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"https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/23/finally-got-a-nice-new-ukulele-mainland-classic-mahogany-concert/", "published_at": "2013-09-24T03:10:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd8669f3428", "title": "The Chess Improver: remember the importance of development", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/19/the-chess-improver-remember-the-importance-of-development/", "published_at": "2013-09-19T12:34:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd8670da8b4", "title": "My third meeting of the Steel City Ukuleles: finally ordered a new instrument", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/18/my-third-meeting-of-the-steel-city-ukuleles/", "published_at": "2013-09-19T03:13:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86715b51d", "title": "On not celebrating Constitution Day this year, 2013", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/17/on-not-celebrating-constitution-day-this-year/", "published_at": "2013-09-17T12:42:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86745880a", "title": "New goals for a new season of the Pittsburgh Recorder Society", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/15/new-goals-for-a-new-season-of-the-pittsburgh-recorder-society/", "published_at": "2013-09-16T00:40:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd8678545a6", "title": "Saying No: on not playing in the Pittsburgh Chess League this season for the CMU Tartans", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/15/saying-no-on-not-playing-in-the-pittsburgh-chess-league-this-season-for-the-cmu-tartans/", "published_at": "2013-09-15T04:14:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd868718d5e", "title": "Back to French dance: potluck and party", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/14/back-to-french-dance-potluck-and-party/", "published_at": "2013-09-15T03:40:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd869658935", "title": "Finally playing Piazzolla's \"Oblivion\" on flute", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/13/finally-playing-piazzollas-oblivion-on-flute/", "published_at": "2013-09-14T03:49:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd8698d06c4", "title": "RIP Ray Dolby: yes, I still have cassette tapes!", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/12/rip-ray-dolby-yes/", "published_at": "2013-09-13T00:43:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd8698fa85b", "title": "My first post on The Chess Improver: The Value of Thematic Complete Games Against a Weaker Opponent", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/12/my-first-post-on-the-chess-improver-the-value-of-thematic-complete-games-against-a-weaker-opponent/", "published_at": "2013-09-12T09:04:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86a796329", "title": "Was it worth sprinting to a terrible fall to finish 25th in the CMU Pretty Good Race 5K?", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/06/was-it-worth-sprinting-to-a-terrible-fall-to-finish-25th-in-the-cmu-pretty-good-race-5k/", "published_at": "2013-09-07T02:01:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86acfd8b8", "title": "My second meeting of the Steel City Ukuleles: why I already signed up to perform before being ready", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/09/04/my-second-meeting-of-the-steel-city-ukuleles/", "published_at": "2013-09-05T02:40:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86b054df0", "title": "OpenHack Pittsburgh: learning Elixir test-driven and package-publishing", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/26/openhack-pittsburgh-learning-elixir-test-driven-and-package-publishing/", "published_at": "2013-08-26T22:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86ba2b2d9", "title": "Reflections on my slowest Run Around the Square 5K in 13 years", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/24/reflections-on-my-slowest-run-around-the-square-5k-in-13-years/", "published_at": "2013-08-24T16:45:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86bb81a40", "title": "Celebrating Claude Debussy's 151st birthday through unusual performances of Syrinx", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/23/celebrating-claude-debussys-151st-birthday-through-unusual-performances-of-syrinx/", "published_at": "2013-08-24T03:49:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86c454da1", "title": "RIP Marian McPartland of Piano Jazz", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/23/rip-marian-mcpartland-of-piano-jazz/", "published_at": "2013-08-24T02:30:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86c70bd00", "title": "Another unexpected life change: one month of learning to play ukulele", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/23/another-unexpected-life-change-one-month-of-learning-to-play-ukulele/", "published_at": "2013-08-24T01:26:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86d0fae7e", "title": "Pittsburgh Data Visualization: D3 and only D3", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/22/pittsburgh-data-visualization-d3-and-only-d3/", "published_at": "2013-08-23T02:01:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86de6d8de", "title": "My lightning talk at Steel City Ruby 2013: \"Reflections\"", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/18/my-lightning-talk-at-steel-city-ruby-2013/", "published_at": "2013-08-19T01:54:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86ebb47a4", "title": "Steel City Ruby 2013: my second year and it radically changed my life again (part 1)", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/18/steel-city-ruby-2013-my-second-year-and-it-radically-changed-my-life-again-part-1/", "published_at": "2013-08-19T00:57:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86f0abf8b", "title": "Power