Pat Dryburgh

I’ve been playing a lot of music lately. It started a couple weeks after my father died when a friend from high school invited me to an open mic. Following six years of not performing music in public, what started as a monthly night out quietly grew into a side hustle performing at local bars and restaurants several times a month.

When I started booking paid gigs, I decided to promote my music using just my first and middle name. As proud as I am of my family name, Dryburgh is difficult to pronounce and impossible to know how to spell based solely on hearing it spoken over a microphone or in a conversation at a noisy venue. So, I’ve been performing as Patrick Douglas.

It also gave me an opportunity to make myself another website! PatrickDouglas.ca is a simple one-page site powered by Jekyll and hosted on Github pages. Right now, it includes links to my email and Instagram and lists my upcoming and past shows. Eventually, my hope is it will become a repository of the music I’ve recorded and will record in the future.

I’ve reused the basic template for a couple of other projects now, including my nascent cover band, The Pop Rockets and for my friend and fellow musician Jamie Shrier. My hope is to encourage local musicians in London, Ontario to start owning their own domain names in addition to their social channels in the hopes it will prepare them for another inevitable upheaval across the social media landscape.

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It’s been 21 years since I started skipping my last semester of the twelfth grade and began teaching myself how to code by installing phpbb and customizing the design. Sadly, those old designs are long lost, but they led to what has been an interesting and satisfying career.

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For the first time since I bought my house, it is raining outside and not inside. So grateful to everyone who has helped me 😊❤️

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Raise your hand if you felt immense relief reading the story about the 23-year-old who recently fixed a 22-year-old bug in Firefox related to handling the hover state of an element that then renders a tooltip because you have a strangely similar issue sitting in a Jira project that you haven’t touched in months ✋

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My dog, Billy, laying on the new flooring in my home

Billy seems to like the new flooring.

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Poster promoting Pop Rockets live at Winks Eatery on October 14, 2023

I am super excited to announce the first official gig of my new acoustic cover band, the Pop Rockets, is happening on Saturday, October 14 at 10pm at Winks Eatery in London, Ontario.

If you’re in the area, it would mean the world for you to join us 😊

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Allen Pike explains why you should make the thing the link. No, you can’t click here. Click the thing.

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Today, for the first time ever, my barber buzzed out my ear hair. The war has begun.

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My favourite podcast network, Relay FM, turned nine today! Congratulations to Myke & Stephen and everyone at Relay who consistently produce excellent entertainment. Here’s to the next nine 🍻

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Check out this beautiful rain drop wallpaper collection from my baby bro!

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