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Chris Padilla

Developer by day, musician by night, human all hours of the day.

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Loose Leaf over Sketchbooks

For whomever needs to hear this: prefer using loose leaf paper when sketching. I have a big stack of printer paper I just pull from when I'm ready to draw. On my shelf are manilla envelopes to stash them in when I'm done. Why? To keep the practice loose and free from the expectation of performance. There's nothing romantic about drawing on printer paper, it's cheap, and you won't feel the quiet…

Pec Study

Zeroed in on the pecs in June. Part of Proko's Anatomy of the Human Body course . Big, thorough, and rich with material. Thank you for reading through RSS! I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to email me or find me on the socials !

Pachabel's Canon (2026)

🎩 Another revisit . Aside from weddings, I always think of this guy when I hear ol' Pachabel. Thank you for reading through RSS! I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to email me or find me on the socials !

Carulli — Allegro

🪩 Thank you for reading through RSS! I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to email me or find me on the socials !

Local Polling

I have a rare process that needs to run on a physical machine rather than via a cloud server. Let's say it's report generation. It ultimately has similar responsibility to a cloud worker — the local machine is meant to be on standby, waiting for requests to come in. But, what I've been doing instead is manually spinning the process up via CLI. The ideal, though, is for it to not need my oversight.…

Torso Skeleton Study

April & May have been all about simplifying the torso's skeleton. Part of Proko's Anatomy of the Human Body course . Big, thorough, and rich with material. Thank you for reading through RSS! I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to email me or find me on the socials !

Playing the Game Wrong

The drop in the stomach returns — I sit down at the keyboard, pick up the guitar, or sit at the drawing board. Either way, it all feels the same — ugh . The resistance is coming from a long stretch of, well, stretching. After my move back to Texas, I was eager to continue learning new things across all the disciplines. This always starts out as really thrilling, but eventually a few symptoms arise…

Manuela Boy

🏝️ Trying out Slack Key! From Ozzie Kotani's Guitar Playing Hawaiian Style . Thank you for reading through RSS! I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to email me or find me on the socials !

Dvorak — New World Finale (2026)

Taking another swing , eyes of the hands! Thank you for reading through RSS! I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to email me or find me on the socials !

Testing Chat Bots with Personas

Conversational AI can be tricky to integrate with an application due to the variability of response and, as a result, how slippery it is to have generative responses in tandem with an adherence to tone and an array of desired responses. The continual tuning and refinement is an ongoing task! Even before launch, developing a conversational flow requires regular feedback across multiple scenarios is…