and the AOL public firing", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/13/power-and-the-aol-public-firing/", "published_at": "2013-08-14T02:48:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86f0f5958", "title": "Pittsburgh Java User Group: Java EE 7, 8, and beyond; or done?", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/13/pittsburgh-java-user-group-java-ee-7-8-and-beyond/", "published_at": "2013-08-14T02:18:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd86f4a1991", "title": "Why I was so happy to run 5 miles in 63 minutes today when I was doing it in 50 earlier this year", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/13/why-i-was-so-happy-to-run-5-miles-in-63-minutes-today-when-i-was-doing-it-in-50-earlier-this-year/", "published_at": "2013-08-14T01:18:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd870312596", "title": "RIP, Eydie Gormé", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/10/rip-eydie/", "published_at": "2013-08-11T03:08:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd87107f649", "title": "Emerging from my three months of illness, self-pitying, and self-loathing", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/10/emerging-from-my-three-months-of-illness-self-pitying-and-self-loathing/", "published_at": "2013-08-10T12:39:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd8718d3556", "title": "Getting up when reality punches you in the face: running the second Liberty Mile in Pittsburgh", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/09/getting-up-when-reality-punches-you-in-the-face-running-the-second-liberty-mile-in-pittsburgh/", "published_at": "2013-08-10T00:49:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd871e2f4fb", "title": "A haircut leading to my playing \"I'll Always Love You\" on flute", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/08/a-haircut-leading-to-my-playing-ill-always-love-you-on-flute/", "published_at": "2013-08-09T02:17:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd872caaef4", "title": "Pittsburgh Data Visualization: D3 and R", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/07/pittsburgh-data-visualization-d3-and-r/", "published_at": "2013-08-08T02:19:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd873649318", "title": "A new hike in Frick Park with Abby", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/04/a-new-hike-in-frick-park-with-abby/", "published_at": "2013-08-04T21:00:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd873ea4b69", "title": "Pittsburgh Ruby/Python social and some observations about our polyglot world", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/08/02/pittsburgh-ruby-python-social/", "published_at": "2013-08-03T02:17:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd874d56247", "title": "Pittsburgh Node Meetup: Optimizing development workflow with Grunt", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/07/31/pittsburgh-node-meetup-optimizing-development-workflow-with-grunt/", "published_at": "2013-08-01T01:29:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd87553c464", "title": "Pittsburgh Data Visualization Meetup: inaugural meet and greet", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/07/30/pittsburgh-data-visualization-meetup-inaugural-meet-and-greet/", "published_at": "2013-07-31T03:42:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd875caec23", "title": "I miss playing chess at the Pittsburgh Chess Club", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/07/30/i-miss-playing-chess-at-the-pittsburgh-chess-club/", "published_at": "2013-07-31T01:03:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd8764f6473", "title": "All India: great new Indian restaurant in Pittsburgh", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/07/25/all-india-great-new-indian-restaurant-in-pittsburgh/", "published_at": "2013-07-26T02:22:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd876d47af4", "title": "Pittsburgh Ruby lightning talk night: RVM, business logic with Rails, IRC, rspec-given, Vagrant", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/07/11/pittsburgh-ruby-lightning-talk-night/", "published_at": "2013-07-11T20:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd877055d1c", "title": "Pittsburgh JavaScript meetup: functional programming", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/07/10/pittsburgh-javascript-meetup-functional-programming/", "published_at": "2013-07-10T22:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd877c99ab9", "title": "More summer musical partying, and another ten-year-old dream fulfilled!", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/07/04/more-summer-musical-partying/", "published_at": "2013-07-05T03:25:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd877e6e843", "title": "Second year at July 3 music party: still only listening without playing", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/07/03/second-year-at-july-3-music-party-still-only-listening-without-playing/", "published_at": "2013-07-04T02:10:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd878312140", "title": "Why I hate calling myself \"pragmatic\" but do", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/06/30/why-i-hate-calling-myself-pragmatic-but-do/", "published_at": "2013-07-01T02:57:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd878d65183", "title": "nil, non-determinism, exceptions: a journey in debugging the software that generates my blog", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/06/29/nil-non-determinism-exceptions/", "published_at": "2013-06-29T18:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd879050fea", "title": "We should not create this kind of terrible error message for the end user", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/06/26/we-should-not-create-this-kind-of-terrible-error-message-for-the-end-user/", "published_at": "2013-06-26T23:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd8796b6ed3", "title": "Pittsburgh Python: night of the favorite module", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/06/26/pittsburgh-python-night-of-the-favorite-module/", "published_at": "2013-06-26T22:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08779-9f1d-7143-b177-bcd879ba4e04", "title": "Announcing a new blog: \"The Conscientious Programmer\"", "url": "https://franklinchen.com/blog/2013/06/26/announcing-a-new-blog-the-conscientious-programmer/", "published_at": "2013-06-26T21:06:21+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2013

