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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 04/10/2026

Bionic Commando hits different.

Screenshot from Bionic Commando’s intro of Generalissimo Killt, giving a speech, looking very Nazi-like.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 02/10/2026

Oops I left out The Lord of the Rings 🙄

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 02/10/2026

Yeah I see you. Idolized your grandpa / uncle / cousin who fought Nazis in WW2. Grew up rooting for the Rebellion in Star Wars. Wish you could sponsor Katniss in the Hunger Games. I see you. Totally full of shit.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 26/08/2026

There has never been a better time to build. So… where are all the cool new companies?? A lot of the creative unlock with AI is happening in isolation. We need to get people back to building on teams instead of building alone. Come build with us at Hack ITP in Atlanta next month hackitp.com

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 26/08/2026

Anthropic: “That sounds low, we’re clearly the most valuable thing on the planet. Run that again.” Fable: “You’re absolutely right to push back, you’re really worth closer to $30 trillion.”

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 19/08/2026

You’ll be the unfeeling over productive cog in the capitalist machine your country needs you to be now and always Zach, geez.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 14/08/2026

‘Meat proxy’ permanently added to my vocabulary.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 24/07/2026

Alright Atlanta friends: You're invited to a hackathon this fall! Space is limited to ~170 people so sign up early. hackitp.com

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Hack ITP: An Atlanta Hackathon | Sept 19-20, 2026

A weekend hackathon for builders, designers, and creatives. September 19-20, 2026 at Atlanta Tech Village, Buckhead.

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Terrell Jermaine Starr @terrelljstarr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My laptop screen broke and costs $500 to repair. If any of you can help me raise the cash to pay for it, I’d greatly appreciate it. I’m an independent reporter and need my Mackbook for work. Thanks for your support in advance. Venmo: venmo.com/u/Terrell-Starr PayPal: paypal.me/terrellstarr

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David Sizemore @davidsizemore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The prolific @tyfromtheinternet.com has a fun lil’ interview series, where he asks questions about creative work & life. Most folks have thoughtful, interesting answers. In mine, I say “I’d beat one of them with a huge stick for making a tiny mistake.” Enjoy! tyfromtheinternet.com/tiny-talk-wi...

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Tiny Talk with David Sizemore

I have so many more questions for David than what appears here, it's wild. That comes with meeting new people, for sure (and I don't know know David) but wow.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 12/05/2026

I must have missed the whole poster thing but I’m certain I know who said that. Those were some strangely fun and stressful times. I miss working with you but hope things are good.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 23/10/2025

Y’all are going to run dithering into the ground aren’t you.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 02/10/2025

Yes. I’ll burn my eyes out.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 02/09/2025

I wish I could get back the hours of my life I’ve spent going in circles with Copilot (and using Claude Sonnet 4) on a Jekyll project I’m adding features to. It’s been worse than useless.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 21/08/2025

Well maybe he had to have a party to eat all those chips you gave him.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 15/08/2025

I’m currently building an app using Payload CMS plus Supabase plus Netlify and I really hope the Figma acquisition of Payload doesn’t mess up this stack. Coming from decades of building sites and apps with various stacks and languages, it’s nuts how good this is to work with.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 09/08/2025

There are so many Evil Forests. Which one?

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 08/08/2025

What they really mean is “Buy our product or else!”

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 31/07/2025

Pickups are soldered and everything but the new capacitor is in. Looks pretty good. Honestly surprised it doesn’t hum, my soldering skills aren’t great.

Mustang bass vintagification mostly complete.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 30/07/2025

I knew there was a chance the new pickups would be too tall to fit in the existing cavity for the pickups. And that turned out to be the case. I wasn’t equipped to properly use a router to expand it, so I used my long dormant woodworking skills to chisel it.

The new pickups installed in the new scratch plate, showing how low they extend.

Using the scratch plate template images off of WD Music, I made a printout of where the two pickup layouts overlapped and drew a rough line where the cavity needed to be deepened.

