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Cutting Corners

On Monday morning, Jimmy pulls up in front of Starbucks at 8:16 am on his way to work. He decides to forgo paying for parking. It only costs $0.25 / 15 minutes but the hassle of navigating the parking app on his phone isn’t worth it. "I'll only

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Foundational Arpeggios

Recently, I began practicing guitar more regularly after a nearly 14 year practicing hiatus and I wanted to share some of those routines. In this post I will cover some fundamental arpeggios which are an excellent mechanism for building up fluidity across the fretboard. While typical arpeggio patterns you may

Roblox!

My kids love playing Roblox on their iPads. But they can only play on the weekends and they have a 2hr time limit per day.

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The Web's Getting Rusty

And so it begins: The Chromium team has announced that Chrome will begin to get a little Rust-y!

Adaptive Architecture

Today's distributed software systems are typically designed with just enough complexity to satisfy basic functional requirements. But for products designed for hyper-growth, non-functional requirements like performance and resource costs could become functional requirements at scale.

Scaling Up By Scaling Down

One way to build up your playing using tetrachords

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Kitara

Building a program converts any MIDI guitar into a customizable computer keyboard

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The 627

Converting a regular six string guitar into a hybrid, seven-string.

Revolving Tech Debt

Avoiding debt is hard, nearly impossible. It is even harder to get rid of it. But the hardest thing is figuring out the how. Just exactly how do you get rid of tech debt? And would you want to?