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Just another update!

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I've spent the last few weeks at my in-laws' place. They've had some more time to bond with their new granddaughter, we've had a little more free time as a result - Everybody wins.

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I will leave the default Jekyll post untouched until I am a little more familiar with all of this.

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Getting this site up before the end of the year would be great, looks like that's a realistic goal.

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My first Jekyll post!

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I've spent the last few weeks at my in-laws' place. They've had some more time to bond with their new granddaughter, we've had a little more free time as a result - Everybody wins.

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I will leave the default Jekyll post untouched until I am a little more familiar with all of this.

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Getting this site up before the end of the year would be great, looks like that's a realistic goal.

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Nappy new year!

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The best thing about living in Vienna as a fan of music is the New Year's Concert every year on January first. The finest classical orchestra in the world (probably) broadcasts a live concert on TV. I routinely tidy the house and sit myself on our ouch to watch it, this ensures that however the last year ends, the new one always has a happy start!

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This year is the first in which I observe this tradition as a father. 7 weeks ago my first child was born, and so I cannot share in the negativity with which 2020 was booed off stage - 2020 is the year my baby was born, that will be the dominating memory I have from this year!

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On that thought, I want to wish a happy new year to anyone who finds there way to this post...

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(Re)discovering offset guitars

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Landscape image of my Bullet Mustang, in sonic gray colour, the image is hanging on a wall, but has been rotated to fit the landscape format.

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Shortly after releasing my album (Bandcamp, Spotify) I decided to retire my Jag-Stang as my main guitar. The guitar that served me so well, on which many of the songs on the album were written and perfected, would still hang around to play and look nice, but I wanted to take my playing and writing in a new direction and an easy way to explore and discover new music is to start using a new guitar.

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I'd always wanted a Mustang but couldn't afford one, so when I discovered the Bullet Mustang guitars by Squier, buying one was almost inevitable. The biggest compromise compared to an original Fender Mustang is the bridge - instead of a Dynamic Vibrato system, it has a hard tail bridge. It also improves on the Mustang design with a 3-way toggle switch, a mod which I had on my Jag-Stang (honestly, I hate the Mustang switching). I'm very happy with my new guitar, in fact the Sonic Gray model that I bought has already replaced the Jag-Stang as my main guitar when practising.

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But my fascination with offset guitars didn't end there. Harley Benton also have a dirt cheap amalgamation of Mustang and Jaguar guitars - The MS-60 is basically a Mustang shaped guitar with a Jaguar/Jazzmaster vibrato system. I have very little experience with this vibrato system, so to satisfy my curiosity I went to a music shop and tried a bunch of Jaguars and Jazzmasters out. I found that I liked it a lot: like the Mustang vibrato system, it adds to the tone of the guitar (I should say that it alters the sound of the guitar, whether it adds or takes something away depends on how much you like the difference).

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But I also liked the exaggerated body shape too. The one thing I don't like about my new Mustang is the shape - it feels a little too pedestrian. After gigging with a Mustang for ages, Kurt Cobain's Jag-Stang design took that guitar and adjusted the shape to be more Jaguar like. Did he feel the same way, I wonder?

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I had been down some rabbit holes on the https://offsetguitars.com forum looking for Jag-Stangs with improved shapes, and I was even considering commisioning someone to cut a custom shape for me to work with (yes, I was considering a DIY custom guitar), but I think the Jazzmaster shape does what I need, so I can nip that tangent in the bud.

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And I think the Jazzmaster is my preferred guitar, not the Jaguar; that 3 way toggle is far more useful to me than the 3 individual switches of the Jaguar, and that alone would almost be a deal breaker, but upon reflection, I think the longer scale length also has its advantages, namely a selection of compatible necks.

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Speaking of which, I'm diving into guitar necks too as a tangential topic. I've been asking myself what MY favourite necks are, do they share common features? What finishes, shapes and sizes fo I prefer? That's a topic for the future, I think.

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Any, back to Jazzmasters - I'm not saying I will 100% buy one now, nor that I will buy the MS-60 now that I know I like the Vibrato System. I'm just saying that through that entry point, I've been on a journey of discovering what it is about guitars that I, personally, like.

