# The Duane Storey

> The home of engineer and world traveller, Duane Storey

## Pages

- [Curriculum Vitae](https://duanestorey.com/curriculum-vitae.md): Duane Storey Valencia, Spain · Canadian Citizen · [duanestorey (at) gmail (dot) com] Profile Full-stack product engineer
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- [5.1 Digital Decoding](https://duanestorey.com/5-1-digital-decoding.md): I knew before I even started that the digital 5.1 decoding aspect of this amplifier was going to be the one that was the
- [Chassis](https://duanestorey.com/chassis.md): Once I had the idea of building an amplifier, the next step was to find a decent chassis for it. While I appreciate the
- [Connectors And Interconnects](https://duanestorey.com/connectors-and-interconnects.md): If you look at most photos of do it yourself (DIY) audio amplifiers, they almost always use screw terminals to connect everything
- [IEC Input Connector & Fuse](https://duanestorey.com/iec-input-connector-fuse.md): Once the chassis is assembled, the next step is to install the IEC power socket and fuse. The IEC socket is a standard size,
- [Power Amplification](https://duanestorey.com/power-amplification.md): The first order of business for the amplifier was figuring out how I was going to amplify the audio signals that go to the
- [Primary Safety Connection](https://duanestorey.com/primary-safety-connection.md): Now that the chassis is mostly assembled, and we have a power connector installed, the first order of business is to earth
- [Project Goals](https://duanestorey.com/project-goals.md): As I mentioned before, it’s been a 20 year dream of mine to build some type of amplifier that I can use at home and listen
- [The Microprocessor](https://duanestorey.com/the-microprocessor.md): While I don’t have a ton of experience making PCBs or designing hardware, I do have a small amount. During the COVID lockdowns
- [Building A Hi-Fi 5.1 Amplifier](https://duanestorey.com/building-a-custom-hi-fi-5-1-amplifier-with-dts-dolby-decoding.md): In the winter of 2022, I decided to finally realize a 20 year dream by constructing, mostly from scratch, an audio amplifier
- [Some Of My Favourite Hikes](https://duanestorey.com/hiking.md): One of my favourite outdoor activities for the spring and summer months is outdoor hiking. Over the years I’ve completed
- [English](https://duanestorey.com/en.md)
- [Español](https://duanestorey.com/es.md)
- [Fotografía de Música y Conciertos](https://duanestorey.com/fotografia-de-musica-y-conciertos.md): Montgorock Javea, España Asistí a Montgorock en nombre de los organizadores en Javea, España, y estuve entre bastidores
- [Music and Concert Photography](https://duanestorey.com/music-and-concert-photography.md): Montgorock Javea, Spain I attended Montgorock on behalf of the organizers in Javea, Spain, and was backstage taking photographs
- [Hire Me](https://duanestorey.com/hire-me.md): If you’re looking for a talented WordPress developer or strategist with over a decade of real world experience (including
- [Newsletter](https://duanestorey.com/newsletter.md): You’re interested in signing up for my newsletter? Great! But first, why don’t I tell you a bit about myself, and what you
- [Privacy Policy](https://duanestorey.com/privacy-policy.md): This privacy policy sets out how this website, DuaneStorey.com, uses and protects any information that you give when you
- [Media Kit](https://duanestorey.com/media-kit.md): Duane Storey is an experienced photographer and photojournalist, and has covered many prestigious concerts and events in
- [Contact Me](https://duanestorey.com/contact.md): If you're looking to get in touch with me, the please way to do it is via email at duanestorey at gmail dot com. You can
- [About Duane](https://duanestorey.com/about.md): Duane Storey is a Canadian product engineer, researcher, and photographer currently based in Valencia, Spain. With graduate-level

