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MICHAEL
KUPIETZ
ARTS+CODE
Creative Productions, Arrangements and Operations • Art, Technology and Amusements
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Privacy Policy
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Legalese
Site Design & Technical Info
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"Site Design & Technical Info" Files
Administrivia
Site Content, Design, & Technical IAQs
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Infrequently Asked Questions
Under The Hood
Programming tricks used on this site
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Grody Technical Details
Site Design Overview
Featured Images Gallery
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Site Images Overview
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"About" Files
My Raison D'isaster
Kupietz Arts+Code — An Introduction
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About This Site
The Man Is Out To Get Me
Site Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Conditions
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Legalese
External Links
Fellow Travelers, Friends’ Sites, and other related links
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External links
The Man Behind The Curtain
Bio — About Michael Kupietz
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About Me
Meta
More Kupietz For You?
Michael Kupietz Contact Info & Other Web Pages
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Contact Info
Other Websites
External links
Images
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Generative Illustrations
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"Generative Illustrations" Files
Is There Rock After Life?
A Helluva Band — Generative Art gallery
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AI Generative Illustration
Giving It To A Soft Boy
RobGAN Hitchcock — AI-assisted lyrical illustrations gallery
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Illuminated Lyrics
AI Generative Illustration
If You Don’t Live It, It Won’t Come Out Your Cone
Adoration Of The City — AI Generative Art gallery
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Urban Surrealism
AI Generative Illustration
California Deep Dreaming
“Wild California” Studies — Ai Generative Art gallery
(137 words)
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Confabulated Travelogues
AI Generative Illustration
Gallery
Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyric illustrations gallery
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Work-In-Progress
Illuminated Lyrics
AI Generative Illustration
Welcome To My Nightmare
Dream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant) — Generative Art gallery
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AI Generative Illustration
Gallery
Raving And Drooling — AI-assisted lyrical illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”
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Illuminated Lyrics
AI Generative Illustration
Nothing To See Here, Folks
Just Some Vacation Snapshots
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AI Generative Illustration
Fun
Who Trails On A Leash
Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery
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AI Generative Illustration
Work-In-Progress Postview
Previsions of Johanna — Generative Art gallery
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Illuminated Lyrics
AI Generative Illustration
Outtakes
Adventure Photojournals
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"Adventure Photojournals" Files
Subterranean Serendipity
UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole, Sep 30 2005
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Travel & Adventure
Rural Exploration
Beneath the Bay Area
Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration
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Urban Exploration
Travel & Adventure
Good Day at Black Rock
27 Photos from Burning Man 1997
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Travel & Adventure
Travelogue
Beneath Berkeley
UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration
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Urban Exploration
Travel & Adventure
Vacation Photos
Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, 2008
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Culture Jamming
Travel & Adventure
When They Pry It from My Hip, Ironic Fingers
Exploration & Explosions, a Nevada Desert Hipster Road Trip
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Explosions
Urban Exploration
Travel & Adventure
Back To The Garden
A Visit to Pearl Fryar's Topiary — photojournal
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Travel & Adventure
"Petit Art": Odds & Ends
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""Petit Art": Odds & Ends" Files
Old Sketches And Stuff
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Old Stuff
Sketches
Digital Objets D’Art
RH fan club Birthday Card, 2003
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Fun With Scanners
Site Design Overview
Featured Images Gallery
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Site Images Overview
Music & Sounds
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Full-Length Albums
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"Full-Length Albums" Files
Album Preview
Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture
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Work-In-Progress
Soundtrack
Progressive / Art Rock
Demo
Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a
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Work-In-Progress
Zetetic Music
Album Preview
Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05
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Work-In-Progress
Zetetic Music
Album Preview
गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra
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Work-In-Progress
Drone
Album Preview
Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009
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Work-In-Progress
Folk & Blues
Acousticky Guitar
Live Performance
Early Demo
"Of Uncertain Origins" — original demo for "Five Themes in Uncertain Times"
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Electronic Music
Zetetic Music
GuitaristInProgress (Youtube videos)
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"GuitaristInProgress (Youtube videos)" Files
Electric guitar videos
