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Surviving or Thriving?
There's surviving, and then there's thriving. As things reopen, I find myself a little hesitant to crawl out from under the rock and thrive again.
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The Little Things #2
It's tough to believe we're in June already. Maybe part of the reason it doesn't feel like it's nearly summer is because our summer rituals haven't really started. There's still a lot to celebrate this week though....
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What's a word cloud and how do I make one?
You've most likely seen word clouds before, like in the sidebars of blogs, even if you didn't know what they were called. Learn how they're made.. and how you can make your own!...
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Your fast, my slow
Do you ever wonder if some end-user is sitting at their desk right now, eye twitching spasmodically while a screen you helped write takes 30 seconds to load, cursing your name and the names of your children for all eternity?...
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The first website is still online (again)
Did you know the very first website ever is available online, just as it was 30 years ago? Before google, yahoo, geocities, there it was - a few static pages linking to the entirety of the Internet at the time....
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Buying, building, and something in between
It's good to push yourself to learn more, to try something new even knowing you might fail. On the other hand, there's a wisdom in accepting that someone else already honed the skills we're after, and take advantage of that. And maybe there's something in between - a best of both worlds....
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The Little Things #1
The course of our lives seem to follow Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. When we sit back and think about where life is going, momentum ceases. And when we commit to a choice, we don't care where we're standing but just speed off in the next direction. And I haven't even had a beer yet....
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Keep the plumbing out of my living room
When it comes to writing software and deciding where to store files, Windows sets certain areas of the system aside and makes them easily discoverable. Some developers don't care. Don't be that developer....
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