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Pieter Hintjens is a writer, programmer and thinker who has spent decades building large software systems and on-line communities, which he describes as "Living Systems". He is an expert in distributed computing, having written over 30 protocols and distributed software systems. He designed AMQP in 2004, and founded the ZeroMQ free software project in 2007.

He is the author of the O'Reilly ZeroMQ book, "Culture and Empire", "The Psychopath Code", "Social Architecture", and "Confessions of a Necromancer." In April 2016 he was diagnosed with terminal metastasis of a previous cancer.

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Doing Stuff You're Bad at is Good For You
One of the tricks I use to not burn out on a project is to work as hard on learning new things as I do on doing what I already know. Last December I bought a piano and started teaching myself to play. The results… well, my daughter likes them and that's good enough for me.

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Making Music on Linux
I've always loved music, and have always been a terrible musician. Recently I found myself playing a cheap Casio keyboard and graduated to a rather nicer Kawai electronic piano. The Kawai has midi outputs, so as an experiment I've been recording some of my rambling piano compositions. I'll explain how I got these into a nice digital format using just a dead cat and a length of garden string.

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