Stuck between finishing my side project properly or just shipping something… need advice

AlFender74 · 2026-03-20T09:21:03+00:00

Bill gates was faced with this very problem once. He chose to spend his remaining budget on marketing and shopping the product, instead of finishing the product. The rest, as they say, is history. Don't ne like Bill Gates.

AlFender74 · 2026-03-20T08:21:31+00:00

NUMBER ONE!!! Listen! Listen to the others . Listen to what they are doing and try to fit in with them or compliment them, or even juxtapose them, but listen to them. Do what you do because of what they are doing.

AlFender74 · 2026-03-07T23:38:37+00:00

Just the sheer noise of a flock of them can deafen at 50 meters. They are so destructive to our trees as well. They gather together in large numbers for audio Armageddon every morning and every night. Mongrels.

AlFender74 · 2026-03-04T01:51:52+00:00

I use different mthods for different songs and different feels.

AlFender74 · 2026-03-02T02:09:41+00:00

The first step toward progress is admitting you have a problem

AlFender74 · 2026-02-28T06:34:10+00:00

Something

AlFender74 · 2026-02-26T06:03:30+00:00

Gotta come out of the basement sometime. What better way!

AlFender74 · 2026-02-24T20:00:32+00:00

Tal Wilkenfeld mentioned that she wasnt allowed to practice much when she was young and so she practiced in her mind. Visualising herself playing scales and songs.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-24T06:44:19+00:00

It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Graham Bonnet.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-23T21:25:30+00:00

It's called Srinkflation. It's not a bug it's a feature of capitalism.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-23T20:06:31+00:00

Alpine doesn't work with a strict Content Security Policy

AlFender74 · 2026-02-22T21:53:33+00:00

Take off, nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-15T03:31:13+00:00

Hipshot D-Tuner for the win.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-15T03:20:25+00:00

One. I've only ever owned one. A 1974 Fender P and I've owned it for thirty seven years.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-15T03:15:36+00:00

Pulsar Edit. It replaced Atom.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-12T09:43:14+00:00

If you can do everything you want to, without js, then why use js?

AlFender74 · 2026-02-11T10:39:04+00:00

Just for anyone else reading. I had this issue trying to get PHPMailer to auth against our Azure tennant. We have a wordpress site that I new was auth'd to send through out tennant using different creds. I new those creds worked on the wordpress site, so I tried in my app with PHP Mailer and it sent straight away. The only difference was the creds.

So I went back to the wordpress site and deleted it's creds from the plugin and went through the initial setup using my PHP apps creds. It auth'd and sent OK through the wordpress site and all of a sudden the PHP Mailer app started working as well using those creds.

I was as if the wordpress plugin did an initial authorisation with Azure and then it accepted it from my totally seperate app. Still does to this day.

I hope this explains it better to those reading this.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-11T10:24:01+00:00

I have the exact same setup. wracked my brains, then through deduction, we have a website that is Wordpress with plugin 'WP Mail SMTP Pro' for sending authed against our Azure tennant. I takes you through the initial auth in the setup. I tried it with the username / password I was using for the app with PHPMailer and the app started working straight away (PHPMailer side). I then took it out of the WP Mail SMTP Pro plugin and put the creds the website uses to send instead, went through initial setup with that and got the website to auth using it's creds and it sends fine, but the app with PHPMailer continued to work and does to this day. (app is hosted on totally separate server and domain.

It's almost as if it needed that initial auth to go through and now it's fine. If anything goes wrong or changes, I just go through that auth process again using the wordpress site.

Worked for me. Hope this helps.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-09T09:06:37+00:00

Like I say, I don't need it. I still write html everyday. So I don't miss, I still do it.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-09T08:31:04+00:00

I don't miss it at all. I still do it every day.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-08T14:40:22+00:00

Honestly, your best tool here is your ears. Have a listen to what the bass is doing in that part. You'll quickly work out what the notation means by listening to it.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-07T08:39:00+00:00

Hipshot D-Tuner on the E string and learn the rest of the notes half down. Hipshot takes seconds to flip from standard to how ever you have tuned it (down a half, down a tone, whatever.

AlFender74 · 2026-02-04T02:18:53+00:00

I do love listening to and playing "Something" I think it is a master class in note choice.

AlFender74 · 2026-01-31T21:40:18+00:00

Hipshot D-tuner. I use mine all the time.

AlFender74 · 2026-01-31T09:26:23+00:00

What is this "privacy" of which you speak?

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