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My take on the Sorta Sortimo small parts organizer system (August 24, 2024)
July 2024 update (July 7, 2024)
How I (try to) keep Slack in check (June 2, 2023)
March 2023 update (March 5, 2023)
Super-simple DIY drawer organizers (January 2, 2022)
Hiatus (November 14, 2021)
How I get things out of my head (with Things) (January 10, 2021)
I built a writing desk! (December 20, 2020)
Making the switch to Plausible analytics (December 4, 2020)
A long overdue October 2020 update (October 31, 2020)
April 2020 update (April 20, 2020)
Kill your darlings, early 2020 edition (April 3, 2020)
February 2020 update (February 27, 2020)
January 2020 update (January 13, 2020)
December 2019 update (December 23, 2019)
November 2019 update (November 30, 2019)
June 2019 update (June 29, 2019)
May 2019 update (May 21, 2019)
April 2019 update (April 17, 2019)
March 2019 update (March 15, 2019)
Initial impressions after migrating this site to Netlify (March 9, 2019)
February 2019 update (February 15, 2019)
January 2019 update (January 15, 2019)
In case you're interested (October 12, 2018)
2017 in review (December 22, 2017)
How I run (October 27, 2017)
Why I run (October 1, 2017)
2017 goal status report (Q3) (September 15, 2017)
Speaking appearances in August 2017 (August 6, 2017)
My love-hate relationship with static site generators (February 12, 2017)
A quick guide to picking your next tech stack (February 5, 2017)
3 picks for February 3, 2017 (February 3, 2017)
Spring 2017 speaking events (January 29, 2017)
3 picks for January 27, 2017 (January 27, 2017)
2017 goal status report (January 23, 2017)
3 picks for January 20, 2017 (January 20, 2017)
On writing (again) (January 16, 2017)
3 picks for January 13, 2017 (January 13, 2017)
Forward is the watchword (January 8, 2017)
3 picks for January 6, 2017 (January 6, 2017)
I've created a Now page (June 18, 2016)
Pebble Time makes UX fun again! (June 10, 2016)
Learning Elixir, slowly (April 3, 2016)
Upcoming presentations (spring 2016) (March 12, 2016)
Track your learning with a personal research board (December 29, 2015)
Atom 1.0: First impressions (July 6, 2015)
My notes from KCDC 2015 (June 27, 2015)
An MVP for two (June 7, 2015)
The great garden reset of 2015 (May 10, 2015)
Learning Vim, one year later (March 1, 2015)
3 picks for February 19, 2015 (February 19, 2015)
Rock Chalk Nation gets a reboot (December 31, 2014)
My finished bookcase, in production (September 22, 2014)
My homemade desk, in production (June 8, 2014)
3 picks for April 28, 2014 (April 28, 2014)
Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County California (April 26, 2014)
2 picks for February 28, 2014 (February 28, 2014)
3-picks for February 21, 2014 (February 21, 2014)
Learning Vim, a little at a time (February 17, 2014)
3 picks for February 14, 2014 (February 14, 2014)
3 picks for February 7, 2014 (February 7, 2014)
Recent writing elsewhere (February 6, 2014)
The Macs I have owned (January 24, 2014)
3 picks for January 24, 2014 (January 24, 2014)
3 picks for January 17, 2014 (January 17, 2014)
Ongoing list of nicknames for Amber, a cat (January 16, 2014)
3 picks for January 10, 2014 (January 11, 2014)
3 picks for January 3, 2014 (January 3, 2014)
Why I'm trying a comment-free blog (January 2, 2014)
3 picks for December 27, 2013 (December 27, 2013)
Picture of the day: Webslinger (October 2, 2013)
Wall cabinet: September 2013's Project of the Month Project (September 28, 2013)
Picture of the day: Roar (September 21, 2013)
Picture of the day: Bark (September 17, 2013)
Picture of the day: Prickly pears (September 13, 2013)
Picture of the day: Jojo (September 12, 2013)
Picture of the day: Spigot (September 11, 2013)
3 picks for June 7, 2013 (June 7, 2013)
How would you roll your own data science course? (May 24, 2013)
3 picks for May 17, 2013 (May 17, 2013)
3 picks for May 10, 2013 (May 10, 2013)
5 of my favorite presentations from Ruby Midwest 2013 (May 7, 2013)
Lawrence Rubyists unite? Lawrence Rubyists unite! (April 26, 2013)
3 picks for April 26, 2013 (April 26, 2013)
3 picks for April 19, 2013 (April 19, 2013)
3 picks for April 12, 2013 (April 12, 2013)
Jump Start Sinatra: A book report (March 20, 2013)
Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec book updates: February 2013's Project a Month Project (March 1, 2013)
Snow days (February 26, 2013)
Sales visualizations for Leanpub authors: January 2013's Project a Month Project (January 30, 2013)
Docent: December 2012's Project a Month Project (December 31, 2012)
My first two days with the OWC Data Doubler and Mercury Electra 3G solid state drive (December 19, 2012)
Sound Refound: November 2012's Project a Month Project (December 14, 2012)
Announcing the Project a Month Project (December 14, 2012)
Some thoughts on 2.5 years of technical blogging (November 2, 2012)
Fluent Conference video compilation: A book report (October 19, 2012)
Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby: A book report (August 7, 2012)
Getting Started with D3: A book report (July 15, 2012)
A retrospective on my first lean publishing experience (July 14, 2012)
A Little Book on CoffeeScript: A book report (May 29, 2012)
What I'm up to, the spring 2012 edition (May 3, 2012)
Spring is springing in Jefferson County (March 4, 2012)
Returing to Redmine: Suggestions for better workflows and productivity (February 15, 2012)
Breaking the Page: A Book Report (February 11, 2012)
Ten Photo Assignments: A Book Report (December 17, 2011)
December 2011 reading list (December 1, 2011)
Reflections on Ruby Midwest 2011 (November 7, 2011)
O'Reilly Master Class: Leading and Managing Breakthrough Projects Video (a book report) (October 26, 2011)
Living in the Sunflower State (September 12, 2011)
Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef: A Book Report (August 16, 2011)
jQuery Mobile by Jon Reid: A Book Report (July 8, 2011)
My summer 2011 reading list (June 15, 2011)
TextMate snippets for CanCan (and other Ruby things) (June 11, 2011)
My 10-year Seattle anniversary (and belated love for LiveJournal) (May 13, 2011)
Gamification Master Class with Gabe Zichermann (a Book Report) (May 9, 2011)
Kansas Relays 2011: A few photos (April 24, 2011)
Recent web work: Kansas Project Success (April 15, 2011)
Strata Conference Real World Applications Panel: Education and Government (a Book Report) (March 22, 2011)
Offline Mobile Web Applications in HTML5 (a Book Report) (March 12, 2011)
How to restore a Macintosh hard drive to its factory settings (February 2, 2011)
Building the Perfect PC by Thompson and Thompson (a Book Report) (January 22, 2011)
Scott and Neil's Designing Web Interfaces Master Class (a Book Report) (December 27, 2010)
Make iPad e-books with Baker and Jekyll (December 5, 2010)
The Myths of Innovation, Second Edition, by Scott Berkun (a book report) (November 27, 2010)
Finally, a Mac launcher for me: Getting to know Alfred (November 3, 2010)
The Inner Game and software development (September 28, 2010)
Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun (a book report) (August 18, 2010)
Where I've been: Recent writings elsewhere (July 4, 2010)
One nobody's solution to Flash on the iPad (May 26, 2010)
Updates from Everyday Rails: App templates and Nifty Generators (May 26, 2010)
Preview my new project: Everyday Rails (May 20, 2010)
Come see me at SIDLIT 2010 to talk academic social networks and web development (May 10, 2010)
Rails Test Prescriptions is going to be the best book on Rails testing (May 6, 2010)
Hey baseball fans, MLB.tv on Roku looks great! (April 28, 2010)
Documentaries, storytelling, and The Endless Summer (April 25, 2010)
Quick take: Netflix streaming on Wii vs. Roku (March 26, 2010)
Roku: Initial impressions (March 12, 2010)
The Facebook Imperative and organizational learning (March 10, 2010)
Requiem for an Apple TV (March 1, 2010)
Sound Refound: My new music flyers database (February 25, 2010)
Upcoming conferences of potential interest (and not called SXSW) (February 20, 2010)
Rails testing in the real world (February 7, 2010)
My initial impressions of the iPad (January 28, 2010)
My college basketball arena tour wish list (January 27, 2010)
My visit to McArthur Court (January 25, 2010)
How I migrated my blog to Jekyll (January 11, 2010)
Making the Jekyll switch (January 10, 2010)
My issues with Google Wave (November 13, 2009)
Recreating The White Album, Every Nine Days (October 7, 2009)
Seth Godin on "the problem with non" (September 16, 2009)
Awesome tweets from _why (August 20, 2009)
Bye bye, _why. (August 19, 2009)
