Conferences can be hit-and-miss. It’s easy to go through the motions on autopilot and find the experience lacklustre. Earlier on this summer, I attended one that started out lacklustre, but then became
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This morning I got stuck in the slow lane behind an old man when I was walking down the sidewalk on my way to a Zoom meeting at my neighbourhood coffee shop. Rather
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If you’ve ever splattered your face, shirt, counter, and ceiling with coffee and grounds when trying to operate an Aeropress coffee maker, this is how to prevent it.
Blowouts happen when it
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No matter our position or situation, life will throw challenges our way. These can either knock us off our stride and make us sulk, or be an opportunity to grow.
Depending on my
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Reality is detailed, and attention is finite. As I get older, I find myself noticing less. I think this is partly because adults are socialized not to stare, and to pretend like they
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Keyboard people invest time upfront memorizing keybindings, in order to save time in the long run. At least, that’s the theory. In practice, it’s more like this:
What if we crowdsourced
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At the risk of stating the obvious even more obviously than I usually do: sometimes the perfect approach involves tolerating imperfection.
Imperfection?! Yes. Specifically, the more macroscopic one’s view becomes, the more
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I play the violin. I started when I was about six, but didn’t get serious until I was nine, when my parents gave me a new instrument as a birthday gift that
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Figuring out how to upload a Ghost theme using the Admin API from Bash shouldn't have required heroic effort. Embarrassingly, it did.
↓ Jump to the script ↓
I cobbled a script together
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For those of you who are new: Welcome! We have three new posts for you. They aren’t entirely representative of what we usually publish, but our posts rarely are.
1. The Grug
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[ Inspired by the strangely-hilarious meme-essay The Grug Brained Developer ]
grug brained writer write million million words and sell about two. grug scratch head to figure why two words become shiny rocks and not
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Computers are a tool that you can use or be used by. I have written about my tool-taming tactics before, including blocking distracting websites in my hosts file. My “checking” function is the
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Because it contains details of my medical history, this is a members-only post. If you have a seasonal rash and the cost of membership is a financial hardship, please contact me so I
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While shopping for a new Linux laptop, I attempted to use Google-style advanced search operators on eBay, without luck.
All references to such things seem to have been removed from their docs. But
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