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In celebration of Hacktoberfest, which has a pretty great 80s theme, I composed a 5 song EP of synthwave tunes.

(Originally posted over at Medium) In this post, the author, Dominic Pace, argues that we should teach “actual programming” instead of Scratch.

Today marks one year with DigitalOcean, and I couldn’t be happier.

I’m nearly two months into my new job.

I’ve had an amazing time teaching aspiring software developers.

I’ve been writing code and building apps for over 20 years.

Software projects Publications Presentations and Appearances

Measuring how long a software project will take is a futile endeavor.

I’ve been around software development a long time, and a reoccurring theme is to see this kind of feedback from peers:

In August, I embarked on a huge task: I set out to record and release one song a day for an entire month.

This is it.. the last #MonthOfMusic song.

Just a little piano piece I wrote a long time ago.

I really haven’t done any hard rock, and seeing as how I grew up listening to straight-ahead rock of the 80s, I figured I’d better sneak one into the MonthOfMusic.

For day 28, I went back to the guitar and just kinda jammed.

We’re in the home stretch here.

Still going strong.

For today, I did a little more electronic music, using a little 303 melody I wrote last year.

And here’s song 24.

While working on the mix of Song 22, which took far longer than it should, I came up with a different melody and 45 minutes later, I had this.

Today was rough.

Here’s song 21, and it might be a little all over the place, but I really liked the melody.

Here’s song 20, done in just a few minutes.

Here’s today’s song.

Day 18’s tune is actually the song I wrote and recorded on day 16, but it got bumped two days because I had other ideas I wanted to do.

Today’s song is another solo piano piece, recorded in a single take.

For song 16, I banged out a heavier rock tune than I’ve done in the past.

It’s day 15!

For Day 14, I took a track I was working on for a bit for the RPM Challenge and did some more work on it.

Another song recorded on-the-go at ThatConference.

The MonthOfMusic continues, from ThatConference.

Here’s today’s tune.

Today’s piece is another piano tune.

Day nine was spent at a wedding and running some other errands, and in the middle of all of that I found some time to upload a song.

I had a really hard time coming up with anything I could be proud of today.

For day 7, I did another guitar-rock tune.

Day six is some 90’s-influenced “modern rock.”

Here’s song #5.

It’s Monday, day 4 of my Month Of Music. if you missed any of the weekend’s songs, give those a listen too.

For day three I busted out my electric guitar and figured out how to get the clean sound into the computer for recording.

On Day Two I decided to go back to what I know best – a little bit of electronic music.

For the month of August, I’m recording and releasing a song each day.

I’ve been challenged by a friend to record and release something every day for a month.

When you were three years old, you asked “why” an awful lot.

There’s no shortage of software developers who are eager to share their passion with others through writing and teaching.

I believe that web developer should have a command of a few simple things in order to tackle the random craziness that web development entails.

Being pulled in a lot of directions at once means you don’t get to finish some things.

I’m working a lot these days.

I’m teaching an introduction to programming course and I asked my friends and fellow developers to send me short 30-second clips of why they love what they do.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had this passion for showing people how to do things.

Back in February, I released my latest book, tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development with help from the wonderful folks at the Pragmatic Bookshelf.