2025
2024
- June 13 Tool Mod Hack - Right Sidebar in Outline Wiki
- January 15 In praise of SQLite
- January 14 Simplified Wordpress XML to JSON Export
- January 13 Surgo Include Helper
2023
- December 26 Data Merger
- December 26 Compression Enhancer
- November 01 Getting an API Access Token
- November 01 CSV Cron Restorter Script
- October 18 Computer DateTime Preservation
- October 17 Computer DateTime Cheatsheet
2020
- August 24 Reddit content seems to get better and better
- April 29 People vs. Humans
- March 28 9 Step Raspberry Pi Setup (updated July 2020)
- March 18 Simpler each day? Or more complicated?
- March 03 dupGuru for finding duplicate files
- February 20 Append this to YouTube playlists URLS to add notes to videos
- February 05 Programmatically bulk removing an erroneous WP category
- February 05 Quick generation of repetitive, date-based HTML
- January 26 The struggle of "Batch solution" vs. "Just do it manually"
2019
- December 31 Benefit for being Forced into a standard pattern
- December 06 Code organization reveals kindness to future self
- December 04 Fairfield County 30-year Population Growth
- November 06 EM dash in Google Docs
- November 02 Easier for the reader = Hard for the writer
- October 21 Carla Harris Vice Chairman at Morgan Stanley
- October 16 Apple Notes Review
- October 13 Bear Notes App Review
- October 13 Simplenote Review
- September 27 Evernote export and data cleansing that works!
- September 09 Compounding in Learning
- August 13 Solo sail from LA to Hawaii in 23 foot yacht
- August 06 An opinion on social media from 1988's Cinema Paradiso
- July 21 Over-Confidence vs. Confidence
- July 16 "Death by a Thousand Cuts" (a Poem)
- June 13 Sidestep the monopoly on instruction early and often
- May 23 5 Marathon Lessons Applicable to Life Goals
- May 23 My Party / Affiliation = Learning, Seeking, Innovation, Growth, Truth
- May 14 Warren Buffett’s First Television Interview
- April 19 Urge to Create Drives Urge for Knowledge
- April 17 "Compact Fit" CSS for WPMU site list
- April 03 Andrew Carnegie Principles
- February 14 The importance of having a laboratory
- February 02 Be Frictionless and Painless
- February 02 Understanding The Sunk Cost Fallacy is Important
- February 01 Personalization as a Feature
- January 29 "Skip what you do and tell me what you love."
- January 20 Stubbornness vs. Adaptability
- January 15 Seeking Objective Measurements in Software Evaluation
2018
- December 18 Investing vs. Building from Scratch
- December 09 Wordpress errors localized to page you're on
- December 05 Don't even worry about organizing PHP code for "load time"
- November 29 Starting over vs. Refactoring
- November 19 On the tragic, premature intellectual neutering of young people
- November 15 Simple Password Protection +User Settings -Database
- November 09 The Burry Process
- November 07 Coding, Utopia and The Beach
- November 02 On time predictions for digital creations
- October 28 On Management
- October 22 Wordpress Multisite: Alternate Approach
- October 21 A simple way to understand online tracking
- October 21 Changing a Git Repository Location
- October 07 Product Thought: Necessary > Possible
- October 04 The persistence of Jobs's "A Players"
- October 03 Trader Joe's Founder Joe Coulombe on Stew Leonard's Inspiration
- September 27 Good Coders = Tidy, Clean, Organized People?
- September 23 Social Media: both "beautiful and toxic"
- September 21 How to have the Midas Touch? Become an Insider
- September 10 Global CSS Adjustments to Divi Theme
- September 04 Download remote dir
- August 20 Artwork and TV: Best when motivates thought on life
- August 11 Acting, Professions, Reality
- August 05 Tim Urban on why "Wait But Why"
- July 18 Company Name to Domain with Clearbit API in PHP
- July 11 Industrialization forced specialization; AI back to generalization
- July 05 Algorithmically assigning value to cell data in Google Sheets
- July 03 Powerful clarity of thought from writing
- July 03 Remarketing better than PPC in certain scenarios?
