need it just a few weeks later, but glad to have it.

Started setting up Home Assistant this week - got almost all my IoT devices hooked up, and I'm staring down the rabbit hole of all the configuration and automation possibilities...

I can't believe just two weeks after release there's nowhere left in this town to get Nugget Nectar...

aaaaand now my Discord Desktop app is crashing 5 seconds after opening it. Every time. I assume this is due to a recent upgrade - anyone else ever run into this?

I recently had to switch to a new work laptop and I just realized I didn't transfer over my Pictures folder over from my old laptop. 9 years of inter-office memes lost. I'm in shambles.

My YT comment of the week:

Weather forecast for today: "Little to no accumulation." Actual weather: "LOL"

Tried making my own bubble tea for the first time yesterday - turns out not having brown sugar on hand is a bigger deal breaker than I thought.

New video is up - please enjoy my retelling of one of the most memorable moments in the Final Fantasy series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-H8...

TFW rendering issues escalate from crashing the video editor to completely BSOD-ing the system:

I love it when I reach that pivotal point in the video editing process when I finally see how I can tie everything together. Until that point I only ever have a general idea of what I want to accomplish, and a growing unease of whether or not I can make it happen, but it always comes together.

Today I tried to use a new AI Upscaling plugin on a video render - I probably should've listened when Vegas told me to use GPU instead of CPU:

I was recently reminded of Sim Tunes - a music painting game I used to love as a kid. Turns out I still have the CD, along with a bunch of other Maxis sim games - I know what I'm doing this weekend...

Weather forecast all day: Winter weather advisory ends at 5:00 PM today. Weather forecast at 4:59: Oh btw, snow squalls until 6, good luck driving home from work... :|

Me after editing recorded parts for my latest project in record time:

Hope everyone who went to MAGFest had an awesome time this weekend! One of these days I'll go myself...

I'm excited to share the release of an Indie compilation album by Pixel Mixers, which includes my Celtic rock cover of King Knight's theme from Shovel Knight, as well as many other tracks featuring dozens of amazing artists - check it out on the streaming platform of your choice!

I finally went ahead and deactivated my Twitter and IG accounts - I've never really used them much anyway, but it still feels like a weight has been lifted since social media has never been my strong suit. Looking to see if that might change with BSky...

Ever wonder what an accordion sounds like through a vocoder? I did just that for this cover of Metroid Prime's Phendrana Drifts: youtu.be/afaqcfjMukM