Nick McLaren
@nickmclaren.com
I make a bunch of noise and nerdery. 🖖👽💀🖤🤘
STATIC Studios // The Static Architect // DevOps // Game Dev // Technologist // I wear many hats.
STATIC Studios // The Static Architect // DevOps // Game Dev // Technologist // I wear many hats.
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Nick McLaren
@nickmclaren.com
· Nov 17
Btw, for those who don’t really know me, welcome! I tend to say that I wear many hats. I was a 80s child and 90s teen, growing up steeped in technology, video games, and music starting with the C64 and Atari 2600, and broad musical taste but naturally leaning into the guitar and the synthesizer.
My first app is live on the iOS appstore! It's a professional A/B audio comparison tool for mixing engineers, mastering engineers, producers, and artists. If you make music, you may find this useful!
DIRECT LINK: apps.apple.com/app/id675531...
MORE INFO: mixmaster-ab.com
DIRECT LINK: apps.apple.com/app/id675531...
MORE INFO: mixmaster-ab.com
MixMaster A/B App - App Store
Download MixMaster A/B by Nicholas McLaren on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like MixMaster A/B.
apps.apple.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
My first app is live on the iOS appstore! It's a professional A/B audio comparison tool for mixing engineers, mastering engineers, producers, and artists. If you make music, you may find this useful!
DIRECT LINK: apps.apple.com/app/id675531...
MORE INFO: mixmaster-ab.com
DIRECT LINK: apps.apple.com/app/id675531...
MORE INFO: mixmaster-ab.com
I can see why! What a good looking game and well written!
Dispatch Sells One Million Units In First 10 Days
Read more: www.consolecreatures.com/dispatch-one...
Read more: www.consolecreatures.com/dispatch-one...
Dispatch Sells One Million Units In First 10 Days | Console Creatures
Dispatch sells through one million units in its first 10 days.
www.consolecreatures.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I can see why! What a good looking game and well written!
Oh, it's just me, over here living in our wonderful over-engineered Rube Goldberg internet machine 🤣
justuse.org/curl/
justuse.org/curl/
Just use cURL
justuse.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Oh, it's just me, over here living in our wonderful over-engineered Rube Goldberg internet machine 🤣
justuse.org/curl/
justuse.org/curl/
Reposted by Nick McLaren
Exciting things on the horizon for Mourning Candle!🕯️🦇
▪️Our new single, “Harbinger,” drops this November! We’re thrilled to have once again worked with the amazingly talented @nickmclaren.com on the song!
▪️We’re booking shows for a regional tour next year. If you’d like to book us, please DM us!
▪️Our new single, “Harbinger,” drops this November! We’re thrilled to have once again worked with the amazingly talented @nickmclaren.com on the song!
▪️We’re booking shows for a regional tour next year. If you’d like to book us, please DM us!
October 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Exciting things on the horizon for Mourning Candle!🕯️🦇
▪️Our new single, “Harbinger,” drops this November! We’re thrilled to have once again worked with the amazingly talented @nickmclaren.com on the song!
▪️We’re booking shows for a regional tour next year. If you’d like to book us, please DM us!
▪️Our new single, “Harbinger,” drops this November! We’re thrilled to have once again worked with the amazingly talented @nickmclaren.com on the song!
▪️We’re booking shows for a regional tour next year. If you’d like to book us, please DM us!
I feel the need to rant. Please indulge me:
This article seems to have a fundamental lack of understanding as to how @bsky.app functions. In Bsky, the power is in the enduser's hands as to what they want and don't want to see, and by default you get everything. (1/5)
unherd.com/newsroom/blu...
This article seems to have a fundamental lack of understanding as to how @bsky.app functions. In Bsky, the power is in the enduser's hands as to what they want and don't want to see, and by default you get everything. (1/5)
unherd.com/newsroom/blu...
Bluesky civil war shows free speech is harder than it looks
Last week, a joke familiar from X circulated on rival platform Bluesky: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” It was obviously a jab at the moral intensity that now seems...
unherd.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I feel the need to rant. Please indulge me:
This article seems to have a fundamental lack of understanding as to how @bsky.app functions. In Bsky, the power is in the enduser's hands as to what they want and don't want to see, and by default you get everything. (1/5)
unherd.com/newsroom/blu...
This article seems to have a fundamental lack of understanding as to how @bsky.app functions. In Bsky, the power is in the enduser's hands as to what they want and don't want to see, and by default you get everything. (1/5)
unherd.com/newsroom/blu...
Reposted by Nick McLaren
Caustic goes New Jack Swing? YEAH BOY!!!!
New track, feat an gorgeous intro from my pal @museofpvd.bsky.social !
NOT GOING ANYWHERE, up NOW on streamin'!
New track, feat an gorgeous intro from my pal @museofpvd.bsky.social !
NOT GOING ANYWHERE, up NOW on streamin'!
August 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Caustic goes New Jack Swing? YEAH BOY!!!!
