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How do I sign up?

One of the most frequent requests I receive on Holiday API is "How do I sign up for an account?" and "How do I get an API key?" It throws me off because there is a giant "get started for [...]

The boob post

My wife, the esteemed blogger that she is, gave me a bit of advice recently: If you showed more titties on your blog, you would have more followers. It's sound, and quite easily the best advice I've ever received concerning [...]

Fixing an Arch Linux system that is booting into emergency mode

File this under "crap I want to document in case it happens again later". So while in the middle of working today, my MacBook Pro running Arch Linux (recently clean installed) decided to lock up on me. Pretty sure it [...]

How to do stuff

So I read this Lifehacker article the other day discussing Google's top 10 "how to" searches worldwide from 2004 to 2017. I was like "Good God Lemon, I know how do that stuff!" Enough banter, here's Josh's guide to doing [...]

Side projects are not a threat

Say it with me, side projects are not a threat. If anything, they should be viewed as a form of continuing education. Before you say anything, I'm fully aware that there are assholes out there that choose to run their [...]

Founder Falloff

There's too many posts out there talking about how to find a good co-founder. And perhaps if I had read them all, I wouldn't be writing a post like this. Today I want to talk about something that I've been [...]

Confessions of a distro hopper

Hi, I'm Josh, a born again Linux user that somehow became a distro hopper. Sadly, I'm not entirely sure when I had lost control. If you look at my track record prior to switching back from OS X last year [...]

You gotta get away for a while

I'm fortunate to work for a company (Sumo) that takes bi-annual retreats. Going into the job, I had no fucking clue how important getting away from the wife and kid would be for me. These trips have continually been a [...]

Finding old pending comments in Disqus

I try to reply to each and every comment on my blog. It's just common courtesy to my readers and I love to extend the dialog beyond the content of the post itself. Sadly though, I tend to only be [...]

Hide title bars in GNOME Shell

GNOME Shell's title bars are just too damn big. So big that I have been toying around with the idea of going back to a tiling window manager. TWMs like xmonad and i3 have little to no title bar. It [...]