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Kicking things off

My purpose here is to document various thoughts and findings as things come up, or come to mind.  All strictly technical, and kind of a development diary of sorts.  While ideally, others may find these things useful, my main intent is to have them here for my reference ;-)

Still, I'll try to write them in tutorial fashion

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