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Song Doctor Sonic Visualizer

Song Doctor Sonic Visualizer

Created: November 3, 2025 7 min read
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Gizmo Blog

How to Visualize a SongWe listen to songs all the time. Have you ever wondered what they look like? I spend a lot of time wondering about things...

Gizmo Draw Now Supports Groups

Created: August 1, 2025 Updated: November 3, 2025 7 min read
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Gizmo Blog

Gizmo Draw Now Supports GroupsInch by Inch Gizmo Draw Gets BetterI started developing Gizmo Draw as a means to an end — to learn more about programming lan...

C++ Cursor Notes

Created: September 27, 2025 Updated: October 4, 2025 1 min read
Cursor Notes

Quick Fix:Ctrl+Shift+P (or Cmd+Shift+P on Mac)Type: C/C++: Reset IntelliSense DatabasePress EnterWait for it to finish, then try againAltern...

How to Make Agile Work for You

Created: April 28, 2025 Updated: August 30, 2025 5 min read
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Gizmo Blog

In the Beginning, It Was Just CodeI started building software for a living some time ago. To say “things have changed” would be possibly the biggest understatem...

Notion, Obsidian and... Gizmo?

Created: June 30, 2025 Updated: August 1, 2025 3 min read
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Gizmo Blog

Notion, Obsidian and … Gizmo?Another Notes App, Seriously?I recently wrote about my efforts to cheaply re-publish my Medium stories on my own website....

Gizmo Draw - A Solution In Search of a Problem

Created: June 13, 2025 Updated: June 29, 2025 11 min read
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Gizmo Blog

Gizmo Draw is cool…but what is it good for?My Bitbucket account contains mountains of code, written over an entire career of years. Some of it is pretty good, a...

It's Still Owners vs. Workers

Created: May 22, 2025 Updated: June 29, 2025 8 min read
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Gizmo Blog

I came of age in the 1970's, at the height of the Cold War. When we were taught to hide under our desks at school so we could survive a nuclear attack by the ev...

I Accidentally Wrote a Game Engine

Created: May 18, 2025 Updated: June 29, 2025 6 min read
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Gizmo Blog

When you write apps for fun the trickiest part is to come up with an idea that will keep you engaged long enough to actually build something useful. I've had lo...