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February 11, 2021

Show Me – Mint Royale

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I first heard "Show Me" in a video at a church I was attending … It was probably 2008 or so. The church creative guy cut a really cool video and it opened with "Here comes my boys…" and I was...

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February 8, 2021

Install an SSL Cert in Apache

openssl pkcs12 -in domain.com.pfx -out domain.com.pem -nodes openssl rsa -in domain.com.pem -out domain.com.cert.key openssl x509 -in domain.com.pem -out domain.com.cert.crt Assuming copy those...

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February 8, 2021

SQL Snippets to Remember

Row Number Over: Find Duplicates: To determine if there is a duplicate:

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January 18, 2021

Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck) - Run the Jewels

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A significant element of the beat is a vocal chop of a line in the song itself. A) Meta. B) Who thinks of these things? Do they just sit around and try stuff and stumbled upon it? Is it Music Theory...

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January 18, 2021

High Plains Drifter – Beastie Boys

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Songs Influential to Dist1nc7ive Stories: High Plains Drifter – Beastie Boys. So, this is a little blog-series on the songs that influence my Distinctive Stories podcast. This time, I want to write...

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January 18, 2021

Nothing is Safe – clipping.

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I’m always inspired, when I listen to Nothing is Safe. I always open up Logic Pro and try to make something when I’ve just heard it. Why am I only a little bit annoyed by the … what, hammer...

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January 18, 2021

Slow and Low – Beastie Boys

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Songs Influential to Dist1nc7ive Stories: Slow and Low – Beastie Boys, from Licensed to Ill. Back in high school, Hannah left a self-recorded cassette tape in my car after a night of hanging out....

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January 10, 2021

Midi Meta-Data Update using PHP (PhpTabs)

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So, I downloaded a few “producer packs” from Ghosthack. I use these to help kick-start ideas when I’m producing a podcast recording. The blank canvas is the most difficult place for me. These...

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December 23, 2020

Note to Self - Using AWS Client’s S3 Sync

This is pretty easy to do. If you use homebrew on a mac, open a terminal and type: brew install awscli I’m assuming that you can to apt-get install awscli on Linux, as...

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December 23, 2020

Setting up an AWS S3 bucket for your static web site

Target Audience This post is aimed at relatively capable web/dev ops. People like me. I’ll probably re-read this myself in a few months or a year when I forget how to go about this. “Static...

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