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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

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

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 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 DNS for your AWS S3 static web site

Target Audience This post is aimed at relatively capable web/devops. People like me. I’m not going to remember everything, so I’ll probably re-read this myself in a few months or a year when I...

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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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December 23, 2020

WordPress-to-static using wget mirror functionality and AWS S3

I like using WordPress. I’ve used it, AEM, Jekyll, a version of Laravel-as-CMS (currently Jigsaw and a lot of custom built code (in the early days). I don’t like how WordPress seems to be a main...

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December 14, 2020

Using Screaming Frog to Keep a Monolithic Web Site Hygenic

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I worked on an Adobe Experience Manager install for about two years. This particular company used AEM like a stock WordPress website with no plugins. We had custom components and policies on...

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December 13, 2020

What is Computronium?

I was reading around, and stumbled upon this Wikipedia article. I was like… whoa, that sounds good. But… it’s pretty vague. “…a substrate for…(uh, what?) a hypothetical...

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