Author: Ryan Sholin
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Motorelektrik, an EP
I released some more music today, an EP of five songs, including three new tracks and two kinda sorta remixes/remasters/reduxes of songs from last year’s Breakage album. There are some more details on Tumblr, but I’ll try to say something different here, just for the exercise. When I released my first album last year, the…
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Breakage, the album
Sabbatical project? Complete. Listen to Breakage, the album, in its entirety on Bandcamp . Here’s a quick preview: There are some notes about influences and inspirations and references and allusions (and one sample) in the Bandcamp pages for each of the ten original songs. There are some more notes about the process along the way…
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Jam-uary behind, sabbatical ahead, statement of purpose
The best thing about working at Automattic is probably all the brilliant people, and the second best thing is easily the before-it-was-cool distributed culture, but a three month paid sabbatical after five years of service is obviously in the top three best things. So here we are — I passed the five-year mark in November,…
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“I’m working on my family tree” is a perfectly good excuse to swear at your ancestors ten times a day
One night a few weeks ago, instead of working on the family tree — which I have been doing in my “free” time (ha), rather obsessively, tbqh, for the past, oh, five months or so, judging by the increments of “ryansholin+freetrial5” accounts I am running on various genealogy websites — I tweeted about it. And…
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Today is the 152nd day of the year 2021
Seems like a good day for a blog post! One Song Everyday Building (healthy) habits is not something that comes easily to me, so I always find “do this one thing every day of the year” projects appealing. A few years ago I made a “one second everyday” #1se video and surprised my family with…
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Leaving behind WebFaction
I started hosting This Website with WebFaction in 2008, just after moving to Rochester, with the plan of also using WebFaction’s notably flexible and well-supported systems to host sites using Django (ReportingOn), and ended up using them for multiple other WordPress sites that came up from time to time, as well as other experiments, side…
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Days twenty-nine, thirty, and thirty-one: Reflections on trying to blog every day for a month
I didn’t blog every day for a month. I didn’t miss by much, but it’s definitely easier to be disciplined about it at home than it is on the road. I thought it would be a good experiment, writing slightly longer, compared to a tweet, and it often felt satisfying to mash the publish button.…
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Days twenty-seven and twenty-eight
Written on the morning of the 29th, natch. Whenever I hear the words “business traveler,” I picture someone older than me in a suit. When I travel for work, I see those people, and except for the single-meeting trips where I might wear a suit jacket (honestly, I have no idea what’s a sport coat…
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Days twenty-five and twenty-six
Hey this daily habit thing is challenging! Whatever I thought I might write about today was just wiped clean because we just watched BlacKkKlansman and it’s going to take a few minutes to recover. Spike still has some shots left in him, that’s for sure. I remember one time he gave a talk at NYU,…
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