Dan Bailey

Five Ways I Cope with Kids’ TV Shows

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Sing along with the songs, but intentionally butcher the lyrics. Sing along with the songs, but in a Death Metal voice. Go in the other room and sob because they’ll never know the joy of the classic Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Show. Knitting needle + eardrums + eye sockets = peaceful bliss. Using television as a method … Read more

macOS Power User (Links)

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https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-osx-command-line https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-osx-command-line/blob/master/functions.md https://github.com/iCHAIT/awesome-macOS https://github.com/spmaniato/os-x-power-user-guide

Hacks: February 2017

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Code/Web One of the larger tasks this month was building out a new webserver and leaving the old one behind. During that time, I solved a lot of the little bullshit problems I’d been coping with and got a bunch of stuff done — went from Ubuntu 12 to 16, upgraded to PHP 7, switched … Read more

What I Believe In (2017 Edition)

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I believe that the best way to determine how someone is going to treat you is to watch how they treat other people. I believe that more manufacturers should work toward selling items that can be repaired in a home workshop — and that the trend toward making goods disposable has really harmed the tinkerer/manufacturer … Read more

Can We Just Snuff Out 2016 Already?

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God, what a fucking shit year. As a whole, I would love to drag it out in the alley, beat it until it begged for death, and then put a bullet in it.1 Violent metaphor aside, I guess I’d just like a do-over on 2016, because reality as taken a walk off the fucking map.

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