Replacing my Apple TV; some questions (August 9, 2009)
Slides for my Friday presentation at SIDLIT: An intro to web application frameworks (July 28, 2009)
How I use Twitter at conferences (or, don't just read about it; do it) (July 24, 2009)
See me at SIDLIT: Web application frameworks (July 20, 2009)
I love one-page websites. (July 10, 2009)
A couple more photos from my trip (July 9, 2009)
A couple of belated July 4th pictures (July 8, 2009)
The Bing ads are right. Search still isn't done. Or maybe it's just the Internet. (July 2, 2009)
Using technology to cheat in the classroom: An historical perspective (June 24, 2009)
My whirlwind tour of Kansas: A slideshow (June 19, 2009)
Springtime in southern Illinois (June 9, 2009)
Easily run Lynx on a Mac with Lynxlet (June 9, 2009)
My current obsession: Ugly things on the grill (June 3, 2009)
Design techniques explained: Chuck Jones and storyboarding (June 2, 2009)
It's happening: Hash tag spam in Twitter (May 8, 2009)
RailsBridge: Making Rails inclusive and friendly (May 5, 2009)
One nobody's thoughts on the GoGaRuCo mess (May 2, 2009)
A few of the sights in North Lawrence (April 29, 2009)
13 gets me 10 (years of service at KU) (April 22, 2009)
Ruby on Rails: What a difference three years make. (April 20, 2009)
Stay interested--and interesting (April 14, 2009)
2009 Wheat State mini-tour (April 13, 2009)
Lawrence on Rails is rolling (April 7, 2009)
How I learn (hint: by doing) (April 6, 2009)
Audio recordings from SXSW Interactive panels now available via podcast (March 26, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Takeaways: "Free" (March 20, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Day Five Takeaways: Building Strong Online Communities (March 20, 2009)
Coda: Barbecue I ate in Austin, Texas (March 20, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Day Four Takeways: Entrepreneurship (March 17, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Day Three Takeaways: New Thinking for Old Publishing (March 16, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Day Three Takeaways: Lessons in Community Management (March 16, 2009)
SXSW 2009 Interactive Day Three Takeaways: Nate Silver Keynote Interview (March 16, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Day Two Takeaways: Designing the Future of the NY Times (March 15, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Day Two Takeaways: Curating the Crowd-sourced World (March 15, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Day Two Takeaways: Making Ideas Happen (March 15, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Day Two Takeaways: Feed Me: Bite-size Info for a Hungry Internet (March 15, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009 Day Three Takeaways: Edupunk: Open Source Education (March 15, 2009)
SXSW Interactive 2009: Day One Takeaways (March 14, 2009)
SXSW Interactive: Day One (March 13, 2009)
5 Rails-related blogs (and one podcast) to follow (March 9, 2009)
Wednesday night basketball at Allen Fieldhouse (March 5, 2009)
5 useful Ruby gems for Ruby on Rails (March 5, 2009)
5 useful Ruby on Rails plugins (March 3, 2009)
Recap of Sir Ken Robinson's talk in Omaha (March 2, 2009)
Sir Ken Robinson in Omaha today! (February 26, 2009)
Apple TV 2.3.1 disables boxee (February 25, 2009)
Valleywag on the end of Second Life (February 23, 2009)
Stimulus-funded projects must be Web 2.0 (February 22, 2009)
Hulu blocks boxee. Blame old media. (February 18, 2009)
New project: Flyers archive 2009 (February 16, 2009)
Norm Stewart on Kansas-Missouri vs. Duke-Carolina (February 15, 2009)
Kristin Hersh on CASH music (February 13, 2009)
Apple TV + Boxee = AWESOME (November 11, 2008)
Problems with importing Canon RAW photos after installing Apple's Raw compatibility updater 2.2 (October 1, 2008)
Why I'm no longer excited about BuddyPress (or Elgg, or MT 4.2) (September 28, 2008)
A few shots from my neighborhood (September 14, 2008)
Yesterday's project: New look for Stratepedia.org (August 30, 2008)
A few shots from the first (annual?) Lawrence Buskerfest (August 22, 2008)
Why I'm excited about BuddyPress (August 16, 2008)
Dissing Delicious 2.0 (August 3, 2008)
Why can't I figure out gardening? (July 27, 2008)
My next-to-last visit to Jerry's farm (July 24, 2008)

