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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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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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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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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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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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Provocative Post about Planning Products!
Some provocative recommendations in this post: The size of your backlog is inversely proportional to your product’s success While I think you ought to be synthesizing more than this suggests, the overplanning and under-reliance on what your customers actually do with your software is a massive fail.
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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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