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Thanks for sharing the stories behind these choices!

I've been working with Claude Code for the past several weeks and feel it's improved markedly from earlier iterations.   My task today (yes I've been up since 3am) was to improve the UI/UX of an HR tracking spreadsheet.   It did amazingly well once I provided a list of skills that it needs to follow.   Skills are a set of instructions or rules that AI needs for context.   The output is a nice file that is easy to maintain over time.   There are instructions, dimension tables to help populate cells, error warnings, color coding, lookup features and more.   The final output is in a format that can easily be ingested into Power BI (a report building tool) with little transformation and simple DAX. My next task for AI is for it to build out the Power BI report using images for the visual layout.   AI will create the DAX measures, implement appropriate visuals that align to the layout and format user interactions.  Wish me luck, I hope to have a working version before Monday. I am not a developer but to pull this off AI used python, panda, and VBA to create the spreadsheet.   Vibe coding with iterations has arrived.

I think those records he did with Bola Sete could be better known. Even Guaraldi fans rarely seem to speak about them. The first is particularly strong. 

Georghe, I confess I know NOTHING of clubs and the night life. . .35 years ago I quit smoking, and as a result had to at least temporarily stop drinking alcohol and going out at night after marrying and ceasing playing drums in bands. It worked really well, and I just continued these "bans" and they became habit, and the money I would have spent on cigarettes and alcohol and going out I spent on audio and musical instrument and equipment, and recordings. So. . . it seems that this would be a good example of a record to use, but I just don't know the audience and environment. As for Monk, he was under contract with Riverside at the time of this release and then Columbia shortly after, and I think that European tours were more lucrative for Monk (and thus the label) than work in the US available to him at the time, and so it was pursued year after year. Many were broadcast, and as there were both radio station tapes and audience recorded tapes they made the rounds of collectors and often became bootlegged. What we have been seeing in the recent past are that especially the radio station tapes or tapes being made in clubs somewhat professionally are being released on LP and cd, mostly "authorized." So now there are better quality recordings of some long bootlegged items.

Just an incredible record, from jacket to the music, still blows me away.