The extended pickup cavity, after my chiseling.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

Since the pickups didn’t come with covers and I don’t already have the vintage style pickups in my bass, I had to order some. I got these from Curtis Novak.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

For the pickups, I went with Lollar’s Mustang Bass Version A. My understanding is these go for the vintage sound of the older Mustangs but with higher output.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

For drastic modifications, like changing the type of pickups, the pick guard / scratch plate will usually need to be changed, and in a case like this, a custom one is needed. This took a lot of research to make sure everything would fit. I ordered this one from WD Music.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

First a little history. These basses have been around since the 60s and they’re short scale. And there are a LOT of variations. Mine is a more modern version with P and J pickups. I can’t take it all the way to vintage so it’ll be a mix. Feel free to read more. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_...

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Fender Mustang Bass - Wikipedia

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

I’m about to start on a new project, which is a modification to my Fender Mustang PJ bass where I’ll swap out the P pickups for the vintage style split single coil pickups. It’s not very straightforward. I’ll document it along the way because you deserve a variety of content on your timeline.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 28/07/2025

There’s a lot to think about here.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 23/07/2025

Well now I can say I know what it feels like to have a splinter in my eye. It’s not fun. Thanks to @melaniecrissey.com the worst of that experience is over.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 15/06/2025

This was supposed to be a conference recap post but it’s really about the impact of our work. melaniecrissey.com/blog/who-is-...

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Who is technology for?

Reflecting on time in Atlanta for RenderATL

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 09/06/2025

I’ll be taking a break from sabbaticaling to attend RenderATL. If you’ll be there and would like to meet up, let me know.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 08/04/2025

Thank you for sharing this. I’ve gone through something very similar recently and this makes me feel a little better about my choices. At the moment I have less of a plan but maybe that’s ok. It’s going to take me a while.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 27/02/2025

My new website is gonna be WEIRD yall.

The BIOS setup screen of an old sad 486 computer somewhere.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 25/02/2025

I wrote a blog post about AI, art, slop, ChatGPT, the Dead Internet, and what this all might mean for us mere mortals: www.melaniecrissey.com/blog/ai/

Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 25/01/2025

I would say tech is up for debate and reconfiguration.

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 04/12/2024

Work life update! Today I'm publicly rebooting my independent marketing practice @technicallymarket.ing You can hire me immediately to help with go-to-market plans, product launches, website copy, or thinking through how to build out your growth team. www.melaniecrissey.com/blog/introdu...

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Technically, Marketing

Go-to-market tools and advice for technical founders

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Melanie Crissey @melaniecrissey.com · 02/12/2024

Not really a Travel Blogger but I just got back from my first international trip in over a decade and I wanted to write about it! Here's everything we did, saw, and ate in #Iceland, along with some learnings for people planning a similar trip: www.melaniecrissey.com/blog/explori...

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Exploring Iceland: Reykjavík and the South Coast

A thorough recap with travel photos

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 12/11/2024

I mean, why did we even build the internet?

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 10/11/2024

Strange things going on with some wall and musical instrument arrangements, but generally not inaccurate? Piper (my dog) would not be happy with her representation.

ChatGPT generated image of its interpretation of my life.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 09/11/2024

👋 I followed you over there, can’t remember if you followed me but, hi!

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 09/11/2024

Believe it or not he used to be even harder before a patch a few months ago.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Suggestion: If you are in a position to ensure that trans folks are able to work from locations where they feel safe, now is a good time to work on that.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 19/08/2023

There’s no getting through to them, even when you say you’ve practically been one of them. The only people who can save them are themselves. They’re a million miles away.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 19/08/2023

Tonight I confronted a street preacher’s cult. I feel better. I also feel worse.

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Alan Crissey @alancrissey.com · 18/08/2023

Twitter is about to remove the block button so I guess I’m here now.

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