Writing
October 18, 2026🔗 Finds #32
The books universities assign most, a science illustrator's atlas of space, a vaporwave radio station, how medicine sees inside the body, 400 electronics bench videos, Plato's Republic explained, and Rome in 38 minutes.
October 15, 2026🎵 Music findings #20
Kendrick's Beach House-sampling classic, the Grammy-winning JAY-Z × Linkin Park mashup, Stromae and Pomme from Arcane — plus Tears For Fears, The Verve, and a song AURORA wrote at eleven.
October 10, 2026🔗 Finds #31
Stanford's Fourier transform notes, a library of public-domain paintings, the salamander that never grows up, a swordsman reborn as a baby, heroism as a prison sentence, a K-pop group that hunts demons, and a computer built on breadboards.
October 8, 2026🎵 Music findings #19
Alex Warren's first number one, the animated girl group that topped the Hot 100, Linkin Park's League of Legends anthem — plus Foo Fighters, The Stranglers, and surf folk from Cape Town.
October 3, 2026🔗 Finds #30
Gaiman's London under London, a one-man library of soundscapes, the gliding mammal that is neither lemur nor flier, a manhwa about owning a labyrinth, pirates in a Thai port, 45 days to fall in love, and whether perfect prediction is possible.
October 1, 2026🎵 Music findings #18
The disco song KISS wrote to prove disco was easy, a Kanye opener built on Elton John, A$AP Rocky rapping over Tame Impala — and five long videos for locking in, calming down, and betting it all at 2:59 am.
September 27, 2026🔗 Finds #29
Why puddle ripples spread into rings, fifteen years of the web's best long-form writing, why a struck string sounds harsher than a plucked one, a one-man maths library, a filmmaker explaining the world, how Enigma really fell, and every car term in 17 minutes.
September 25, 2026🎵 Music findings #17
The most-played song on 2000s US radio, a demo recorded under house arrest that TikTok found eight years later, a drill track about staying one up — and three people counting down their favourite songs of all time.
September 23, 2026🔗 Finds #28
Why prefabricated floors never got cheaper, the molecules that stop oil and water from separating, thirty years of card game rules in one place, hacking a fake bank to learn SQL injection, every steak dish Wikipedia can name, the British invention on every aircraft carrier afloat, and Napoleon's whole life in 82 minutes.
September 21, 2026🎵 Music findings #16
A hit born from a dream in a dentist's chair, a two-minute joke on the record label, a 1979 city-pop single rediscovered by TikTok, and a one-person band built out of loop pedals — ten off the playlist.
September 13, 2026🔗 Finds #27
Why every river obeys the same power law, a schoolboy buying his classmates' souls for a dollar each, a free book on the curve behind every font outline, overland journeys along the Silk Roads, twenty years of teaching yourself Japanese, the mussel's murderous beard, and traffic jams that appear out of nowhere.
September 10, 2026🎵 Music findings #15
A number one the band thought was terrible, a hit rescued by a jammed car cassette, Vivaldi with three-quarters of him thrown out, and a riff that turns out to be a man's voice — ten off the playlist.
September 5, 2026🔗 Finds #26
Sudoku solved in a hundred lines of Python, a formula that reduces factorials to digit-sums, the most heavily annotated personal site on the web, the CSS tutorial everyone learned on, and a photo studio where you get twelve hours in someone else's body.
August 31, 2026🎵 Music findings #14
Otherside, Teenage Dirtbag and Scotty Doesn't Know sitting next to a Hot 100 space-grunge breakout — ten off the playlist, plus a dark jazz set for the small hours.
August 26, 2026🔗 Finds #25
A history magazine named after a Churchill quip, 997 maths problems you solve by writing code, the Linux course that outlived its own domain, a hitman who just wants to run a corner shop, and two webcomics that have been updating for nearly twenty years.
August 19, 2026🔗 Finds #24
A pastoral internet aesthetic with its own Politics section, Longreads' trick for turning five stories into a theme, a free MIT Press cryptography textbook, the casino that named a statistical method, Captain America's origin as literal anti-Nazi propaganda, and a drift through Tokyo.
August 17, 2026🎵 Music findings #13
A Kickstarts flip, a SOPHIE cover, an Indila sample and a teenage producer's piano loop — ten off the playlist, most of them under three minutes.
August 14, 2026🎵 Music findings #12
Three fan edits that stretch a song past twenty minutes, a vaporwave track born from a tutorial, an Irish reel at speed and a minute of solo piano.
August 12, 2026🔗 Finds #23
Seventeen thousand critics' lists boiled down to one film ranking, the tweed-and-candlelight wiki, a thousand hacking labs, weeknight Asian cooking with the science attached, 301 hand-drawn absurdities, the sequences no algorithm can reach, and the man who got a US state to redo its flag.
