Music

Songs, Soundtracks, and the Shape of Feeling

Music

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

  1. A theatrical poster for The Backlog Doesn't Blink showing an exhausted IT delivery team in a dark operations room surrounded by demand intake boards, risk panels, dashboards, servers, and urgent requests.

    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. A theatrical poster for Shadow App Serenade showing citizen builders gathered around laptops, dashboards, notes, hidden automations, and unsupported tools in a dark enterprise workspace.

    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. A theatrical poster for Prompt Me a Palace showing AI builders, citizen builders, IT, security, data, operations, and architecture facing the speed and risk of prompt-driven automation.

    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. A theatrical poster for Build It. Ship It. showing citizen builders, AI builders, IT, security, operations, data, and architecture building a digital enterprise city together.

    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. A theatrical hip-hop poster image for Ticket in the Queue, evoking business urgency, process bottlenecks, and the pressure of work stuck in flow.

    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. A cinematic 16:9 album cover for “2 A.M. in the Understructure” showing a lone operations engineer holding a tablet on a dark industrial platform beneath a futuristic city.

    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. Arena rock stage with glowing screens and technology imagery for the song More IT in IT.

    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. The imposing figure of Michael-JX in a barren wasteland

    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 Tangerineand pointed it at my iTunes collection. The program takes a look at each song and figures out the beats per minute and the intensity of each beat. It will then allow you to put together playlists based on the tempo of the music. So if you are in a mellow mood you can have it pick all slow songs. If you are racing around with your head in your hands trying to get everything done, crank the BPM up to above 130. This application is very cool, and I hope that Apple will fold this functionality into iTunes in the future. Additionally, I hope someone comes out with a decent version for the PC. I tried several Windows applications that were like Tangerine, but none of them could compare.

  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 in sync