Geek – Dan Bailey

The Grind Continues

July 9, 2019 by Dan Bailey

Still grinding. Still working two jobs, getting out on the bike very infrequently, and generally just herding cats where the rest of life is concerned. Right now, it’s tough, but as we move into the off-season in a couple more months here, my hours at the shop will be cut back and I’ll be working … Read more

Overdue Update: Life!

March 1, 2019 by Dan Bailey

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s been awhile. A long while. I need to get better about posting here, and I need to get my 2018 Reading Review post done, which is a task I’m hoping to tackle this weekend. In the meantime, here’s a brief update going over what’s been happening.

Nerd Projects for 2019

December 21, 2018 by Dan Bailey

With 2019 looming, I have been thinking about the shit that I want to tackle in the coming year. I’ve got some nerdy shit I want to accomplish — a couple of which have been lingering for far too long. First up, the 3D printer, which has been lingering for far too long. I need … Read more

Maker Stuff: March 2018

April 8, 2018 by Dan Bailey

My inner maker was pretty happy in March. I got a lot done, most of it on the coding side of things. Part of the credit here has to go to the last place I was contracting at, which didn’t have enough incoming work to warrant keeping me around, and so I wound up “on the bench” — which means no office time, but no pay, either. That means I was at home for a good chunk of the month and working on these things (when I wasn’t job hunting, interviewing, or doing housework).

Tinkering/Nerdery: February 2018

March 5, 2018 by Dan Bailey

So. Tinkering. This month was productive, but it also wasn’t. How to best explain that? Well, I had a freelance gig that I had to build out, and I learned a ton about the WordPress back-end, ZURB Foundation 6, and jQuery, but it wasn’t for personal hack-y projects. I did manage to get some geeky going, though, which is nice.

Other Chili, Other Stuff

February 7, 2018 by Dan Bailey

This blog is supposed to be focused on tinkering/making/hacking stuff. So why am I posting another chili recipe? Well, mainly because I can’t stop tinkering — every time I try a recipe, I mess with it a bit. My Unholy Good Chili recipe started fairly simple and grew over many iterations into a burn-the-hair-off-your-feet monstrosity. It wasn’t something I wanted to cook up for the Birchwood Bike Team Superbowl Party, as I wanted something more mild. So I found a different recipe, and scribbled it down. Then I edited the hell out of it to formulate my own take on it. I’d say about 60% of the original recipe remains, if that.

Tinkering/Nerdery: January 2018

February 1, 2018 by Dan Bailey

Going to try to be more on-the-spot with these posts in 2018. In 2017, I was busy pretty much constantly and unfortunately, some of the tinkering fell by the wayside. So let’s chitchat about what went down in January of 2018, and what my nerdy goals for 2018 are.

Hacks: June-November 2017

December 8, 2017 by Dan Bailey

This post hopefully closes the gap on the shit I’ve been doing since my last update about my ongoing tinkering/goofing around. This summer/fall was pretty busy, most of my time was spent hunting for a full-time gig and doing freelance work. There was a lot of housework, and errands, and so on, but there was a little bit of tinkering, too.

Hacks: May 2017

June 9, 2017 by Dan Bailey

Work — both normal day-to-day stuff and freelance — took up a large share of my time. Combine that with my back issues flaring up again, and nothing much on the physical side of the tinkering list got addressed at all.

My HTML5 Learnings

May 22, 2017 by Dan Bailey

It always makes the most sense to start with the foundation when you’re building — or rebuilding — something. Thus, it makes the most sense that as I start my quest to rebuild my web development skills, I start with a focus on HTML5. Rather than dick around with a book, I decided to start by looking up stuff online.