## Posts

- [Extracting PBMCs For Downstream RNA sequencing](https://duanestorey.com/posts/extracting-pbmcs-for-downstream-rna-sequencing.md): I'm about 28 months out from my primary Covid19 infection that caused my hospitalization, and eventually gave me the joy
- [Chimera: An Open Source RNA Pipeline for Long Covid Research](https://duanestorey.com/posts/chimera-an-open-source-rna-pipeline-for-long-covid-research.md): Back in October, I found out about a new initiative in Europe called Amatica Health. Instead of regular blood tests for
- [My First Week Making Hot Dogs With Claude Code Max 20](https://duanestorey.com/posts/my-first-week-of-claude-code-max.md): I was a bit late to the Claude Code party, and started about six months after most of my friends. I openly admit I was
- [My Claude Code Setup For Remote Development](https://duanestorey.com/posts/claude-code-remote-development-setup.md): How I cobbled together Tailscale, mosh, and tmux to run Claude Code from anywhere — even my iPhone
- [Juniper: An Update On A New Repository For WordPress](https://duanestorey.com/posts/repo-for-wordpress-update.md): I set out last week to try and build a bare-bones repository of WordPress plugins and themes and an associated management
- [Juniper: A New Update Mechanism For WordPress Add-ons](https://duanestorey.com/posts/a-prototype-for-a-new-plugin-and-theme-update-mechanism.md): As most people in the community know, over the last few months things have pretty much gone to shit in WordPress-land. Every
- [Down The Rabbit Hole - A Look At The WordPress Update API](https://duanestorey.com/posts/down-the-rabbit-hole-a-deep-look-at-the-wordpress-api.md): A few weeks ago, I sat down with my WordPress installation to see how difficult it would be to actually use a different
- [Migrating Away From WordPress, Part One: Exporting Data](https://duanestorey.com/posts/migrating-away-from-wordpress-part-one.md): A multipart series on the effort involved in permanent migrating away from the WordPress platform
- [WordPress Is On Dangerous Ground](https://duanestorey.com/posts/wordpress-is-on-dangerous-ground.md): Given recent events in the WordPress eco-system, I've decided to take a break from working on and promoting the platform.
- [How To Make Homemade Chicken Stock](https://duanestorey.com/posts/how-to-make-homemade-chicken-stock.md): Stock is one of those things that seemed magical before I made it. I had purchased a few cooking books, and many recipes
- [Getting Ready To Walk Alta Via 2 In Italy](https://duanestorey.com/posts/getting-ready-to-walk-alta-via-2-in-italy.md): The Italian Mountain range known as the Dolomites is famously home to several amazing long distance thru hikes known as
- [Preparing For The Camino Del Norte](https://duanestorey.com/posts/preparing-for-the-camino-del-norte.md): With the COVID19 state of alarm shortly ending here in Spain, I’ve been slowly getting myself ready to do some long distance
- [The Year The Earth Stood Still](https://duanestorey.com/posts/the-year-the-earth-stood-still.md): I was looking through some of my old posts recently, particularly with regards to COVID-19 and the first lockdown here in
- [Walking The Great Glen Way In Scotland](https://duanestorey.com/posts/walking-the-great-glen-way-in-scotland.md): This last weekend I finally got around to writing up my trip report for my hike along the West Highland Way in 2018. Now
- [Walking The West Highland Way In Scotland](https://duanestorey.com/posts/walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland.md): While I’ve done my fair share of hiking in my life, as I’ve gotten older I’ve gravitated more towards multi-day hikes rather
- [A Lullaby For The Old World Order](https://duanestorey.com/posts/a-lullaby-for-the-old-world-order.md): I realized this morning that I haven’t really given an update since I was smack-dab in the middle of our lockdown here in
- [Spanish Quarantine: Day 20](https://duanestorey.com/posts/spanish-quarantine-day-20.md): Tomorrow marks the end of the third week of forced quarantine here in Spain, and unfortunately at this point there still
- [Spanish Quarantine: Day 12](https://duanestorey.com/posts/spanish-quarantine-day-12.md): This morning I woke up and like most days since the quarantine started here in Spain, immediately checked the official statistics
- [Solidarity In A Time Of Crisis](https://duanestorey.com/posts/solidarity-in-a-time-of-crisis.md): On January 7th, 2020, I was on an airplane flying from Vancouver, Canada, to Spain, fully unaware of what was occurring
- [How We Wrecked Our Guts](https://duanestorey.com/posts/how-we-wrecked-our-guts.md): There is great deal of evidence to show that our guts used to be in a much healthier state decades ago. For example, the
- [Local WordPress Development: From MAMP to Local by Flywheel](https://duanestorey.com/posts/local-wordpress-development-from-mamp-to-local-by-flywheel.md): Years ago, when looking for a way to do local WordPress development, I eventually stumbled upon a pretty nifty tool called
- [The Exciting World Of The Gut Microbiota](https://duanestorey.com/posts/the-exciting-world-of-the-gut-microbiota.md): In 2004, the Human Genome Project was completed. The goal of that project was to sequence the entire human genome, ultimately
- [Social Responsibility In The Age Of The Location-Independent Traveller](https://duanestorey.com/posts/social-responsibility-in-the-age-of-the-location-independent-traveller.md): I live a fortunate life. I have a profession that effectively lets me work from anywhere in the world, all while making
- [Tapas Forever](https://duanestorey.com/posts/tapas-forever.md): Hey everyone, I’ve started a new website called TapasForever detailing my goal for living for a year in Spain. If you’re
