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New Project: Refined Idea
Now that I've restarted this blog again, I can write about how my idea for a personal project has changed. I want to expand the idea from comparing two things to ranking several things; the original
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Restarting This Blog Again
Once again, I've decided to restart my blogging efforts. As interesting as learning about Nikola and GitHub pages was, I wanted something simpler. Now I'm writing in Ulysses and publishing to Ghost h
New Project: the Idea
I've wanted a personal software development project for a while. Some reasons why are: * to scratch the "just for me, just for fun” itch * to have a workbench for learning new libraries, APIs, etc
Forgotten Kindle Password
We had an old Kindle lying around, and no one could remember the passcode for it. I share the good news about 1Password with all who will listen. But some accounts and devices I encounter were config
My “Humble Confidence” Project with Vantage Group
I've been developing software professionally since August 1989. I've researched, struggled with, and "pragmatically mastered" many languages, libraries, platforms, and operating systems over that time
Git and the SSH Command
I use two separate software identities: one for my "work self" and one for my "personal self." I may write a future post about how I came to that practice, but today I'm going to describe how it resul
Creating a Blog on GitHub Pages
Over the past several years, I've tried to get a blog going using a few different platforms: Squarespace, Tumblr, WordPress, and Ghost. For one reason or another - I'm sure mostly my lack of commitmen
Prompting for Parameters in VS Code
While debugging a node.js app in VS Code at work, I thought it sure would be nice if I could pass a parameter into my app to decide what deployment stage to target. A few minutes with Google turned up
GitHub Gists
I finally took a few minutes to learn what gists are in GitHub. I understood the basic idea from encountering them all over the web, but I wanted to precisely know what they are. Here are some essent
Hello There!
Software development has been a wonderful career choice.