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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Fresh Eyes on Marketing - a challenge to learn by doing
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://studio.
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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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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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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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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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