Month: September 2019
Downloading Files on a Server With Blink Shell on iOS
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While there are FTP clients for iOS, I haven’t found one that’s all that fast or nice to use. Instead, let’s look at what Blink Shell can do to transfer files from and to a server with the scp command that is built in. Preparing our Folder The first step we’re going to take today…
Friday Notes 071 – Sept 20 2019
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This week has been way more stable with the kids and school. I’ve been helping coach x-country practice two mornings a week and we’ve seen a bunch of kids whose parents said would never come do awesome and have a great time. For me, this weekend is a 50km race that I feel fairly well…
Mistakes that Most Business Owners Make (And How to Avoid Them)
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If you are new to the world of business, then you will know that some processes can be difficult to navigate. This can cause you to make mistakes, but there are a few things that you can do to try and help yourself to succeed. Choosing the Wrong Type of Business Think about it, did…
hPDA and My Field Notes
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Joe Buhlig has a short post about the awesome uses for his Hipster PDA. I still carry around my Field Notes book, though I don’t use it as much as I once did. I’m more likely to put my bag down and pull out my Bullet Journal.
Eating Meat Versus Environmental Impact and Nutrients in Our Bodies
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A little while ago I shared an article on The Impact of Eating on Our Planet. It basically said that meat is not great for the environment because it takes lots of land to produce, but going vegetarian is not quite the answer either because clearing land for farming removes forest and peatland that sequester…
Experienced Developers Just Google Better
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Love this post from Sophie. In an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google stuff you’re not a proper engineer, this is a list of nearly everything I googled in a week at work, where I’m a software engineer with several years’ experience I’ve long maintained that after 10-years coding I…
Justin Jackson Doesn’t Have the Time or Money to Change Behaviour
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From Justin: The goal of bootstrapping is not to change the way people behave. I liked this article on some of the motivation differences between bootstrapping and VC funding. I’d wager that there are more people that end up successful out of bootstrapping. No not in the make a billion dollars and start a space…
We Fill Out Schedules Without Realizing What’s Happened
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Julianna Poplin on No Sidebar: We fill our schedules without even realizing what’s happened. We sign onto things without knowing why we are doing them. We go with the flow of what other parents do, what friends do, or what our family does without stopping to ask questions. Do we want to be doing what…
Friday Notes 70 – September 13 2019
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Yes it’s the second week of school, and yes we’re still doing back to school stuff as we get our kindergarten kid worked up to full-time classes. I mean she’s ready, but lots of other kids aren’t so it’s gradual entry for everyone. For us it’s mostly meant tears when she isn’t staying at school…
The Choices Society Makes Discounts Women
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While 50% of the world population may be female, the world discounts so much of the benefit that comes from that half of our population. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez aims to show us how that bias is harming not just women, but society in general. Early on Perez states that this bias comes…
