My Latest Productivity Hack
Just block YouTube on your firewall
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Just block YouTube on your firewall
Apple rejected my app for not disclosing my use of iCloud Storage in - app… so I just removed it entirely and made an export improving privacy for Ping.
Before I wrote any code I had my tree forts. My childhood was all about them. Now, with AI code tools I feel that rush of building again.
Using my UniFi Talk desk phone as a baby monitor has been a game changer!
Keeping hundreds of thousands of podcasts updated is one of those rough engineering challenges when I don't control their RSS feeds...
Using UniFi Protect as a baby monitor
A quick starter list of what we used for our five kids when they were newborns.
Yesterday I kept having a migration pending whenever I ran php artisan migrate. I kept looking in my database/migrations. This showed up when...
AI failures stem from bad design, not bad AI. Over-reliance is the real risk. AI should aid, not replace, humans. Poor safeguards are an engineering failure.
With the latest news of the DoJ potentially forcing Google to sell off Chrome, I've been thinking about the potential impact on the web ecosystem.
One of my all-time favorite books is *The Phoenix Project*. Toward the end, the character Erik shares this insight: > “I’ve long believed that to effectively manage IT is not only a critical competency but a significant predictor of company performance,” he explains. “One of these days, I’d like to create a hedge fund that invests in companies, taking long positions on companies with great IT organizations that help the business win, and short the companies where IT lets everyone down. I think we’ d make a killing. What better way is there to force the next generation of CEOs to give a shit about IT?”
When I built Audio Brevity, I wanted something to help me keep up with more podcasts than I had time to listen to. I also wanted the summaries to...
Just a quick post with the audio of the MX Speed Silver and MX Brown switches on the ZSA Moonlander. First is the MX Speed Sliver, Second is the...
A few months ago, I shared the tech stack for Audio Brevity on my private podcast (found here Adventures from the Pad). Since then, some things...
I wrote a post over on synaptiq.ai's site where I shared some lessons about how we're keeping some of our costs down. It's great for us and our...
I was doing a quick update on a NextJS project and found that the layout="responsive" prop was deprecated in version 13. I've found that...
Figuring out how to make the kids rooms stay at the right temp with our Ecobee
UPDATE There's been a twist in the story! I've updated the end of the post with it. Last weekend a package thief stole a box from our porch at...
How I Fix a Stuck Flow Rate Lever on My Breville Precision Brewer My Breville Precision Brewer has been a reliable companion for my family's...
When I was a Starbucks Partner, I quickly learned something about the feeling of overwhelm. Imagine being in the middle of a holiday rush with ten...