Jacob Gorban

  • When I come up with musical ideas, I would often make quick recordings of them, before I forget the sound or the fingering. I can come to them later again to continue working on them, if they prove promising on a later day. This is one such recording. 🎵

  • There are good mentors and there are meantors. < /joke>

  • The Perfect Band

    My new single, “The Perfect Band”, is getting ready to be released on Spotify and other services on Nov 4th. It’s a proper 80ies-influenced rocker.

    This song started from a simple idea of “The band that never met.” The writing of the first version of the lyrics and the music took only two days at the beginning of February 2022, but the recording process and, especially, the mixing took a long, long time.

    Personally, I’m very proud of this song, it’s the kind of song that would be fun to perform live, and the sound of the mix reflects this a bit.

    If you use Spotify, please spare a moment to pre-save it at https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jacobgorban/the-perfect-band-2 so that it’s in your library when it gets released.

    I’ll have more updates about it soon.

  • You know ASICS shoes 👟 ? There are also FPGA shoes but they run slower.

  • 🎵What a nice surprise! The pre-released songs were fantastic. But it’s too late to listen to the album now. 🥺Tomorrow’s gonna have a tasty soundtrack. Snarky Puppy becomes one of my favorite music. I also can’t get over how they produce it all and their musicianship is 🤯

  • I’m not watching the Apple event live today (I have an online course I have to attend) and it’ll be the first time in many years. Somehow, I’m not even bummed.

  • Do you know any owners of dogs with separation anxiety? There’s a method to train the dogs and my team developed an app for this. Started as a hackathon and we’ve released the POC on TestFlight. Video at https://t.co/4ytPQBolx9. Beta at https://t.co/07pqozsGdp

  • One of these lucky days

    Wordle 440 2/6

    ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  • The new “Sticker shock” sticker pack for Socialite is a great way to express your social commentary on today’s financial struggles.

  • Whoa, this was extremely lucky!

    Wordle 407 2/6

    ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  • This was rather lucky (yes I still like Wordle and it’s derivatives):

    Wordle 404 2/6

    🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

  • I saw a beautiful and impressive cloud formation yesterday.

  • Between the “Artists” apps (musician’s apps), Apple’s one is much worse than either Bandcamp, Spotify or Amazon. I need to kill it basically on every launch before it’ll actually succeed to fetch any data. Pathetic, really.

  • The video for my new song (acoustic singer-songwriter/folk) will premiere on YouTube soon at www.youtube.com/watch

  • I’m trying out Fastmail, to replace legacy Google Apps that I use for some of my domains. If you use(d) Fastmail, do you use their web / mobile apps or just connect your regular Mail.app or other client of choice?

  • Tonight I was recording vocals for a song that I started about a year and a half ago. I couldn’t sing it well then but believed that the song was worth better singing. Took an online course. Not finished but got much better. Tonight’s result is pretty good. Kid-approved, too 🎵

  • This kind of notification about Apple on LinkedIn cracks me up every time. Apple was mentioned in the news? No kidding?

  • 🎬 Over the last month or so, I was occasionally watching The Hobbit trilogy over the lunch break. Today I’ve started season 3. And no, I’ve never watched them before. Shame on me.

  • 🎵 You can now add yourself to the “Musicians on Micro.blog” list with an embedded form at https://musicians.on-micro.blog/#getlisted.

    If you need to add a skill that’s not listed, DM me with the missing skill and I’ll add it.

  • monogamy -> polygamy polyglot -> monoglot polygon -> monogon monopoly -> polypoly

  • I can vouch personally that TextExpander has a great team: micro.codecookread.com/2022/01/1…

  • I’m still surprised and confused by how the black dot inside the red close button in the Mac changes position from left to right when looking at it through different (left or right) edges of my glasses. This has something to do with the astigmatism lens, IIRC.

  • Basically, Ring Doorbell 3 is unusable (or only intermittently) in Winnipeg, MB for several months. It’s -26°C now and I had to remove the battery because it wouldn’t connect to WiFi anyway. Welp.

  • Frankly, I expected better math from a company that sells products to manage your finances. I can assure you, Cashculator knows its maths.

  • Pink Floyd releases 12 live albums from the early 70ies on unsuspecting public. This is not a drill. Streaming service. www.loudersound.com/news/pink…

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