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How I Use Stuff: Day One

App: Day One Cost: Free with a $34.99/year Pro plan My journaling workflow has evolved a lot over the past few years. My very first entry in Day One is from June 21, 2012, but I didn’t start keeping a regular journal till early November 2015, shortly after I quit drinking . I turned to keeping a journal as a way to organize my thoughts and feelings in a place that I knew was private and…

Making Time for Side Projects

I have about a million things I’d like to do at any given moment. If I sit down and try to choose something to spend my time on, it’s fairly overwhelming. There are blog posts I could write, books I could read, movies and TV shows I could watch, or any number of ways I could continue my own education via videos or articles. And then there are the side projects. So so many side projects. The…

Liftoff Spinoff

An iOS blogging workflow for static sites

This blog is (at the time of this writing) a static website hosted on GitHub. It’s written in Haskell (using Hakyll ), built on CircleCI when I push to master , and then deployed to GitHub Pages . It’s a fairly complex process, but it’s a fun side project, and it’s automated enough to fit my needs. However, because of all these moving parts, I never really nailed down a workflow for writing blog…

Caching Carthage con CircleCI

Quitting

One of the hardest things I’ve ever done is quitting smoking. I was never a two pack a day smoker, nor did I smoke for decades, but I was a regular 1/2 pack a day smoker for roughly 6 years (18 - 24). I also know that it’s something I am still addicted to, even though I’ve now quit about as long as I was an active smoker. I still have dreams about smoking, still have cigarette cravings, still have…

Open Sourcing Tropos, Our iOS Weather App

Introduction to Function Currying in Swift

Functional Swift for Dealing with Optional Values

Swift Sequences