- [How To Open a Bank Account in Spain as a Non-Resident](https://duanestorey.com/posts/open-bank-account-spain-non-resident.md): So if you’re here, you’re likely thinking about moving to Spain at some point. I know this, because that’s my end goal as
- [How To Value A Business](https://duanestorey.com/posts/how-to-value-a-business.md): I recently was looking at a business plan for a new venture that came across my desk. The two individuals involved are trying
- [Making Your Business Work For You](https://duanestorey.com/posts/making-business-work.md): One of the hardest aspects of being a business owner is being able to come up with a metric, even an internal one, for what
- [Visiting Iceland](https://duanestorey.com/posts/visiting-iceland.md): I recently made the decision to take advantage of Iceland Air’s free stopover policy to visit Iceland on my way from Vancouver,
- [My Next Adventures: Iceland, Morocco, Spain, Scotland and Germany](https://duanestorey.com/posts/next-adventures-iceland-morocco-spain-scotland-germany.md): I used to proactively write about every upcoming travel adventure I had, but I tend not to do that much these days. One
- [Next Adventure: Walking the West Highland Way in Scotland](https://duanestorey.com/posts/next-adventure-walking-the-west-highland-way-in-scotland.md): People keep asking me what my next travel plans are, so I thought I would give a little update. While I used to only come
- [Walking The 800km Camino de Santiago Between France and Spain](https://duanestorey.com/posts/walking-the-camino-de-santiago.md): It’s 7am in the morning, and the trail in front of me is barely lit by the LED headlamp I’m wearing on my head. I’m up
- [Building an Outdoor Farmhouse Patio Table](https://duanestorey.com/posts/building-outdoor-farmhouse-patio-table.md): I’ve been in the market for a new outdoor patio table for quite some time. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t really want to
- [Two Weeks Until The Camino De Santiago](https://duanestorey.com/posts/two-weeks-camino-de-santiago.md): In less than two weeks from today, I’ll be leaving St. Jean Pied de Port, France and starting my 800 kilometre journey to
- [Packing for the Camino de Santiago](https://duanestorey.com/posts/packing-camino-de-santiago.md): While I still have roughly two months before I head to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to start the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage,
- [Camino de Santiago](https://duanestorey.com/posts/el-camino-de-santiago.md): In about 90 days, I’m heading to London, England, to spend my birthday. As you get older, birthdays become less and less
- [My Return To Malta](https://duanestorey.com/posts/return-to-malta.md): Earlier this year, I got a Facebook invite for a surprise birthday party in Malta. I’m sure when it was sent out nobody
- [Rebooting The Gut With A FMT](https://duanestorey.com/posts/rebooting-gut-with-fmt.md): Back in roughly 2007, I managed to acquire a clostridium difficile infection. It’s a really serious infection, usually preceded
- [New Beginnings](https://duanestorey.com/posts/new-beginnings.md): I realized recently that it’s been almost a full year since I wrote anything on this website. I have tried at various times
- [Moving Across The Country](https://duanestorey.com/posts/moving-across-the-country.md): In about ten days I’ll be jumping in the vehicle with my girlfriend and driving across North America, yet again. We moved
- [Upcoming Travel Plans](https://duanestorey.com/posts/upcoming-travel-plans.md): My girlfriend left the other day to spend three weeks in Italy and Hungary. I have to say, I’m more than a little jealous.
- [Digital Ocean VPS Review](https://duanestorey.com/posts/digital-ocean-vps-review.md): I was recently looking for a decently priced VPS where I could host a couple of small to medium sized websites. I actually
- [Bellroy “Note Sleeve” Men’s Wallet Review](https://duanestorey.com/posts/bellroy-note-sleeve-wallet-review.md): Despite the amount of cool technology I own (iPads, iPhones, etc.), I actually don’t really spend much money on anything
- [Opening a USD account from Canada with TD](https://duanestorey.com/posts/opening-a-usd-account-from-canada-with-td.md): A friend of mine is making preparations to leave on a big European adventure, and trying to get everything ready before
- [A ManageWP Review: Easy WordPress Site Management](https://duanestorey.com/posts/managewp-review-easy-wordpress-site-management.md): I was recently attending WordCamp Europe near Amsterdam, and met Vladimir from ManageWP. I’ve heard lots about ManageWP
- [How To Travel](https://duanestorey.com/posts/how-to-travel.md): As much as I love travelling to new places, you’ll often hear me complaining about how much I dislike the process of travelling
- [Back to Brazil](https://duanestorey.com/posts/back-brazil.md): The last time I was in Brazil, I was there from June until August in 2013, which was basically the tail-end of their winter.
- [How To Set Up A WordPress Blog](https://duanestorey.com/posts/how-to-set-up-a-wordpress-blog.md): One of the first things I did when I committed myself to travelling around the world was to set up a blog. Indeed, I recently
- [Hotwire vs Priceline vs Hotels.com](https://duanestorey.com/posts/comparison-between-hotwire-priceline-and-hotels-com.md): When you do a ton of traveling, you are invariably faced with finding accommodation wherever you end up. While it’s possible
- [Preparing for a Road Trip Across North America](https://duanestorey.com/posts/preparing-for-a-road-trip-across-north-america.md): As I pointed out previously, I’m in the process of moving to Hamilton to spend a year working out of BraveNewCode’s new
- [How To Fly For Free And Earn Elite Status](https://duanestorey.com/posts/how-to-fly-for-free.md): I started my long-term travel adventures in January of 2011, almost 2.5 years ago. Looking back, I really had no idea how