A Blog About my Misadventures in Startups, Software Development, & Whatever Else I Feel Like Writing About
A few years ago a friend of mine (Sameer Khan) were working on this idea for a new MTV. We built a pretty cool prototype, but unfortunately my friend passed away under somewhat mysterious circumstances and I abandoned the project. I got a little kick of inspiration recently to try and relaunch this same idea … →
YouTube just recommended this banger of a video today in my feed, Starting to Teach Myself Electronics by ProjectMaria. The young woman in the video talks about being frustrated with having studied Computer Science and being unable to land a job programming professionally, so she’s starting to tech her self electronics & engineering. Well she … →
I was scrolling through YouTube shorts and heard this banger from Jordan Peterson, “Machine Woman Hybrid.” Wanted to book mark this clip. Maybe I can sample it & write a song?
I’ve been trying to find books on building and programming digital guitar effects pedals. ChatGPT was trying to help me out and recommend some books, but ChatGPT’s recommendations were either about programming for digital signal processing in general but not guitar pedal specific, or were about building analog guitar effects pedals. Well after doing an … →
“Because my life is dope, and I do dope shit.”– Kanye West
This past week I vibe coded this cool macOS app that will take an mp3 and convert it either into a full midi drum track, or a shorter repeating drum loop that you can jam over. I built this for myself because I bought this Behringer RD-8 drum machine to jam along with on my … →
Unfortunately Amazon killed off the Alexa Top Sites database of the top 500 to 1,000,000 websites in the world. I was doing a little research today on domain names and wanted to reference this list but was having trouble finding an archive. Well, I happened to stumble upon an archive of the top 20,000 sites … →
“I started listening to my favorite shit, and I’d just play along.”– Tommy Lee
This year I started getting into building guitar pedals. And today I discovered something interesting… Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux & git is also a guitar pedal builder! Its at 3:08 in this clip: