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2026 4

  1. Stop Putting AI in Front of Kids
  2. The AI Design Question Nobody Is Naming
  3. I Don’t Speak Portuguese. I Built a Portuguese Engineering Channel Anyway.
  4. Engineering After AI: From Typists to Architects

2025 13

  1. How Much Caffeine Is Too Much?
  2. The Mission Statement That Helped Me Change My Life
  3. I Tried to Build Habits for Years. Here’s What Finally Worked.
  4. The Muscle I Forgot I Had
  5. Why I Wake Up at 5:15am to Write 1,000 Words
  6. Why I Wrote I Will Not Drink With You Today
  7. I’m Not Afraid Anymore
  8. Shrimp with Curried Watermelon and Quick-Pickled Rind
  9. Review of Scotch Lodge in Downtown Portland, Oregon
  10. 10 Essential Prompt Types to Speak AI Fluently
  11. Oregon’s Finest: 6 James Beard Finalists You’ll Want to Eat Your Way Through in 2025
  12. Should We Still Study Software Engineering in the Age of AI?
  13. What Should We Become? Navigating the Ethics of AI Innovation

2024 2

  1. 5 Ways to Help Lead Your Engineering Team Beyond the Metrics
  2. 12 Principles of Extreme Ownership

2021 13

  1. Living in 29 Places Over 39 Years
  2. 5 Tips for Writing Without Fear
  3. Did She Ever Stop Looking for Me?
  4. I’ve Moved My Writing to Medium
  5. 14th Day of 60 for Developing a Writing Habit
  6. Review of Forage in Newberg, OR
  7. 5 Things I’ve Learned About Myself and Alcohol in 9 Months of Sobriety
  8. Let’s Get Personal — Success Can Be Boring and Failure is an Option
  9. Some Haikus I’ve Written Recently
  10. Making Words Happen on Day 5 of 60 for Creating a Writing Habit
  11. Words from Bruce Lee’s Letters
  12. Is it the Words or the Act?
  13. How to Make Writing a “Habit”

2017 1

  1. Empathy as a Trait for Good Developers

2015 2

  1. Nurturing Passion – The Last 10 Years of My Relationship with Cannabis
  2. Travels – Getting Back to Writing

2014 4

  1. Tomodachi – Entrepreneurship in the Face of the Great East Japan Earthquake
  2. Connecting to the Internet – Finding My 15-Year-Old Website I Built at 16
  3. Never Going Back – A Week of Not Eating Lunch at My Desk
  4. Destroying Personal Anxiety – From Anxieties to Actionable and Measurable 2014 Resolutions

2013 1

  1. 25 Years to Mac – How Ubuntu Pushed Me Away from the PC

2012 9

  1. William Hyde Taught Me About Cheese and Passion in Life
  2. Getting Started with Satchmo for Django on Ubuntu 12.04
  3. Deploying an Existing Django App to Heroku on Ubuntu 12.04
  4. Celebrating 30 Years On this World Alongside the Commodore 64
  5. A Geek Gets His Day – Mark Zuckerberg at the Facebook IPO Opening Ceremony
  6. Fixing Sticky or Unresponsive Windows in VirtuaWin for Windows 7
  7. Terminal Scrollbacks Write Data to Local Disk; Even Over SSH
  8. Listing and Downloading Files Over SFTP with PHP and ssh2
  9. Disabling Empty Tab Completion in Bash to Prevent Delays

2011 9

  1. The Opposite of War Isn’t Peace, it’s Creation
  2. Creating Elements with jQuery and Internet Explorer
  3. The Joys of Merging Code
  4. No, PHP Errors and Notices Do Not Need to be Encoded
  5. Zend Framework and the Zend_Db_Select::where() and ::orWhere() Problem
  6. In Defense of Hipmunk’s Usability
  7. PHP Developers Finally Deprecating ext/mysql in Favor of mysqli or PDO
  8. Netflix Streaming Service Now Available in the U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. Moving Right Along

2010 6

  1. How to Add Row Classes to Get Striped Tables With sorttable.js
  2. Log File Location and PID File Location Settings for the PHP System_Daemon PEAR Class
  3. Creating a Table of Contents from HTML in PHP with DOMDocument and No Regex
  4. Solution to Broken Cookie Creation for Chrome on Linux
  5. Experience Liberia – All The Episodes of The Vice Guide to Liberia
  6. Random Dates and Numbers in PostgreSQL with the RANDOM() Function

