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January 19, 2023

Twitterrific: End of an Era

It’s a sad day for 3rd party Twitter clients as it seems Elon’s Twitter has decided to fully announce they aren’t allowed anymore.

January 18, 2023

Reading Twitter with Feedbin

With what appears to be the demise of 3rd party Twitter clients one feature that I’ve sorely missed is multiple panes all with my different lists open.

January 17, 2023

Fireship: Tailwind CSS is the worst…

A fun little video going through the pros and cons of Tailwind. 😄

January 16, 2023

The Art and Science of Spending Money

I really enjoyed this article from CollabFund on money, but this quote included by Richard Nixon really struck out to me:

January 15, 2023

Death by a thousand cuts

When your favorite app changes things it’s a little annoying. Maybe a button you hit 30 times a day moves to a new location.

January 12, 2023

Cryptic Hints

I’ve been using Github for Mac as my Git client for years now.

January 7, 2023

Microsoft Buys Land in NC for datacenter

According to BizJournals, Microsoft is buying up land in the piedmont area of NC for a datacenter:

January 5, 2023

Meme Templates

I love meme’s and like seeing them across my various social feeds. They also seem to always generate a lot of shares and comments.

January 4, 2023

Personal Finance Books

For the past few years every January I go back through all my personal finance books to try and pinpoint what I did well in the previous year and what I ne...

January 3, 2023

Temporary 100-Percent Deduction for Business Meal Expenses

Typically for a business expenses you can deduct 50 percent of the amount for meals related to business functions.

January 2, 2023

Use Commas with Alfred's Calculator

One annoyance with the Mac app Alfred is by default it doesn’t support commas in numbers when trying to do calculations:

January 1, 2023

Perspective

From Twitter as we go into a new year:

July 14, 2021

iTerm2 Settings to Make Your Life Better

iTerm2 is my terminal app of choice and I’ve been using it for years.

March 18, 2021

Remove the period when double spacing on the Mac

In one of the recentish Mac updates they added the feature from iOS where if you hit the spacebar twice in a row it will automatically add a period.

March 11, 2021

How to save an SVG from HTML

If you’ve worked with SVG’s before you may know that you can grab the file by inspecting the DOM through your browsers developers tools, and then copy and...

March 8, 2021

Statamic SEO Pro with Laravel Controllers

Statamic has a great first party plugin called SEO Pro that includes a lot of settings every site probably needs for search engine optimization including t...

February 17, 2021

WordPress too many redirects to wp-admin while using Cloudflare

I have a stand alone WordPress install that has been running along just fine for years.

February 13, 2021

New toys = rainy days

There is a running joke in a lot of outdoor sports communities where as soon as someone gets something new it’s guaranteed to rain.

December 29, 2020

Others Year In Reviews

Around this time of the year all the creators start sharing what all they accomplished during the year and I love reading them.

November 3, 2020

Self Control

Today is Election Day in the United States and it’s always a stressful day watching the news, seeing the social media posts, and just sitting around watchi...