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What I'm Doing in 2012
I'm really glad the new year is here. For the longest time I thought new year's resolutions were a bit silly, and I never participated in them. The past few years, however, I've completely changed my...
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New Habit - 100 Carbs
Since finishing my writing habit, I decided to kick off the new year with a health related habit.Over the past year or so, I've been making gradual changes to my diet and exercise regimen, with the...
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Tools I Use - tmux
I love reading about tools other programmers use in their day-to-day existence. There are so many great pieces of software out there that it's impossible to hear about them all. Whenever I read...
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How to Instantly Fix Problematic Deployments on Heroku
NOTE: Have no idea what Heroku is? I feel sorry for you. You should create an account with them immediately, then come back and read this post!Today I was working with my new co-worker on one of our...
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Going to War
Sometimes personal development can be hard, really hard. I find that I go through periods where I just feel exhausted of continuously trying to make myself a better person.Unfortunately, I don't really...
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Dogs Are Great Programming Companions
I love dogs. Really. They're the best beasts on the planet.For those of you who don't know: I work at home with my chihuahua, Scribbles. She's an awesome programming companion. As I work she lays in...
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Reflections on Heroku's Waza Event
Several days ago I was lucky enough to attend Heroku's first conference, Waza. Waza is the Japanese word for art and technique, which, in retrospect, was nothing short of the perfect name for the...
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How I Program Stuff
I love programming. I can truly say that of all the things I enjoy, I enjoy programming the most. There's nothing quite like the feeling you get when you create something. Writing code is a lot like...
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My Ideal Life
As a strong believer in personal development, I realize that I will never be perfect. Despite this, a big part of the fun in life is working towards making yourself a better person. If you don't do...
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How I Learned to Program
Programming is, without a doubt, the most mentally rewarding thing I've ever done. Programming taught me that life should be fun, filled with creativity, and lived to the fullest. Programming taught me...
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Merciless
I've been working on myself a lot the past few years. I've been trying to become stronger, faster, smarter, more honest, and better (overall). The process of becoming these things is hard work; it...
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Writing Habit -- Thoughts (continued)
For the past two months I've been writing for at least 30 minutes a day. I'd like to quickly reflect on what I've accomplished so far, and my thoughts on the process.First off, accomplishments... Since...
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The Simplest Way to Compress HTML in Django
I've been working on a lot of website optimization stuff recently for my Django projects, and thought I'd share a cool utility I found for compressing your entire site's HTML code.If you're running any...
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Do the Right Thing
While I devote a lot of time, energy, and effort to making myself a better person--I sometimes think I make the whole thing too complicated.What does "personal development" even mean, really? The whole...
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Do Stuff, Have Fun
I've got a new philosophy--on life, work, adventures, whatever: do stuff, have fun.Even though I'm a very easy going fellow, I tend to spend a lot of time and energy thinking about things and debating...
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Why I'm Learning Node
As many (if not all) of you know, I'm a Python guy. I program every single day, and most days, that involves using Python. I write Django code for fun and profit, and also do a fair amount of "raw"...
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I'm Working on a Startup
For the past several months, I've been working with some really great friends of mine on a startup, OpenCNAM. As some of you know, I have a lot of experience doing telephony development: primarily...
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Successful GitHub Development
I've been using GitHub for several years now, and it has drastically changed my development work flow, mindset, and collaboration efforts. Over the time I've used GitHub, I've contributed to many...
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Never Stop Hacking
This is a quick post, something that I have to get out of my mind and onto paper (err, the internets!).I was thinking earlier today about what makes me happy--really, truly happy. I had just stopped...
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Automation as Motivation
For the past two weeks, I've been having some serious programming motivation issues. Despite the fact that I know what's causing the motivation issues, I haven't been able to propel myself out of this...
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