Breakfast Bagel Sandwich (Until the Battery Died) | Cooks with C.K.

My Sunday breakfast sandwich on Cooks with C.K.: bacon cut in half,...

I Built a Free MPC Live III Documentation Search Tool (Mac, Windows, Web)

The MPC Live III User Guide is 544 pages. The free MPC Live III Assistant searches all of it, plus Akai’s FAQ and notes from 26 tutorial videos, with 70 step-by-step how-tos. Web, Mac and Win…

TR-1000 Firmware v1.50 Is Here — and the TR-1000 Assistant Is Updated for It

Roland’s v1.50 firmware finally lets the TR-1000 play melodies, keeps effects running through kit changes, and adds new routing and effects. The free TR-1000 Assistant (v1.1.0) now indexes th…

I Rode in the $24,950 Slate Truck in the Pouring Rain

The first thing you should know about my first ride in the Slate truck is that I did not get to drive it. They were only allowing ride-alongs due to these still being prototypes. On October 1st I h…

I Got Stretched at StretchLab for the First Time, and Here’s What It Costs

I felt high after getting stretched at StretchLab in Highland Park on October 1st after my very first assisted stretching session, kind of loose and floaty and a little bit high (not that I ever…).…

When Your AI Wastes My Money, I Should Get It Back (An open letter to Anthropic)

Posted to cksample.com — C.K. Sample III I use Claude in Cowork mode for a real project: building a photo critique and archive management tool for my photography business. It’s not a toy use …

Building a photo management and critique tool using Claude.ai that I’ve been thinking of building...

I have a problem that a lot of serious photographers share: the backlog. Not a few weeks behind — a genuine, multi-year archive with over 10,000 shots sitting unreviewed. So I built a triage tool. …

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