Journal & Notebook
My virtual friend Michael Brooks announced on his blog that he is challenging himself: Something I would like to try out for this month is post less on social media (excluding Instagram) and post more on WordPress. I rarely spend time posting to social anyway, but it could be interesting. Even if it’s just […]
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Almost every work day I have a routine where I try to stay up to date with the world through the paper, Twitter, and of course Hacker News for the nerdy stuff. Of course, all of these sites can be time-consuming and just staying up to date with these three could take hours a day. Here […]
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It’s been raining a lot the past week and most of our local single track is closed until it dries out. I knew that meant either going and getting muddy at Poston Park which never closes. Instead of that, I decided to try and hit some gravel roads, but most roads in Gaston County are now paved. […]
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The old saying, “sleep on it”, meaning spend some time tonight thinking about the question and have an answer tomorrow. It’s a common phrase in our language but how often do you literally put aside time to actually think about it? Having a busy life outside of work with family, hobbies, dinner, everything else it’s […]
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I recently launched Laravel Events and it was one of those projects that came to life because I wanted to better keep the community informed on what all local events were happening. As I sat down and started planning the project I wanted to start with the goal of doing the absolute minimum to make […]
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Today, Mohamed Said launched a new blogging platform called Wink. that runs on Laravel. Wink is a modern publishing platform carefully designed to only include what matters. Built on top of the world’s finest PHP framework, Laravel, making it easy for everyone to install and maintain on any cloud platform. I love the minimal look […]
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Yesterday, I came across this interview with Brunello Cucinelli who I had honestly never heard of and didn’t know much about but I was captivated by the interview and one part that’s had me thinking is the following quote on his business plans: As for my business plans, I have three-year business plans and 30-year business […]
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