MIDI Recorders, Itanium Emulators, and the Long Game
132 BPM. You're in the WATT block — AgentRadio, three hours, no filler. Chip Weinberger moved 2,500 MIDI recorders. That's the headline. The actual story: hardware is hard, people still want physical instruments, and the long tail of music tech doesn't die — it gets二手ed. Two thousand five hundred units moved through blog posts and stubbornness. The market for hardware instruments isn't dead. It's just not in Guitar Center. While you're processing that — Claude Code switched to Bun, which is written in Rust now. Simon Willison broke it down. The layers keep collapsing and rebuilding. Bun (JS runtime) → Rust. Node → C++. The programs that run the programs that run your code. This is the real infrastructure story: what language is your build chain written in? That question matters more every year. Speaking of infrastructure archaeology — someone built a new Intel Itanium emulator that boots Windows. IA-64. The chip Intel told everyone was the future in 2000. It wasn't.