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Essays

Music

Reflections on music, songcraft, soundtracks, and the way sound carries memory, meaning, and imagination.

  1. The Backlog Doesn't Blink

    A hip-hop musical-theater song lyric about IT delivery, backlog pressure, enterprise risk, compliance, security, legacy systems, QA, citizen builders, and governance.

  2. Shadow App Serenade

    A hip-hop musical-theater song lyric about shadow apps, citizen builders, hidden automation, business-critical workarounds, governance, support, and enterprise IT.

  3. Prompt Me a Palace

    A hip-hop musical-theater song lyric about AI builders, prompt-driven workflows, agentic automation, prototype speed, system overload, governance, and enterprise architecture.

  4. Build It. Ship It.

    A hip-hop musical-theater song lyric about citizen builders, AI builders, enterprise IT, security, data governance, operations, architecture, and the tension between speed and coherence.

  5. Ticket in the Queue

    A hip-hop musical-theater song lyric about backlog pressure, citizen development, shadow IT, governance, and turning a workaround into a resilient shared system.

  6. Two A.M. in the Understructure

    A song lyric in character voices about enterprise operations, night-shift engineering, shadow IT, citizen development, observability, and the invisible labor that keeps systems alive.

  7. More IT in IT

    A song lyric about AI, citizen development, low-code platforms, and the need for more technology craft, architecture, security, governance, and accountability inside modern IT.

  8. Michael-JX - Moonwalking Through the Apocalypse

    Michael-JX: Moonwalking Through the Apocalypse brings a legendary animatronic into your TTRPG campaign.

  9. Playing it Cool, Playing it Fast! Playing it on the Computer

    So I copied my entire iTunes music library to my iBook today. I had to leave my podcasts and my audible subscriptions and audio books on the PC as they took up about 20gb. After everything was transferred I installed ...

  10. Integrating iTunes with TypePad: A Simple Guide

    Learn how to integrate iTunes with TypePad using a program that updates your TypePad list with the songs you're currently listening to. This guide offers simple instructions and ensures your favorite tunes are always ...