Josh Sherman

Category: Personal

  • Improving my Vim experience

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    I love Vim but the fact is I’ve been soul searching for a new editor because I am starting to think I am missing out on things. I decided to put together a list of issues that I have with Vim so that I can work towards imprioving my Vim…

  • Safari bug when signing up for Twitter

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    Wasn’t entirely sure what I was going to blog about today when a stroke of inspiration occurred after the wife was strugglging to create a new Twitter account for an upcoming adventure. I tried it from her computer and everything seemed fine. She said it was because I type faster…

  • Wonder what’s next?

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    I have been running this blog since 2013 as a way to improve my PHP as well as my writing. It has been a labor of love and I made it my goal to post at least once a week. At the start of 2015 I decided that I would…

  • Refocusing my blog’s content

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    For my first post as a 34-year-old, I wanted to announce that I am refocusing my blog’s content. It’s a pivot of sorts as I have been pining over what I should focus my content on. I have noticed over the last few years of blogging that my PHP blog…

  • 5 things I learned by unliking all of my Facebook likes

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    In an effort to limit my digital footprint, one of the things I am doing is not liking every fucking thing on Facebook. In addition to not liking anything moving forward, I also went back and unliked everything that I have liked over the last 3 years or so. This…

  • Life without Google

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    I’ve decided that this year is going to be the year that I try to limit the amount of information I put out onto the Interwebs and hone my social presences and take back my privacy as best as I can. I’m “liking” less, I’m not going to reveal my…

  • Depth vs. duration of friendships

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    This was supposed to be one of those grossly introspective posts that was originally drafted while at that “perfect” level of inebriation (somewhere on the down slope of Ballmer Peak if I had to guess 😉 Well, simply put, fuck that noise, let’s talk about friendships! This post had actually…

  • Get out of your own way

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    It happens to the best of us, you’re faced with a seemingly simple problem and you can’t figure it out to save your life. On the surface it’s easy but you start to get wrapped up in hypothetical situations and premature optimization to the point that you’re completely incapacitated. It…

  • Why I still use and maintain my own PHP framework

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    I consider myself a PHP developer first and foremost. I don’t tout myself as a Pickles developer (my own framework) or a WordPress, Laravel, CakePHP, Django, Flask or Meteor developer even though I have working experience with all of them. At the end of the day those frameworks still require…

  • Never run out of “firsts”

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    If you know me, then you’re probably aware of my recent desire to move away from my hometown which is quite possibly just me going through a quarter-to-mid-life crisis. Before we can get the hell out of dodge, I have to find the right career opportunity abroad. I’m fortunate that…