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Thoughts on Mental Health, or, Can’t You Just Make Yourself Do It?
READ MORE →: Thoughts on Mental Health, or, Can’t You Just Make Yourself Do It?You may be wondering what this post could possibly have to do with technology. Everything, and nothing. Nothing to do with any technology we work with, but everything to do with the people who make it. When asked in a 2018 survey on…
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Name For State: A Volunteer Site You Can Believe In
READ MORE →: Name For State: A Volunteer Site You Can Believe InThe title may be overstating my development abilities a little bit, but I did build a volunteer sign up site for a friend of a friend who was running for office in 2018. The candidate wanted to be able to have volunteers sign…
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AddThis: A New Love Affair
READ MORE →: AddThis: A New Love AffairI’m 1000000000000% certain I am very late to this party, because there was a long time between the first time I used AddThis, and the most recent time that I used AddThis. The new interface, the excellent customizing options, I’m in love.
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The Brand New NJM
READ MORE →: The Brand New NJMWelcome to my latest labor of love, the NextJen Mobile Redesign!
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Shiiiiiiiiit…. Or: I just told Chrome to Always Do Something that I don’t want it to
READ MORE →: Shiiiiiiiiit…. Or: I just told Chrome to Always Do Something that I don’t want it toIt was late in the day at work yesterday when I was trying to get some new code into some new repositories with our local git install of BitBucket + SourceTree.
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Floodlight Tags: The Ugly
READ MORE →: Floodlight Tags: The UglyBack in February, I was a part of creating and publishing a super-rush-get-it-out-now website that I spoke a tiny bit about here. We have a less than desirable MVC implementation, but it’s up there, it works, we capture leads, I’m hoping it ends…
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Using S3 for Media Storage on WordPress
READ MORE →: Using S3 for Media Storage on WordPressThis post, really, is for me more than anyone else. There is usually enough time between the set up of my WordPress sites using S3 for media storage that I forget one step or another and spend way too much time trying to…
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Work, Life, Learning
READ MORE →: Work, Life, LearningI’m going to tell you a secret. Are you sitting down? Are you ready? I’m exhausted. Some of that comes from some personal reasons, which I will not get into here, but when I think about everything that there is to learn, to…
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Coding and Rubber Duckies
READ MORE →: Coding and Rubber Duckies♫ Rubber ducky, you’re the one! ♫ A nightmare of a week with competing deadlines and other issues ended with me explaining the rubber ducky theory of debugging to a marketing coworker who is also relatively new to the company. For those who…
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A Lesson in Learning
READ MORE →: A Lesson in LearningThis post didn’t turn out the way I expected it to, but it still drives the point I was going for. —— Pain. Frustration. Irritation. Sadness. Regret. Losing. Achievement. Accomplishment. Triumph. Happiness. Completion. Winning. Tears. Smiles. I was raised to do better, be…
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Jenny Rasmussen
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