When I wrote my preview DigiMixer post, I was awaiting the arrival of my latest mixer: a Behringer Wing Rack. It arrived a few days later, and I’m pleased to say it didn’t take long to integrate it with DigiMixer. (It’s now my main mixer.) While most of the integration was smooth sailing, there’s one … Continue reading When Abstractions Break →

It’s entirely possible that I’ve posted something on this topic before. I know I’ve posted about it on social media before. Every so often – thankfully not too often – I see a post on Stack Overflow containing something like this: “This looks like a bug in VS.NET” “I’m 100% sure my code is correct” … Continue reading No, the bug is in your code (and mine) →

Finally, several posts in, I’m actually going to start talking about abstraction using DigiMixer as the core example. When I started writing DigiMixer (almost exactly two years ago) I didn’t expect to take so long to get to this point. Even now, I’m not expecting this post to cover “everything about abstraction” or even “all … Continue reading Abstraction: Introduction →

Introduction On Thursday (July 4th, 2024) the UK held a general election. There are many, many blog posts, newspaper articles, podcast episodes etc covering the politics of it, and the lessons that the various political parties may need to learn. I, on the other hand, learned very different lessons on the night of the 4th … Continue reading Lessons from election night →

Introduction I don’t know much about my blog readership, so let’s start off with two facts that you may not be aware of: I live in the UK. The UK has a general election on July 4th 2024. I’m politically engaged, and this is a particularly interesting election. The Conservative party have been in office … Continue reading Building an election website →