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Thoughts on development, tools, and the web.
November 12, 2019
Night Mountain Biking
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November 8, 2019
Due diligence
Someone I follow on social media shared a quote this morning and I disagreed with it.
November 6, 2019
Local Mayor wins re-election
I honestly don’t follow politics too closely, and I don’t know much about political science at all, but I found my local mayor race this year eye-opening.
November 4, 2019
Press Releases
Justin Tadlock writing for WP Tavern about the importance of Press Releases:
November 2, 2019
NaNoWriMo
It’s November which means it’s time for NaNoWriMo again.
November 2, 2019
AirPods Pro
I bought the original AirPods on a recommendation from someone I trust, and it’s one of the best purchases I made.
October 29, 2019
Identity
Identity is your distinguishing character or personality. If you want to be known as a cat person, talk about cats.
October 27, 2019
Mistakes
Every Sunday I send out a newsletter and right now it’s at about 35,000 subscribers. It just so happens I made an embarrassing mistake in today’s issue:
October 25, 2019
Chopsticks Required
To keep your keyboard clean and free from grim use chopsticks when you are eating chips and other snacks.
October 22, 2019
The Man in the Arena
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
October 21, 2019
Framework Defaults
Sebastian Schlein on why you should stick to the default Laravel architecture:
October 18, 2019
Local Elections
Early voting is in full swing in my area and I had the ability to go over my lunch break yesterday and cast mine.
October 17, 2019
Angry Email
I send a lot of emails through my various web properties. I’d say at least 200 to 300 thousand emails each month.
October 16, 2019
Command + Q
As part of my normal routine, I check Twitter throughout the day and I like to see what my friends are sharing.
October 15, 2019
Pros and Cons
My kids want a dog, it’s all they’ve been talking about for a few weeks now. As a kid, they can’t understand what all is involved in having a pet.
October 14, 2019
Meetup's Hostile Pricing Changes
It’s been all over my Twitter feed today about Meetup announcing big changes to their pricing.
October 13, 2019
Announcing Made In Production
I’ve always been a fan of developer swag. Everything from shirts, to hats, and everything else.
October 12, 2019
Buggerino Logos - Hacktinkerfest
My second Hacktinkerfest logo design is now complete, and I just sent off the pull request to Buggerino, which is a native app for Android/IOS that allows...
October 11, 2019
One hit wonder
I had a single tweet sort of go viral, well, not super viral, just 4,500 retweets and 10,800 likes.
October 10, 2019
SILENCE
One of the best new settings that come with iOS 13 is the ability to silence calls from unknown numbers.