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Midi Concertina - my second instrument attempt
TLDR: i can play some basic metal on a midi concertina: https://youtu.
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Loveable grouches & the slurpee machine in heaven
ON GROUCHES The loveable Grouches of the world matter more than we often realise.
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Getting better at Python / becoming a professional developer
I’m often asked by candidates and people trying to break into the industry how much programming knowledge they need to be success at the entry level.
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YouSum on the Command line - a CLI function for summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!
But Wait - it’s on the command line After the debacle of not being able to host my YouSum program, I’ve gotten back in the habit of just running it locally on the command line.
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linkedin satire - making light of marketing demons and their buzzwords
these marketing demons use an artillery of buzzwords to shield themselves from the truth that they don't know how to do their jobs properly - frankie I have been posting a lot more on LinkedIn and that’s given me an amusing look into the kinds of ~drivel~ erm posts that people make.
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2024 - book recommendations / a look back
I went back through the books I read in 2024 and they’re somewhat disappointing.
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build your own quote of the day + reminder system
I enjoy this Daily Zen quotes site - a Slack reminder pushes me to explore my belief system and also produces many of the quotes I include here: https://www.
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Boosting Blog SEO with AI: Smarter Titles, Tags, and Meta Descriptions
framing - why use AI to help with tags and titles and such… I know I’m leaving views on the table when I write my blog posts because I don’t optimise my titles, meta titles, descriptions, or tags.
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YouSum - summarising long YouTube videos to get right to the point!
Master Your Time. Instantly Distill YouTube Knowledge. Save 9 minutes. Unleash your genius.
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SlackZen - just leave (tm) - and the noise of the modern office
TLDR: Check out the code on GitHub . It even worked at one point in time!
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Marimo - a great new tool for building micro- & internal apps
Introduction to Marimo I’m a huge fan of Marimo - a next generation Python “notebook” which, like predecessors such as Jupyter & Hex, provide a useful paradigm that’s more reusable than a script but has great REPL-like interactivity.
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No Goals, Just Clouds: Observations from a Spiky Mind
Don’t seek enlightenment, just drop your illusions. Sawaki This weekend I was very inspired by this video: https://www.
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Thoughts on Return-To-Office and Agile Manifesto
As I think about our San Francisco office and realise that the pain of commuting is well outweighed by the chance to move faster, have fun in a “clubhouse” with interesting people, and to mentor some really talented young people… the Agile Manifesto came back to me.
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Why Marketing? Seems like an odd hobby...
Marketing - my oddest hobby My friend and frequent collaborator, Josh, pointed out that despite my technical background, my mind always seems to wander back to marketing.
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Building My Brand: A Hands-On Marketing Challenge for 2025
A Practical Challenge - Marketing Myself I mentioned in a prior post that I started my tech career in growth marketing, and still advise clients from time to time here.
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Man/Machine/Marketing - applying lessons from DevOps and Finance product development to digital marketing
Marketing - my introduction I’m a software engineer but started in tech industry as a marketing analyst.
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Extract just the Accordion out of a song / mix
update This is an even better version using Moises’ more expensive tier for a lovely Horace Trahan tune: https://www.
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Cute Accordion tricks - transposition and translation
I am a classical oboist by training and a software engineer by trade - which means I’ve got some aptitude for making tools to help learn Cajun Accordion.
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Using AI to Entice Employees to Python — Paul Pereyda Karayan & Emmanuel Uwakwe (PyBay 2024)
My PyBay 2024 talk in San Francisco posted on Youtube here: https://www.
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Building a Cajun Accordion I can live with... [brief edition]
The chronicles some of the work I’ve done to produce an electronic / computer-mediated cajun accordion instrument that isnt $$$ and explores some of the user experience (UX) possibilities - including that the squeezebox’s physical limitations are actually a gift for the musician!
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Zydeco: my new metal?
Francophone music takes a sharp turn South Alcest’s most recent album, Les Chants De L’Aurore, was released on June 21, 2024 - and co-incided with my listening to The Bosstones and some of the only folk music I can tolerate: Neko Case.
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PK AI Art Gallery - making things mostly with Midjourney
I’d say “I hope you like it”, but then I’d be lying…
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Aqua and Hotkeys to write blogs posts quickly - and then Loom AI makes a surprise appearance!
Linking Aqua trascripts to other programs with hotkeys I really like using Aqua (https://withaqua.
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Living is more like wrestling than dancing...
Great video by Josh Saunders about learning grappling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvsLAqWKVQo This is bigger than grappling, or rather as the quote suggests - learning to live resembles learning to grapple an awful lot!
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llm - for command line LLM Prototyping
I have been doing a lot of exploration and prototyping for “The Intelligent Enterprise” (tm mine obvi) using LLMs.
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All about how I use VSCode - especially the integrated terminal
At the core of my development is VSCode, iterm2, and zsh.
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Defect Injection testing - the lost art of 'Bedbugging'
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes” - Juvenal Let’s get meta: how to test the tests?
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How to use just one task tracker without lock-in; well sorta
So I am a huge shill for Linear (linear.app), but I don’t want to keep my personal tasks in it:
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LLMs for Translating Silicon Valley to MBA speak
Neurotypicals have communication deficits due to societal norms. Not the other way around.
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Making Southern boiled peanuts
The Lee Bros cook book is one of the best things that came out of 4 years of life in North Carolina.
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Harnessing High Energy: Tips for Staying Productive
I met a young entrepreneur who was struggling with some of the challenges I did when I was his age.
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Misuse of the term 'Caucasian' is cultural appropriation
An Open Letter To whom it may concern, I am writing to address an important issue regarding the usage of the term “Caucasian” in contemporary discourse.
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Slaying Software Zombies with LLMs (and lesser incantations)
Please enjoy my PyOhio talk on slaying software zombies! I’m talking about a very real problem of dealing with metacode (tests, docs, bugs, requirements etc…) that are no longer completely accurate (thus, zombies) due to not being in sync with the product & its code updating.
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What I learned about my mental blocks by building a Sauna Tent at home with unusual materials
I love Saunas and russian baths and hammams. The highlight of my trip to Turkey was a hammam treatment, and I really enjoy Achimedes Banya - nothing like meeting one of the 49ers in a hot tub and really understanding how small in stature I am!
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Building a Cajun Accordion I can live with... [mega edition]
I made a longer version of this so I can publish a snappier one, too.
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Old electronic music efforts from a decade past...
Electronic Music I produced that is now a decade old Yeah, so in my fervour around MIDI instrument creation, I was reminded that I haven’t published a song in over 10 years.
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read my blog posts to me, please? now with command line browser cleanup action!
Sometimes I’m running short on time, and I’d rather listen to something while I’m doing drivel work than read it.
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