Appreciating the unique singer La Lupeoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2013
The Chess Improver: Making up fake games to improve understanding of themesoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2013
Stop limiting yourself by labeling yourself left or right brainedoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2013
Pittsburgh Scala Meetup: code walk through tic-tac-toe with Playoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2013
The Chess Improver: The most beautiful opening trap ever, with its tempo twinoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2013
MongoDB free online course: a revieworiginal ↗
5 Dec 2013
Geeking out at the annual CMU psychology holiday party: beauty and selling outoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2013
The Chess Improver: Imagining that you can play ten moves in a roworiginal ↗
28 Nov 2013
A fine trumpet recital by Erin Yanacekoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013 round 10: Magnus Carlsen is the new world championoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013 round 9: I correctly predicted Anand's aggressively opening choice but he blundered horribly again to loseoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2013
The Chess Improver: The power of White's Pawn on e6original ↗
21 Nov 2013
Chamber music concert at CMU featured Bach's Goldberg Variations arranged for string triooriginal ↗
20 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013 round 8: the most boring game in the match so faroriginal ↗
19 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013 round 7: Anand catches his breath with a quiet gameoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2013
Pittsburgh Recorder Society continues to add membersoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013, round 6: Carlsen wins the second game in a row when Anand blunders again in a drawn endingoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013, round 5: Carlsen wins in a tense positional battle when Anand blunders!original ↗
16 Nov 2013
The Chess Improver: Whether an interesting opening idea is good or bad depends on contextoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013, round 4: who said the Berlin Defense was boring?original ↗
14 Nov 2013
The exact moment I fell in love with the Berlin Defense for Black in chessoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013, round 3: a fighting game worth studyingoriginal ↗
13 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013, Round 2: declining the sacrificeoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2013
World Chess Championship 2013 Round 1: how to understand the short 16-move Carlsen-Anand draworiginal ↗
9 Nov 2013
The Chess Improver: How to watch the Anand-Carlsen World Chess Championship to improve your own gameoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2013
Steel City Ukuleles: a nice session on playing by earoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2013
The dilemma of how to descend the Cathedral of Learning once at the toporiginal ↗
3 Nov 2013
Say No to Daylight Savings Timeoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2013
Broccoli and friendsoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2013
Surprised by the Go programming language's treatment of niloriginal ↗
31 Oct 2013
The Chess Improver: The double-edged nature of computer-based preparationoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2013
An early start on Cathedral of Learning stair climbingoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2013
Did glucosamine and MSM relieve my knee pain?original ↗
29 Oct 2013
The Chess Improver: The computer plays the exchange sacrificeoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2013
I never expected my first wooden recorders to be Renaissance recordersoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2013
The biggest Pittsburgh Recorder Society meeting I have attended in two years!!original ↗
20 Oct 2013
The Chess Improver: The strange pleasure of drawing a lost gameoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2013
Steel City Ukuleles: back to plain good fun, including the cups songoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2013
Why it's so funny that Fama and Shiller just simultaneously shared the Nobel in economicsoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2013
What's this about "Columbus Day" and Bartolomé?original ↗
14 Oct 2013
My promise to prioritize my sleeporiginal ↗
13 Oct 2013
What can you quit today? I'm taking a break from Twitter, Facebook, and Google+original ↗
13 Oct 2013
Neil Newton on the harmonic structure of atonal musicoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2013
Pittsburgh Scala Meetup: learning by reading Josh's code!original ↗
11 Oct 2013
Finally learning about Carnatic musicoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2013
The Chess Improver: the difference between accepting reality and making excusesoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2013
Pittsburgh Pirates: it was not to beoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2013
Was that a ukulele I heard in Frick Park? No, a cavaquinhooriginal ↗
