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  • Book Review - The Cuckoo's Egg A book that greatly influenced my career path, The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll1 still holds up after all these years. The...
  • How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Default Terminal App As a recovering champion yak shaver I used to obsessively customize the heck out of every single environment, operating system, or program...
  • Let's Use Brew Zsh I’ve had switch default zsh to brew zsh more than once so into a blog post it goes. Luckily macOS seems to...
  • Let's Use Homebrew curl While macOS supplies a fine and dandy curl binary for Terminal, let’s install an updated version managed by brew.
  • Welcome to Jekyll, again! Updated my blog’s Ruby version and bundle. Just a couple of snags along the way.
  • Playing With Mobile Editing Looks grand! Also fixing Dependabot issue, fun!
  • Large system in constant state of partial failure Are u ready for the new year?
  • My favorite Mac "hacks" My fave OS H4X for Mac.
  • Running Linux on Chromebook using Crouton Long before it became an actually built in option as it is now, it was only possible to retrofit a full scale...
  • Static Site Generators Galore Remember I posted about a few choice static site generators (SSG), built on the deliciously named JAM stack? Well, you’re in for...
  • The Best Advice for Computer Science Students So I’ve been back in academia for a while, (feeling like Rodney Dangerfield,) and I have noticed at least one super important...
  • Updating Ye Olde Jekyll I have not experienced the dreaded slow build times reported by other Jekyll users perhaps because I have not yet surpassed “critical...
  • 12 Or So Must-Read Newsletters For Web Developers If one wishes to stay abreast of the changing tech landscape in this age of decreased attention times and information overload, then...
  • Best 2018 Chicago Tech Events for Students I’ve lived in Chicago three years so here are my favorite tech meetups and recurring events in terms of my interest and...
  • From jQuery to Vanilla JavaScript No disrespect to jQuery, a phenomenal and lasting tool, but I saw fit to extirpate it from my blog’s code. I set...
  • Another Word on Google Analytics Almost a year ago I wrote a post about keeping Google Analytics (GA) data clear of perturbations such as spam and other...
  • Expose Your Ignorance Exposing your ignorance while learning a new discipline takes courage, humility and vulnerability. In fact I strive to do this in my...
  • Think Computationally A huge gulf exists between dabbling with code and really getting at the heart of a problem using dedicated computational thinking. This...
  • How Google PageSpeed Insights Helped Optimize This Blog Google’s PageSpeed Insights is a simple and fast diagnostic tool that provides some very interesting and often revelatory suggestions for the front...
  • Book Review - Ruby Under a Microscope Ruby Under a Microscope is a great primer into understanding the underlying mechanics of the Ruby language. It demystifies the “magic” surrounding...
  • Command Line Image Optimization ImageOptim-CLI is a handy little command line tool (OS X only) by Jamie Mason / @fold_left that incorporates ImageAlpha, ImageOptim and JPGmini....
  • Natural Philosophy Redux There is a grand adventure to be embarked upon every time a student asks a question and the mentor says: “I don’t...
  • Never Read The Comments As a fun little project I started playing around with Firebase and this Jekyll blog. In a move I hope to not...
  • Momentum Scrolling FTW! The mobile experience for this page is responsive via relative sizing, images (such as they are) and media queries, but from Safari...
  • Mongo Bongo I really love the paradigm shift that happens when you start using new tools, and recently this happened to me with MongoDB....
  • Don't Act Surprised I had an experience recently in my coder education that I had previously only read about in blog posts and twitter stories....
  • Did You Miss Me? Hello there, bloggy blog,
  • What's The Deal With Closure? Although closure is easy to understand in relatively simple terms, it was not until recently in my coding education that I discovered...
  • It's OK To Be Wrong Happy new year! Welcome to 2016.
  • A Word on Google Analytics Spent a nice couple of weeks on holiday in Texas visiting Austin, San Antonio, and Del Rio. In between catching up, eating,...
  • Adventures in HTML Validation It is pretty straightforward to plunk in a source file, URL or text input into Nu Html Checker and validate your markup...
  • Early Coder Reading List Here is an early coder resource focusing on Ruby, JavaScript and Rails development. As dead tree media tends to obsolescence, latest online...
  • My Sublime Prefs As a segue from the previous post on setting up the developer environment, I wanted to record my current setup for Sublime...
  • Setting Up I recently reinstalled Mac OS X from scratch and had to reconfigure all the little tweaks that had made my development workflow...
  • Hi MTV Welcome to my new static website/blog/portfolio, powered by Jekyll.