Paul Ford knocks it out of the park – again.

Alex Allmont's "Play House" is brilliant. I'd seen his Clunky Drummer, but this is lovely – really like the emphasis on analogue, from contact mics onwards, and on making it as legible as possible. Also, his work-in-progress videos are lovely.

Adam Saltsman on Vanquish. This is good.

"Stino is a Sublime Text plugin, which provides an Arduino-like environement for editing, compiling and uploading sketches." Oh, hello.

Using Sketchup as your modeller, and a few other neat things. Bookmarked for reference.

CDM rounds up all of Ableton's videos about Pantha du Prince and the Bell Laboratory performing In C. Lots of nice stuff on performance, live sampling, but mainly just about how performers play together. Very analogue, in that regard.

Bookmarked because this is what I did to bump Ruby to 1.9.3, finally, on my VPS.

"“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t."

This is great.

"We then witnessed him giving the most heartfelt and profound vocal performance, live in the control room through an SM57. He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Steve Porcaro once told me he witnessed MJ doing that with the string section in the room. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything. Not just little eight bar loop ideas. he would actually sing the entire arrangement into a micro-cassette recorder complete with stops and fills." It's all there, already, in his head; and god, he hits those notes so well. No auto-tune there.

The product is delightful – the screwdriver especially – but it's that wonderful video of a screw factory that's the real reason I link this.

"It took awhile to climb this mountain, 14 months actually. So to “show our work”, we’re posting around 45,000 words that mark the trail we took. It’s not every text, skype call or even every email in our big 500+ email thread. But it’s the important stuff, and a lot of it was important to getting Threes out in the world." I'd pay for this as a book, to be honest. Really excellent stuff.