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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 [...]

$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr - July 2017

Damn Josh, back at it again with the VPS comparison! It's been a little more than 6 months since my last comparison post and a lot of the recent feedback has been to refresh the data a bit more regularly [...]

Stop thinking, start doing

Nothing urks me more than somebody saying they want to do something and all they are doing to accomplish it is thinking about it. Had a conversation about this with somebody recently. They want to get into selling their artwork [...]

Tortilla chip croutons

Ever get an idea in your head, then search the web furiously under the assumption that somebody had to have done it already? That was me today. I like taco salads but I simply hate the idea of an edible [...]

Using goals to create habits

Goals are absolutely worthless if they don't help you to establish habits or virtues. That said, I love goals and consider myself somewhat of a goal-centric individual. Goals give me something to work towards and a wonderful sense of accomplishment [...]

Saying goodbye

I didn't cry this much when my mother passed away. For my momma dog though... I was a fucking wreck. Reason being? At first, I thought maybe just maybe it had something to do with my own emotional growth over [...]