"The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)" — Electric Guitar Tone Safari
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Electricky Guitar
Video
Live Performance
Got To Pay Your Dues
Bedroom Full O' Blooze - (mostly) acoustic blues videos
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Video
Blues
Acousticky Guitar
Live Performance
If I Do Say So Myself
The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist
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Folk & Blues
Rock
Acousticky Guitar
Live Performance
Misc. Pieces, Singles, & EPs
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"Misc. Pieces, Singles, & EPs" Files
Demo
The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15
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Work-In-Progress
Electronic Music
Cover Songs
Digital Single
Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream)
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Electronic Music
Experimental Music
Demo
The Ravine Houses Are Gone (A Song For Hume, And Wacks, And Dan, And You)
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Singer / Songwriter
Acousticky Guitar
Nearly Famous
Other People's Music — Michael Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances
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Misc. Appearances
Favorite Equipment & Tools
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"Favorite Equipment & Tools" Files
Equipment Overview
Bento Box Software Synthesizer
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Equipment & Tools Used
Serious Gear Geekery
Mosrite/Bakersfield Guitar Picks
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Equipment & Tools Used
Writing
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Ideas & Perspectives
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Life In A Mikeycosm (Personal Reflections)
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"Life In A Mikeycosm (Personal Reflections)" Files
Temporal Moronomy
The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I Didn’t Turn 40)
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Lifestyle
Dealing With It All
Life In A Mikeycosm
Reflective Prose
Day Nights
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Reflections
Nocturnal Submissions
Reflective Prose
Fascination, And Dangerous Weather
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Reflections
The Beast Within
Even In The Quietest Moments
Shower thoughts
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Random Brain Droppings
Fun
Social Mediocrity
Kwitter, the one-user social network
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Social Media Addiction
Topical Writing & Essays
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"Topical Writing & Essays" Files
Ideology In Brief
“Are you free?”, and Other Short Ideological Musings
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Politics
Axe-Grinding
Marginal Thinking Dept.
You Can Quote Me On That (Assorted Short Topical Writings)
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Misc. Thoughts & Brainspill
Watch Your Intelligence
Critical Reading of a Flawed Information Source
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Media
Propaganda
Manipulation
Persuasion
Hey, You Got Your Social Awareness In My AI!
About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site
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Technosociology
AI Issues
Reviews & Cultural Reportage
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"Reviews & Cultural Reportage" Files
Review Compendium
Fragrance Reviews
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Reviews
Opinions
Whom Rods Destroy
Speak To Me Not Of Picard, Nor Janeway — An Informal Screed On Star Trek Fandom Fundamentals
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Opinions
Pop Culture Iconoclasm
Investigative Journalism
“Elvis Is Everywhere”
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The Paranormal
Investigative Reporting
Published Bylines
Amazon Product Review
Pearl PCB20 Anarchy Cowbell
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Fun
Pranks & Satire
You Are Hear
Music Reviews
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Music Reviews
I Like To Listen
"Peaks Island Ferry" by Dan Sonenberg — album review
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Music Review
Review Compendium
Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews
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Movie Reviews
Memoirs
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Essay-Length Memoirs
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"Essay-Length Memoirs" Files
Essay-Length Memoir
“The Light Shone On Me”
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Memoirs & Reflections
Essay-Length Memoir
Ars Moriendi—Haley’s Epitaph
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Memoirs & Reflections
Local Color: True Tales of The City, and Country
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Local Color—San Francisco
Tales From The Sidewalks Of San Francisco
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Anecdotal Evidence
Local Color—Seattle
Irene & Sheri
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Anecdotal Evidence
Local Color—Yee Haw
Texas
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Anecdotal Evidence
Local Color—Ghent, Belgium
How to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In Ghent
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Anecdotal Evidence
Travel & Adventure
Local Color—Manhattan
New York Stories, Which I Only Now Realize Are All About Petty Crimes
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Anecdotal Evidence
Misc. Recollections & Vignettes
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"Misc. Recollections & Vignettes" Files
Question of the day
When was the first time you noticed someone cheating at something?
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Self-Portraits In Prose
These Are The People In My Neighborhood
The Funniest Man In The World
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Anecdotal Evidence
Mikesplaining: Answers to Infrequently Asked Questions
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Mikesplaining
A Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life
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Music Theory
Infrequently Asked Questions
Health & Lifestyle
How I Deal With Insomnia
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Health & Welfare
Life In A Mikeycosm
Mikesplaining
Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?
