we need a new word for "ideas artists" who turn ideas into grants and credit but don't actually make anything

what if they're actually killing the Mac Pro to bring back Xserve, I feel like the Mac mini has made homelab cool again

Was wondering if all-in-one heatsink + LED PCB + lens connectorized modules were available. Turns out yes, but not from major vendors... the custom lightsaber community makes them.

just launched charmcity.theater, which scrapes dozens of local theater websites to make one simple calendar that's always updated.

"there's no theater in baltimore"

Needed a replacement joystick for my scissor lift. JLG's online direct-to-owner parts store is second to none. Very reasonable prices + verify part selection by serial number

I've got a peripheral on the bench where the DIP switch starts counting on the right instead of the left. clearly made by computer people

remember 2019 when everyone was telling arts majors to learn to code instead

Sean O'Skea made the Vectorworks tutorial videos I watched in college to teach myself Vectorworks 2013. Now he's in the middle of a new series of videos for Vectorworks 2026. They are very good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=spDK...

Maybe your 2026 resolution should be to move to Baltimore

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

www.artmann.co/articles/30-... A trip down the memory lane! For me, it's been the last 20 years. Time flies! Hat tip to @cassidoo.co's amazing newsletter for this link 🙇

today in "AV equipment keeps getting more expensive"

this website is just perfect. the most straightforward banner notification every designed:

I meet more and more young artists who have been taught there is no way to make art (even a small one-weekend show) without tens of thousands of dollars and lavish producers, and it is hard to re-train them to be scrappy and thrifty.

loving @thebaltimorebanner.com's inaugural livestream playing Subway Builder with the dang MAYOR www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEnL...

@mcmasterdaily.bsky.social if you've had a whoopsie and caused a little derailment, www.mcmaster.com/products/han...

It appears possible to combine 2x Mac Mini (3 4k displays each) and 2x Digiface Dante in a reasonably sized 2U rack. An all-in-one redundant playback rig for Millumin or QLab

Hey there! 👋 We’re looking for an experienced macOS developer. If you’re a developer with an interest in live events or performing arts, if you work independently, and if you want to work at a company where we take care of each other as colleagues and people, please apply! figure53.com/jobs/

have you been betrayed recently by a software company changing their licensing methods?

perhaps my worst work to date

wanna guess which [APPLY] button will save a modified Network Mode

my goal for the next 5 years is to get together enough industry pull to make a @noahkahan.bsky.social Stick Season musical

Extremely good product manual: www.etcconnect.com/WorkArea/Dow...

I fear that educational theaters these days are too easy to use, so students learn to abstract away all the controls and networking infrastructure and configuration it takes to make a theater function. Make theaters jankier! (and save some money in the process)

A script that translates your cues to Mandarin and back.

dantemaxxing

i design stickers about live entertainment and fabrication. this might be my favorite so far.

love to see my industry consolidate around me, crushing all local competition

Heads up, my favorite Ethernet cable is back in stock. The flexible jacket on these things coils sooo nice. www.monoprice.com/product?p_id...

I memorized the entire Elements Song in 7th grade for extra credit in science class. RIP Tom Lehrer

what can one do with a hollowed out Mac Mini case

Working on moving stagehacks.com to GitHub Pages.

ETC CEM3 power controllers have a built-in web server that is, in my opinion, perfect. Even includes a syntax command line to test circuits!

Electronic Theatre Controls is one of the few equipment vendors on my network who actually owns a MAC address space- 00:c0:16. Most other vendors just use the MAC assigned by their NIC provider.

Beautiful time (1am on a weekend) for my CEM dimmer brain, which is keeping a bunch of plants alive with grow lights, to boot loop

moving osc.fyi to Digital Ocean. DNS is updated, let's see if this sticks...

Happy Pride, Baltimore!

Another gorgeous Aidin Robbins documentary about the messiness of early national parks and how strengthened protections make them what they are today.

Arcane knowledge of dongle driver support is necessary no longer!

an alchemical combination of archival audio and live performance — and only two shows left voxel.org/events/dance...

Made a lil cute story about a font

I don't really understand modern web development, so I really appreciated how @glitch.com made it so straightforward to just get some code running on the internet! Probably my favorite tech product of the last decade. Gonna miss it.

a study in lamp

The federal government provides free teardowns of the ordinary equipment you use every day. Here, the Astera NYX bulb.

casually dropping a revolutionary new additive manufacturing process as a 10-minute YouTube video

Once every few months I think about the guy who hooked up grandMA onPC to a full locomotive in a yard and used it to move freight cars via iPad remote control

There’s exactly one play I want to write and it’s the Max Headroom incident crossed with S1E08 of Buffy (demon in the computer)

This is the messaging Dems need to be bringing. I donated.

Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.