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- 2021-12-30: My Mini Toolkit
Tags: gear, tools
Excerpt: This is a mini toolkit that I have been working on for the past six months. It live in the backpack that I generally keep near me, so if a…
- 2021-12-17: Spookytown (2021)
Tags: songs, spookytown
Excerpt: Spookytown Reimagined This video premiered on October 28, 2021 as part of a Halloween showcase for Spotify employees. With only 14 days…
- 2020-07-14: Antifragility of Controlled Code Churn (Refactoring richsoni.com)
Tags: Antifragility, Changelog, Cypress, Gatsby, Javascript, Material Design, Refactoring, Typescript
Excerpt: A Forest Ranger, A Software Developer and Nicholas Taleb Walk Into A Bar... Things that get stronger under stressors are Antifragile, a term…
- 2020-06-09: Prototyping richsoni.com With Material-UI
Tags: Changelog, Design, Javascript, Material Design
Excerpt: 🌅 Background 🏆 The Golden Middle Ground of Design Systems We need a golden middle ground between skeuomorphism and a dearth of…
- 2020-05-31: Information Architecture & Blogging
Tags: Changelog, Writing
Excerpt: I recently decided to reevaluate the way my blog posts are organized. Up until this point, my posts had a flat structure, presented only as…
- 2020-04-24: New Audio Player For Performance Recordings
Tags: Changelog, Coding, Design, Live Performance, Mastery, Music, Philosophy, Technology
Excerpt: 💁♀️ TLDR; performance streaming comes to richsoni.com 45 of my live music sets from 2016-2019 (885 tracks total) are now available as free…
- 2019-09-18: The State of README Standards
Tags: Technology
Excerpt: Old But Not Wise README files have been around since the 70's. Github and NPM have fueled a widespread adoption of the README file. While…
- 2019-07-19: Using SoX to improve Live Music Archive Publishing Latency
Tags: Changelog, Coding, Live Performance, Music, Productivity, Technology
Excerpt: Featured Recordings [archive.org] 2019-04-07: Rich Soni Live at the Fine Grind (DR-05) [archive.org] 2019-05-26: Rich Soni Live at Pine…
- 2019-04-03: Hello From Windows! ✌
Tags: Technology
Excerpt: This post was written and built on my new Surface Pro 6! I'll be honest, the switch back to Windows scared me out of my pants. I am still…
- 2019-02-28: Experimenting with React Email Templates
Tags: Changelog, Coding, Email, Live Performance, Music, Technology
Excerpt: 🏋 Motivation In some recent posts, I outlined a some different ideas I have been experimenting with and thinking about: Comparing Lerna…
- 2019-02-23: Bug Bash
Tags: Changelog, Coding
Excerpt: I noticed a few bugs on my site while poking around recently. I ignored them at the time, but at this point its started to become noticeable…
- 2019-02-22: Experiment: Email Subject Lines (With Nilsen Strandskov)
Tags: Coding, Email, Live Performance, Mastery, Music, Productivity
Excerpt: ✉️ Importance of Email The value of an email list as a marketing tool is neither new nor secret. Despite it being the old guard of digital…
- 2019-02-18: Style Tile Exercise for RichSoni.com
Tags: Changelog, Coding, Design
Excerpt: Style Tiles I started reading Brad Frost's book Atomic Design. Within the first pages, I felt the urge to put the book down and play with my…
- 2019-02-13: This Week In Javascript
Tags: Coding, Technology
Excerpt: 📰 This Week In Javascript Here is a list of cool things I have been reading about this past week in the Javascript world. I will say a…
- 2019-01-29: Storybook Architecture Audit
Tags: Technology
Excerpt: This post works through the similarities and differences between the 28 Storybook Examples listed on the Storybook website. The intention is…
- 2019-01-24: Comparing Lerna-Storybook Architectures
Tags: Technology
Excerpt: ⚔ Conflicting Philosophies When creating a Lerna project with React and Storybook, there are two places in which Storybook can live: As a…
- 2019-01-23: An Argument for Pure CSSModules
Tags: Coding
Excerpt: 👁 😍 Pure CSSModules For better or for worse here are my current opinions on Styling React Components. tldr; Here are my opinions: Opinion…
- 2019-01-23: Building Richsoni.com with Netlify
Tags: Changelog, Technology
Excerpt: Netlify Netlify: "An all-in-one workflow that combines global deployment, continuous integration, and automatic HTTPS. And that’s just the…
- 2019-01-08: Naive Typescript Conversion on RichSoni.com: Pass 4
Tags: Changelog, Coding, Typescript
Excerpt: This is the fourth pass of converting this site to Typescript. Previous Posts Installing Typescript on RichSoni.com Typescript Conversion…
- 2019-01-03: Naive Typescript Conversion on RichSoni.com: Pass 3
Tags: Changelog, Coding, Typescript
Excerpt: This is the third pass of converting this site to Typescript. Previous Posts Installing Typescript on RichSoni.com Typescript Conversion…
- 2018-12-19: Naive Typescript Conversion on RichSoni.com: Pass 2
Tags: Changelog, Coding, Typescript
