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Making it Official with Eurorack

Like anyone into synthesizers it was just a matter of time. I think I started to flirt with Eurorack synths when Venetian Snares put out Traditional Synthesizer Music back in 2016. That love affair then became amplified when I got more into functional programming with the rest of the dev

Best Songs of 2019

There was a long while I wasn't posting but that doesn't mean I didn't have a 2019 playlist. So here, at the end of August 2020, I finally put it up somewhere. Went over the 10 song limit by 1 this (uh, last?) year,

Best Songs of 2018

Finally posting my 2018 best of songs -- another year of post punk and pop. Almost kept to my 10 song limit this year If you use Google Play Music I have a public link here Formatted as: Song Name // Artist (Album) * Concrete // Shame (Songs of Praise) * Goodbye // Porches (The

Dynamic App Ids & supporting multiple side-by-side release streams

Release Streams A lot of the times I'm developing mobile applications (iOS/Android) I feel the need to support several release "streams." In most of my cases this usually means having a stream for "dev/nightly" (for the dev team & unit tests), "

UIImageViewAligned for Xamarin.iOS

I came across a situation recently where I needed finer image layout options for a UIImageView in a Xamarin.iOS project. Specifically, I wanted something that could scale images with AspectFit but also force the image to the top of the UIImageView. Luckily someone had already created a UIImageView subclass

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