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Having been in a depressive funk for several months now, it’s time to publish the checklist I need in these times to help acknowledge and climb out of it. When I’m feeling depressed or unproductive (the two are closely related for me), I’m mildly aware of the things I’m not doing, yet weirdly refuse to take action and get myself out of the rut. By publishing this list, I…
Notes on getting connected to 3G/4G in Thailand on the dtac prepaid SIM
After shunning pagebuilders in WordPress long enough, I gave Elementor a try for a landing page layout and found it quite useful. I also realized how terribly far behind Gutenberg is! So, Elementor got me 90% of the way there, as is often the case in WordPress - simple, until it isn’t! Custom code in the theme’s functions.php got the last piece of the puzzle.
Aiming to create very low-cost, low-footprint self-contained workstations that can be deployed to areas lacking resources. A place you go to invest in knowledge and develop skills “The Knowledge Bank Network” Functions: knowledge bank offline WikiPedia, StackOverflow entertainment public domain movies, music, books, games communications share one connection Ideas to explore:…
Just as the sage advice from The Pragmatic Programmer on mastering one text editor makes so much sense for those of us whose majority of work is rearranging bits on the digital titanic, the same holds true for knowing your operating system and investing in solid tooling for your other main productive tasks. Opinionated preface - Open source or GTFO The world’s resources are quickly…
In a tired, but inspired state, after attending this weekend’s WordCamp Brisbane 2018. Got to start with a big shout-out to all of the organizers, volunteers, speakers and attendees - THANK YOU! I’m far from a WordPress fanboi - I regularly talk people out of using self-hosted WordPress. As a tech industry professional, I feel responsible to not push everyone to use a certain…
Update: I no longer use Bitnami on AWS LightSail due to the steps required to get sane application behaviour and performance are not worth it. Leaving this up for any searches leading here and will recommend for a similar level of serviced hosting, try DigitalOcean or Vultr. Tired of clunkily updating a GitHub gist, herein lie my notes used when provisioning an AWS LightSail instance with Bitnami…
Does the greed for extra profit margins cause more damage to the ecosystem? “I made a G today” “but you made it in a sleazy way” “Selling crack to the kids” “I gotta get paid!” Maybe it’s this “I gotta get paid” part which I hear the most. People tell me how they’d love to work as a volunteer or work on social ventures. Then…
Not all advertising has to be evil Wanting to share your beliefs without imposing on the freedom of others The healthy option Compromising on one’s values can slowly eat away at their sense of self, their confidence and their ability not to compromise in future situations. Perhaps this is contributing to global cases of mental health problems, in that we deep down can understand the effects…
Can’t live with/out them ? live close to them Does living apart from your partner defy the universally accepted love protocols? Staying withing firing range Love’s great marksman, Cupid, drew back his arrow, he didn’t get into close quarters range for some Krav Maga nut shots. TIL - The furthest recorded accurate shot in competitive archery was set at 283.47 metres in 2015.…
Being social, spiritual or primal Can we balance all of these states of attention? Accepting different levels of awareness I have written of my previous tendency to sway between extremes and this has made me more aware now of similar extremities in my focus of thoughts. At different times, I think my main drivers have been those of: existentialism: packing life into a backpack at 20 to seek…
Proofless acceptance and self-justification Written more for my children and partner to help understand my actions. Are questions more interesting than statements? “What’s the point?” can often be exasperated in moments of depression. Rather than it’s usual negative lamentation, leading to frustration at the lack of evidential answers, we can choose to embrace it for the…
Should vegans become rocks to minimize their impact on the earth and our ears? They may not answer in the affirmative to that, but where does their limit lie? Sidetrack - Extremes and balances I tend to look at and often live in extremes, something I’ve become more aware of with a partner who notices these kinds of things. a hoarder or my life’s in my backpack obsessively vegan or…
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