A place to empty my head
I recently acquired a (used, of course) Zoom MRT-3B drum machine, a cute little beatmaker from the early aughties (2003, best I can tell). I noticed after playing with it a few times that it was losing all user content every time I turned it off and on, displaying Init on startup. Turns out this [ ]
At the beginning of the new millennium, a DIY pedal builder known as Hemmo published a circuit design he dubbed the Bazz Fuss. As the name implies, the circuit was designed for use with Bass, and tends to have a fat low-end and somewhat synthy distortion. Many would agree it sounds great with guitar as [ ]
If you build electronics, you know the feeling: you ve been hunched over the workbench all night, soldering, trimming, testing, squinting. Your hands feel like like they re covered in flux, your soldering time playlist is in its 4th time through, and your forehead has a permanent goggle mark. And then it s done! And you plug [ ]
As I write this, I should be camping, but the weather had other plans. So I m hunkered down watching the storm radar and playing with a recent acquisition, the Tascam DP-006. My kids often question why we go camping. Why leave our soft mattresses, our central heat and air, our refrigerator and streaming video services [ ]
I started blogging sometime in the early mid 2000 s. The internet was a simpler, slightly more innocent place back then. We didn t have influencers , social media was fairly nascent, and an awful lot of us mostly opened our browsers to read text. At the time I was recovering from a failed music career and trying [ ]
It s official, friends The second edition of my book, Python GUI Programming with Tkinter, is officially available for purchase on Amazon! This new edition has been my primary focus since last February, and it s a lot more than just a dust-off of the text and a new cover. Here s a rundown of the improvements [ ]
I ve been a Youtuber for some time now, mostly focusing on music and studio things. But in light of my side career as an author of coding books, I ve just created a new Alan D Moore Codes channel related to coding. Not only that, I ve just uploaded my first video to the channel describing the [ ]
It s here! My latest book, Mastering GUI Programming with Python, is now available in print and eBook formats from Packt Publications. Best of all, it s currently on sale for 50% off! Can t wait to hear what you, dear reader, think about it. See my previous blog post for more details on what s inside. Or, better, [ ]
It's been a crazy six months working on my new book, Mastering GUI Programming with Python. So crazy that I somehow finished up 3 months early!
I ve been working away at my next book, keeping well ahead of schedule, and decided to take a short break over the Easter holiday to record a song that s been rolling about in my head. The song is called He Made a Way and you can find it on my music page in MP3 and [ ]