# guitar pedal (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover guitar pedal. Page: Feed: --- ## [Austin Pirate Television \[coming soon\]](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/08/07/austin-pirate-television-coming-soon/) _2026-08-07 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ 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 … → ## [My favorite new word: Mechatronics](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/08/03/my-favorite-new-word-mechatronics/) _2026-08-03 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ 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 … → ## [Song Idea: Machine Woman Hybrid](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/07/31/song-idea-machine-woman-hybrid/) _2026-07-31 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ 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? ## [How to Build your own Digital Guitar Effects Pedals](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/07/25/how-to-build-your-own-digital-guitar-effects-pedals/) _2026-07-25 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ 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](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/07/20/because-my-life-is-dope-and-i-do-dope-shit/) _2026-07-20 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ “Because my life is dope, and I do dope shit.”– Kanye West ## [How to Convert an mp3 to a Midi Drum Track or Drum Loop using DXT-1 for macOS](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/07/19/how-to-convert-an-mp3-to-a-midi-drum-track-or-drum-loop-using-dxt-1-for-macos/) _2026-07-19 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ 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 … → ## [Canarat rebuild / repair finished](https://slinkp.com/canarat-rebuild-finished-20260718.html) _2026-07-18 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ The Canarat pedal rebuild / repair is finally done. A few months ago actually, but I just today got around to updating the page . It sounds fantastic and I'm pretty happy with the paint job. Also, it bears a sharkweasel sticker . What could Sharkweasel be? Stay tuned. ## [An Archive of the Top 20,000 Websites in the World Circa 2014 | My Good Enough Alternative to Alexa Top Sites](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/07/16/an-archive-of-the-top-20000-websites-in-the-world-circa-2014-my-good-enough-alternative-to-alexa-top-sites/) _2026-07-16 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ 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 … → ## [How Tommy Lee learned to play drums](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/07/10/how-tommy-lee-learned-to-play-drums/) _2026-07-10 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ “I started listening to my favorite shit, and I’d just play along.”– Tommy Lee ## [Linus Torvalds builds guitar pedals?](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/07/09/linus-torvalds-builds-guitar-pedals/) _2026-07-09 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ 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: ## [Generate Viral Hot Takes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/L5VmfnQpUj46) _2026-07-09 · **Sponsored**_ Get platform-optimized hot takes and rebuttals to spark debate and engagement ## [Pray that the pathway forward might reveal itself to you](https://topherpedersen.blog/2026/07/09/pray-that-the-pathway-forward-might-reveal-itself-to-you/) _2026-07-09 · topherPedersen · topherpedersen.blog_ ## [The Canarat lives!](https://slinkp.com/2026-02-09-canarat-lives.html) _2026-02-09 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ Just a quick note to say that the Canarat makes sound again! Very happy about this. A quick video proof! Now all I have to do is redo the useless tone circuit (which is not what I built, strange as that seems ). ... and take it out of the case again … ## [Cursor and the danger of overpromising](https://slinkp.com/cursor-and-walking-back-expectations-202508.html) _2025-09-03 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ A couple weeks ago, I temporarily switched to using GPT-5 as my exclusive coding assistant model, via Cursor. This was prompted by two developments: First of all, I was curious to try GPT-5, which had some buzz as a new contender the latest state of the art coding model. But … ## [Programming with Kimi-K2 via Aider (August 2025)](https://slinkp.com/aider-with-kimi-k2-20250801.html) _2025-08-01 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ TL;DR Inexpensive, fast, promising but hit some walls; needs a lot of babysitting ¶ Running it: aider --model openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k2 What's good about Kimi K2 ¶ Once I got into a groove with it, it did some things well: Made frontend changes very quickly and cheaply Did a decent job … ## [Deepseek R1-0528 + Aider (tried 2025-07-25 and 2025-08-10)](https://slinkp.com/aider-with-deepseek-r1-0528.html) _2025-07-27 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ TL;DR Cheap, sometimes slow, unreliable as editor; sometimes wrote good code with bad characters ¶ Using it: aider --model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528 I didn't use Deepseek very long - just part of a day on two occasions- and didn't keep very detailed notes. It was kind of slow and made too … ## [Programming with Aider + Qwen 3 Coder (2025-07-25)](https://slinkp.com/aider-with-qwen-3-coder.html) _2025-07-26 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ TL;DR It works. It's cheap. It's VERY slow. ¶ Via OpenRouter, https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder . Start it like this: aider --model openrouter/qwen/qwen3-coder \` It's SO cheap ¶ I only used it for part of a day, but I literally spent a total of $0.10 on Q3C to do … ## [Programming with Aider: Impressions, Overview](https://slinkp.com/programming-with-aider-20250725.html) _2025-07-25 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ Some rough impression after programming mainly with Aider . I first used it exclusively for about 4 days back in March, using version 0.77 and mostly using Claude Sonnet 3.7. More recently I've been using it . and then again for a week end of July, using 0.80.2 … ## [Copilot in Emacs](https://slinkp.com/programming-with-llms-in-emacs.html) _2025-07-24 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ I haven't done anything fancy with integrating AI tools into Emacs, but after playing with Copilot a bit in VSCode, I decided that I wanted to at least get the most basic autocomplete feature working. All I did was install copilot.el in Emacs, and now I can use it … ## [What I've Been Up To Lately (or, blog posts to come)](https://slinkp.com/what-up-to-07-2025.html) _2025-07-11 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ I've been doing a lot of different things in the past few months, and have a growing pile of not-quite-publishable draft posts about them. This post is a list of those things, and a promise to myself to write some of them up! I'll add links to this post as … ## [Recording System Audio Output on a Macbook](https://slinkp.com/record-system-audio-macos-2025.html) _2025-06-06 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ Several times I've needed to make a recording of the system audio on my Macbook. Typical reasons are: I'm recording a software demo video, where the software produces audio output. I'm making a video in which I'm narrating over an existing recording or video, so I need to record both … ## [Fast, secure international transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FfoC9QNq10cd) _2025-06-06 · **Sponsored**_ Bank transfer, cash pickup, mobile wallet — low fees and real-time tracking ## [More pedal rebuild updates, and a successful guitar mod](https://slinkp.com/more-pedal-updates-20250509.html) _2025-05-09 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ Welp. The good news is I finished upgrading my danelectro 59XT guitar and it sounds amazing. The canarat is assembled in its new housing ... and not working. As for the others : The compressor is assembled in its new housing, with its new charge pump ... and not working. I've not started … ## [Spydey - a handy link checker](https://slinkp.com/spydey-20250422.html) _2025-04-22 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ I just released a new version (0.6.1) of Spydey today. Spydey is a link checker, basically. Written in Python. The reason I initially wrote it (a long time ago) was for quickly finding broken links on sites that I develop. And then I got interested in thinking about … ## [Rebuilding old DIY effects pedals, update April 2025](https://slinkp.com/diy-pedal-projects-2025-04-02.html) _2025-04-02 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ I've updated the homemade effects pedals page with progress - mainly, lots of photos, and info about the paint experiments I've gradually done over the past few months, which was a nice little crafty project and learning experience. I've gathered some better tools, found most of the parts I need, assessed … ## [Git: retroactively keeping tests green](https://slinkp.com/2024-10-27-git-keep-tests-passing.html) _2024-10-27 · Paul Winkler · slinkp blog_ I love using git bisect and git bisect run to know when things broke, but that only works if the commit history is generally clean - ie there are aren't commits with broken tests. The basic idea, given a failing test, and a test command (for the sake of illustration let's …