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Missing in Me

One of my goals this year is to write a book... ...and I'm doing a superb job of fucking it up by not prioritizing my time around writing and accomplishing this goal of mine. With that, I figured I may [...]

Charity starts on your hard drive

I've never been a charitable person. There, I said it. It's not that I don't care enough, it's that I've always been somewhat selfish with my "hard earned dollars". That said, this past January I read Dave Ramsay's The Total [...]

June Challenge: Improve Posture

Last year I took the month of June to immerse myself in Jazz music in an attempt to find some appreciation for it. I still think jazz sucks but Jazz June has turned into a mid-year opportunity for me to [...]

Just drive

We did a thing today. We got in the car and drove to the largest Buc-ee's in the great state of Texas. Nay! We drove to the largest Buc-ee's on the planet Earth. Why? Why the fuck not. It's quite [...]

Changing personality types

Since late 2015 and every 6 months or so after, I have been taking a Myers-Briggs test by way of 16Personalities. Can't really remember, but I think the reason I originally took the test was because my Dave had asked [...]

How to calculate Mother's Day in JavaScript

One of my favorite features of PHP is the strtotime function. It takes a string and gives you the equivalent time in return. Unfortunately, there's not something similar for other languages. There are other ATTEMPTS to duplicate the function, but [...]

The Alchemist

You may have noticed that I stopped doing a ton of book reviews. Down to nearly zero as of late, actually. At my reading pace this year, it was becoming overwhelming and I started to feel like I was phoning [...]

Effective use of screen real estate

I've been secretly judging really hard recently as I've been observing how people, specifically developers, use their available screen real estate. I'm a huge proponent of using 100% of my screen and like Jeff Atwood, I don't care about having [...]

Speed Comparison: GitHub vs. GitLab (2017)

It's been just a bit over a year since I did my original speed comparison of GitHub and GitLab. There's been a lot of moving and shaking from both companies over that period. Some of it has been good, like [...]

How to install Tmux 2.x on Debian 8 "Jessie"

I'm happy to admit that I'm a bit of a Debian novice. Coming from a decade of using Ubuntu, I still have a bit to learn. My recent dilemma was with the version of tmux I had on one of [...]