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A Crystemas Goman
A translation of my favorite passage of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to mark my own Christmas Game.
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How can I come up with more ideas?
The old saying, ‘You are what you eat’, applies to the creative process. If you want to be creative and come up with ideas, the best thing you can do is engage the creative ideas that are already out there. Not because you want to copy or emulate them, but because creative ideas catalyze other…
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My BTC, BCH, and Ripple Strategies
The past few days have been quite a ride in the crypto world! This rollercoaster is reminiscent of late 2013, except now there is much more skin in the game. My latest piece on Yours.org covers my history with BTC, BCH, and Ripple, and my investment and use strategies for the currencies.
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Does the Environmental Case Against Bitcoin Have Merit?
I’m not sure that we have a bitcoin-caused environmental energy crisis on our hands. This piece on Yours.org points out some of the issues with the articles going arount about bitcoin and the environment.
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Selling Photos on Yours.org
I’m testing out an idea on Yours.org. If you pay and then a section is revealed to you, that doesn’t have to be just for articles. It can be used for anything digital!
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Bulk Clearing Expiration Dates in Restrict Content Pro
At Praxis we use Restrict Content Pro as the membership system for our curriculum portal. We decided that all grads get access for life, not just during the program. So, I needed a way to clear over 200 member expiration dates. Here is how I accomplished that task with SQL.
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Adding Months to a Calculated Date in Salesforce
Adding dates is tricky. Months have different numbers of days, so you can’t rely on just adding 30 days to get an extra month. You also can’t just add a certain number of months because formulas in Salesforce don’t auto increment the year. The solution is modular arithmetic and conditionals.
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Automating MySQL Backups with Gulp
No more forgetting to export the database regularly.
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Fixing s3_website Java 9 Error with jEnv
s3_website doesn’t work with Java 9. Use jEnv to define an earlier version.
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Making line height work with spans
Line height doesn’t work on spans by default
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d3.nest
Using d3.nest to transform stacked data.
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Giving Atom a try
Switching IDEs after 10 years.
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Gulp and Sketch first use notes
Gulp and Sketch first use notes
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TLDR pages – Simplified man pages with practical examples. Probably covers 80% of your daily use cases. Looks super cool.
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Great email from Paul Jarvis’s Sunday Dispatches this week. The relationship doesn’t end once you make the sale. That is just the beginning. Don’t be the hot tub guy.
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Fixing “Media kit reports not enough space on device” error in Disk Utility
I got this error today when trying to partition a Western Digital My Passport 4TB: Volume erase failed: Media kit reports not enough space on device Nothing I could do inside Disk Utility worked. Thanks to some kind soul on Reddit, here is how I solved the issue from the command line: $ diskutil list…
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Get Back On Track
Sometimes I get off track. This is what I need to do to get back on track: Turn off social media. Remove apps from phone, turn on the 1Blocker (iPad and iPhone) and WasteNoTime (Mac) rules. Wash your face. Drink a full glass of water and eat a healthy snack if you need one. Get…
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Venkatesh Rao on Big Data, Machine Learning, and Blockchains
Venkatesh Rao had a good take on the big data/machine learning/blockchain mania in Breaking Smart a few weeks ago: Many people, database experts among them, dismiss Big Data as a fad that’s already come and gone, and argue that it was a meaningless term, and that relational databases can do everything NoSQL databases can. That’s…
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Sometimes you have to stop what you are doing and climb out on the roof to take a #ManhattanSkyline photo because the sunset is so beautiful. #nofilter
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Video: How Panobook is Made
Studio Neat put together a cool video showing how the Panobook is made. I preordered three Panobooks and can’t wait for them to arrive. Studio Neat makes some of my favorite products: Neat Ice KitArchived Link, Highball, and the Glif. I love the way they document their work through videos like this, their weekly newsletter, and…