People may argue whether remote work is as productive as working in the office, or if it provides the same opportunities for improving your skills and career growth. But you never see people arguing whether it’s good for geographic mobility. “Work from the beach!” they say. And they may be…

After being awarded a Microsoft MVP award for 7 years in a row I wasn’t reawarded this year. This came as no surprise and is totally fair. For the last couple of years, I didn’t feel like I deserved it and even contemplated “retiring” voluntarily. But first I wanted to…

As Russia invaded Ukraine I decided to stop listening to Russian music on Spotify. I didn’t listen to many Russian artists, though I have a few in my library. And even though most of my favorites turned out to be decent people trying to help Ukraine like Oxxxymiron or Noize…

Check the previous post in the “Music-Making for Developers and Other Techies” series DAW (or Digital Audio Workstation) software is the IDE equivalent in the computer music production world. It’s the hub of your music-making activities whether you do everything with software (also commonly referred to as “in the box”)…

Check the previous post in the “Music-Making for Developers and Other Techies” series Good news! Your development PC is most likely good enough to get started with music production. Provided you are OK with sharing it between your developer and musician selves. But in case you want to buy or…

I’ve been developing software for more than 25 years. I’ve been creating music in my head for even longer and sometimes that even manifested in real-world experiments. While I took my programming hobby more and more seriously my music-making aspirations stayed just that. Throughout my software development career, I’ve tried…

My first ever “proper” album is out now! It’s called R&D and is the culmination of my second year of researching how music is made and developing my skills. Hence the name. On the other hand, I don’t have a favorite music genre or style neither as a listener nor…

I’ve been developing software since I was a teenager which was… a long time ago. All this time I was also making, well, sounds. First by dropping a small soviet microphone into a cheap kid's acoustic guitar, then using trackers (remember those?), and finally graduating to modern DAWs. There were…