If you’re like me, you didn’t always make good decision growing up when choosing what tools you used to rip music onto you computer. I have a lot of music, much of which is a smattering of mp3, ogg, flac, … Continue reading Converting Audio Files to MP3 in Nautilus
I’ve recently finished a book recommended to me and realized that it belonged in a small handful of books that I’ve read which have changed my life and the way I see the world. I recommend everything on this list … Continue reading Books That Changed My Life
I’m a big fan of checking off boxes. There’s something satisfying about marching my way through a series of checkboxes and knowing I’m accomplishing some larger task. If you don’t already, I highly recommend using to-do lists as part of your daily routine of getting things done. (As a side note, the book Getting Things Done is great for how to organize these and generally how to be someone who gets shit done. If you’re already pretty good at this, I recommend just reading this summary of GTD.) However, I noticed recently that I’ve been running into problems that I couldn’t seem … Continue reading Venturing Into the Unknown and Getting Things Done There
I have often wondered why I don’t feel the same pull towards activities that I’ve noticed in others. Have you ever met someone that you were convinced couldn’t survive without partaking in a hobby of theirs? (be it music, dancing, … Continue reading The Cost of Continuation
As far as I’m concerned, anyone who believes that they have full, conscious control over their decisions is either hopelessly naïve or lacking in self-observation faculties. While we have conscious thought and the ability to make some decisions, research has … Continue reading Harvesting the Unconscious and Hacking Your Brain
I recently started looking into designing a custom theme for a Tekbell, an shop with kettlebells for sale online, running on Shopify. Turns out getting started is a bit more complicated than it should be. Getting started, I figured my options (in order of best to worst) were thus: Find some way of setting up a local test environment to develop my theme then upload to the shop. Find some way of easily pushing updates to an online theme so I can test as I go. Use the online editor in the Shopify store admin. Code it all locally then push and … Continue reading Setting up a Development Environment for Shopify Themes
I love a good diagram. A good diagram has the ability to take what looks like chaos and turn it into beautiful, understandable ink on paper. That said, it always pays to examine what’s not being show along with what … Continue reading False Maximums: Catching Yourself Up with Short Horizons
There a number of undocumented commands for Gondor, and I hate asking in IRC multiple times, so I’m starting this list. Please feel free to put more in the comments. I’ll add them as I discover more. Create a new production instance on a stack: gondor create –kind=production <instance-name> Env variables: Set an env var: gondor env:set [instance] VARIABLE=var instance is optional here, it will set it globally if not supplied. Read env vars: gondor env [instance] [VARNAME] both instance and VARNAME are optional, using without instance will just show global vars, and without VARNAME will show all env … Continue reading Undocumented Gondor Commands
Three Lifting Cues I Use for Tango I started dancing tango about 7 months ago. I had done a bit in college, something like 5 years ago, but not enough to really count. I was never a great dancer, in … Continue reading Three Powerlifting Cues I Use for Tangoing
Every once in a while someone hands me a phrase that changes my life. Sometimes it’s a new way of looking at things or a distilled concept wrapped up in a way that lets me carry it around and brandish it when needed. My dad recently gave me one of these which fits both of these categories and has changed my life. I was talking to him about my difficulties in opening conversations with women I find attractive but yet don’t know. (I’m guessing most of you guys out there have had this experience.) Suppose you’re at a party and … Continue reading Stop Misusing Your Imagination and Free Yourself
Jeff Ammons 