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This is a playlist from my GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel, just a bunch of old blues tunes I ran through at various points. These are some select ones I like, but…
Here’s a page collecting some of my musical guest appearances documented on the web. Currently there ain’t much that’s been documented, and less of that that’s posted, but as I…
Over the past few years I accumulated a range of inexpensive but beautiful-sounding equipment: a ’94 Standard Stratocaster, both Xtomp and Ampero modeling effects pedals from Hotone, and a Fender…
This digital 0″, originally hosted on my Bandcamp page, contains a track that sat unfinished on my hard drive for far too long, now finally having had the burrs filed…
May 28, 2007 On May 27, Christopher Hume’s parents met up with my friends Dan and Wacks at Bard College, and they went down to the on-campus waterfalls on the…
These are probably my favorites of the various video performances I posted on the GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel over the years I was active there. There’s both kinds of music here…
Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years…
This one is finished except for the final production and mastering… it needs some studio gloss on it. This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created…
Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I’d met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited…
I’ve been putting together an album of goofy electronic arrangements of classic tunes. Here’s one I’m still working on at the moment, a medley of classic favorites, called “The Strutbutter…
Imagine if an esteemed Pig Latin cinema auteur filmed a classic 1970s horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine if I had been picked out of my second-grade class by that auteur to create a vintage electronic progressive soundtrack to that film. Now, imagine that soundtrack was unearthed and finally saw release as an album in the 2020s. These are the work-in-progress demos for what someday will be what would have been that legendary classic film score.
Make background blur image on site title scroll on mobile
Tighten up single page header css
2025jun19
Fixed css on youtube playlists (particularly “best of” page, widening the left and right page margins turned it into a mess)
Redid css on archive pages for readability. Made thumbnails smaller, etc.
2025jun18
Replaced » in menus and folder icons in details elements
2025jun15
Put a div around breadcrumbs in recent edits table so can constrain row height (table rows can’t cut off content) and so line-height works (requires block element).
Troubleshoot CPU spike and wind up refactoring some functions used in recent changes log to fix major inefficiencies.
get_term_breadcrumb_list optimizations per Gemini
2025jun15
Set pm.max_children for this site to 50% higher, based on
“[active-processes] => [prev max], [total-processes] => [prev max], [max-active-processes] => [prev max], [max-children-reached] => 10″
appearing in fpm status output during performance problem. See https://michaelkupietz.com/how-to-monitor-ram-for-tuning-pm-max_children/
Set wordfence to standard scan from custom scan, because gemini says the mariadb slow log is showing long queries from Wordfence scans.
Add .entry-meta css rule to prettily position meta line on single pages
Added .postdate selector to css
modified header-page-title-single and entry-meta to remove published date from meta line and move date below post titles on single post pages.
Mike Kupietz, your humble proprietor, serving these electrons to you steaming hot from a server in the heart of San Francisco, right where the American dream rises out of the Pacific as a moist, gray fog and ascends to Heaven in a cacophony of poetry, acid rock and sarcasm.
This site brought to you by four months flat on my back in summer 2023 due to long covid, plus a whole lot of additional lovin' sweat & frustration since then. Per aspera, ad astra.