Excerpt: This is the second pass at my Typescript conversion project. The first part is chronicled in an older post titled: Typescript Conversion…
- 2018-12-18: Naive Typescript Conversion on RichSoni.com: Pass 1
Tags: Changelog, Coding, Typescript
Excerpt: Parameters Merge within: ~1 hour (small amount of work) Must include: a post with content from this document Must include: A commit with…
- 2018-12-10: Installing Typescript on RichSoni.com
Tags: Changelog, Coding
Excerpt: I recently upgraded richsoni.com to Gatsby Version 2.0, A previous post, 'Upgrading richsoni.com To Gatsby 2', chronicles that experience…
- 2018-11-29: Upgrading richsoni.com To Gatsby 2
Tags: Changelog, Coding, Gatsby
Excerpt: This past summer, the codebase for richsoni.com was converted from Jekyll to Gatsby. A few weeks later, the Gatsby team announced the…
- 2018-10-23: Show Recordings on the Internet Archive
Tags: Changelog, Live Performance, Music, Philosophy, Technology
Excerpt: I played at Pine Island Brewing on September 9th 2018, and October 21st 2018. More information on each show can be found on its page: Pine…
- 2018-06-08: Transcript for Organic Music Now Episode 4: 72 on 72
Tags: History, Live Performance, Music, Songwriting
Excerpt: Introduction Hello Ladies and Gentleman, This is Rich Soni, and you are listening to Organic Music Now! Episode 4. This Episode is titled…
- 2017-08-30: Fly Away
Tags: Mastery, Music, Songwriting
Excerpt: I was sitting cross-legged on the couch in my basement -- guitar in hand, computer in front of me. I was looking at my name on the screen…
- 2017-08-28: Willy The Wandering Gypsy
Tags: Music, Philosophy, Songwriting
Excerpt: The most interesting songs always take a few listens to reveal themselves. The hard part is getting a person to listen enough for that to…
- 2016-10-25: Fan Connectors- Part 2
Tags: Live Performance, Music, Philosophy
Excerpt: In a previous post, I found two questions about music discovery which I wanted to explore. I conducted a survey both online and in person…
- 2016-10-08: Templating Your Booking Inquiry Emails
Tags: Coding, Email, Live Performance, Music
Excerpt: This was written for the Bandflare Blog. See it the original here DIY musicians need to send booking inquiries on a regular basis. Putting…
- 2016-10-07: What Are The Fan Connectors?
Tags: Live Performance, Music, Philosophy
Excerpt: For a while I have been playing out at restaurants and breweries. These shows are great because the venue will pay you, and there is no…
- 2016-04-11: Thoughts On Open Mic Nights
Tags: Live Performance, Music, Philosophy
Excerpt: Written for Bandflare.com If you have gone to an Open Mic, you can agree with their usefulness as a tool for musicians. Here are some…
- 2016-02-24: Where Can I Fail
Tags: Mastery, Productivity
Excerpt: I have heard it 1000 times if not more. Success is an accident. For every 100 things you do, one is bound to be a success. This can be true…
- 2016-02-24: Memorizing Songs
Tags: Mastery, Music, Productivity
Excerpt: Know Your Song Well Before You Start Singing The most important piece of a musical performance is the actual music. It is the price to play…
- 2016-02-23: Thoughts On Audience Attention
Tags: Live Performance, Mastery, Music, Philosophy
Excerpt: Let My Poor Voice Be Heard Once you become comfortable playing in front of people, the next step is to capture audience attention. As with…
- 2016-02-23: The Difference Between A Fan And A Follower
Tags: Mastery, Music, Philosophy
Excerpt: FAN = SHARES I separate an artist's supporters into two buckets: Followers and Fans. Followers form a relationship between themselves and…
- 2016-02-12: Artists Are Startups
Tags: Mastery, Music, Philosophy, Technology
Excerpt: An artist focused on fanbase growth is a startup artist. This can be determined by the following question: Would receiving 1,000,000 fans…
- 2016-01-19: A Recipe For Arranging/Learning Impressive Cover Songs
Tags: Live Performance, Mastery, Music
Excerpt: For The Sake Of The Song Cover songs are a great tool. They are great to mix into a live set. They also provide a medium to practice…
- 2015-08-31: Percentage Masking
Tags: Negotiation
Excerpt: Units Matter A negotiator with power and leverage has a better chance of reaching a favorable outcome. The percentage mask, can be used to…
- 2015-05-04: Faster Fingertips: Changing Your Keyboard Layout and Learning Techniques
Tags: Mastery, Productivity, Technology
Excerpt: Goodbye Comfort "Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking" ~ Richard Stallman Leaving your comfort zone…
- 2014-12-21: On Vimscript
Tags: Coding, Productivity, Technology
Excerpt: Header Photo credit to Elijah Porter View The Talk I presented this material at the New York Vim Meetup. View the presentation below: Here…
- 2014-11-14: Sifting for Javascript, Ruby Style
Tags: Coding
Excerpt: Header Photo credit to Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library Panning for Rubies It is difficult to wrangle long hashes, and big objects when…
- 2014-11-02: Updates!!!
