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October 26, 2018

The Local Paper

A staple at my grandparent’s house was the daily paper.

October 25, 2018

Just Ask

Today my friend Mohamed Said wrote on his blog about putting fear aside and reaching out to people, and he included the following video from Steve Jobs:

October 24, 2018

To Kill a Mockingbird voted best-loved novel

PBS released the results of their Great American Read survey and To Kill a Mockingbird was voted by viewers as America’s #1 best-loved novel.

October 23, 2018

SEO is still king

I’m not huge on looking on stats but about once a month I try to go through some and see where traffic is coming from, what posts are popular and attempt t...

October 22, 2018

Early voting

It’s election season again, time to do our civic duty and vote for politicians that will work for us and carry our voice.

October 21, 2018

Host your own content

On a typical day when I see a link to an article with Medium in the URL, I tend to skip it and think the reason for this is subconsciously I don’t like how...

October 20, 2018

Time-Lapse of Creating the Laravel Newsletter

As I sat down to start to start working on this week issue of the Laravel newsletter I had the thought, this could be cool as a time-lapse, so I set up my...

October 20, 2018

1Password for 2FA

The common security precaution is to never reuse the same password and the only sane way you can do that is by utilizing a password manager.

October 19, 2018

Book Review: A Higher Loyalty

A Higher Loyalty by James Comey has been out for a few months now and it is one I was hesitant to start reading because I assumed it to be a completely dif...

October 18, 2018

Process Cards with Stripe + Twilio

Stripe just announced support for Twilio Pay:

October 17, 2018

My Everyday Carry

I have an affection for everyday carry items. I love looking at checking out blog posts, or Instagram posts that feature what others carry.

October 16, 2018

Custom Apple Watch Faces

One thing that has been sorely missing with the Apple Watch is the ability to create custom watch faces.

October 15, 2018

Book Review: It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work

Do you have employees, run a business, work in software, or sick and tired of your current workplace?

October 12, 2018

Daily Analog Log Books

This year I started keeping an analog log book and it’s been fun to flip back through it, but I noticed that due to the size of the notebook I’m not includ...

October 11, 2018

Video: How I make the Laravel News Featured Images

It’s funny how you can create something and then totally forget about it, never to blog about it, and then in a matter of a few days have multiple conversa...

October 10, 2018

Digital Theft

I’ve had my house broken into once, but I remember that feeling of walking in and seeing everything you own thrown everywhere.

October 9, 2018

Farewell Google+

Yesterday, Google announced that during an audit they found evidence that some 3rd party apps may have been granted overly broad access to your data, but t...

October 8, 2018

Snaps from the 2018 USNWC Build Your Own Boat Competition

This past weekend USNWC had their annual Build Your Own Boat competition and it’s always a lot of fun, so I loaded up the family and went to see all the cr...

October 5, 2018

Master Todoist with 5 Minute Productivity

My friend, Chris Gmyr just launched a new Youtube series called 5 Minute Productivity and the first set of videos is all about Todoist.