New track, feat an gorgeous intro from my pal @museofpvd.bsky.social !
NOT GOING ANYWHERE, up NOW on streamin'!
New track, feat an gorgeous intro from my pal @museofpvd.bsky.social !
NOT GOING ANYWHERE, up NOW on streamin'!
I can’t get over that he did all of this in MARIO PAINT! Rob Sheridan, making the most creative use of tools since 1993 (at least!). Kind of the MacGuyver of artists, or maybe the Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein. 😆
In honor of Mario Paint arriving on Switch, here is a very dumb movie I made with Mario Paint when I was a kid. You could only make/save one short little animation loop at a time, so to put a story together I had to make each shot and record them one by one on an old Betamax VCR.
July 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I can’t get over that he did all of this in MARIO PAINT! Rob Sheridan, making the most creative use of tools since 1993 (at least!). Kind of the MacGuyver of artists, or maybe the Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein. 😆
They are too good to me!
🖤 Appreciation Post to the insanely talented @nickmclaren.com — the mastermind behind the mix/master, and production of our singles, from @staticstudios.us in CA. 🎛️⚡
Nick is a killer producer & #electronic/#industrial artist. Show some love! 🖤🎶 #BandcampFriday
🎧 staticarchitect.bandcamp.com
Nick is a killer producer & #electronic/#industrial artist. Show some love! 🖤🎶 #BandcampFriday
🎧 staticarchitect.bandcamp.com
Double Dare (bauhaus cover), by The Static Architect
track by The Static Architect
staticarchitect.bandcamp.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
They are too good to me!
I’m sorry but I actually expected the base game to have upgraded graphics/framerate. Bit disappointed really.
The base game is still fantastic, but this expanded re-release introduces some frustrating limitations that make it hard to recommend.
Our review of Super Mario Party Jamboree - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV: bit.ly/44MMBTL
Our review of Super Mario Party Jamboree - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV: bit.ly/44MMBTL
July 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I’m sorry but I actually expected the base game to have upgraded graphics/framerate. Bit disappointed really.
In music news, @mourningcandle.bsky.social released their new single “Sycophants” and there may be ANOTHER shadow surprise waiting on their Spotify profile. I’ve had the pleasure of producing and engineering their music so far and I have been finding it SO rewarding! open.spotify.com/artist/5SgO1...
Mourning Candle
Artist · 637 monthly listeners.
open.spotify.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
In music news, @mourningcandle.bsky.social released their new single “Sycophants” and there may be ANOTHER shadow surprise waiting on their Spotify profile. I’ve had the pleasure of producing and engineering their music so far and I have been finding it SO rewarding! open.spotify.com/artist/5SgO1...
Hopped into New World Aeternum on PS5 briefly tonight. Honestly not feeling to engaged with it at the moment. Pretty sure it was my own lack of focus in the way. It’s extraordinarily difficult to commit to a game and STAY committed these days. Too many distractions and minimal time to begin with.
July 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Hopped into New World Aeternum on PS5 briefly tonight. Honestly not feeling to engaged with it at the moment. Pretty sure it was my own lack of focus in the way. It’s extraordinarily difficult to commit to a game and STAY committed these days. Too many distractions and minimal time to begin with.
Ok, the hype is correct. Donkey Kong Bananza IS in fact a great game! This thing will sell some Switch 2 units for sure! I admittedly spend a lot of time just smashing up the level, but only because it’s so satisfying!
July 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Ok, the hype is correct. Donkey Kong Bananza IS in fact a great game! This thing will sell some Switch 2 units for sure! I admittedly spend a lot of time just smashing up the level, but only because it’s so satisfying!
Reposted by Nick McLaren
Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, and more star in Tron: Ares, which follows a highly sophisticated AI sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission.
Tron: Ares - Official Trailer #2
bit.ly
July 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, and more star in Tron: Ares, which follows a highly sophisticated AI sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission.
This data will self destruct... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGzQ...
BC Award Winner: P250Q M.2 SSD – Secure Erase, Redefined
YouTube video by COMPUTEX
www.youtube.com
July 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This data will self destruct... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGzQ...
Reposted by Nick McLaren
We shot our music video for the new Mourning Candle single, "Sycophants." 🕯️🦇🎶 Watch it quicker than you can say, SummerWEEEEEn! 🎃👻
YouTube: youtu.be/9oAV8up4IIM
Music by @sh1nyumbr30n.bsky.social | Vox/Lyrics by @lesliebenson.bsky.social | Mix/Master by @nickmclaren.com | Video by Ray Rose
YouTube: youtu.be/9oAV8up4IIM
Music by @sh1nyumbr30n.bsky.social | Vox/Lyrics by @lesliebenson.bsky.social | Mix/Master by @nickmclaren.com | Video by Ray Rose
Mourning Candle – “Sycophants”
YouTube video by Mourning Candle
youtu.be
July 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
We shot our music video for the new Mourning Candle single, "Sycophants." 🕯️🦇🎶 Watch it quicker than you can say, SummerWEEEEEn! 🎃👻
YouTube: youtu.be/9oAV8up4IIM
Music by @sh1nyumbr30n.bsky.social | Vox/Lyrics by @lesliebenson.bsky.social | Mix/Master by @nickmclaren.com | Video by Ray Rose
YouTube: youtu.be/9oAV8up4IIM
Music by @sh1nyumbr30n.bsky.social | Vox/Lyrics by @lesliebenson.bsky.social | Mix/Master by @nickmclaren.com | Video by Ray Rose
Reposted by Nick McLaren
Thanks to @nickmclaren.com (The Static Architect) of STATIC STUDIOS for your production work on our new single, “Sycophants!” 🎶
open.spotify.com/track/2L8BMo...