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(Re)discovering my website

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A screenshot showing the navigation bar of the jekyll framework homepage.

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Preamble

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Last week's guitar post came about when I rediscovered my website in a rare bout of free time. Since then I've had plenty of time to muse over why I always wanted a website but could never make one 'work'.

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Knowing if something has worked or not also requires me to define what that means. What do I want to achieve with a website? To me that has almost always been clear: to collect the content related to my various hobbies into one central place:

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  • So people who own a Katana60 keyboard can find details on the firmware or layouts on my website.
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So why has that never worked? Why have I never been able to sustain a blog for more than a few months at a time? The initial answer pops instantly in my head: "I never have enough time", but to quantify that is a little more time consuming.

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Without diving in to the history of my life and looking for some source of blame, I can simply say that having two kids takes a lot of your time, and what free time parents-of-two have is spent recouperating from exhaustion and planning for your children.

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I'm trying to think in a solution oriented manner though. The last time I tried to get a blog off the ground I decided to use github pages to host it, because working with a very simple publishing method was the most important thing. I cannot be bogged down with the complexities of user interfaces, account management. To draft a new article is as simple as creating a new file and writing. Publishing it is as simple as commiting changes and pushing to git in the command line.

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This simplicity is vital because it means I can focus the pockets of free time on writing, which in turn should result in omore (blogging) productivity, as evidenced by a rather unplanned stream of consciousness that resulted in (this post last week).

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Despite the challenges of parenting two children, my life is more settled than it has probably ever been (I'll no doubt run that thought through my mind in the coming days too). Which is partly why I feel that now is the right time to start writing things down.

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This site was a result of following some tutorials on static site generators, but I would also like to improve the styling and usability, so I decided to work on a new theme to replace the default 'minima' theme. I've long been interested in the Tailwind CSS framework and it seems like a great way to get to learn it would be to use it for my own site.

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So I started writing a new theme, based on this tutorial here - writing a theme will take more time than writing my thoughts in a blog post, so I expect it'll take weeks, maybe months before the theme is live. The great thing about Jekyll though is that migrating the ocntent will be super SUPER simple.

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Recording a podcast

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The podcast splash screen, in twitch banner format

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Eighth Passenger Podcast

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I started a podcsast on the Alien films (Ridley Scott, James Cameron etc.). My fellow co-host and I talk through the plot, highlight scenes and performances of note, themes and other related topics - we often dive deep into nerdy tangets too!

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Although it's an audio podcast, I've used the opportunity to film our recordings and stream them on my twitch channel. I think fans of all persuasions will enjoy it.

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Podcast format and ironing out the kinks

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My co-host on the podcast and I are both parents with family obligations and limited free time. From the beginning we knew we couldn't commit to anything close to a weekly schedule. But with the subject matter being what it is, we have a clear goal and a natural end point to the project - our intention is to stop when we have covered each film in the series.

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We've recorded over 4 hours of audio and are about half way through the second film. That should give you an idea of the pace and depth of the discussion. We're still finding our feet with the whole thing though, and episode duration is one of those things that is not yet set in stone.

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We are both enjoy the journey, and are taking each challenge as it comes, in our own time. As someone who has recorded and produced many songs, it surprised me how different voice recording and production is in comparison.

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I don't think we're close to releasing yet, we still haven't settled on a recording and editing schedule, although I feel like we're homing in to a routine that works for us both. I expect we'll be able to accommodate 1-2 episodes a month.

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I would definitely like to release something this year, I see this as a milestone achievement (I've wanted to record a podcast for a ong time now), so I guess: keep an eye out for an announcement!

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I'm back!

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That itch again...

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I'm getting that itch again, you know, the one where I tell myself I'm going to write a blog post every day from now on, that usually lasts a few days.

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But this time its different...

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Yes, THAT itch :)

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I discovered this static site framework called HydePHP, which is based in Laravel, so it has the advantage of being PHP based AND I am familiar with laravel, which might mean this time it'll last.

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Anyway, I successfully managed to replace my old github pages site with this new system, and the auto deployment is set up, which should mean I have no barriers to posting regularly.

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Other than making time for it myself, that is.

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