I’m always looking for new ways to make this blog faster. Today, I added instant.page to prefetch links before they’re clicked. The concept is pretty interesting. It turns out there’s a “significant” amount of time between a user hovering over and clicking on a link – around 300 ms. Thus it makes sense to use the extra time to preload and cache the linked page.

Adding instant.page was very easy. All I had to do was add the Javascript below before my closing body tag.

<script src="/js/instantpage.js" type="module" defer></script>

Check out the GIF to see how instant.page works. As you can see, hovering over the “Contact” page link in my navigation menu causes the page to be preloaded.

Yesterday, I tested the Shure KSE1200 electrostatic in-ear monitors. Today, I was back in headphone-land with the Utopia, Focal’s top of the line model. The Focal Utopia is regarded by some people as the best pair of headphones in the world, so I was very excited to try it out. I’ll write a more complete review in a few months. For now, there are my first impressions of the Focal Utopia headphones.

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I’ve been a huge fan of Shure in-ear monitors since my first pair of single-driver E2s back in high school. Since then, I’ve owned the E5, SE535, and SE846 IEMs. Today, I added another Shure IEM to the list – the KSE1200. I’ve had my eyes on the KSE1200 IEMs for a while, so I was very excited to receive them today – shout out to the folks over at Moon Audio.

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Check out this video from Griffin Matthews detailing his experiences working as a black artist on Broadway. I worked with Griffin and Matt Gould on Witness Uganda which later became Invisible Thread, and I still consider that show to be the most meaningful one I have ever worked on.

Hearing Griffin’s take on what happened behind closed doors is extremely surreal. When Witness Uganda was rebranded to Invisble Thread before premiering Off-Broadway, I felt like it wasn’t the same show anymore. I had a sneaking suspicion that the white folks in charge, mostly Diane Paulus (director), prioritized making the show “safer” for Broadway rather than conveying the true and raw story. I never asked Griffin or Matt about this – probably because I already knew it was true.

Anyway, Griffin’s video is insightful and provides a rare firsthand account of what Broadway’s racist nature. I hope things will change in the future.

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My brother’s been working on this Disney piano medley over the past week or so. Today, it premiered on a Facebook Live concert hosted by our town. It was nice to see so many familiar faces performing from the comfort of their own homes, but I hope “virtual live music” won’t end up being the norm in the long term – that would be very sad. Anyway, here’s the full video of the medley. Enjoy!

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