Adrian Cockcroft

@adrianco
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He/him. Currently Nubank and OrionX.net, Analyst/Advisor/Consultant - ex Amazon, Battery Ventures, Netflix, eBay, Sun, CCL. Adding sustainability to DevOps, making strange noises, and sharing #photography #tfr enjoying life with @LaurelCo in Monterey county, California.
Bloghttps://adrianco.medium.com
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GitHubhttps://github.com/adrianco
Loops@adrianco

And that is it! If you want to go much, much deeper with these, I did 12+ hours of streams that go deep into each track, including a thorough look at the Ableton Live tracks and the instruments I used. That's here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD1jH_IvoIsVv7hFdc_yrjtt0bwsPTMeo

Mechanics of Mysticism BTS

Videos about the creation of my 2025 album The Mechanics of Mysticism. Detailed breakdowns of how I made each track and more. I'll be streaming new episodes ...

YouTube

The closer is "Science of the Night" and it's just about the fact that magic, mystic states and weird shit in general seems to happen easier late at night... the witching hour, basically. And it's a fucking sweet name.

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/track/science-of-the-night

It's supposed to sound like what being out late doing something weird feels like.

Science of the Night, by Ether Diver

from the album The Mechanics of Mysticism

Ether Diver
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Guitarist, Dies at 78

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir, a cornerstone of the Grateful Dead and the band’s many latter-day offshoots, has died

Variety
Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of The Grateful Dead, Dies at 78

His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it emerged to become an American institution.

The New York Times
🔴 👁 - AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street.”

“People love to describe senior engineers with a big checklist: architecture, communication, ownership, leadership, etc.”

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/11/25/what-actually-makes-you-senior/

Despite breathless headlines warning of a robot takeover in the workforce, a new research briefing from Oxford Economics casts doubt on the narrative that artificial intelligence is currently causing mass unemployment.

According to the firm’s analysis, “firms don’t appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale,” suggesting instead that companies may be using the technology as a cover for routine headcount reductions. https://fortune.com/2026/01/07/ai-layoffs-convenient-corporate-fiction-true-false-oxford-economics-productivity/

AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that’s masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests

"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.

Fortune

LLMs show a strong bias for Python, but the future of AI-generated code depends on stable, open source languages to improve maintainability.

https://thenewstack.io/beyond-python-why-llms-need-more-stable-open-source-code

Beyond Python: Why LLMs Need More Stable, Open Source Code

LLMs show a strong bias for Python, but the future of AI-generated code depends on stable, open source languages to improve maintainability.

The New Stack

@djr2024 @ChrisMayLA6

Dara O'Briain: "I get really pissed off when people give out about crime going up when the numbers are definitely going down. And if you say the numbers are going down, they go, 'but the FEAR of crime is rising'. Well so what? Zombies are at an all-time low level, but the fear of zombies could be incredibly high. It doesn't mean we have to have government policies to deal with the fear of zombies. It's ridiculous."

The last 20 years of politics in a nutshell.

What Claude Code Sends to the Cloud
L: https://rastrigin.systems/blog/claude-code-part-1-requests/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566292
posted on 2026.01.10 at 10:07:12 (c=1, p=5)
What Claude Code Actually Sends to the Cloud

An inspection of Claude Code's network requests, system prompt, and context handling by intercepting real traffic.