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May 8, 2018

Mountain Biking at DuPont

This past weekend myself and a few buddies loaded up the truck and hit the trails at DuPont State Forest.

May 7, 2018

Ulysses Plans to Improve The Code Blocks

From the Ulysses announcement:

May 5, 2018

Sales are not made from screaming

I rarely watch regular TV but when I do it’s immediately noticeable how much louder the commercials are than the program you are watching.

May 4, 2018

How to draw comics when you can’t actually draw

Chaz Hutton has a great post on Medium with some quick tips on how to draw comics and the section on emotions caught my eye:

May 2, 2018

New Camera - Olympus OM-D Mark II

I’ve been wanting to learn more about photography and up till now, I’ve been iPhone camera only.

April 29, 2018

Thirty-Nine​

Today is my thirty-ninth birthday and what better way to celebrate than sharing thirty-nine things I’ve learned over the years:

April 28, 2018

Carolina Thread Trails: South Fork Trail

I love to do things outside and try to get the family out every weekend.

April 27, 2018

Operator Mono with Ligatures

Have you wished Operator Mono had ligatures similar to Fira Code?

April 26, 2018

Closing those Apple Watch Rings

April 25, 2018

The Revenge of Analog

The Revenge of Analog by David Sax is a book I picked up for two reasons, I thought the cover was awesome, and I’ve been on an analog kick this year.

April 24, 2018

The Amazon Three Stars Rule

The Washington Post has a story on how merchants are using Facebook to flood Amazon with fake reviews and this reminded me of the three-star review rule to...

April 23, 2018

The ‘Terms and Conditions’ Reckoning Is Coming

PayPal Holdings Inc. insists she should have known the minimum age is 18, because the rule is clearly stated in terms and conditions she agreed to.

April 21, 2018

Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing

Most maintainers start working on open source software because it’s fun and solves a problem they have.

April 21, 2018

My First MTB Race

Yesterday I raced in my first MTB race.

April 19, 2018

What Makes PHP Popular?

I saw this question pop up on a forum and I know every PHP developer has their own reasons, it made me think of why I initially picked PHP way back in the...

April 18, 2018

Where is the Book Publishing Disruption?

There are two primary ways of publishing these days. The first is to go through a book publishing company and the second is through self-publishing.

April 17, 2018

Hacking the CAN-SPAM Act for fun

The CAN-SPAM Act was enacted back in 2003 and one of the provisions is that you must include a physical address in your email newsletter:

April 16, 2018

Mowing the lawn

I grew up in rural North Carolina on a track of land that measured around five acres. Much of it was wooded with maybe around an acre and half of grass.

April 15, 2018

The War of Art

Every time I ready to ship something I get tons of apprehension and the feeling of a fraud and a failure.

April 12, 2018

What computer should I get?

If you work in tech then I’m sure you are familiar with the question of “what computer should I get” and outside of “will you fix my printer” it’s probably...