Not to brag, but my Discord community of lofi producers and fans recently started a book club. Turns out the Venn diagram of people who enjoy Zelda covers and people who read fantasy novels is nearly a circle.

Lofi VGM fans rejoice! blog.humblebeats.com/p/coffee-dat...

My next Zelda album "The Lofi of Zelda: Volume 3" is done! 16 tracks of chill Zelda goodness mixed, mastered, and ready for upload. I'm just waiting to get the album cover art now.

I recently got to feature on a track for @coffeedatelofi.bsky.social 's new album! Check it out if you're a fan of Zelda or good music. open.spotify.com/album/2z4IjH...

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” - Gandalf

Since diving into the writing world I've learned this concept of being either a "pantser" or a "plotter." I definitely thought I wanted to be a pantser until I pantsed my way into a corner and now I'm drawing maps and writing character backstories like a nerd. So that's me. What's new with you guys?

Fine. I'll release part two to Rufus' story so you can have some closure or whatever... thewaywardinn.quest/the-shade/

Get a jump on spooky season with some seasonal chill beats

I was asking ChatGPT about various arrow wound locations and the level of incapacitation, lethality etc. After several replies, it began prefacing every answer with “for the purpose of the story you’re writing.” And I just think it’s nice that it assumes the best of me.

Heck yeah!

Hey remember when I said I was launching a new writing project called The Wayward Inn? Well it's launched! I just published my third chapter and several "lore pages". Check it out: thewaywardinn.quest

Wow Taylor Swift got engaged or whatever, cool. Anyway, here’s Wonderwall

I don't know who this is for, but you need to use slant rhymes and assonance in your lyrics. Limiting yourself to perfect rhymes makes you sound like a children's book. Thank you.

Working on my third short story for The Wayward Inn and it's getting to the length it might need to be two parts. So I guess we're starting the countdown for how long I can keep up writing a short story anthology before I except the inevitable and just write a novel.

Soft launching a new project today: I’m combining my love of sharing ghost stories with my love of high fantasy to write a collection of short stories all taking place in a shared fantasy world that’s being created in real-time by myself and my community. thewaywardinn.quest

So do fantasy writers “add to dictionary” all of their made up words and names or is fighting spellcheck part of the process?

When you finally get a haircut and have to adjust all of your snapbacks for your newly tiny head…

“Ever wonder how Ikea continues to be such a prevalent furniture manufacturer when their furniture is B-tier at best? Affordability I’m sure is part of it, but at a deeper level, Ikea plays on a truth that we feel more attachment to things we helped create...”

“Sometimes the influence of art is obvious and sometimes it’s subtle, but we always become what we consume. Consuming mindlessly makes you susceptible to influence and the proposed trajectory of music creation and consumption culture these last couple of years has been towards maximal mindlessness.”

“Too much of the world today is designed to isolate us and have us thinking as insular individuals separate from our communities because isolated individuals need to each buy their own air fryer rather than sharing one as a community. But humans are created for connection…”

I used to really stress about having a consistent sound to my music incase someone followed a track back to my profile and hit “shuffle all” I wanted them to have a consistent experience to the track they initially liked. But 8 million+ streams later I realize, nobody cares and I can do what I want.

I’ve been quietly working on a new album of original beats for the last while and I find I’m split between two fairly different sounds with either an indie house vibe or a retro-future ambient beats thing. And I’m not sure if this really works on the same album or if these need to become two albums.

Cool, but which member of Huntr/x is your favourite and why is it Rumi despite her thinking she can fix a literal demon boy?

I’m so immensely proud to have done this track with Blauu! I just keep listening to it over and over www.submithub.com/link/file-se...

Humble Beats turns 1 today! Thought it might be time to finally explain in detail what exactly this is and why I started it... blog.humblebeats.com/p/humble-bea...

I was not prepared for how excellent of a movie Thunderbolts is. Kind of wish I had caught it in theatres now.

Pro tip: if you add all the stuff you’re interested in to your Amazon cart a week or so before “Prime Day” on the day before you’ll get a notification about how much all of the prices for items in your cart were increased before being reduced again to create an artificial discount.

I really love Patreon as a platform but I cannot understand the logic behind their latest logo. The last Patreon logo with a line and a circle that looked like a P was simple and clear. It's a P for Patreon. The newest one is just the African continent but mirrored.

