Archive

2025

AI and the new junior engineer | 📅 May 26, 2025
Looking back on small web communities | 📅 May 19, 2025
How a shredder brought me joy | 📅 May 12, 2025
Our monthly family finance huddle | 📅 May 5, 2025
Nostalgia for the old Web | 📅 Apr 29, 2025
Reflections on my paternity leave | 📅 Apr 22, 2025
Three reasons to avoid market speculation | 📅 Apr 7, 2025
Seven years of Mastering Vim | 📅 Apr 1, 2025
Tracking portfolio allocation | 📅 Mar 30, 2025
Second Edition of Mastering Vim | 📅 Mar 21, 2025
Back up your digital life | 📅 Mar 20, 2025
Migrating from Octopress to Jekyll | 📅 Mar 19, 2025

2023

Essentialism: A Practical Guide to Less | 📅 Nov 24, 2023
Static websites rule! | 📅 Jul 27, 2023
Sifu and a state of flow | 📅 Jul 24, 2023
Thoughts, Energy, Attention | 📅 Jul 20, 2023
Vimwiki with Google Drive on ChromeOS | 📅 Jul 17, 2023
The Eisenhower matrix | 📅 Jul 10, 2023
High stakes email checklist | 📅 Jul 6, 2023

2021

Exercising online privacy rights | 📅 Jul 19, 2021
Experience with financial planners | 📅 Jun 17, 2021
Journaling for work-life balance | 📅 Jun 12, 2021
Communicating via snippets | 📅 Jun 7, 2021
Accessing retirement funds early | 📅 Jun 3, 2021
How I write | 📅 May 30, 2021
Abandoned project showcase: Hikaya | 📅 May 24, 2021
FIRE in a developing economy | 📅 May 7, 2021
Savings rate plotted over 8 years | 📅 Apr 30, 2021
Living at work | 📅 Apr 13, 2021
How much does writing a book earn? | 📅 Apr 8, 2021
The feedback fallacy | 📅 Apr 6, 2021
Take a pause before that email | 📅 Mar 28, 2021
On mentorship | 📅 Mar 27, 2021

2020

Writing for fun | 📅 Nov 11, 2020
Vortex Core 40% keyboard | 📅 Sep 13, 2020
One page TTRPG prep | 📅 Aug 9, 2020
Numenera for D&D DMs | 📅 May 26, 2020
Numenera for D&D players | 📅 May 23, 2020
Adjusting to working from home | 📅 May 4, 2020

2019

How I use Vimwiki | 📅 Jun 24, 2019
Google Drive on Linux with rclone | 📅 Jun 23, 2019

2018

Sane Vim defaults (from Neovim) | 📅 Dec 27, 2018
Status bar color in Vim terminal mode | 📅 Dec 26, 2018
My book has been published! | 📅 Dec 25, 2018
Cross-platform vim-plug setup | 📅 Sep 23, 2018
Minimalist phone launcher | 📅 Aug 11, 2018
Making a packing spreadsheet | 📅 Mar 26, 2018
My .vimrc, annotated | 📅 Feb 21, 2018

2017

Automating Octorpress publishing | 📅 Nov 14, 2017
A trip to Salt Lake City | 📅 Nov 13, 2017
Him and her: what's inside the bag? | 📅 Oct 15, 2017
Desktop notifications from Chrome Secure Shell | 📅 Aug 4, 2017
Journey of a friend | 📅 May 9, 2017
Prius adventures, a year later | 📅 Jan 17, 2017

2016

Hackmud first impressions | 📅 Oct 9, 2016
A year with Pebble Time Round | 📅 Oct 5, 2016
Mob level distribution | 📅 Oct 2, 2016
Spawning evenly distributed mobs | 📅 Sep 30, 2016
Randomly generated dungeons | 📅 Sep 29, 2016
Browsing MSSQL and Vertica from CLI | 📅 Sep 28, 2016
Thoughts on travel | 📅 Jun 5, 2016
Living in a car for 5000 miles | 📅 Feb 22, 2016

