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Last night my wife and I signed up for a healthcare plan via the ACA Marketplace. Prior to that, our health insurance had been provided by a grandfathered…
In the midst of working on some larger projects, during the past couple of days I’ve enjoyed working on two unexpected “quick hitters”. This past Friday, a long…
This is an old trick, but as my clients ask me about it all the time, I’m providing the following instructions on how to add a new sending…
Ingredients 2½ teaspoons of loose leaf jasmine tea (4 bags) 2 cups hot water (195ºF/90ºC) 2 teaspoons sugar or 2 tablespoons of honey 2 cups cold water Directions…
After getting our orders wrong for months, I helped our local Dunkin’ fix a nationwide problem with their new ordering system My wife and I like our Dunkin’…
So, let’s say you’ve built out your new WordPress site. It’s looking like you want it, and you’ve got your content search engine optimized. Then someone mentions you…
Here’s a quick rundown of the new features coming to your Apple devices as announced at today’s Apple WWDC 2018 Keynote: iOS 12 iOS 12 will be available…
I’ve learned the following about fennel in the past month: 1) It’s great on pizza, 2) fresh from the garden it tastes like licorice, and 3) it makes…
As the number of servers I manage has grown, I’ve developed my own command line script to help me keep track of all those connections. SSHman (i.e. SSH Manager)…
If something happened to your computer, would you still be able to access all your important files? If you answered, “No,” you need a backup solution. Allow me…
Biggest fear when I started as a freelance #webdev 17 years ago: my skillset stagnating. Without co-workers in an office setting, I was afraid I wouldn’t gain the…
In recent weeks I’ve discovered TypeRocket. It’s a WordPress coding framework that makes it easy to extend WordPress themes and plugins with your own custom UX, custom fields,…
It has been my habit to post what I’m listening to on Fridays; however, I plan to have Niklas Aman’s latest release, Pianissimo Drift, playing in the office…
Stories like this one are some of my favorites on the web. Scott Tilley has found a NASA satellite that’s been “lost in space” since December 18, 2005….
This past Friday I was reacquainted with GatsbyJS, a static site generator for React. Out of the box, GatsbyJS gives you a true JAMstack framework, page resource prefetching for…
DJI has announced the second generation of their popular smartphone gimbal, Osmo Mobile 2. Priced at $129, it’s an affordable way to capture some amazing video with those…
Perhaps you’re not a fan of college football or sports in general; however, the drama in last night’s College Football Playoff title game between Georgia and Alabama is…
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Ella and I got in some Light Saber practice before bedtime. The Force is strong with this one…
Yesterday I closed all three Activity Rings on my Apple Watch for the 365th time in 2017. That made for a perfect year of achieving my daily fitness…