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Recently, in a professional-but-not-work-associated Slack I’m part of, someone paid me what I feel is the highest compliment I have received in recent memory. There was a discussion around a bit of a thorny topic, and I had chosen to engage and try to get a better idea of the views of folks in that discussion. After many rounds, someone had this to say about me: For what it’s worth, I…
In this post I wanted to document some exploration I did around using GitHub Actions to automatically generate a semantic versioning compatible tag in certain circumstances. I’m going to assume the reader has a basic knowledge of both GitHub Actions and semantic versioning . Requirements Here are the requirements I’m trying to meet: Upon commit to the trunk branch, a new tag and…
As of late I’ve been doing a lot of work with GitHub Actions , so in an attempt to minimize the number of technologies I’m using in my side projects I’ve converted this blog to using them for its build and deploy process. Overall, the experience was painless; the only hiccups were things not directly related to GitHub Actions (like forgetting to set the default region for the AWS…
Time for a confession: I’ve drifted back into some bad habits of mine around media consumption. I’ve been browsing the web and watching YouTube videos when I should be writing, coding, or spending focused time with those I love. This last week I spent almost 28 hours on Firefox between my phone, iPad, and laptop (the 9 or so hours on my tablet and phone are most concerning).…
Another week done in my digital declutter experiment! This time I decided to just post a weekly update, because frankly it was taking up too much time doing the daily updates. With all of the craziness going on in the world, I wanted to prioritize spending time with my family outside of work hours, rather than on compiling statistics of my technology usage (which ironically lead to more usage).…
This is my post detailing my notes and experience of week one of my digital declutter experiment. It will be updated daily-ish with a final summary on Sunday March 22nd, 2020. {{ .TableOfContents }} Day 1 - March 16th, 2020 Total device usage Times I Checked Twitter / LinkedIn / Discord Combined 1h 8m (↓ from 4h 18m) 5 (↓ 1 from limit of 6) What went well today? I did stay off social media as I…
Joshua E. Feierman [joshua.feierman] From the first line of code I wrote (an ExtraBasic script to automate generation of reports on a mainframe terminal), my passion has been combining technologies to provide value. I am a leader who enjoys tinkering with new technologies and helping others learn, whether by writing articles, presenting, or simple one on one conversations. LinkedIn:…
Joshua E. Feierman [joshua.feierman] From the first line of code I wrote (an ExtraBasic script to automate generation of reports on a mainframe terminal), my passion has been combining technologies to provide value. I am a leader who enjoys tinkering with new technologies and helping others learn, whether by writing articles, presenting, or simple one on one conversations. LinkedIn:…
Last updated: 2020-03-15 08:50 AM Table of Contents Purpose This page documents the rules I’m agreeing to follow in my usage of technology, such as computers, smartphones, tablets, etc. I’m trying to be more intentional around my use of technology, because I see daily the results when I do not do this. Especially in times of turmoil like this, it’s easy to let digital distraction…
Last updated: 2020-03-15 08:50 AM Table of Contents Purpose This page documents the rules I’m agreeing to follow in my usage of technology, such as computers, smartphones, tablets, etc. I’m trying to be more intentional around my use of technology, because I see daily the results when I do not do this. Especially in times of turmoil like this, it’s easy to let digital distraction…