Burnout In December of 2019, I burned out for the first time in my professional career. Today, I'd like to talk about what I went through, the events that led up to it, and what I'm doing now to recover.
Ruby What's the fastest way to sum up an Array in Ruby? Let's say you have an array of numbers. How do you get the sum of them? One way is to iterate through the list and start adding them up one
Ruby Ruby's Enumerable#find Method Today we dive into Enumerable's #find/#detect method and how to use it effectively.
Automation Gather Your Daily Digest with Huginn If you find you have a bunch of different sites you want to read on a regular basis, it can be time consuming to go to each site. Furthermore, you
Automation Gather Your Reading Material with Wallabag It's easy to get lost in a rabbit hole where you want to read everything, but don't remember what you've read and what you haven't. For this, I use a
Automation Automate Your Morning Routine Alarms are annoying. They disturb your pleasant slumber, they're loud and obnoxious, and all they do is frustrate you – not a good way to start your day. We can make
Automation Recompiling Sphinx Documentation While Writing I first got the inspiration to make a personal wiki when I saw Nikita Voloboev's Everything I Know. There's a huge amount of information in here. While it may not
Automation Automatically Start Your Apps Automatically starting applications up when you first log into your computer can be a nice time saver. Start your computer up, log in, then go get yourself a cup of
Automation Automation Of The Day - A New Series My life is too busy to be spending time on mundane tasks. Today, I start a new series, entitled "Automation Of The Day", the goal being taking tasks that take
diaspora Running a Diaspora* Pod A few months ago, I was reading up on alternative social networking sites to Facebook. I find their privacy policy too invasive, and now I only use it when required.
hyperboria Installing and Configuring CJDNS on Ubuntu Linux This was adapted from https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/Install_on_Ubuntu Installation The standard CJDNS install information is good, but doesn't have any support for restarting when your server restarts.
Ruby Utilizing ActiveRecord Enums In The View Rails 4.1 added support for Enums to be used in models. You can check out the release notes here. Generally, these are supposed to be used for tracking internal states and should not be exposed to the user. If you're a rebel however,
Facebook It's Time To Ditch Facebook Chat tl;dr I want to ditch Facebook Chat, and I want you to join me. Scroll to the bottom for my proposal. Unfortunately, I've been stuck using Facebook Chat for
Coding For Users: First Feelings From Coding A Product For Others I spend a lot of time writing code. It's what I get paid to do, and it's one of my favourite pasttimes. At work, most of my design is based
Employment Developers: Put Your Code Online Despite having only been in the software development industry for a few short years, I've been lucky enough to participate in several interviews. In fact, I've interviewed close to 50 people for positions ranging from interns to senior developers (one of which had about
Windows Installing RMagick Gem On Windows With RubyInstaller At work, I'm trying to get a copy of Redmine running on a Windows box (unfortunately I don't have a *nix box to use). I found the RailsInstaller package that sets you up with a solid base package, but in order to use Redmine
Twitter Here's How You Should Handle Data Breaches Only a few hours ago, Buffer, the web app for posting to social networking sites on a schedule, was hacked. A bunch of accounts hooked up to the service started sending out spam messages. This is always a rough position to be in. You
uTorrent Why You Should Stop Using uTorrent In the latest version of the popular Windows BitTorrent client uTorrent, someone discovered something fishy after the installation. All of a sudden, their browser homepage had changed, to Yahoo! no less. Turns out that uTorrent is sneakily putting a 3rd party application install as
Bruce Schneier Encryption for The Technologically Lazy, Pt. 1 - Your Android Phone Let's start with some assumptions first: You're one of those people who claims that they don't care about the government looking into their email. (See: "there's nothing I'm embarrassed about in there"). You think that encrypting your life is a huge inconvenience.
