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Music · 6 min read

My Chat Bot Called a House Set Drum and Bass

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 ...

Music · 7 min read

When the Stream Got Stuck on Song 1: Seeing Layered Mixes

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, ...

Music · 6 min read

How I Pick the Best Live Sets for a Playlist

When I build a "best of" playlist of an artist's live sets, fans' upvotes pick the sets and each recording's source picks the version. I worked these rules out on a Tipper playlist in October 2026: 28 fan threads, 50 ...

Music · 5 min read

Getting Viewers onto My Drop List Without Leaving Twitch

I wanted someone watching my Twitch stream to type a phone number into a box under the video and land on my Laylo drop list, without opening a new tab. The code took one evening in September 2026.

Music · 7 min read

A Healthy Container and a Blind DJ App

For 1 hour and 42 minutes, the app that tells my stream what I'm playing didn't see a single track, while its container reported healthy and its overlay answered every request. I had power-cycled my decks between sets, ...

Music · 3 min read

Let Guests Pick the Music Without Your Wi-Fi Password

When a guest wants to put a song on, the usual answer is the Wi-Fi password, so their phone can find the speakers. In September 2026 I worked out what that takes with Spotify Connect, and I ended up changing nothing on ...

Music · 7 min read

One Set of Cameras, Two Uses: NDI in My DJ Studio

I wanted one set of cameras over my DJ setup to do two jobs: on one computer, Resolume turns the feeds into stylized visuals, and on another, OBS uses them as clean camera shots. So I went with NDI: it puts each camera ...

Music · 7 min read

One Calendar Drives My Twitch Schedule and Discord Events

In September 2026 I built a small service that copied my stream schedule from one Google Calendar onto my Twitch schedule and into native Discord events on my server, with generated cover art. Google became the only ...