- June 28
- June 21 Philosophical to Practice
- June 19 Array Creator Function I created
- June 14 Recommendations for Wordpress as a Media Manager
- June 11 Functional / Atomic CSS
- June 11 Steve Jobs just before the resurgence
- May 28 The Work Required to find the Left Ventrical
- May 08 Choose your software battles wisely
- May 05 Locking yourself away in a closet to learn guitar
- April 25 Successful investors MAKE IT appreciate
- April 24 Lorne Michaels on how creative people need constraints
- April 24 Timing is critical (for an idea)
- April 22 Growing Sectors (based on Inc 5000 List)
- April 18 Momentum and Consistency for Goal Setting Assessment
- April 07 Useful Google Sheets Queries
- March 29 Another Brick in the Wall
- March 29 I think of the runner Steve Prefontaine when I write <pre> </pre> in HTML
- March 28 A significant percentage of people will always think the new innovation will fail
- March 22 Day Ago PHP Function -- And Time Ago Variations
- March 22 Removing MAMP favicon using standard, free MAMP version
- March 21 Don’t look to animals as an argument against monogamy. (Funny!)
- March 20 Changing a site number in WP multisite
- March 11 The HABIT OF CHANGE vs. the HABIT OF STAYING THE SAME
- March 05 Multisite Admin Styles
- February 28 Encouraging Intelligence
- February 19 The direct relationship between faith and success
- February 11 One sentence to govern a life
- February 10 Accountmover.com for Reddit
- February 07 Search tip: Add dimensions to google image searches (16:9)
- February 07 The timeless beauty of old New York
- February 02 Low Fidelity to High Fidelity
- February 02 On Being 100% Design-First
- January 29 The benefit of making function names longer and more descriptive
- January 26 Search Github before Google
- January 24 "Borrowed" highlight CSS from Medium
- January 24 Tim Robbin's on the main, important metaphor of Shawshank Redemption
- January 24 Block access to files in an HTTP directory by IP address using .htaccess
- January 22 CSS gradients over images
- January 21 Simple WP filter to modify media upload directory
- January 21 Best practice: Append image sizes to new image size names in Wordpress
- January 21 Chuck Jones drawing Bugs Bunny, 1991
- January 19 Remote access to your mac: The most direct article I found on this
- January 18 United States population stats
- January 17 Empty cache from page refresh button when chrome dev tools is open
- January 17 Make your version control commits descriptive
- January 12 Penn Teller on 500 hours / what it takes
- January 11 Music and songs as the highest levered creative output
- January 09 Indoor humidification is not Poppy Cock
- January 07 Cloud git hosting options
- January 07 SELLING AHEAD: This is all Oracle did in the beginning
- January 06 Sarah Blakely on removing doubt language from the way she spoke
- January 06 Quickly seeing email contacts associated with a domain you're visiting
- January 05 Trusting that what you think is funny actually IS funny
- January 04 Appending values to gmail addresses like myname+version2@gmail.com
- January 04 Troubleshooting main principle
- January 03 Judy Blume on writing in Master Class promos
- January 02 Test what your caller ID looks like:
- January 02 Chrome Profiles
- January 01 Using flux app to ease eye strain
- January 01 Fighting Zapier Overuse
2017
- December 31 Better synchronization of Apple devices
- December 24 Changing default Mac OSX screenshot location in terminal
- December 24 Keep a user logged in for a year in WP
- December 24 CSS style for YouTube focus: hiding recommended vids
- December 24 Flexible wp-config on localhost: many installs, maintained by cookies
- December 23 Shortcoding: "get_template_part" function
- December 23 Shortcoding: WP bloginfo options
- December 23 "time ago" function used on this site
- December 22 Remembering The Westport A.C.
- December 17 Cosmic Inversion (great Jim Carrey quote)
- December 10 Everything is math
- December 10 Parallels between the internet & early electricity (Jeff Bezos, 1993, TED)
- November 04 The Over-Engineering of Bagels (and Life!)
- October 27 Asking questions to accelerate learning
- October 25 Step-by-step instructions for everything
- September 09 Turn on / off WP plugins via url hook
- May 30 Shortcoding: Dates
- May 16 On seeing kids get out of school
- May 15 Jaime Dimon speach to Harvard 2009
- May 01 Being the "Picture Painter-in-Chief"
- April 21 On the freedom of constraints
- March 19 Numbers to remember each day
- March 12 Ideas are cheap (a.k.a. when I invented Uber and Pinterest)
- March 10 Eternal execution of the creative mind
- March 07 Goalie training: Blocking bad inputs
- February 06 Premium themes that use Wordpress but don't inherit the GPL
2016
- December 10 Skiing every mountain in the Northeast (life goal planning)
- November 24 Relaxation at tension
- November 19 1981 New York City Marathon
- November 10 7 Trader Joes-inspired business success strategies I use
- October 11 Great, 20-minute YouTube tutorial on building your own MVC
- October 10 You can drag and drop a folder into terminal to get the path
- October 07 Newspaper front pages
- October 05 Observations from Michael Crichton interview (C. Rose, 1992)
- September 29 The paradox of technology time-saving devices
- September 15 The impact of doing less (recommended by many "doers")
- September 13 How to hide the sidebar on YouTube
- September 12 Sarah McLaughlin on Broken Heart ...
