Lee Painter Music for the Soul. Code for the Bowl.

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Thoughts on software, music, AI, bootstrapping, trust, craft and making things without turning the whole operation into a funnel.

29 June 2026 / Code, Freedom

I Didn’t Want to Build Another Application

If you’d asked me when I started Vork what it was going to become, I’d probably have described it as an AI project. Today, I don’t think that’s […]

24 June 2026 / Freedom, Music

The Engineer in the Lakers Hat

For most of my life I thought I wanted to be famous. Not rich. Not successful. Famous. I was seventeen years old. Obsessed with music. Obsessed with being […]

24 June 2026 / Freedom

Music for the Soul. Code for the Bowl.

For years I told myself software replaced music. It’s a neat story. It just isn’t true. Back in the mid-90s I was playing in a band. We were […]