Reading, writing, learning, working
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My career (so far), visualized simply
When I decided to start working on my blog more, I also decided quite consciously to maintain a healthy ratio between personal and professional posts.
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Re: 25 years of coding, and I’m just beginning
An interesting article made the front page of HN the other day: 25 years of coding, and I’m just beginning by DeChamp. This article touches on a number of key topics that have affected me as well, so now is a perfect time to get my thoughts on these issues down on digital paper. Please […]
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In honor of Seth Godin
On the website sethgodin.com, it says: Seth Godin is an Author, Entrepreneur and Most of All, A teacher By whoever wrote the About blurb on sethgodin.com When I see that blurb, I think to myself (aside from pondering the confusing but possibly correct application of title case), “Can’t argue with that.” To say that Seth […]
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Why and how I started developing my own WordPress theme
The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company. tl;dr – I recently (Dec 2018) started a new WordPress theme, Moderately Austere (GitHub link), as a fork of the Twenty Seventeen (WordPress link) theme. Forking an existing theme, instead of starting from scratch, was the best way for me to get started […]
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One of my favorite things about working at Adobe was the small library
Note: This was migrated from my old Medium blog. I have decided to migrate from Medium to WordPress, and I’ll write about the reasons why soon, stay tuned. I worked at Adobe from 2002 to 2005. What I worked on is a topic for another time. But, one of my favorite things about working there […]
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What to do and How to do it: A pocket-sized framework for thinking about getting stuff done with code
This article has been removed for now. It has some interesting ideas, but as a whole isn’t up to snuff. You can see the old version on GitHub.
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My 2017 Twitter Year in Review: Small Data Edition
Note: This was migrated from my old Medium blog. I have decided to migrate from Medium to WordPress, and I’ll write about the reasons why soon, stay tuned. Big Data has been a Thing™ for over a decade now. Google published the GFS paper in 2003 and the MapReduce paper in 2004. Hadoop started a few years later. Interestingly, the Google […]
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On Courtesy
Note: This was migrated from my old Medium blog. I have decided to migrate from Medium to WordPress, and I’ll write about the reasons why soon, stay tuned. I fly a lot — nearly every weekend — for personal/family reasons. It’s expensive, tiring, and disruptive in many ways. There are small consolations, though. For example, when you fly enough, […]
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How to write good blog posts: my personal guidelines
Hello and welcome to my post on how to write good blog posts. I first wrote this in July 2015, but I last updated it in Feb 2019. Writing well, blog posts and otherwise, is an important topic for me, so I’m going to update this post for years to come, as I keep getting […]
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OK Medium, you win. For now.
Note: This was migrated from my old Medium blog. I have decided to migrate from Medium to WordPress, and I’ll write about the reasons why soon, stay tuned. Call me old school, but I believe that a personal website is an essential part of your identity on the Web, a necessary counterpoint to the curated […]