- August 9, 2026
🔗 Finds #22
A Morse trainer you actually key, why roundabouts cut fatal crashes by 90%, an illustrator's Tumblr, a forgotten Caribbean war, two things finished, and a channel that explains every type of everything.
August 8, 2026🎵 Music findings #11
Ten off the playlist — an Israeli band's viral debut, a hard-house flip of Praise The Lord, Rod Stewart singing an A$AP Rocky hook and a saxophone asking the question.
- August 6, 2026
🎵 Music findings #10
Ten off the playlist — the Lain opening theme, a Satie piano piece from 1888, Bad Bunny's Jersey club detour and the shortest song ever to chart.
- August 5, 2026
🔗 Finds #21
A ray tracer you can build in a weekend, 500 of Wikipedia's strangest articles, a philosophy webcomic counting days without a Kant pun, and an eleven-hour graphic design course.
- August 3, 2026
🔗 Finds #20
The strange aliens of early science fiction, an encyclopedia of ingredient substitutions, a ridiculously detailed guide to learning Japanese, and Morse code as one printable tree.
- August 1, 2026
🔗 Finds #19
A map of 869 weird museums, a five-minute short film, an encyclopedia of world problems, chess tactics in plain English, and a Wikipedia oddity about ballast water.
- August 1, 2026
🎵 Music findings #9
Ten off the playlist — Kate Bush's deal with God, Dolly's Jolene, a Kanye horn sample, Dominican bachata and a jazz-band Lana cover.
- July 31, 2026
🔗 Finds #18
Two toys, an essay, an illusion library, a Wikipedia rabbit hole, a channel, and a video.
- July 30, 2026
🔗 Finds #17
A book, two articles, a Wikipedia rabbit hole, a manhwa, a film, and a channel.
- July 29, 2026
🔗 Finds #16
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 28, 2026
🔗 Finds #15
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 28, 2026
🎵 Music findings #8
Ten off the playlist — a Tame Impala bassline, Mitski's two-minute moon song, a COLORS breakout and the closing theme from Little Miss Sunshine.
- July 27, 2026
🔗 Finds #14
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 27, 2026
🎵 Music findings #7
Ten off the playlist — Graduation-era Kanye, a woozy Travis Scott cut, a corridos tumbados smash and a piano cover of a Eurovision heartbreaker.
- July 25, 2026
🔗 Finds #13
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 23, 2026
🔗 Finds #12
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 23, 2026
🎵 Music findings #6
Ten fresh cuts off the playlist — an Arctic Monkeys slow-burn, the Naruto acoustic ending, hazy R&B and a hard-hitting rap staple.
- July 22, 2026
🔗 Finds #11
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 20, 2026
🔗 Finds #10
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 20, 2026
🎵 Music findings #5
Seven fresh playlist cuts — Spider-Verse soaring, silky R&B, a Patti Smith classic — plus five late-night mixes to get lost in.
- July 18, 2026
🔗 Finds #9
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 13, 2026
🔗 Finds #8
A few articles, sites, and rabbit holes that caught my eye this week.
- July 12, 2026
🔗 Finds #7
A few articles, sites, and rabbit holes that caught my eye this week.
- July 11, 2026
🔗 Finds #6
A few sites and channels that caught my eye this week.
- July 11, 2026
🎵 Music findings #4
Three fresh playlist adds and five late-night video rabbit holes — FKJ live, noir jazz, and rainy-drive mixes.
- July 10, 2026
🔗 Finds #5
A few sites and videos that caught my eye this week.
- July 10, 2026
🎵 Music findings #3
Ten fresh tracks — synthwave staples, an anime battle theme, and an indie anthem that never dies.
July 9, 2026🤖 On using AI in this blog
Coming clean about how AI helps me build and write this site — and what's always me.
- July 9, 2026
🔗 Finds #4
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
July 8, 2026👋 Hello — I'm Pitt
A quick hello, who I am, and what I'm building here.
- July 8, 2026
🎵 Music findings #2
Ten more for your ears: TikTok Brazilian phonk-funk, UK rap, parking-garage sax, and Yung Lean fog.
- July 7, 2026
🔗 Finds #3
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 7, 2026
🎵 Music findings #1
Ten for your ears: 80s synth-pop, eurodance, French electro, and new UK rap.
- July 6, 2026
🔗 Finds #2
A few articles and websites that caught my eye this week.
- July 5, 2026
🔗 Finds #1
A few articles, sites, and rabbit holes that caught my eye this week.