Blog

Aug 14, 2023

Chewing on Some Weather Data

I pulled a temperature dataset for my area and did a few things to it.

Dec 24, 2022

Upload a WeeWX-Generated Site to Heroku or Netlify

For the weather nerds, WeeWX is arguably the defacto weather Web site generator. Here's how to upload the generated content to Heroku and Netlify.

Dec 19, 2022

Fixing 'ArgumentError: Invalid Domain' After Upgrading to Ruby 2.7.7

Aug 15, 2022

The Actual U.S. States with More Colleges Than Jails

Mar 21, 2022

Initial Apple Studio Display Notes

Jan 10, 2022

The Canonical Spicy Chicken Sandwich

Summarizing my experiences and notes from sampling all the local-area spicy chicken sandwich options in the hopes that I can define what I think would make a great reference sandwich.

Nov 4, 2021

On Working Remotely

This post on remote work sat as a vague outline in my drafts folder for literally five and a half years. I first plopped this outline into Ulysses in February 2016 and added some things to it in May of that same year. From then on, it sat. This is my attempt at finally tying it off.

Nov 9, 2019

Configure a Raspberry Pi as a print server for Dymo label printers

Jan 2, 2019

Cloudflare Argo: 228 Days Later

Oct 12, 2018

Busting Cloudflare Cache when Posting to WordPress via XML-RPC

Oct 8, 2018

Not Voting Doubles the Value of Someone Else's Vote

Sep 21, 2018

College and the Fear of Change

Sep 11, 2018

A Potential Solution to Our Social Network Problem

Sep 5, 2018

PowerPort Mini: The Charging Device Apple Should Have Made

Jun 1, 2018

Deploying A Jekyll Static Site with Circle CI

May 22, 2018

A Week of Cloudflare Argo

May 15, 2018

Lazy-loading Retina Images in a Jekyll Site

May 7, 2018

Easy Redirect Links Within Jekyll

May 6, 2018

An Auto-deploying Static Site with Backend

Mar 8, 2018

Forcing HTTPS is Good… or is it Bad?

Feb 20, 2018

Where Work Happens

Feb 11, 2018

Remote Work

Jan 18, 2018

Linode vs Digital Ocean: A Three-Round VPS Benchmark Showdown

Jan 11, 2018

Comparing Performance of Multiple Apple Devices Before and After Spectre Security Update

Jan 8, 2018

On Developing a WordPress Theme

Dec 28, 2017

Goals for 2018

Dec 28, 2017

Status: Available

Dec 20, 2017

Doubling Down on DNS Records

Dec 13, 2017

On Moving to Johnathan.org

Dec 8, 2017

Fixing Browsersync Not Reloading

Sep 25, 2017

Canonical Reasons for Pineapple on Pizza

Aug 30, 2017

JPEGmini

Aug 15, 2017

Anker Roav Dash Cam Review

Apr 20, 2017

New Workspace: a story

Mar 2, 2017

Do You Know Why You're Suffering?

Feb 26, 2017

Special Snowflakes

Jan 4, 2017

Emotional Decisions

Jan 3, 2017

A Simple Coffee Shop Musing

Jan 1, 2017

Happiness Is a Problem

Dec 30, 2016

How Hard Are You Trying?