Tags: Changelog
Excerpt: Header Photo credit to Adreas Levers Guess Who's Back? It's been a few months since the last richsoni.com update. I poured my attention into…
- 2014-11-02: What Came First The Hacker Or The Hack
Tags: Coding, Philosophy, Technology
Excerpt: The Hacker Or The Hack? The word hacker implies the possession of certain qualities. Qualities that kindle and fuel a knack for problem…
- 2014-09-29: Git-WitIt: Spice Up Your Git Config With These Rhyming Aliases
Tags: Projects, Technology
Excerpt: Git Up, Git Out commit and init are two of git's slickest sounding commands. Of its 155 commands (in v2.2.1), there are only 5 that rhyme…
- 2014-09-23: Introducing Vim-Ecliptic: A More Natural Clipboard Integration
Tags: Productivity, Projects, Technology
Excerpt: Motivation View Github Repo Juggling between vim's local clipboard and the system clipboard can be a headache. The plus register (e.g. "+yy…
- 2014-07-28: Unravelling The Ancient Art Of Lucid Dreaming
Tags: Dreaming, Mastery
Excerpt: The Wild World Of Dreaming Experiencing the world created within our minds while we are asleep is a remarkable part of life. Within our…
- 2014-04-18: Pragmatic Guide To Becoming A Productivity Alchemist
Tags: Mastery, Productivity, Technology
Excerpt: Introduction Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before ~ Franz Kafka Achieving maximum productivity is a…
- 2014-04-17: Simon Sinek Reveals Why Some Teams Pull Together Better Than Others In His Latest Book 'Leaders Eat Last'
Tags: Book Reviews, Leadership
Excerpt: Backed By Facts I was first introduced to Simon Sinek's work through his 2009 Ted Talk. After watching that video, I decided to read about…
- 2014-03-17: 10 Tools Every Software Developer Should Know, Revisited
Tags: Coding, Mastery, Technology
Excerpt: Invest in your own toolset After trade school, a mechanic needs to obtain their own set of tools. Garages only provide big equipment, such…
- 2014-02-12: Listening to Bob Dylan Can Inspire Improved Health and Wellbeing
Tags: Music, Philosophy
Excerpt: For Health's Sake Pursue your dreams, simple to understand, but difficult to execute. If you are halfheartedly doing your job, get a new one…
- 2014-02-04: Why You May Be Missing Out If You Dont Use TMUX
Tags: Mastery, Productivity, Technology
Excerpt: Tmux is one of the 10 skills every developer should master. Tmux is a modern incarnation of the GNU Screen program. Between the two, tmux…
- 2014-02-01: When Creating Anything, Think Like The Beatles
Tags: Productivity
Excerpt: Drifting Through An Opened Mind Some time ago, I read about The Beatles' song writing techniques. All of the techniques are both clever and…
- 2014-01-14: Practical Uses For Bash Globbing
Tags: Mastery, Productivity, Technology
Excerpt: The first half of this article discusses What Globbing is, how to Enable Globbing, and How it works. If you are more experienced feel free…
- 2014-01-06: Interview Question: Which Exit To Choose
Tags: Coding, Interviewing
Excerpt: The Problem Here's an interesting interview question I thought of on my way home from a party recently. You are parked at some starting…
- 2013-12-29: How To Boost Productivity With Symbolic Links
Tags: Mastery, Productivity, Technology
Excerpt: A Symbolic Link (symlink) is essentially a bookmark to a folder on your hard drive. They are lightweight and disposeable. In my workflow, I…
- 2013-12-28: 4 Stereotypical Technology Users (Starwars Edition)
Tags: Technology
Excerpt: The Gist "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." ~ Han Solo We all know people, or may even…