- September 11 Success at your own vision (a.k.a. not bending to another's)
- September 06 Simplification as a muscle
- September 01 Thoughts on branded content after watching Tom Hanks in Cast Away for the 8th time
- August 30 Great Ray Dalio talk on Investor Archive
- August 29 Foundational knowledge > current events
- August 28 Less stuff: a reversion to hunter-gatherer freedom
- August 18 My mind thinks in threes
- August 16 Code as much as you can before checking that it works
- August 14 Nike's 93 billion started with one waffle iron
- August 11 Psychology of winning for the United States
- August 02 Why I'm proud to make my marathon debut in NYC this year!
- July 31 "I do" versus "I will"
- July 29 We vs. I & hope vs. fear
- July 25 Mike Krzyzweski on what West Point did for him
- July 23 Warren Buffett on not working with people who make your stomach churn
- July 23 Set specific time goals for everything
- July 21 Ray Dalio's Principles in .epub format
- July 19 The amazing legacy of Robert Gould Shaw
- July 16 Expert at one language > okay at multiple
- June 26 More than 'leave no trace': Making the world better with campsite ethics
- June 03 The greatest Nietzsche quote
- May 26 The connection between plenary commitment in skateboarding and business
- May 18 Jekyll vs. Wordpress
- May 16 On reading fewer books (because of changes in tech)
- May 15 English simplicty vs. ornateness from Mike Rowe
- May 12 Arguments for NOT learning to code
- May 11 Quick thoughts on transactional email providers
- May 06 On reading fewer books (because of changes in tech)
- May 05 Duh moment! You can add a new paragraph within a Google Sheet cell by just clicking CTRL + Enter
- May 01 Mark Zuckerberg says he wasn't one of the smartest dudes at Facebook in 2005 talk at Harvard
- April 27 Too much repetitive TV
- April 27 Good definition of what a drone is from Michael Perry at DJI
- April 21 Punch the keys for God's sake!
- March 23 Deleting photos from iPhoto trick
- February 10 Beyond Words Comments
- February 05 Thoughts on working smarter (vs. harder)
- February 03 Casey Neistat's Motivational Message at Beme Headquarters
- January 30 Explanations of SpaceTime and telativity and "time travel"
- January 28 Great quote from Marc Maron WTF interview with Michael Moore
- January 28 I continue to love using the Momentum dash Chrome extension ..
- January 19 Book review and favorite quotes from Marc Cuban's "How to Win at the Sport of Business"
- January 16 Way easier to add ".html" extension to WP than I expected
- January 15 Google public data app: country population growth comparison
- January 04 2015 retrospective
2015
- December 24 Simple SQL find and replace
- October 28 Significantly improving Wordpress transactional emails
- October 19 The Martian (movie review)
- October 09 Top 7 tools I use for coding
- October 09 16 tools powering my life
- October 07 How to quickly export your iPhone notes to Evernote (or other apps)
- September 07 Get the New York Times homepage in your inbox every morning (for free!)
- July 27 Celebrating my Grandfather's intellectual legacy on his 100th birthday
- July 25 Is Google's facts and answers search result strategy sustainable?
- July 24 PHP function to check proper user agent for mobile / tablet devices (server-side method)
- July 23 A goodbye to F.A.O. Schwartz & the persistence of Mike Stone's "Amazing Dip-er-do-II"
- July 12 All pizza is good pizza (important personal conviction proven by data)
- July 05 8 surprising reasons to love the kindle (2015 edition)
- July 04 How to grow coral indoors
- June 25 My NEW Goals with Blogging
- June 25 12 reasons the world is NOT going to "hell in a hand basket"!
2014
- October 15 Options Frameworks
- October 08 JQuery -- Adding any image or loader after hitting submit on form within gravity form
- September 17 Back in Action!