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Infrequently Asked Questions
Probability & Statistics
Mikesplaining
Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?
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Music Theory
Infrequently Asked Questions
Mikesplaining
Why do people respect George Carlin?
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Comedy & Society
Infrequently Asked Questions
Mikesplaining
What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?
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Work
Infrequently Asked Questions
EMIAQs
Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions
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Knowledge Is Power
Fun
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"Fun" Files
Amazon Product Review
Pearl PCB20 Anarchy Cowbell
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Fun
Pranks & Satire
Hoax ‘Em If You Got ‘Em
Anti-Plague Flyer
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Fun
Pranks & Satire
Public Provocations
Fudging The Facts
Misinformation Visualization
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Satire
Obfuscation & Misinformation
Local Color—Point Reyes, Marin County
Report On My Weekend
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Gonzo Journalism
Confabulated Travelogues
Fun
I Can't Believe It's Not Poetry!
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"I Can't Believe It's Not Poetry!" Files
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!
Ode To A Curl-Up Bug
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Poesy & Doggerel
This’ll Show ‘Em
Verse Upon Bank of America Holding My Checks And Angering My Cat
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Poesy & Doggerel
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!
Ode To A Croaking Man
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Poesy & Doggerel
The Measure Of A Poet
A Lyrical Explication Upon Substantive Empirical Qualification of Authorial Poesy in Three Lines
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Poesy & Doggerel
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!
Admonishment To A Bad Poet
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Poesy & Doggerel
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!
“The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”
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Poesy & Doggerel
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Meta-Poetry!
Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”
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Metadoggerel
Poesy & Doggerel
Code & Algorithms
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Finance
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"Finance" Files
Untangling Uniswap? Demystifying DeFi? You Tell Me
An Excel-based DeFi Liquidity Pool Simulator
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Cryptocurrency
Excel
Finance Simulations
Trading Tools
TradingView Pine Script Indicators, Algos & Experiments
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Trading Indicators & Algos
Pine script
MacOS & Desktop
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"MacOS & Desktop" Files
Thunderbird Customization
Terminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client
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MacOS & App Customization
Shell Scripting
Thunderbird Customization
a FiltaQuilla “open mail folder on receiving mail” Javascript Action script
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Javascript
MacOS & App Customization
Web
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"Web" Files
Online Fact-Checking Tool
The Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) Detector
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Web Technology
Take The Edge Off Your Web Browsing
WebCooler userscript
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Web Development
Browser Tools
Usability Hell
How to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQuery
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jQuery
Web Development
WordPress Mods
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"WordPress Mods" Files
Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in Wordpress
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Wordpress Coding
PHP
Used on this site
WordPress Custom “Hero Header” Modifications
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Wordpress Coding
PHP
Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In Wordpress
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Wordpress
PHP
Optimization-A-Go-Go
WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients
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Wordpress Coding
Performance & Optimization
Video Killed The Pagespeed Score
Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress
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Wordpress Coding
Web Development
Works In Progress
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Musical Works In Progress
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"Musical Works In Progress" Files
Demo
The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15
(37 words)
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Work-In-Progress
Electronic Music
Cover Songs
Album Preview
Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture
(852 words)
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Work-In-Progress
Soundtrack
Progressive / Art Rock
Demo
Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a
(26 words)
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Work-In-Progress
Zetetic Music
Album Preview
Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05
(284 words)
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Work-In-Progress
Zetetic Music
Album Preview
गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra
(279 words)
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Work-In-Progress
Drone
Album Preview
Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009
(227 words)
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Work-In-Progress
Folk & Blues
Acousticky Guitar
Live Performance
Visual Works In Progress
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"Visual Works In Progress" Files
Gallery
Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyric illustrations gallery
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Work-In-Progress
Illuminated Lyrics
AI Generative Illustration
Writing Works in Progress
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"Writing Works in Progress" Files
Dinner For Schmucks
The Five Ingredient Cookbook — Kitchen Survival for Schmoes
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Work-In-Progress
Bachelor Survival 'n' Style
Mikesplaining
How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash
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Work-In-Progress
Current Events
Economics
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