Expensive Rendering, or How to make your MacBook fan scream
Recently I made a dangerous wager with a colleague: If he could show up to work on time 10 times in a row I would actually consider getting a motorcycle. 24 hours later my Mac was hot enough to fry …...
View ArticleSaving time with Color Schemes
IDE, text editor, and dashboard color schemes are often treated as a way to get our personalities into the tools we use every day, but with a little effort it can also go a long way into saving time...
View ArticleThe eleventh design
It’s website refresh day for ArleyM.com! I love the old adage about the mechanic’s car being a clunker. It’s true of every developer and designer I know most of the time. Today I have that new site...
View ArticleMusic as an analogy for complicating things
I loved the post How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016! There’s no hyper-engineering like in front-end web development. I think we can make an analogy with music. This song is The Ramone’s 1976...
View ArticleKeyboardio!
Last year I invested in my first Kickstarter. A promising keyboard that met all my wildest dreams: mechanical, split, column key layout, and moves popular keys from pinkies to thumbs. It’s beautiful...
View ArticleOne Tab
I love optimizing workflow. I often think about focus, interruptions, and the negative consequences and issues with multitasking. Recently I was challenged by the idea of going through an entire day...
View ArticleMekorama
I don’t usually game on my phone, but last weekend when a battle with a cold kept me stuck on the couch I made an exception. I discovered a game called Mekorama. I tried it with some low expectations;...
View ArticleNew December’s Resolutions
Nothing’s ever perfect; so what could be better than a time for resolving to improve? Bring on the new year. I love a new year’s resolution, and always want to make the most of it. Sure, you can just...
View ArticleLiterary Goldfish: Examining Spam Email 2006 & 2016
In 2006 there was an era when spam seemed to have been written by infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters. It caught my attention since there was apparently nothing I could do – no call to action...
View ArticleFiling Cabinets
Today I spent a lot of time thinking about filing cabinets. It all started when Dustin sent me this safety video. I guess these could be a hazard. It wasn’t too long ago that this is where information...
View ArticleHow To fix a Bluray BDX1100
It’s nice to be able to give back to the community. When I’m not busy leading a team or cranking out codez at work, I fix broken office equipment. Here’s a How-To guide to fixing a stuck drawer on a...
View ArticleNew Tradition: Annual reading of A Christmas Carol
This week I read the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. This book is out of copyright, and you can get a digital copy free here. My favourite excerpts: “The noise in this room was perfectly...
View ArticleAmbient Sounds
Sometimes music is too much for a situation, but silence won’t do either. Well really, studies are showing silence is best, but I’m in an open office where silence just isn’t possible. I recently have...
View ArticleExperiments in Reading
What a gift reading is. Communication and language are at the heart of what it means to be in society, community, relationship, and to express ourselves. These things are fundamental to everything we...
View ArticleKindle Reading Tricks: uncommon e-reader uses
E-ink readers are amazing, if you haven’t had a hands-on moment with an e-ink reader you should check it out. In this post of my Reading Series I’ll share a few ways I’ve been using mine. These ideas...
View ArticleAds vs. Snark
I started using an ad blocker a couple years ago. While I like to experience the web in the most common way that an average user does, I felt had to draw a line on one common offense: YouTube often...
View ArticleKindle Study Tricks
Reading comes in so many flavours, from purely recreational, to on-point dutiful task. When it comes to study I like a pretty loose structure, and use tools as helpful (rather than be led by tools and...
View ArticleBook reports & Only reading it once
The act of reading in itself is naturally enjoyable. The consideration of new ideas, the unleashing of imagination, and that sweet “this is better than the movie” feeling. For better or worse, the...
View ArticleWordPress Lunch ‘n’ Learn – Advanced 101
Every developer likely needs to use WordPress now and then! It’s so ubiquitous that it’s almost a fact of life. I recently did a lunch and learn Advanced WP 101 to cover some aspects that aren’t...
View ArticleUsing the ESV API with Alfred App on macOS
Recently twitter-friend Chris Bowler was explaining some of his journalling and digital bible study process (which mirrors mine quite a bit); and touched on using the ESV bible translations Application...
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