Jul 29, 2016

My Learn Ruby on Rails List

Jul 12, 2016

Live Streaming with Hardware Acceleration using a Raspberry Pi and RTMP/HLS

Jul 9, 2016

Add RTMP Support to Nginx Installed From Apt

Jul 5, 2016

Attempting to Stream a Webcam to an RTMP Server

Jul 4, 2016

Fighting ffmpeg

May 30, 2016

Constantly Improving

Apr 5, 2016

Internet Arguments: Even Garbage Fires Can be Extinguished

Apr 4, 2016

On Going Back to Regular Books

Mar 12, 2016

Fitbit, You Frustrate Me

Jan 7, 2016

Testing Out a New Temporary Markdown Editor

Dec 15, 2015

Harder Than it Should Be: Jekyll Word Count

Dec 7, 2015

My Overloaded Server Story

Dec 7, 2015

How I Made Jekyll Post Generation Just a Touch Easier

Oct 31, 2015

Starting Soon: Bloc.io

Oct 25, 2015

How to Fix Misspelled Column Names in a Ruby on Rails Database

Oct 24, 2015

Future Ruby on Rails Developer

Oct 15, 2015

On Never Quitting

Oct 13, 2015

Become a Genius

Oct 11, 2015

Enemies Considered

Oct 10, 2015

Re-Invent High School

Oct 5, 2015

Starting Ruby on Rails

Oct 1, 2015

Replacing My Four-Year-Old Macbook Pro

Sep 28, 2015

The Cold Brew Coffee Adventure

Aug 28, 2015

Lies for Money

Aug 27, 2015

Conquering the Dev Career

Jul 29, 2015

My First Legitimate Vagrantfile

Jul 22, 2015

Focusing on the Future, Part 1

Jun 26, 2015

48 Hours of Slack

Jun 19, 2015

Creativity

Jun 17, 2015

Incapacity

Jun 17, 2015

Keeping Score

Jun 7, 2015

The Cost of Cutting the Cord

Jun 6, 2015

Time for a Reset

May 22, 2015

Beginner's Mind

May 8, 2015

Forget Your Goals

May 6, 2015

Morning Email: Check In Without Checking Out

May 4, 2015

Choosing Your Words

May 3, 2015

18 Resources for Getting Started with WordPress

Apr 27, 2015

Like That Zappos Guy

Apr 23, 2015

Killing It In People Relations

Apr 17, 2015

Ten Days a Californian

Mar 28, 2015

Endgame

Mar 26, 2015

Stress

Mar 24, 2015

Why This Site

Mar 22, 2015

Swifty

Mar 21, 2015

iPhone Trade In

Mar 17, 2015

Commuting and Wasted Time

Mar 17, 2015

Magic

Mar 16, 2015

Blocks

Mar 16, 2015

Open-Source SageTV

Mar 16, 2015

Triple Digits on Earth

Mar 15, 2015

Forty Years

Mar 12, 2015

DevOps

Mar 12, 2015

Remotely Working

Mar 12, 2015

Write What You Know

Mar 8, 2015

Failure, Part 3

Mar 6, 2015

Girl Code

Mar 6, 2015

Using Words

Mar 5, 2015

Freebies

Mar 4, 2015

Recovering From Failure, Part 2

Feb 25, 2015

Useful Mac

Feb 24, 2015

Always Find Time

Feb 24, 2015

Alone

Feb 23, 2015

Tomorrow

Feb 23, 2015

Self-Comparison

Feb 21, 2015

Do or Die

Feb 21, 2015

Putting In the Effort to Become a Professional Life Liver

Feb 21, 2015

Fake SSL: Another Reason to Own a Mac

Feb 19, 2015

Another New Book

Feb 18, 2015

Turning Pro

Feb 17, 2015

Creativity

Feb 17, 2015

CrashPlan

Feb 16, 2015

After 40 Days of Writing

Feb 14, 2015

Computer on the Bus

Feb 13, 2015

Thinking About Old Posts

Feb 11, 2015

As You Think

Feb 10, 2015

Apple World.Today

Feb 9, 2015

The Best Way I Make Life Changes

Feb 7, 2015

Financial Planning and Investment Apps that Don't Suck

Feb 6, 2015

Through an Open Window

Feb 4, 2015

Music

Feb 4, 2015

Telling People's Stories

Feb 3, 2015

Killing Your Friends when They Think You're not Looking

Feb 2, 2015

A First

Feb 2, 2015

Magic Room

Feb 2, 2015

To Write, You Must Read

Feb 1, 2015

Harry's: Get a Good Shave Without Nicking Your Wallet

Jan 31, 2015

How I Solved Related Posts not Showing when Running WordPress, JetPack, and Nginx

Jan 30, 2015

Learn to Code as Early as You Can!

Jan 28, 2015

If I Could Change Just One Thing

Jan 28, 2015

Vivaldi – A New Browser for our Friends

Jan 28, 2015

Favorite Thing to This Day

Jan 27, 2015

The Workforce in 2030

Jan 26, 2015

On the Bus in the Fog Unlike a Dog on a Log in a Bog with Nog

Jan 26, 2015

Taking Notes

Jan 26, 2015

Positioning for the Journey to Dreamland

Jan 26, 2015

Hunting the Hunter: Trying to Take a Photo of my Cat

Jan 25, 2015

Never Gonna Give You Up, Never Gonna Put You Down. Sometimes.

Jan 25, 2015

How to Set up Automatic WordPress Blog Post Scheduling with IFT.TT, and Buffer

Jan 25, 2015

Ghostly Sharing to Twitter from Jetpack's Publicize Plugin

Jan 21, 2015

There Are Some Things Money Can't Buy. For Everything Else, There's a Cat in a Box.

Jan 20, 2015

Extending My Writing Goals to Photography

Jan 19, 2015

My First Smartphone

Jan 13, 2015

Running Out of Coffee (Creamer)

Jan 13, 2015

Being S.M.A.R.T about Blogging Goals for the New Year

Jan 11, 2015

Analytics

Jan 11, 2015

New About Page

Jan 10, 2015

Finding a Short Domain Based on a Name is Harder Than Ever

Jan 10, 2015

Half-Way There

Jan 8, 2015

The Space in Which I Craft

Jan 8, 2015

Why I Write

Jan 7, 2015

You Really Just Would not Understand!

Jan 2, 2015

Poor Planning on Your Part Does not Necessarily Constitute an Emergency on Mine

Jan 1, 2015

Disabling Comments on Existing Posts After Disabling Comments Site-Wide with WordPress