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May 24, 2020

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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Sep 16, 2018

Prepping for a first time aquarium ("The Plan")

My kids have been asking for a pet for awhile now, so I started looking into something that's fun but manageable. We need something that fits the busy stage of life we're in right now. In other words, fish! But first, we need a plan......

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Oct 16, 2017

Week in Review - Disabling a popup at runtime, Learning the importance of DOMContentLoaded, and Callback fun

I continued working on "Hide Comments Everywhere" this weekend. It's been fun learning and building. Try it out and let me know what you think! Here are a few interesting things I learned this weekend....

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Oct 09, 2017

Week in Review - CSS selectors, MutationObserver, opening GitHub Issues via link and more

I finished writing an extension for Chrome to hide comments. Can't do something like this without learning something new though! Here's a few of the more interesting things I learned last week....

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Sep 12, 2017

A new Chrome extension for hiding comments (and what I learned)

Frequently, when I read an article from a major news outlet or watch a YouTube video, I find the comments far more upsetting than the content. Here's a new Chrome extension I created that hides many comments, and what I learned in the process....

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Jul 24, 2017

How to build on top of the Casper theme in Ghost

This blog runs on the Ghost platform, and I've done a bit of customization to the styling. Nothing major. I...

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Jul 06, 2017

How to Unit Test using Visual Studio for Mac (it's easy!)

While working a code kata last month, I paired with someone to do it in C#. It was a good opportunity for trying out Visual Studio for Mac. Although I've previously kicked the tires on VS4Mac a bit, one of the things I hadn't tried testing out was, well.. testing. As it turns out, it's pretty easy!...

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Apr 27, 2017

Concurrent Programming in Erlang - Scaling Up (week three)

The concurrent programming in Erlang course ended this week. It's been informative. There's been a ton of resources shared (both...

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Cloudinary is an image and video management platform, which freed me from my dependency on YouTube to host videos on this site.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.