First off, thank you SO MUCH for all of your support over the last week as I've built up this new blog/newsletter. I'm still in the "kick the tires" phase but things are going well.

My RetroTube faculty band, The Stop Bits, will be performing at the upcoming Vintage Computer Festival SoCal on February 14, 2026. If you ever wanted to hear four YouTubers (Action Retro, Taylor and Amy from The Taylor and Amy Show, and myself) perform novelty rock songs about vintage computers and putting Linux on increasingly weird machines, this show is likely the best opportunity for you to do that in the southern California area this weekend.

We will be giving away a few CD-Rs of our debut EP, Return from Interrupt, which is on Bandcamp if that's how you prefer to get music. We recorded the EP ourselves, and I mixed/mastered the whole thing (yes, on Linux). It's a ton of fun.

New email newsletter feature: subscription preferences

I am terribly afraid of spamming people's email with information they don't want. So, in an effort to provide more flexibility over subscribers' email preferences, I've created a few "subcategories" of newsletter posts, which you can subscribe to at your leisure:

• Linux-y emails (posts about Linux tips/tricks, software I like, that sort of thing)
• Retro/vintage computing emails (posts about Commodore/Amiga/vintage Apple/IBM-PC/etc)
• Music emails (posts about the band mostly, but maybe I'll start talking about music I like, pedals I'm using, or how I record music)

If you already signed up for the default category, you have not been added to these lists. These are manual, opt-in features, because of the aforementioned terror I feel at the idea of spamming you.

So, going forward, the default category will only email out blog posts with an accompanying video, or other similar "big announcements." If you'd like the additional posts from me, sign in and hit "manage" in the account dialog.

So pumped for VCF SoCal this Saturday. Looking forward to seeing folks there!