Not Quite the Year of the Linux Desktop

Every so often I get tired of looking at the same old screens. It is not as if there are tons of programs I use throughout the day. There is a web browser, slack and Emacs. At some point I get antsy and want to see what is I could…

Knowledge Management

When I'm in meetings, I try to take notes. There are TODO items, things I'd like to remember and questions I might want to ask about. The problem is that I don't have a good way of taking this information and easily using it when I'm doing the work. All…

Relearning JavaScript

I've started to relearn JavaScript after taking a long hiatus. When I first started coding I certainly had the naiveté of youth and jumped on the bandwagon when it came to dissing JavaScript. Thanks to libraries like Prototype [http://prototypejs.org/], I realized it had a lot of really interesting…

Personal READMEs and User Manuals

I've heard that manager READMEs are bad [https://medium.com/@skamille/i-hate-manager-readmes-20a0dd9a70d0]. The criticism revolves around these documents ultimately being self serving by giving the author a way to justify acting in the wrong. For example, if I write in my README that "I don't handle criticism well" and I…