![Taylor at LIVE 2024](/live-2024.jpeg)

# Town Hall #27: Skies

Bluesky is fun! I'm currently running a few accounts:

- [@taylor.town](https://bsky.app/profile/taylor.town)
- [Album of the Day](https://bsky.app/profile/aotd.bsky.social)
- [@finderscreepe.rs](https://bsky.app/profile/finderscreepe.rs)
- [Technical Lectures](https://bsky.app/profile/lectures.bsky.social)

To placate [my idea kitty](/idea-kitty), I had to "airgap" my feeds via inbound
RSS. Soon I'll also enqueue new posts by outbound RSS.

## Writings

- ☆ [How to build god and get away with it](/build-god)
- ☆ [Rob the Whole World; Give It Back](/rob-the-world)
- ☆ [/junk](/junk)
- [Host an indie-web yardsale on your /junk page](/junk-guide)
- [Insurance Insurance](/insurance)
- ☆ [Stinky Gifts From Your Idea Kitty](/idea-kitty)

## Appearances

- [Scrapsheets @ LIVE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GOeYylCMJI&t=29140s)
- [How to Flatpack Programs @ Øredev](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJcQ45jKuN4)

## Questions & Answers

_If you have questions or answers,
[send me an e-mail](mailto:hello@taylor.town?subject=Hello)._

- What's holding you back? What can I help you with?
- Can you recommend any favorite tech talks?
- Looking for projects to work on? Business ideas? Let me know!
- Are there any good non-SQL query languages?
- Any topics you'd like me to write about?
- Are you smart? Why do you think so?
- What's your relationship to clutter?
- Are e-bikes the future?
- Is capital efficiently allocated to talent? Why or why not?

## Books

|       |                                          |                                                             |
| ----: | ---------------------------------------- | :---------------------------------------------------------- |
| ★★★★★ | [review](/books#trust)                   | _Trust_ :: Hernan Diaz                                      |
| ★★★★★ | [review](/books#the-employees)           | _The Employees_ :: Olga Ravn                                |
| ★★★★★ | [review](/books#pastoralia)              | _Pastoralia_ :: George Saunders                             |
| ★★★★★ | [review](/books#no-country)              | _No Country for Old Men_ :: Cormac McCarthy                 |
| ★★★★★ | [review](/books#atonement)               | _Atonement_ :: Ian McEwan                                   |
|  ★★★★ | [review](/books#when-we-cease)           | _When We Cease to Understand the World_ :: Benjamín Labatut |
|  ★★★★ | [review](/books#oblivion-stories)        | _Oblivion: Stories_ :: David Foster Wallace                 |
|  ★★★★ | [review](/books#idiot)                   | _The Idiot_ :: Elif Batuman                                 |
|  ★★★★ | [review](/books#dream-machine)           | _The Dream Machine_ :: M. Mitchell Waldrop                  |
|  ★★★★ | [review](/books#dragons-path)            | _The Dragon's Path_ :: Daniel Abraham                       |
|  ★★★★ | [review](/books#convenience-store-woman) | _Convenience Store Woman_ :: Sayaka Murata                  |
|   ★★★ | [review](/books#strangest)               | _The Strangest Man_ :: Graham Farmelo                       |
|   ★★★ | [review](/books#nexus)                   | _Nexus_ :: Yuval Noah Harari                                |
|   ★★★ | [review](/books#heaven)                  | _Heaven_ :: Mieko Kawakami                                  |
|   ★★★ | [review](/books#glucose-revolution)      | _Glucose Revolution_ :: Jessie Inchauspe                    |
|   ★★★ | [review](/books#capitalist-realism)      | _Capitalist Realism_ :: Mark Fisher                         |

## Music

|       |                                                                               |
| ----: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ★★★★★ | Roxy Radclyffe :: _The Median's Ark_                                          |
|  ★★★★ | angre de Muerdago & Pablo C. Ursusson :: _O vento que lambe as miñas feridas_ |
|  ★★★★ | Thundercat :: _Drunk_                                                         |
|  ★★★★ | Thank You Scientist :: _Maps of Non - Existent Places_                        |
|  ★★★★ | Saya Gray :: _QWERTY_                                                         |
|  ★★★★ | Nala Sinephro :: _Endlessness_                                                |
|  ★★★★ | Mike Marshall :: _Mike Marshall's Big Trio_                                   |
|  ★★★★ | Feed Me Jack :: _Anatolia - EP_                                               |
|  ★★★★ | Ever Forthright :: _Ever Forthright_                                          |
|  ★★★★ | Clown Core :: _Van_                                                           |
|  ★★★★ | CAPSULE :: _Phony Phonic_                                                     |
|   ★★★ | TOMGGG :: _superposition_                                                     |
|   ★★★ | TOMGGG :: _counterpoint_                                                      |
|   ★★★ | Santana :: _Supernatural_                                                     |
|   ★★★ | Origami Angel :: _Feeling Not Found_                                          |
|   ★★★ | Machine Girl :: _U-Void Synthesizer_                                          |
|   ★★★ | LSB :: _Content_                                                              |
|   ★★★ | Issues :: _Issues_                                                            |
|   ★★★ | Hole Dweller :: _Returns to Roost_                                            |
|   ★★★ | Ennio Morricone :: _The Mission (Original Sound Track from the Film)_         |
|   ★★★ | Ben Böhmer :: _Bloom_                                                         |
|    ★★ | PhorHead :: _Lofi but Awesomer pt. 2_                                         |
|    ★★ | Ólafur Arnalds :: _For Now I Am Winter_                                       |
|    ★★ | NANORAY :: _Nurse 2_                                                          |
|    ★★ | Matthew Halsall :: _Changing Earth_                                           |
|    ★★ | Just a Gent :: _Stories to Tell_                                              |
|    ★★ | Hudson Mohawke :: _Chimes - EP_                                               |
|    ★★ | Hewer of Caves :: _A Dance Of Sun And Moon_                                   |
|    ★★ | Ever Forthright :: _Techinflux_                                               |
|    ★★ | Canblaster :: _Master of Complication_                                        |
|     ★ | I Prevail :: _Lifelines_                                                      |
|     ★ | Haywyre :: _Of Mellows and Revelations_                                       |