Two of my favorite tools lately are Observable (observablehq.com) (a long time favorite for quickly prototyping javascript and creating interactive visualizations) and bean-count (a more recent addition for doing "hobbyist double entry accounting" (a special form of "fun")). fava is a great open source web UI for bean-count that

I was learning about OFX api's (what Quicken uses to pull your transaction info) for a personal project, and I kept getting 400 Bad Request errors.  I wanted to see what the requests I was making with curl looked like to the server.  Then I wanted to compare what requests

In the first post in this series, I laid out the following things to do: See a dermatologist (but read below about things to keep in mind)Try a product "diet" to see if less is more for your  skinGet some sunscreen from  outside the USBe skeptical, and support new

After trudging through the grossness of trying to add to $PS1 from a script, I got to thinking it would be fun to have the phase of the moon on my shell prompt.

I wanted to add some information to the shell prompt from a script recently and learned some things about bash, PS1 and shell variables along the way. What is a shell prompt and why would I want to set it? The shell prompt is the chunk of text that comes

TL;DR Here are things I found helpful the past few days: Set goals, set time limits, enforce with timers Outline, outline, outline Be genuine The Experiment Last Wednesday, I decided to try out a new blog format with shorter posts covering topics that I was learning about that day.