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The Curse of Knowledge
TIL the phrase "The Curse of Knowledge" from a 10-year old article by that name. The article focuses on leadership, discussing how executives tend to summarize years of knowledge and experience into...
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GitHub... a tool for collaborative list making
GitHub is beyond doubt the number one place for sharing code and collaborating on projects right now. I share a lot of my code on GitHub when I'm writing a more technical post, my workplace uses it...
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Doin' Manly Stuff (kids are so funny)
Manly stuff. That's what my 8yo son said he wanted to do yesterday, lol. We were getting ready for my daughter's bday party and he told me he wanted to help out with the manly stuff. You'd have thought...
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Unable to renew LetsEncrypt certificate using certbot - 404 for HTTP-01...
When I woke up this morning, I decided to hack away at a blog post for a little bit. As soon as I opened the site, my heart sank. This is the PITA thing about running your own site. Like owning your...
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Quotes 'n Notes #8
Just a few of the inspirational and thoughtful stories and quotes I ran across this week. Come across any of your own that you'd like to share? I'm always looking for something interesting to read......
View ArticleFinding your niche is figuring out what drives you and letting the world know
There are some phrases that come up so often that I tend to reject them as if they're "dirty" or have some negative connotation. "Networking" used to be one. Before I had ever attempted to go to a user...
View ArticleMaybe building a robot..? Four magic words... It's For The Kids!
Short post tonight. My 10 yo came to me the other day and said she'd like to build a robot. This is good for two reasons. I've been meaning to do something like this and kids are great at pushing you...
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Comprehending "List Comprehensions" in Erlang (a comparison with C#'s LINQ)
Any time we learn something new, we tend to make sense of it in relation to what we already know, one thing building on top of another. Since I started learning Erlang a year ago, I find myself...
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Tech is fun, tech is amazing... but it's not the end-all be-all
One of my coworkers tweeted an important question a few weeks ago. She asked, what about "techies" who just do what they do to survive? After all, why do most of us work, if not to make money to do all...
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The Culture of Likes and Hearts and Faves
I rejoined Facebook a couple weeks ago after a long hiatus, and though I haven't posted much yet, it's been fun to see what everyone's up to. I'm terribly horrible at keeping in touch with friends and...
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How to Unit Test using Visual Studio for Mac (it's easy!)
Last month at the AkronCodeClub they selected the magic square kata, which was a new one for me. Basically, you arrange 9 unique numbers in a 3x3 grid such that they add up to the same number...
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A few tips for handling and manipulating timezones
Some issues transcend programming language, equally tripping up developers across the board... Regular expressions (try validating an email address...) SQL injection (NEVER run a user's input through...
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8 things you should consider when (and before!) asking a question on Stack...
I don't write this post as some representative of the Stack Overflow community or whatever, just one guy who's found enjoyment in providing nearly 1600 answers over the years. Whether it's finding the...
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No code is too short or unpolished to inspire others
Was geeking out a bit yesterday. I got a ping from Twitter that someone had mentioned me, and as I quickly read it and thought "oh cool, someone found something I did with the Pi useful", I also...
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Quotes 'n Notes #7
Just a few of the inspirational and thoughtful stories and quotes I ran across this week. Come across any of your own that you'd like to share? I'm always looking for something interesting to read......
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The Curse of Knowledge
TIL the phrase "The Curse of Knowledge" from a 10-year old article by that name. The article focuses on leadership, discussing how executives tend to summarize years of knowledge and experience into...
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GitHub... a tool for collaborative list making
GitHub is beyond doubt the number one place for sharing code and collaborating on projects right now. I share a lot of my code on GitHub when I'm writing a more technical post, my workplace uses it...
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Doin' Manly Stuff (kids are so funny)
Manly stuff. That's what my 8yo son said he wanted to do yesterday, lol. We were getting ready for my daughter's bday party and he told me he wanted to help out with the manly stuff. You'd have thought...
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Unable to renew LetsEncrypt certificate using certbot - 404 for HTTP-01...
When I woke up this morning, I decided to hack away at a blog post for a little bit. As soon as I opened the site, my heart sank. This is the PITA thing about running your own site. Like owning your...
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Quotes 'n Notes #8
Just a few of the inspirational and thoughtful stories and quotes I ran across this week. Come across any of your own that you'd like to share? I'm always looking for something interesting to read......
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