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.

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

Why it’s so hard to manufacture a new product in America, and what happens if you just try anyway. open.spotify.com/episode/1F4Z...

I am extremely into the new Sigma BF camera.

Their messaging is a bit confusing but ETC's new Prodigy Balance is very cool. Every arbor has a built-in winch. Load the pipe, then haul the arbor back down to add weight. Weights are engaged via switches like a weight machine at the gym.

I built a thing: www.teamsound.nyc/store/pilot

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Hey QLab Fam! Join us at USITT this Wednesday at 3pm in the sound room We'll show you something new...

Coming to USITT next week? Join us in the sound room on Wednesday March 5th at 3pm @usitt.bsky.social we'll be showing something new 👀 🔊 🎛️ 💫

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

The main lighting console for the Grammys was a PRG 676, which is essentially a very big USB keyboard attached to a Mac. 234 DMX universes running from macOS.

logging in to my authenticator app to generate a new code to log in to the security camera archive to confirm that yes, that's human shit on the front stoop

design workflow

Join our next QLab QClass! qlab.app/qclass/ We're hosting a three-day, in-person class all about QLab 5 from April 30th - May 2nd 2025 at our theater and research venue, The Voxel (@voxel.org), in Baltimore, MD.

The emergency lights in the theater I help run are self-contained battery units with a fancy/expensive test feature. They activate themselves every few months to check they still work. anyway it's bad if a bright light randomly turns on in a theater so we have to tear them out and put in dumb ones

new @qlab.app Stream Deck plugin just dropped

the elevator pitch: platforms that can be handled by one person and easily mix with with custom 2x4 framed wood platforms. Reduce the amount of custom decking you build!

Dante Controller can be lightly rethemed by hacking around in the app bundle. It's still a Java app, but now it runs Chromium internally.

sigh

This end-of-year campaign is asking for your thoughts, not your money. How are you feeling about theater in 2025?