2009 15

  1. Medical Marijuana in Washington D.C.
  2. Speed Comparison of strlen() VS empty() in PHP Shows empty() is Faster
  3. How to Use onbeforeunload with Form Submit Buttons
  4. Elizabeth McCaughey Leaves Position as Director of Cantel Medical One Day After Daily Show Interview
  5. Improved AJAX, XHTML, and RSS Safe Function for Converting Entities to ASCII in PHP
  6. Beaverhead County Decides to Defer Prosecution of Summer Day in Medical Marijuana Case
  7. Amazon AWS API REST Authentication for PHP 5
  8. Commands to Easily Reformat Code with Line Breaks Around Curly Braces in Vim
  9. Benchmark Results Show 400%-700% Increase In Server Capabilities with APC and Squid Cache
  10. Astalavista.net and Astalavista.com Hacked
  11. Reported Shooting at Radford University (Story Emerging)
  12. PHP Solution for AJAX/XHTML Entities Problem with Chrome and Safari
  13. Keep Your Cannabis But Take the Production of Dangerous Drugs Charge
  14. Google Ads Knows What Racist Tory Bigots Need
  15. Why RAID is NOT Backup

2008 49

  1. No “Hope” In Sight to End the Drug War
  2. Finding it Hard to Hope
  3. Change? True.
  4. Of Thee I Sing: Let Freedom Ring
  5. What About Bin Laden? Delta Force Leader Provides Disguised Interview on How Close We Were
  6. Is This a Joke? Watch Palin Attempt to Explain Her Foreign Policy Experience
  7. Why $700,000,000,000? “We Just Wanted to Choose a Really Large Number.”
  8. Here to Stay, 14,000 Strong, and Armed With Non-Lethal Weapons – America, Meet Your New Local Military
  9. Anyone Can Be President
  10. Scott Day Spent His Final Few Months of Life in Fear and Anxiety Thanks to the Drug War – Please Help Spare His Wife from Prosecution
  11. Is Governor Palin Hiding an Affair With Her Husband’s Business Partner?
  12. 6 Good Reasons Why America Does Not Need Sarah Palin as Vice President
  13. Welcome Sky News Readers
  14. Bush Aims to Let Developers Choose Whether Their Development Has Endangered Species Effects
  15. Cyberattacks Crippling and Defacing Georgian and Ossetian Web Sites
  16. Russia Responds to Georgia Handling Conflict in South Ossetia – Google Map Provided
  17. Time Zone Abbreviation Difficulties with PHP
  18. How Not to Answer a Network Admin Job Interview Questionnaire
  19. Video Explores the Fight for Medical Marijuana in California
  20. Just One Article of Impeachment Finally Gets Through to Judiciary Review
  21. The World as We Know It
  22. Necessary Components in an Exit Strategy for the War on Drugs
  23. How to Create Transparent, Rounded Corners Using ImageMagick
  24. Ponce de Leon High School Ordered to Notify Students that Standing Up for Gay Rights is Okay
  25. HP Pavilion DV6000 Laptop Wireless Failure – HP Says 1 in 7 Affected
  26. Javascript – Removing All Select (Drop-Down) Elements from a Page
  27. Albert Hofmann, Inventor of LSD – Dead at 102
  28. Shots Fired in Iran Send Oil Prices Up Just in Time for Stimulus Packages
  29. Finally – Firebug and Tab Mix Plus for Firefox Beta
  30. PacSun Customer Services Goes From Horrible to Helpful in 24 Hours
  31. Sam Zell and Rupert Murdoch Appointed to the Associated Press Board of Directors
  32. PHP and Regex – Replacing Repeating Characters with Single Characters in a String
  33. PHP and Regex – How to Replace or Remove a Repeating Character
  34. The Ultimate Online Property Management Guide for Missoula, Montana
  35. Montana Marijuana “Bust” Leaves Registered Patients’ Already Short Life in Agony
  36. Google Maps Version of the 2008 Submarine Cable Cuts
  37. The Submarine Cables – A Complete Guide to the 2008 Internet Outage
  38. We’re All Up in Your Internets, Cutting All Yur Cablez
  39. I Pledge Allegiance to Freedom of Speech, Not to My School Administrators
  40. Submarine Cables, Subsidiares and Subversion
  41. Apparently, Ships Can Drag Anchors from Egypt to Malaysia
  42. Alas, We Knew Him Well – A Review of “Y: The Last Man” #60
  43. Ubuntu (Open Source) Games Review – Part 3
  44. Writing Code Rule #1: Learn to Have Confidence to Break Stuff (and Firefox Keyword Search)
  45. Ubuntu (Open Source) Games Review – Part 2
  46. Ubuntu (Open Source) Games Review – Part 1
  47. Sears Brings Shears to the Privacy of its Consumers and the Consumers Fight Back
  48. Top 5 Men VS Women Fighting Videos Online
  49. Never Give Up… Never Surrender

2007 1

  1. Security Anyone?