My take on the Sorta Sortimo small parts organizer system (August 24, 2024)

July 2024 update (July 7, 2024)

How I (try to) keep Slack in check (June 2, 2023)

March 2023 update (March 5, 2023)

Super-simple DIY drawer organizers (January 2, 2022)

Hiatus (November 14, 2021)

How I get things out of my head (with Things) (January 10, 2021)

I built a writing desk! (December 20, 2020)

Making the switch to Plausible analytics (December 4, 2020)

A long overdue October 2020 update (October 31, 2020)

April 2020 update (April 20, 2020)

Kill your darlings, early 2020 edition (April 3, 2020)

February 2020 update (February 27, 2020)

January 2020 update (January 13, 2020)

December 2019 update (December 23, 2019)

November 2019 update (November 30, 2019)

June 2019 update (June 29, 2019)

May 2019 update (May 21, 2019)

April 2019 update (April 17, 2019)

March 2019 update (March 15, 2019)

Initial impressions after migrating this site to Netlify (March 9, 2019)

February 2019 update (February 15, 2019)

January 2019 update (January 15, 2019)

In case you're interested (October 12, 2018)

2017 in review (December 22, 2017)

How I run (October 27, 2017)

Why I run (October 1, 2017)

2017 goal status report (Q3) (September 15, 2017)

Speaking appearances in August 2017 (August 6, 2017)

My love-hate relationship with static site generators (February 12, 2017)

A quick guide to picking your next tech stack (February 5, 2017)

3 picks for February 3, 2017 (February 3, 2017)

Spring 2017 speaking events (January 29, 2017)

3 picks for January 27, 2017 (January 27, 2017)

2017 goal status report (January 23, 2017)

3 picks for January 20, 2017 (January 20, 2017)

On writing (again) (January 16, 2017)

3 picks for January 13, 2017 (January 13, 2017)

Forward is the watchword (January 8, 2017)

3 picks for January 6, 2017 (January 6, 2017)

I've created a Now page (June 18, 2016)

Pebble Time makes UX fun again! (June 10, 2016)

Learning Elixir, slowly (April 3, 2016)

Upcoming presentations (spring 2016) (March 12, 2016)

Track your learning with a personal research board (December 29, 2015)

Atom 1.0: First impressions (July 6, 2015)

My notes from KCDC 2015 (June 27, 2015)

An MVP for two (June 7, 2015)

The great garden reset of 2015 (May 10, 2015)

Learning Vim, one year later (March 1, 2015)

3 picks for February 19, 2015 (February 19, 2015)

Rock Chalk Nation gets a reboot (December 31, 2014)

My finished bookcase, in production (September 22, 2014)

My homemade desk, in production (June 8, 2014)

3 picks for April 28, 2014 (April 28, 2014)

Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County California (April 26, 2014)

2 picks for February 28, 2014 (February 28, 2014)

3-picks for February 21, 2014 (February 21, 2014)

Learning Vim, a little at a time (February 17, 2014)

3 picks for February 14, 2014 (February 14, 2014)

3 picks for February 7, 2014 (February 7, 2014)

Recent writing elsewhere (February 6, 2014)

The Macs I have owned (January 24, 2014)

3 picks for January 24, 2014 (January 24, 2014)

3 picks for January 17, 2014 (January 17, 2014)

Ongoing list of nicknames for Amber, a cat (January 16, 2014)

3 picks for January 10, 2014 (January 11, 2014)

3 picks for January 3, 2014 (January 3, 2014)

Why I'm trying a comment-free blog (January 2, 2014)

3 picks for December 27, 2013 (December 27, 2013)

Picture of the day: Webslinger (October 2, 2013)

Wall cabinet: September 2013's Project of the Month Project (September 28, 2013)

Picture of the day: Roar (September 21, 2013)

Picture of the day: Bark (September 17, 2013)

Picture of the day: Prickly pears (September 13, 2013)

Picture of the day: Jojo (September 12, 2013)

Picture of the day: Spigot (September 11, 2013)

3 picks for June 7, 2013 (June 7, 2013)

How would you roll your own data science course? (May 24, 2013)