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April 11, 2018

Old Racing Pictures

Growing up my family would travel somewhere in the southeast every weekend to race motocross.

April 10, 2018

AeroPress Recipes

AeroPress was invented back in 2005 and a few years ago it felt to me like it hit critical mass and everyone was using them.

April 9, 2018

Basecamping With Friends

A few months ago I had a conversation with a few online friends about writing and after a few hours of the back and forth we decided to start a Slack group...

April 8, 2018

Every Busy Two Lane Interstate in America

Both lanes packed with cars as far as you can see and there is always that one person on the inside lane going a hundred miles an hour trying jump in the t...

April 7, 2018

How to Keep Going - Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon giving a talk on 10 things to stay creative in our chaotic times:

April 6, 2018

On Social Media,​ A Chronological Feed is Never Coming Back

I joined Twitter almost a decade ago and it’s changed a lot over the years.

April 5, 2018

An Afternoon of Painting

This week my kids are on spring break and I took the week off so we could all hang out as a family with no worries.

April 4, 2018

Open Source - Donations vs Selling

I know most people do not create open source projects to make money or to even get reimbursed for their time, but as a project gains success more than like...

April 2, 2018

An RSS Revival?

Over the weekend Wired published a story saying it’s time for an RSS revival and it hit home for me because this year I’ve made a concerted effort to move...

March 31, 2018

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

I see book recommendations all over the internet and in the past, I would try to make a mental note or add the title to my task list to check out later.

March 30, 2018

FOMO with Social Media is Real

When it comes to tools like Facebook, Twitter or Instagram: don’t let the fear of missing out dictate how you live your life.

March 29, 2018

Read books and listen to audiobooks with Libby

The public library system doesn’t seem to get a lot of love lately, but they are making great strides in modernizing.

March 28, 2018

Learn keyboard shortcuts in IntelliJ products with Key Promoter X

Here is an interesting plugin I came across today that stores every button you press with the mouse that could be used with a keyboard shortcut.

March 27, 2018

MJML for coding responsive email

HTML email has always been dreadful and over the past few years many new frameworks, templates builders, and tools have come out to make it easier.

March 26, 2018

Profit First

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz is one of the business books I read last year and I decided to start 2018 off by implementing some of the features of this...

March 24, 2018

My First Online Doctor Visit

The end of February I came down with a cold, allergies, something.

March 23, 2018

IDEA - IKEA Style Instructions for algorithms

IDEA a unique project that uses IKEA style of instructions to explain algorithm assembly instructions. From their about page:

March 22, 2018

Quick Review of Andy Weir's Artemis

Artemis by Andy Weir came out at the end of last year and as a big fan of the Martian I decided to grab the Audible version, which is arguably the best way...

March 21, 2018

Thanks to Cloudflare

Finding services to complain about is always easy and it’s easy to look for things that annoy, much harder to find things that please.

March 20, 2018

My Annoyance with WordPress.com Themes

Late last year I switched this domain from self-hosted WordPress back to wordpress.com that way I didn’t have to deal with updates, running a server, payin...