2022 was a really rough year for me, but an important one. i grew my sense of independence, how to discover and advocate for my needs, set my boundaries, healthier ways to socialise. (read more)

i posted my song “Perseids 🌠” on SoundCloud! this was featured yesterday during the Snowdrop Festival held by Infloresce Records! (read more)

i've been hearing people ask, myself included, things like if you are X can you be considered Y? (e.g., if you experience [thing] are you ace? if you're NB are you trans?) (read more)

you know, i thought i wanted to be a staff engineer, i thought i wanted to be an engineering manager, i thought i wanted to be a product manager, i thought i wanted to become a UI/UX expert, a CTO, etc. but idk if i wanna stay in tech (read more)

i put Chips Challenge on my list of games that spark joy, partially because it was that game that i had the first conscious memory of doing any type of reverse engineering. i was 8 years old. on windows 3.1. (read more)

the year is 2012 and iOS 5 just rolled around. Melody Maker comes in, a modern re-imagining of the ringtone composer from the Nokia 3xxx series. (read more)

i've been spending a lot of time speed cleaning my apartment in time for a mahjong night i am hosting this weekend. and it feels like for the first time in the almost 3 years i've lived here, i am close to getting on top of things for real. (read more)

miss beat saber and i miss world hopping in vrchat. i haven't touched my PC in like a year, and i need to move my lighthouses around so i can use my valve index again. i made a playlist of beat saber vtuber stuff from the early pandemic! (read more)

Chrono Cross has many callbacks to the Chrono Trigger theme, but one i really like is in the Chronopolis theme, which actually doesn't have any of the melody and only the chord progression, giving off this eerie but familiar vibe, featuring a piano pattern that actually comes from Memories of Green from Chrono Trigger! So, I got curious about what it might sound like if you end up mashing these two together. (read more)

Super Mario Galaxy, originally released in November 2007 on the Nintendo Wii, was a game that touched me and many others. for me, it also had a significant influence on my music. And in 2008, I made a number of NES style covers from the game. (read more)