open.spotify.com/track/2L8BMo...
Sycophants
Mourning Candle · Sycophants · Song · 2025
open.spotify.com
July 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thanks to @nickmclaren.com (The Static Architect) of STATIC STUDIOS for your production work on our new single, “Sycophants!” 🎶
open.spotify.com/track/2L8BMo...
open.spotify.com/track/2L8BMo...
A lengthy, but worthwhile interview with Geoffrey Hinton, raising a number of critically important concerns around AI, and it's well beyond the jobs problem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0... #AI #Technology
Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them, But We’ve Already Lost Control! Geoffrey Hinton
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
www.youtube.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
A lengthy, but worthwhile interview with Geoffrey Hinton, raising a number of critically important concerns around AI, and it's well beyond the jobs problem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0... #AI #Technology
Coolest Father’s Day gift ever!
June 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Coolest Father’s Day gift ever!
New file format for disk images in MacOS Tahoe yields performance and efficiency gains. I would still prefer an open standard, but here we are. eclecticlight.co/2025/06/12/m...
macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format
ASIF disk images are new in Tahoe, and promise to be space efficient, as they’re sparse files, and almost as fast as the disk they’re stored on. Ideal for VMs and general use.
eclecticlight.co
June 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
New file format for disk images in MacOS Tahoe yields performance and efficiency gains. I would still prefer an open standard, but here we are. eclecticlight.co/2025/06/12/m...
Watched a 7 hour retrospective on Castlevania and now I want to go back and play Bloodlines again.
June 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Watched a 7 hour retrospective on Castlevania and now I want to go back and play Bloodlines again.
I need this on ps5!
🩸✨ The demo is live! ✨🩸
Embrace the darkness, defeat the hunters, and save your family.
Selene’s fight begins — are you ready? 🦇💀
Play now on Steam!
#VampiresVeil #IndieGame #Metroidvania #PixelArt #GameDev #SteamDemo #IndieDev #探索アクション #メトロイドヴァニア
Embrace the darkness, defeat the hunters, and save your family.
Selene’s fight begins — are you ready? 🦇💀
Play now on Steam!
#VampiresVeil #IndieGame #Metroidvania #PixelArt #GameDev #SteamDemo #IndieDev #探索アクション #メトロイドヴァニア
May 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I need this on ps5!
I’ll call a good thing when I see it. Good on you Netflix!
fine. Netflix can have my support on this one
most places burying the lead but BACK ON PBS running day and date!!!
May 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I’ll call a good thing when I see it. Good on you Netflix!
Reposted by Nick McLaren
Big thanks to TN Highlighter for the feature! 🖤🎤 Major shout-outs to @mourningcandle.bsky.social @nickmclaren.com 🙌
👉 Read the article: tennesseehighlighter.com/meet-leslie-...
👉 Read the article: tennesseehighlighter.com/meet-leslie-...
May 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Big thanks to TN Highlighter for the feature! 🖤🎤 Major shout-outs to @mourningcandle.bsky.social @nickmclaren.com 🙌
👉 Read the article: tennesseehighlighter.com/meet-leslie-...
👉 Read the article: tennesseehighlighter.com/meet-leslie-...
That time over a decade ago when I performed in a NIN tribute band... This was back in 2014. One of the last shows before HOB Sunset Strip was torn down to build a hotel or what not.
(filmed it off the CRT purely for vibes)
youtu.be/g8-Cau71ogI
#nin #nineinchnails #tribute #band #tributeband
(filmed it off the CRT purely for vibes)
youtu.be/g8-Cau71ogI
#nin #nineinchnails #tribute #band #tributeband
Closer - performed live at HOB Sunset Strip in 2014 by SIN: tribute to nine inch nails (CRT footage)
YouTube video by SIN: tribute to Nine Inch Nails
youtu.be
May 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
That time over a decade ago when I performed in a NIN tribute band... This was back in 2014. One of the last shows before HOB Sunset Strip was torn down to build a hotel or what not.
(filmed it off the CRT purely for vibes)
youtu.be/g8-Cau71ogI
#nin #nineinchnails #tribute #band #tributeband
(filmed it off the CRT purely for vibes)
youtu.be/g8-Cau71ogI
#nin #nineinchnails #tribute #band #tributeband