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MIDI to Musical Notation: Experiments with Claude

📅 November 17, 2025 📁 Technical 🏷 music-tech , midi , ai , claude , experiments , abc-notation

An entertaining (and educational) experiment watching Claude attempt to implement MIDI to musical notation conversion - a reminder that domain expertise matters, even for AI.

Learning to Think in Assembly: From Doing to Understanding

📅 November 15, 2025 📁 Technical 🏷 assembly , x86-64 , learning , mscs , low-level-programming , qwasar

A journey through x86-64 assembly programming that revealed the crucial difference between doing and understanding—and why sometimes you need to give yourself permission to act before you fully comprehend.

Building Custom Claude Code Commands for Session Management

📅 November 13, 2025 📁 Technical 🏷 claude-code , automation , workflow , meta

Creating custom slash commands for Claude Code to automate session resumption and blog post generation

Building an AI Music Composition App: Speed, Creativity, and What Gets Lost

📅 November 11, 2025 📁 Personal 🏷 ai , music-tech , claude-code , openai , creativity , learning

Reflections on building a working music composition prototype in hours, not months - and what that means for learning and creativity.

Code Cleanup: From 1,850 Files to 103

📅 November 11, 2025 📁 Technical 🏷 optimization , hugo , web-performance , bloat-removal

Eliminating 94% of project files by removing Font Awesome, jQuery, and unused dependencies.

Launching horn.call()

📅 November 10, 2025 📁 Personal 🏷 meta , hugo , ai , claude-code

Modernizing my portfolio and launching a new blog with Hugo and Claude Code.