The 12-bar blues on Irish bouzouki in GDAD tuning: the same 1-4-5 number chart with chord shapes for the keys of G, A, and E, plus the modal drone options the instrument does best.
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The 12-Bar Blues: One Progression, Every Key
Learn the 12-bar blues once as 1-4-5 and you can play it in any key. The form and its common variations, a chord lookup table, and an animated look at the shuffle feel.
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The 12-bar blues moved to ukulele: the same 1-4-5 number chart, with chord shapes for the keys of G, A, and E in standard GCEA tuning.
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Where chords come from -- every triad is built from the 1st, 3rd, and 5th of a scale. A chord table for every key, a fretboard map showing how I, IV, and V sit relative to each other, and an introduction to the Nashville Number System.
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How to generate and use ctags for Verilog/SystemVerilog projects, covering design.vc file lists, editor setup for Vim, Neovim, Emacs, and VS Code, and keeping tags up to date automatically.
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How to add a second self-hosted MCP server alongside an existing one — a blog-management MCP that lets Claude create posts, add images, and publish a Pelican site without leaving the conversation.
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How to build a self-hosted MCP server that exposes a markdown vault as Claude tools — list projects, search notes, write entries, and commit changes, all from a conversation.
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How to add OAuth 2.1 authentication to a self-hosted MCP server: nginx as an authenticating reverse proxy, a minimal Node.js OAuth server, and the key gotchas that will trip you up.
read moreSoC Article 10: The SoC design flow - From specification to silicon
A complete walkthrough of the SoC design flow, from specification and architecture through RTL coding, functional verification, synthesis, physical design, and sign-off to tape-out and fabrication.
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