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I spent sixteen years building one company, and I have been in the event industry since 2007. These days I write about the technology I actually use — trucks, radios, home infrastructure, and the tools that survive past the first invoice.
For a small festival, I ran my light show prep like an event production office: one lead calling the show, six-part written briefs, and an append-only log that ended the week at 1,818 lines. One miss came from a check that reported a set ...
I trust Claude the way I trust a good console, because I set the rules it works under. This short post covers how I direct it, a few places it earned its spot, what it still gets wrong, and a brief you can paste into your own assistant.
On an X1850 mixer with three SC6000 players, the Engine Connect channel menu came up showing only "None" on 8 of 13 logged boots, and no setting or cable change fixed it. Rebooting just the stuck player did, and reading Denon's official ...
The light sensors in my blinds read 1 or 2 on sunny and stormy days alike because the window header shaded them, so my house now calculates the sunlight on each window from a weather station and the sun's position. The build log covers the ...
To play live Twitch channels I follow in Music Assistant, I had to trust a stranger's day-old plugin and a custom build of the whole server. It went through a read-through, tests on my exact version, a sandbox with the real speakers off, ...
My amps' built-in chime stopped Spotify and line inputs for good, so on every ring each room was sorted by who owned the stream. Music Assistant streams resumed, live inputs cut and switched back in about 7 seconds, and phone casts got a ...
One night in October I played a house set on my Twitch channel, and my own chat bot kept telling the room it was drum and bass. The bot knew my library well. What it didn't know was what I was actually playing that night. On the same ...
For a garage that hit about 119°F, the first spec I checked on a mini-split was the hottest outdoor temperature it is rated to cool at, and two well-known units I checked stop at 115°F. A 129°F figure from my research belonged to an older ...
At a live show the console can say everything is fine, and you still walk to the back of the room to listen. I spent sixteen years building Endless Events, and this post carries that habit into my DJ, music and home builds: the checks that ...
I DJ by looping a track and layering more over it. For a while my stream named only the first one. Chat got song 1, then nothing, while the rest of the build played on top. When I dug in, I found two separate causes, and one of them had ...