Mar 5, 2019Member-onlyMeditation was a joke for me until I tried it.I grew up in a household where you didn’t talk about your feelings or the things that were bothering you. If you had a problem you didn’t talk about it, you merely held it in and went about your day. I’m sure you can guess how well that went. I’ve…Mindfulness2 min read
Aug 5, 2018Member-onlyRemote Work — Don’t forget what got you here.I’m a few months away from my first anniversary of working remotely. To start, I never thought in a million years I’d be able to work remotely. At first, it felt surreal. I could sleep in, or even take a nap on lunch if I wasn’t feeling great on top…Productivity4 min read
Apr 20, 2018Member-onlyBe grateful, embrace the struggle.I’ve felt like I had a rough past few weeks. I’ve felt burnt out, stressed out, overwhelmed, sad, and even depressed. Until this morning. I spent some extra time in bed, instead of getting up at 6 am to make a cup of coffee and get to work in my…Life Lessons2 min read
Mar 11, 2018Member-onlyI’m quitting #100DaysOfCode, here’s why.Yes, you read it right. I’m quitting #100DaysOfCode. Why? I completed about a week or so of my regimen that I had set out to do. The problem was that I just wasn’t that interested in it. Not because I don’t like development, I definitely do. I work full time in…100 Daysofcode1 min read
Feb 25, 2018Member-onlyTwitter Bot — Day 2 — #100DaysOfCodeI’ve been wanting to make a twitter bot for some time now, and I decided to accomplish it today. I had created a repo for this awhile back and never finihsed it. The goal was to create a twitter bot to retweet and interact with tweets related to applicable hashtags…Nodejs4 min read
Feb 24, 2018Member-onlyMakefiles and Boto3 — Day 1 — #100DaysOfCodeI’m currently trying to finish up a little side project I’ve kept putting off that involves data from my car (2015 Chevrolet Volt). I pull data from voltstats.net with a selenium script, the script downloads the two CSV files and then puts them in a directory for Jupyter Notebook to…Docker3 min read
Feb 22, 2018Member-onlyIntro — #100DaysOfCodeI recently started reading The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, where he talks about how resistance is the one thing that stops us from doing what we really want to do in our lives. …100 Daysofcode2 min read
Feb 16, 2018Member-onlyWorry about the process, not the goal.I’ve had the hardest time working on my goals lately. But reading “Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead” — By James Clear really motivated me. Instead of focusing on goals, focus on the process for the goals you want to achieve. …Productivity2 min read
Feb 13, 2018Member-onlyI’m addicted, and you probably are too.I was in denial, I couldn’t be one of those people addicted to their phone and the apps within, could I? A few months back, I started developing higher than usual levels of anxiety, mood swings, and racing thoughts. I typically don’t experience these types of things often, so I…Social Media5 min read
Oct 8, 2017Member-onlyHappinessIt’s 11pm on a Monday night and I felt compelled to write this, after sitting at my computer for most of the day I got that dreadful feeling, the one that makes me feel depressed and anxious. Every day since I can remember, I’ve asked myself; “what makes me happy?”…Happiness2 min read
