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Extract just the Accordion out of a song / mix

Extract just the Accordion out of a song / mix

So much of learning the cajun accordion is by ear, so I wondered if there was a good way to just extract that sweet Zydeco accordion sound from a mix or song?

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Cute Accordion tricks - transposition and translation

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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Building a Cajun Accordion I can live with... [brief edition]

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?

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!

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

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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Aliases I have known and loved

Aliases I have known and loved

At the core of my development is VSCode, iterm2, and zsh.

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Defect Injection testing - the lost art of 'Bedbugging'

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

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)

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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Provocative Post about Planning Products!

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!

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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