Smart is a Good Start When I'm looking for good phrases to tell to my kids, they have to be short and meaningful, and if they rhyme, it's a huge bonus. "Smart's a good start" is one of my favorites because it captures much of what I feel was missing from the teachings of my
Recipes Instant Pot Smashed Yukon Gold Potatoes Some recipes are too good not to share. My family complains when I don't make potatoes this way. • 2 cups water • 2 lbs Yukon gold potatoes • 1 stick butter • 3 sprigs rosemary • Salt & pepper to taste Add 2C water to the instant pot. Pressure cook the potatoes on high
Vue 3 CLI Awesomeness How cool is it that I can just type vue create newproject cd newproject vue use pug vue use element-plus and I have a working vue 3 system, complete with pub, fully integrated with webpack and a UI component library that's ready for development? There's a few minor tweaks needed
Coding Vue.js CLI 3 API URL Environment Variables I recently converted a project to use vue cli version 3. This change has helped with consistency across my app, but a few things that used to work don't anymore. Specifically, the API urls I used to include in my webpack js are no longer updating during the production build.
Thoughts Everything is a Sandwich, Probably There's constant debate about the definition of sandwiches. Questions around hot dogs, tacos, sushi, etc. are all valid, but I've come to believe that based on most people's definition of what makes a sandwich, everything is probably a sandwich. Evidence: Types of SandwichesThere's a lot of sandwiches out there. PoBoys
Coding Nginx Docker Reverse Proxy I've been working on a basic setup to host a number of sites through docker on a local machine. The theory goes: Port 80 traffic hits my router and is forwarded to my computer with Docker on itAn nginx docker image handles the request and, based on the domain, routes
Thoughts Square Parents Community Newsletter I’m writing to you from a desk in my house that has fruit snack wrappers, hand-made cards from my kids, and more empty yerba mate cans than I care to admit. When my camera faces one direction, I only need to clean one direction. When my priorities shift, things
Thoughts A Brief Message for Recruiters I'm very selective with writing back or paying attention to recruiting messages. I believe finding a job is similar to dating, and that we should have compatibility before it's worth moving forward. Here's a few things you might want to know before writing: I have a passion for personal finance
Polyphasic Sleeping Slow Polyphasic Adaptation It’s become tradition that when the due date of a child approaches, I start going Polyphasic again. It’s been about a week since I started acclimating, and I’m trying a very non-committal method. It’s been reasonably effective, so far, and I figured I’d share the
Polyphasic Sleeping Day Two: The Reckoning The feeling is intoxicating. The knowledge that even though your day is packed and that you’ve spent 1:20 sleeping through the course of it, you have at least an extra 4 hours in the day when everyone else is asleep. It’s not that I get to be
Life Hacks Inbox -1 I’ve read about how keeping your inbox at 0 is a major life accomplishment and that many people have a daily struggle with it. Having had my email well in hand for more than 10 years, I’ll share with you my secrets for how to keep things in
Thoughts State of the Morgan 2014 I loved having birthdays when I was a kid. I’m pretty sure this doesn’t make me unique, but I carried this a bit too far into my adulthood. I held dear the idea that a birthday was going to be the best day ever. This lasted until I
Life Hacks The Smallest, Easiest Life Hack is the Best Life Hack I’m a sucker for life hacks that save time and effort, and I consider this one of the easiest to implement. When I use the microwave, I prioritize my button presses based on Number of Buttons PressedNumber of Different buttons pressedAn example: My microwave has an “Add 30 Seconds”
Coding Understanding Express Middleware in Node.js Middleware is one of those interesting concepts that once you get it is very helpful. I learned this from making an autominify middleware for express. The concept goes like this: Express is initialized. Each time you add an app.use call, it appends it to a list of things to
Thoughts Reflections on 2012 I’ve always found that even-numbered years are usually more fun, looking back, than those of odd years. I’m not sure why that is, if it’s psychological, or if it’s something to do with 16, 18, 30, etc. appearing on even years, but this year was no
Woodworking Changing Table Plans With our son on the way in less than three weeks, and with a pair of reasonably successful bookcases under my belt, I’ve decided to tackle making a changing table. We’ve been looking into lots of different options and, while some of them are very nice, I don’
Monthly Resolutions An Entire Month of Good Mornings Fearless month has proved to be one of the most difficult to stick to. The entire notion that I face my fears seems simple enough, but where do fears have a purpose and where do they have a detriment. This morning, I’ve faced one of my major social phobias.
Monthly Resolutions February Monthly Resolution – Fearless Month The plan: February is Fearless Month. Many of you know that I occasionally do Monthly Resolutions instead of yearly. This means less of a commitment than usual. The last yearly resolution I did was to eat vegetarian at restaurants for a year. It was eye opening, and I was very
Burning Man Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt Dome Burning Man 2011 has come and gone, and I’m pretty damned happy to report that the conceptualization, execution, and result of building this type of dome was almost a complete success. This is to document the why and how of building a dome like ours, as well as the
Burning Man Scale Models of Nearodesic Polyhedron Hexayurt I’ve been going to Burning Man for a while now, and I, like pretty much everyone else out there, am enamored of the ideas of large-scale projects on the playa. This year, I’ve got a few people camping with me, and I figured a shade structure was in
Cooking Best Pie Crust Recipe Ever This Recipe comes from Kimberly Flower, who got it out of an issue of Cook’s Illustrated, Nov 1, 2007. Vodka is essential to the texture of the crust and imparts no flavor—do not substitute. This dough will be moister and more supple than most standard pie doughs and
Cooking Raspberry Pie Filling Ingredients:1 cup sugar3–4 tbsp. flourPinch salt5 cups fresh or thawed raspberries, stemmed2 tbsp. butter, cut into small piecesDirections:Combine sugar, flour, and salt in a large bowl. Add raspberries and gently toss until well coated. Place filling into pie crust — I recommend the Vodka Pie Crust Recipe. Bake
Crafting Strawberry Basil Pie Filling Ingredients:2 pounds fresh strawberries1/2 cup sugar1 tbsp. fresh lemon juice2 tbsp. fresh green basil, minced6 tbsp. corn starchDirections:Wash the strawberries, then remove the hulls.Leave very small strawberries whole, cut larger ones in half or quarters.Add the prepared berries to a bowl with the 1/2
Polyphasic Sleeping Polyphasic Sleep—A Primer Polyphasic sleep is a catchall term for sleeping on a schedule more than once a day. Since the term’s inception, the polyphasic community tends to agree that it also involves a schedule of some type, often rigorous or well-defined, but not certainly so. It’s been attributed to famous
