Jose M Castaneda

Category: Life

  • Custom Keyboard

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    There are a few folks who have known me for quite some time and know that I built a few keyboards. Recently I went and updated the firmware on my keyboard and it now uses Mario for the animation of the OLED screen that my keyboard uses. I am pretty happy with it even though…

  • On self learning

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    For about the last 3 months or so I’ve been trying to learn something new to me or at least exploring it. One of the things I looked at first was the Go language. I did one of those free online courses to get an idea of how that works. It was fun. I actually…

  • Random spring cleaning

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    Today I spent some time on the support forums answering some questions and just trying to help some people out. I also cleaned things up a little bit on this site. The one thing I did was clear out random tables from the database and just tinkered with other things along the way. I was…

  • Extended learning

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    I’m really bad at updating this site. I know. A lot of it being I just haven’t been able to really jot things down here. Over the years I’ve posted several things. Many were to keep track of things I learned. There were some that were possibly random. Again, I learned from that. As this…

  • Brain farts and code

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    As some of you know I like to read and I like to read code. I also like to read about code. The other day it hit me that I haven’t done a full theme review in a long time. It made me a little sad. I do miss that. There is a partial reason…

  • One more song

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    The other day I finally managed to learn how to play Moonlight Sonata on the guitar. On my Flamenco guitar really. This was one song I wanted to learn years ago, I did and over time I plain forgot a lot – and by a lot I mean about ninety percent of the song. I…

  • Random music playing

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    There are two reasons I’m posting it here. The first one is because on the random blog I don’t really share audio or video and second is because I am more than happy to share those files if asked and having it here just makes it easier for me With that being said, today I…

  • In need of reading things

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    I love to read random programing books and articles. The other day I read a tweet that recommended some nine books if you were into programming and I felt like I had seen two of those books mentioned when it comes to learning about code. One of which was Clean Code. I’ve been wanting to…

  • My WordCamp experience

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    A small recap of WordCamp Sacramento 2018 and some thoughts about next year.

  • Contact forms are odd

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    On my site I have two forms. One is just a random one I created and the other is a contact form used for – you guessed it – contacting me. Over time I’ve gotten a few random ones that make me laugh only because of the content they contained. The ones that really made…