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Making 'Side Streets'
How a soulful sample, dusty drums, and late-night production turned into one of my favorite beats.
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Nick Stambaugh is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. This site is dedicated to his blog, music, and other interests.
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Making 'Villains'
How my obsession with 2000s Eminem production turned into a weird, bouncy hip-hop instrumental.
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Integrating Myself With Wikipedia
How I turned a part of this website into a small Wikipedia-inspired ecosystem with rabbit holes, featured pictures, search, and live encyclopedia data.
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Creating My Own Social Feed
Using JavaScript, we can accomplish a cool feed of content that should keep even the most attention-deficit person engaged. Cartoon by Mr. Ollie
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Reddit Has a Bot Problem
A TIL post about Chinese provinces being 'the world's oldest administrative divisions' got thousands of upvotes. It's wrong and the shape of it smells funny.
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The Labor Force Never Fully Came Back
Pulling apart 14 years of BLS labor force data with Python to see what the pandemic actually did to American workers.
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Chopping Samples with Fruity Slicer 2
A guide to Image-Line's Fruity Slicer 2, and how I used it to chop up the Bruce Lee and guitar samples for 'Be Yourself.'
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