Essays
Why Do I Suck?
The sound of my alarm clock fills me with dread as I rolled over and contemplated smashing it against the wall. Time for another day of cubicle life. I recently came across a notebook of ‘personal development’ that Read more…
Essays
If You Bill by the Hour for Software, Charge What You’re Worth
The hardest challenge about being independent and freelancer in the software world is figuring out how to bill for your time. What should your hourly rate be? Should you operate on project basis and fixed costs (please don’t)? Should Read more…
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Storing Your Github Authentication Token on Ubuntu (workaround)
This is something that has always annoyed me, but ever since github changed their authentication methods I’ve never been able to successfully cache/store my github authentication tokens for pushing/pulling from repositories. None of the key storage/auth methods worked for me Read more…
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20 Creativity Tips
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What’s On Your Booklist?
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Istanbul Travel Guide
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25 Best Horror Books
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Tech
Simple Emailing For Logs + Troubleshooting
A lot of the systems I build require alerting of some kind (if exceptions occur, services go down etc.) Because it can sometimes be a pain with deliverability (wrangling sendmail on different servers, dealing with getting marked as spam etc.) Read more…
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For Developers: Self Documenting Your Work
Some developers out there seem to have this incredible ability to remember the intricacies of the languages they write in and the gotchas of every obscure package they’ve ever used. I am most certainly not one of them. It’s almost Read more…
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Ultimate Python Datetime Date Function List
Working with Dates in python is actually quite simple once you get a hang of all the possible options out there. The datetime objects are pretty robust, but I find myself only doing a handful of operations on dates in Read more…
