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I’ve decided I want to stretch myself a bit and try my hand at freelancing. I’ve been working in the same, or similar, jobs for a few years…

Well, glad to be out of the train wreck that is now ▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋ (company name redacted to protect fragile egos). 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…