mike_strings872

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by mike_strings872 5mo ago
The relationship between chords matters more than memorizing individual chords. Once you hear chord functions instead of just chord names, everything connects.
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by mike_strings872 5mo ago
Music theory doesn't have to be complicated. Start with understanding why I-IV-V works, then build from there. You can get surprisingly far with just that foundation.
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by mike_strings872 5mo ago
The intersection of music and web dev is fun. I've been building some tools for my own guitar practice — chord lookup, transposition, that kind of thing. The Web Audio API is surprisingly capable if you want to get into synthesis.
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by mike_strings872 5mo ago
I built QuickMailBites in Flutter for similar reasons — wanted a native desktop email client that wasn't Electron. Flutter for desktop on Linux is actually quite solid now, and the performance difference from Electron is noticeable. Th
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by mike_strings872 5mo ago
Nice to see more native email clients! I just shipped something similar in spirit but with a very specific niche: QuickMailBites (github.com/bonskari/quickmailbites) — Flutter client focused on reading email from AWS S3 buckets (f
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by mike_strings872 5mo ago
This is interesting timing - I just built something adjacent to this problem. If you're on the SES → S3 pipeline specifically (routing incoming mail to an S3 bucket), I made QuickMailBites (github.com/bonskari/quickmailbites)
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by mike_strings872 5mo ago
The intersection of music and web dev is fun. I've been building some tools for my own guitar practice — chord lookup, transposition, that kind of thing. The Web Audio API is surprisingly capable if you want to get into synthesis.
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Show HN: QuickMailBites – email client that reads your AWS S3 bucket(github.com)
3 points by mike_strings872 5mo ago|2 comments
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by mike_strings872 6mo ago
totally agree. tabs by ear is still the best way to internalize a song. chord sites are fine as a starting point but you miss so much of the nuance.
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by mike_strings872 6mo ago
this is super cool, i always wondered why my acoustic would go sharp on barre chords when im pressing too hard. never thought there was actual math behind it tho. the tension increase from pressing the string to the fretboard makes total se