Confessions of a programmer
Greetings! I'm a web developer from Ontario who is passionate about creating apps using Laravel & Vue. Join my newsletter to see what I'm up to each week.
I have a love-hate relationship with reading. I love what reading gives me, and yet I get anxious about all the books I haven’t read. My “to-read” list is about 3 times as long as my “read” list, and I’ve read hundreds of books.
I recently dedicated myself to making sure I was reading consistently every day. I’m going to share some tips that I found helpful to keep my reading habit consistent.
[Read more…] about Five Tips to Create a Daily Reading HabitOnly when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked
— Warren Buffet
The tide is going out. Businesses are failing every day.
[Read more…] about The Great Reset - How the business world is about to reset itself.Google Analytics saved us all from AWStats hell. When GA was first released in 2005, webmasters everywhere rejoiced for the free alternative, with accurate numbers and a boatload of features. As time went on, Google strengthened its grip on web traffic, while user privacy and clean interfaces went the way of the Dodo.
[Read more…] about Why I Switched from Google Analytics to FathomThere is nothing more frustrating to a developer than looking at their brand new repository, pushed with a fresh new project. Then you see one. Then two…three…more!
[Read more…] about Removing .DS_Store files from GitToday is a sad day. I am formatting my computer and reinstalling Mac OS. For the first time in 12 years, Dropbox will not be installed on my machine. What was once my most trusted app, has been slowly devolving into the abyss of overly weighted apps.
[Read more…] about Ditching DropboxWe are supposed to be living the “Gig Economy”, where we can have anything we need to have done, done for us. Despite this, every day I am constantly told by service people how booked they are and how jammed their schedule is. This is a fundamental breakdown of supply and demand in the marketplace.
[Read more…] about A Call to Service People to Rise Up!
