Live Simply
I often find myself living a complex life. There are so many things I want to do, so many things I need to do, and so many things I should do that it is...
The Growing Python Community in Los Angeles
As a developer living in Los Angeles, I’ve often felt distant from my programming comrades up north in Silicon Valley. Let’s face it, Silicon Valley gets an...
Absolute Victory
I’ve recently started reading biographies of famous historical figures, and came across some very interesting stuff while reading Ghengis Khan and the Making...
The Root of all Change
I think a lot about philosophy. One specific area that fascinates me more and more is personal development and achievement. How do people achieve greatness?...
On Programming Deadlines
There are a lot of differences between programming, and programming professionally. The most notorious of which, is deadlines. Deadlines When you’re writing...
Enjoying the Grind
A big part of accomplishing awesome things is dealing with the daily grind that makes them possible. Chances are, if you’re attempting to do something...
Simplifying My Jenkins Work Flow
Up until recently, my Jenkins work flow has been tedious. It typically went something like: Install Jenkins instance, fully configure it the way I want....
I Want to Be a Renaissance Man
Throughout my life, I’ve been extremely interested in several different things: Skateboarding. When I was in elementary and middle school, I was obsessed...
Diet Updates
Exactly 1 month ago, I decided to try a new diet regime. Over the past 7 months now I’ve been slowly losing weight, trying to get down to my goal weight of...
The Time I Accidentally Destroyed a Production Server
Over the past few years or so, I’ve learned a lot about software in professional settings. I learned that software development is not always all it’s cut out...
The Perfect Django Settings File
I know this isn’t the best way to start an article, but I lied. This article won’t show you how to make the perfect Django settings file. Instead, it will...
2011 Yearly Goals Update 1
Early this year I wrote a post outlining my goals for the year. Since April is almost over, I thought I’d do my first follow-up to let you know what I’ve...
Essential Tools for Pythonistas
Pythonistas need a lot of good tools in order to work efficiently. I’d like to take a few minutes to enumerate some of my favorite tools that help me write...
Simple Continuous Integration / Deployment With Jenkins
At work we rely heavily on continuous integration and deployment to help us deliver lots of code into production and staging environments quickly. In a...
Building a Better Body
Since last October I’ve been trying to build a better body. In September, I was somewhere near 300lbs and extremely out of shape. In October I started...
5 Things Programmers Can Learn From Bodybuilders
Programming is hard. Whether you do it for fun, for money, for fun & money, or whether someone has a gun pointed at your head and is forcing you to program…...
My New Office
As a programmer, I spend a lot of time in my office. It’s my sanctuary. It’s where I do all of my work, where I learn a lot of new things, and where I have a...
Don't Get Too Cocky
I learned an important lesson a few months ago, and thought I’d share. Don’t get too cocky. For the longest time I considered myself a good programmer. In...
My Desktop Environment
I love reading about the tools that other people use daily, what sort of editors they use, what software they consider essential, how they use it, and why....
Programming Innocence
I’ve been programming for a long time. When I first started programming, I would spend as long as I humanely could on the computer writing code. Sure, my...
