Hacks: June 2016

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I’m still hacking away at stuff for a variety of reasons — to satisfy my curiosity, to learn stuff useful in my career, to turn my small business into something awesome, to keep me sane. This month, I did a few things that I released to the world under the Creative Commons, but I also … Read more

Hacks: May 2016

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I didn’t do an update to this series in April because, well, I didn’t do much. If anything. Life has been in a state of non-stop upheaval for months now, and it’s left me too stressed to put energy into this sort of stuff. In May, though, I did get a few things started and worked on, which has been fun.

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“Intellectual” Discourse

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If only all political discussions could be so entertaining. From Twitter in February, in case you missed it:

Hacks: March 2016

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One of the things that’s been good for my mental health is that I’m tinkering a lot more. I find that it definitely keeps me from overthinking the shitty parts of my life.

Software Based Fun

Hipsterbot — grabs a block of text from hipsterjesus via the API, breaks it up into an array of sentences that are less than 140 characters, and then picks one at random to tweet.

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Hacks: February 2016

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This month, I got back into hacking out some stuff. It wasn’t because I was bored or anything — I just felt the need to start flexing my geek muscles again, and start mucking about with stuff. Really, the goal here is to sharpen my skills/thinking, and to start learning the skillset I need for … Read more

What I Believe In (2016 Edition)

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I believe that Mister Rogers was about the closest to the embodiment of the Buddha that’s walked the Earth. I believe in love and science — those are my religion. I believe my integrity is important. I believe that having a logical explanation for something does nothing to reduce the magic of its existence. I … Read more

Saturday Night Epiphany

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Saturday night, after getting home late, I had the opportunity to do some navel-gazing. Instead of the usual self-abusive internal dialogue, I spent some time trying to think about an issue I struggle with, rather than to just lie there and beat the shit out of myself. Anyway, I’ve been on my self-improvement kick lately, … Read more