Linux journey update: I love Linux. It’s made me excited about computers again as I try to find ways to optimize and new approaches to problems. So far most of my go-to games work great. Only thing missing is support for audio plugins for me to do my work. So still running MacOS for work.

While you lie in bed thinking about that dumb thing you said and hoping your friend's don't think less of you now. Your friends are all thinking about the dumb things they said and hoping you don't think less of them… Except Cam. He’s definitely thinking about the dumb thing you said,

“Finding themselves in a rather conveniently open area for a prolonged epic battle, the party moves to strike.… Whenever he seems to be struck down he rises again with greater ferocity and a new more frustrating move set...” - from a Hero’s Tale album insert for the track Boss Battle

For years now I’ve defaulted to sharing a Spotify link whenever I have new music to share, but I’m seriously considering switching it up. My first thought is to share Apple Music links since that’s what I use to listen to music. But with no free plan, that’s pretty limiting. So maybe YouTube?

I noticed a trend in some of my favourite games where shops and venders have the most quirky yet catchy soundtrack moments. So when I mapped out the journey for the A Hero's Tale album I knew I needed to include a quirky shop beat. Hence "Curiosity Shop" was born: open.spotify.com/track/3N94Gj...

Microsoft sent me an ominous email last week about the horrible things that will happen to my computer if I don't upgrade to Windows 11. Then a minor update to Windows 10 broke my USB-C drivers. So I installed Linux now. Stay tuned while I pioneer cozy linux beats.

Feels surreal to have someone else writing about me on the Humble Report. But grateful for Johnnie's kind and thoughtful piece on my Hero's Tale project. blog.humblebeats.com/p/lofi-cody-...

Nearly finished my main project for the day but the last file I need was automatically moved from local to iCloud storage just in time for the iCloud outage... Anyone know a good low budget NAS option?

Can someone smart at design stuff explain to me why the inverted (white on black) version of my logo looks so much worse than the regular version?

Fun fact: 10/10 Lofi Cody listeners are really really ridiculously good looking.

Shared some updates on Patreon (free). Lots of Zelda lofi news in this one! www.patreon.com/posts/june-u...

Karate Kid: Legends was actually excellent. Surprisingly fresh and entertaining. Especially for another unsolicited sequel trying to milk the last bit of life out of an old beloved franchise. Loved all the cast, loved the choreography, creative editing 👌

A Hero’s Tale album with the exclusive story guide just dropped today on my Bandcamp and Patreon stores! The streaming version comes out Friday 😊

Just had the most small town movie theatre experience: 10min into watching what seems like an unusually long preview, I head to the lobby to find my friend who’s manning the computer for both theatres to ask “hey bro are we watching the wrong movie?” He looks at the computer and goes 🤔🤔😮😬

Added some new tracks to The Lofi of Zelda Anthology album on Bandcamp so anyone who already purchased the album is just getting new tracks for free! And even better, the most recent tracks are Bandcamp early exclusives that wont be on streaming for some time yet

I've long been an XBox guy but the XBox handheld running skinned Windows feels like a miss to me. Playing games from all of the different stores is cool. But now that Steam OS is available on other devices it's become extra clear how much Windows hurts game performance just by being Windows.

Just dropped a new Artist Uncovered article with the legendary Coffee Date blog.humblebeats.com/p/artist-unc...

I got too excited for you all to hear it and see the extra illustrations Chiho did, so I released an early look at A Hero's Tale on Youtube: youtu.be/RtmnCg41spw?...

My video game inspired concept album "A Hero's Tale album" is available for pre-save and pre-order now! Bandcamp orders and Patreon supporters will also get the "Story Guide" with a bunch of extra illustrations and little story snippets that I've written for every track. loficody.com/heros

Today my alter-ego 'Janeway Protocol' released a remix of one of my earliest Lofi Cody tracks! open.spotify.com/track/5tFcYN...

Listen, I have a great idea for a podcast. We get a few guys around a table with a couple of drinks and we just talk really in-depth about movies and maybe get into some philosophy stuff that we don’t actually understand. But here’s the twist: we don’t record it or post it on the internet! Who’s in?

Another irrelevant movie take: I really loved The Wild Robot and I appreciate that there is finally a piece of quality media recognizing the violent nature of geese and the hazards they pose to aircraft. An important film to watch with your family.