MOVEME I’m no longer thriving on change. I resist suggestions. I don’t have enthusiasm for things I once did. When I started where I’m at now, I wanted to learn everything I could. Conversely, I expected people around me to want to learn everything they could from me. But I was met with resistance. And I just didn’t get it. Nobody pursued technical hobbies, read books, or wanted to talk philosophy....
I was a leader once. I failed my team. I walked away. I still wanted to be the boots on the ground, the one with all the answers. I wanted to develop myself more than I wanted to develop others. I still cared about the development of others. I was just more interested in the results I got from developing myself. Developing others was much harder, and it was harder to see the results....
Inquiring minds yearn to know: “How do you manage to manage all those ideas and projects?” And I say to them: “Well, inquiring minds, yearn no further. The answers are thither. Or do I mean yon? I don’t think thither means what I think it means. Onward to me asking myself a pile of questions!” Identifying Problems or Bottlenecks or Interesting Technologies is What Keeps Me Going “Aren’t you busy enough?...
Slack Integrations for a Better You I recently started using slack to automate my personal workflow. Slack is great. You can set up an account and invite up to X people for free. Then load up the web app on your computer (chrome on windows, xdg-open by default on Linux) and the app on your phone. This way you can funnel all your notifications and chats into channels of your choice....
What’s a better source of knowledge? A book or an article? We’re talking physical book vs digital article here. An article gives readers an injection of thought-provoking, potentially worldview-altering/confirming serum (if they’re reading the right articles) and maybe a lesson they can absorb and apply to their lives then and there. But how do they keep track of it? What binds in memory the many disparate topics on articles one might read throughout the day?...
Alt Title: How Not To Make a Ton of Money Blogging About Things That Matter to You Why Do I Write? I mostly write for selfish reasons. I started blogging because I thought passive income would be great, but then after a while I realized it’s probably the wrong niche, and I’d have to (be really annoying || prolific || write about popular things to generate clicks) to even be seen, and that’s not what I want to spend my resources on....
Have a dumping ground for your ideas It’s important to have a dumping ground for ideas when you are on the go. This can be a notepad, google keep, an email to yourself, or whatever method you have for writing reminders. At first I tried adding drafts to my wordpress site. I found it too easy to forget about the topic this way, though, and did not like the lack of oranization tools....
Note-taking Every new technology or topic I approach gets its own directory. I dump everything I learn into it in the form of text files: steps taken when learning something new; stack traces and conditions to reproduce; troubleshooting steps; solutions or non-solutions (discovering a way to NOT solve a problem is progress too!) quick and dirty blog post drafts The reason for text files is two-fold: they’re easily version-controlled, and they’re easily searchable via grep....
Welcome to the first of a multi-part series of tutorials on how to develop, source control, and run scripts to control your Android device, using only mobile apps for development. Dev On the Go I recently went on a road trip, and wanted to experiment with a mobile-only workflow. The main components I needed were an interpreter, an IDE, and source control. The suite of apps I discovered and used are as follows: QPython3 (a python IDE and script runner) SGit (source control) LabCoat (GitLab repository viewer) Dropbox (ad-hoc, easy-access file storage) Dropsync (one- or two-way sync between directories on your mobile device) Epsilon Notes (a markdown editor and renderer) In this tutorial, I will cover my experience with QPython3....
Earlier today, I thought: “Man, Terraria sure is a great game. I should make a clone.” Then later today, I thought: “Wait, somebody probably already did that.” And, lo! An open source Terraria clone: Terrarium! But man, I have to install so many dependencies. This kind of thing is a drag. I just want to try it out. Fortunately, the instructions were pretty good. Following the instructions in BUILDING.md, first I installed MinGW and Allegro....