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Agile software development relies on good test coverage, frequent small updates, and CI as core practices. These all break when it comes to…

Well, glad to be out of the train wreck that is now ▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋ (company name redacted to protect the innocent). I learned a lot from the…

I was converting an old game engine I wrote over to PixiJS v7 and discovered Pixi Particles didn’t work with v7. I had a look at patching…

We just changed our accountant. They charged a quarter of the fees. About 20 years ago, I set up a company with a friend. We asked a shared…

For years I’ve been listening to Startups For the Rest Of Us podcast. He’s super smart and experienced and I place a lot of trust in what he…

I’m well into burnout territory now. Working a full-time job, having two kids I want to be there for, doing a startup on the side, doing…

The Stoics were brilliant at finding meaning in life. Just not mine, For a number of years, I read the Stoics pretty thoroughly and was…

EdScreening was accepted into a startup space. Now I need to figure out why I applied. When someone mentioned the idea to me, I couldn’t…

I randomly came across an e-commerce opportunity yesterday, and I’m not sure I know what to do with it. While listening to a podcast with an…

An episode of NPR’s Throughline came my way via the Invisibilia podcast this morning and it gave me a realisation. I have a complete lack of…

I’ve been working on EdScreening for over a year now. Every night and weekend. I’m overworked, exhausted, and close to burnout. And now I’m…

The sooner the better. I wish I’d learned that earlier. When I was young I was very entrepreneurial. I’d buy out the favourite lollies at…

Neurodiversity is a term used to describe the wide spectrum of differences in human brains. Each one of us has a unique brain, Judy Singer…

I’ve read a few books on habit formation, starting with James Clear’s Atomic Habits, which was tremendously insightful. Using the steps of…

I’ve been gone from the blog for a while. For years I’ve cycled through a process of setting a blog up, writing a few posts, and then…

I hit a few speed bumps with the Japanese spaced repetition app, which ironically, I think I have solved through another side project - An…

I’ve been a bit busy over the last few months nights and weekends. I’m working on an app for english pronunciation with an expert in that…

Oops, I screwed up with that previous SEO update. Let’s hack the sitemap module for a quick and easy custom sitemap I ran into and SEO thing…

TLDR; Try to have your keyword focus before you make the page, and be prepared for surprises. I think I’ve done a fairly decent introductory…

TLDR; It seems SEO has to be my primary channel, but I don’t really understand SEO. Time to change that. I’ve been making things online a…

TLDR; Don’t remove a site from Google’s index if you want it in seach results :) The mystery of not being in Google, solved? I’ve been busy…

TLDR; By early stuffing around with DrLingua.com, I borked Google and Bing… Google and Bing are taking a long time (well, it seems like…

TLDR; How to conditionally include GA only when domain name matches a string. Gatsby has a module to add Google Analytics (GA) to a site…

TLDR; HTML5 game developer blogging about making Japanese language educational games for kids. Hey, I’m starting a new thing with kids games…