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February 3, 2018

Take a Break to Solve the Problem

Today is beautiful in North Carolina. Clear blue sky, no clouds, but cold with the current temperature of 42F.

February 2, 2018

How To Properly Respond To a Tweet

One of the big complaints about Twitter and social media, in general, is how impersonal it feels.

February 1, 2018

Facebook Really Spams You to Come Back

Sarah Frier writing for Bloomberg:

January 31, 2018

Streaks

At the end of December, I always take a week or two off and use it as a time of regrouping, planning, and just relaxation before the new year starts.

January 30, 2018

Watch The Total Lunar Eclipse Online

From the NASA announcement:

January 29, 2018

We are all idiots at something

We all have our interests, and it’s impossible to be knowledgeable in everything in the world. For example, I’ve never been good at basic auto mechanics.

January 28, 2018

Mr. Rogers Documentary

Above is a clip from a new documentary coming soon called Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

January 27, 2018

Beginning Blogger: Ignore your stats

I’ve had this site for many years and I’ve never really had a posting schedule.

January 26, 2018

Digitally Storing Book Quotes

In the past few years, I made the jump from digital books back to analog, and one of the first reasons I moved was because of the price.

January 25, 2018

Pitching Your Product to a Journalist

In my spare time, I run a tech news site, and I am constantly getting bombarded with pitches to cover everything from code packages, to SAAS apps, to new t...

January 24, 2018

Crying Wolf

Living in a home with others causes you to get comfortable with them, to get complacent, and to get lazy.

January 23, 2018

One easy change to speed up your JavaScript build times

I came across this Field Guide for Better Build Performance by the Slack engineering team and inside contained this gem which is mentioned in the monstrous...

January 22, 2018

GitHub, Tell me when it closes

Have you ever wanted to know when a GitHub issue or PR is closed, only to find out, when you start following it, you get swamped with tons of emails and no...

January 21, 2018

Good morale in cycling

Good morale in cycling comes from good legs.

January 20, 2018

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

Growing up in a state where the interstates are littered with car tags claiming “first in flight” the history of the airplane and the Wright Brothers is a...

January 20, 2018

8 Years Ago

On this day 8 years ago a woman was in pain.

January 19, 2018

"You are not your code" is offensive

“You are not your code” is a popular saying in developer circles with the idea being that the code you create is just code, and you shouldn’t be offended i...

January 18, 2018

Starting Your Own Charitable Foundation

I love reading about personal finance and the more you read it feels like the same stuff is repeated over and over.

January 17, 2018

Humor: Freelance Email Generator

The folks over at toggl created a humorous email generator for freelancers that features two sliders for how much they want to pay you, (from nothing to wa...

January 16, 2018

Using the Noun Project for Journaling

2018 is just getting started and I know many have set out to start new habits break old ones and begin with a fresh start.