2015

Prius camper conversion | 📅 Sep 19, 2015
Urban Prius living | 📅 Sep 18, 2015
My experience with minimalism | 📅 Jul 18, 2015
Profiling slow bashrc | 📅 Jul 15, 2015
DidYouMean plugin for Vim | 📅 Jun 10, 2015
Lessons learned: engineering productivity | 📅 Jun 8, 2015
Gundo tree for Vim | 📅 Jun 7, 2015
My experience switching to buffers | 📅 Jun 1, 2015
Impact-driven development | 📅 Apr 26, 2015
Managing cd bookmarks with apparix | 📅 Feb 21, 2015
Ranger - the CLI file manager | 📅 Feb 9, 2015
Power of the command line | 📅 Feb 6, 2015
Custom templates in vimwiki | 📅 Feb 5, 2015

2014

Contributing to an existing Octopress blog | 📅 Dec 17, 2014
750 words a day | 📅 Oct 29, 2014
Beyond grep | 📅 Sep 21, 2014
Effective search with Mutt | 📅 Aug 2, 2014
One more argument for 80 character limit | 📅 Jul 30, 2014
Three favorite bash tricks | 📅 Jul 25, 2014
Distraction-free writing with VimRoom | 📅 Jul 23, 2014
Abandoning WordPress for Octopress | 📅 Jul 22, 2014
"The Pragmatic Programmer" | 📅 Jul 15, 2014
Personal wiki with vimwiki | 📅 Jul 8, 2014
Easy commenting with tcomment.vim | 📅 Jul 8, 2014
Zero mail inbox | 📅 Jul 2, 2014
Dark side of technical interviews | 📅 Jun 25, 2014
"The Elements Of Style" | 📅 Jun 20, 2014
"Expert Python Programming" by Tarek Ziade | 📅 Jun 20, 2014
Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" | 📅 Jun 17, 2014
"The Design of Everyday Things" | 📅 Jun 15, 2014
Why I threw away my "To Do" list | 📅 Jun 7, 2014
Export WordPress posts to plain text | 📅 Jun 2, 2014
Why should you learn to touch type? | 📅 May 31, 2014
Writing for the sake of writing | 📅 May 30, 2014
Python: "ignored" context manager | 📅 May 29, 2014
Elegant Mutt setup for use with Gmail | 📅 May 28, 2014
Using Mutt with GPG | 📅 May 28, 2014
Navigate files easily with ctrlp.vim | 📅 Jan 13, 2014

2013

Making Django and Lettuce play nice together | 📅 Dec 30, 2013
Open previously edited file in vim | 📅 Nov 25, 2013
Old file version in split with vim | 📅 Nov 24, 2013
Pasting with vim and indentation issues | 📅 Nov 17, 2013
Remap your Caps Lock | 📅 Sep 12, 2013
Python doctests and decorators bug | 📅 Jul 22, 2013
Python tests with doctest and unittest | 📅 Jul 22, 2013
pygame.font not found | 📅 Jun 27, 2013
Use vimdiff as git mergetool | 📅 Jun 14, 2013
Git pretty log output | 📅 Jun 14, 2013
Download gists from prompt | 📅 May 17, 2013
My most used bash commands | 📅 Apr 24, 2013
Colorless week results | 📅 Apr 17, 2013
A week without colorful prompt | 📅 Apr 1, 2013
Editing bash command in vim | 📅 Apr 1, 2013
Vim, pathogen and git submodules | 📅 Mar 27, 2013
IRSSI - ignore all from everyone | 📅 Mar 27, 2013
Vim movement cheatsheet | 📅 Mar 21, 2013
Rename commit author in git | 📅 Mar 15, 2013
Read man pages from vim | 📅 Mar 13, 2013
Mintty color scheme (Cygwin) | 📅 Mar 13, 2013
Rails and MongoDB with Cygwin | 📅 Mar 11, 2013
Use vim commands in a browser | 📅 Feb 24, 2013
Git: merge two repositories | 📅 Feb 21, 2013

2012

GPG Usage | 📅 Dec 26, 2012
C strtok usage example | 📅 Dec 10, 2012
Create gitolite repository | 📅 Dec 10, 2012
GUI git difftool for Windows | 📅 Dec 6, 2012
Extendedly basic vim setup | 📅 Nov 15, 2012
Using vim for writing code | 📅 Oct 10, 2012
C - Reallocating memory for the array | 📅 Sep 2, 2012