6 Oct 2013
Performing with the Steel City Ukuleles at the Wilkins School Community Center Ecofest 2013: with videosoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2013
Final rehearsal for my first ukulele gig: and some hard decisions about music in my lifeoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2013
9 things you could be doing in Pittsburgh on Saturday, October 5original ↗
4 Oct 2013
The Chess Improver: the psychology of losing a drawn gameoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2013
Rubber Duckie and Steel City Ukuleles rehearsaloriginal ↗
3 Oct 2013
An erhu player and a tuba player at a party said "Let's jam"original ↗
29 Sept 2013
First rehearsal for my first ukulele gig: dealing with anxietyoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2013
The Chess Improver: the psychology of not winning the won gameoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2013
Why you should go out to the Pittsburgh South Side Slopes Step Trekoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2013
Finally got a nice new ukulele: Mainland Classic Mahogany Concertoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2013
The Chess Improver: remember the importance of developmentoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2013
My third meeting of the Steel City Ukuleles: finally ordered a new instrumentoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2013
On not celebrating Constitution Day this year, 2013original ↗
17 Sept 2013
New goals for a new season of the Pittsburgh Recorder Societyoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2013
Saying No: on not playing in the Pittsburgh Chess League this season for the CMU Tartansoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2013
Back to French dance: potluck and partyoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2013
Finally playing Piazzolla's "Oblivion" on fluteoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2013
RIP Ray Dolby: yes, I still have cassette tapes!original ↗
13 Sept 2013
My first post on The Chess Improver: The Value of Thematic Complete Games Against a Weaker Opponentoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2013
Was it worth sprinting to a terrible fall to finish 25th in the CMU Pretty Good Race 5K?original ↗
7 Sept 2013
My second meeting of the Steel City Ukuleles: why I already signed up to perform before being readyoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2013
OpenHack Pittsburgh: learning Elixir test-driven and package-publishingoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2013
Reflections on my slowest Run Around the Square 5K in 13 yearsoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2013
Celebrating Claude Debussy's 151st birthday through unusual performances of Syrinxoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2013
RIP Marian McPartland of Piano Jazzoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2013
Another unexpected life change: one month of learning to play ukuleleoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2013
Pittsburgh Data Visualization: D3 and only D3original ↗
23 Aug 2013
My lightning talk at Steel City Ruby 2013: "Reflections"original ↗
19 Aug 2013
Steel City Ruby 2013: my second year and it radically changed my life again (part 1)original ↗
19 Aug 2013
Power and the AOL public firingoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2013
Pittsburgh Java User Group: Java EE 7, 8, and beyond; or done?original ↗
14 Aug 2013
Why I was so happy to run 5 miles in 63 minutes today when I was doing it in 50 earlier this yearoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2013
RIP, Eydie Gorméoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2013
Emerging from my three months of illness, self-pitying, and self-loathingoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2013
Getting up when reality punches you in the face: running the second Liberty Mile in Pittsburghoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2013
A haircut leading to my playing "I'll Always Love You" on fluteoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2013
Pittsburgh Data Visualization: D3 and Roriginal ↗
8 Aug 2013
A new hike in Frick Park with Abbyoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2013
Pittsburgh Ruby/Python social and some observations about our polyglot worldoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2013
Pittsburgh Node Meetup: Optimizing development workflow with Gruntoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2013
Pittsburgh Data Visualization Meetup: inaugural meet and greetoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2013
I miss playing chess at the Pittsburgh Chess Cluboriginal ↗
31 Jul 2013
All India: great new Indian restaurant in Pittsburghoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2013
Pittsburgh Ruby lightning talk night: RVM, business logic with Rails, IRC, rspec-given, Vagrantoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2013
Pittsburgh JavaScript meetup: functional programmingoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2013
More summer musical partying, and another ten-year-old dream fulfilled!original ↗
5 Jul 2013
Second year at July 3 music party: still only listening without playingoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2013
Why I hate calling myself "pragmatic" but dooriginal ↗
1 Jul 2013
nil, non-determinism, exceptions: a journey in debugging the software that generates my blogoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2013
We should not create this kind of terrible error message for the end useroriginal ↗
26 Jun 2013
Pittsburgh Python: night of the favorite moduleoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2013
Announcing a new blog: "The Conscientious Programmer"original ↗
26 Jun 2013
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