2019

• My analog summer
• The thing about extremism
• Mental illness and the urgency to be okay
• When it looks like everyone else is having more fun
• I don't enjoy travel anymore
• Summer vacation
• Do it slowly
• A chicken with its head cut off
• God is everywhere
• I have to get ready
• Break things down
• What it's like to have a crippling fear of flying
• If you're unsure, split the difference
• Building a maintainable capsule wardrobe for men
• When ideas become second nature
• Who the hell am I?
• How I prepare coffee at home
• Why I'm not on social media
• 2018 year in review

2018

• Is work a virtue?
• Analysis is not action
• I sold all my self help books
• Archival as art
• 10 things I'm grateful for in 2018
• Every moment a lifetime, every lifetime just a moment
• The psychological shift of a penny saved
• Reflections on sobriety
• The diminishing returns of seeking behavior
• You can relax now

2017

• It all ends
• How our beliefs change our reality
• The meaning of life
• As the climate changes
• Tactics for a happier digital life
• The subtle art of staying at home
• Your own European safety net
• Why I decided not to buy a house
• Feeling insignificant
• Adding React to a Middleman project with Webpack
• When you forget why
• Addicted to advice
• Integrity
• Fighting the urge to remain in motion
• Remote for life
• The Portland I used to know
• Buffers
• How to name and organize your React components
• That feeling when you want to give up
• Limiting beliefs and the tech industry
• Why aren't more companies hiring independent consultants?
• A notificationless life
• Consultant vs. Freelancer
• How is prototyping different?
• What is prototyping?
• How long will it take for you to deliver my MVP application?
• Are your rituals serving you?
• Only build the bare minimum
• Complexity is a multiplier
• The real formula for marketing success
• Learning Elm
• How to befriend uncertainty
• The vicious circle
• The minimalist day planner
• The freedom of less
• Feng shui for programmers
• Things you might notice if we work together
• How to position yourself to bill clients weekly instead of hourly
• How do we know when we've arrived?
• The tools I use & why I use them
• Nine ways to kick ass on a remote team
• How losing all my hair has changed my perspective in tech
• Why React will make UI designers redundant... eventually
• How a mission statement is helping me focus
• How to build your own products without burning out
• How to vet a freelance developer when you aren't technical yourself
• So, I'm the new guy in town
• Use Slack's Incoming Webhooks from your Rails app
• Send visitor HTML form data to Slack with Formbot

2016

• Why I stopped billing hourly and you should too
• Testing ES6 React components with Enzyme's shallow rendering
• How to set up a test runner for modern JavaScript using Webpack, Mocha, and Chai
• Install CtrlP to save time hunting for files in Vim
• Beware of making database queries in Goroutines
• Too many connections using PostgreSQL with Golang
• Alias your common Ruby commands for a faster workflow
• Using Gulp to generate image thumbnails in a Middleman app
• Remap ESC key in Vim for better ergonomics
• Naming conventions for modern JavaScript
• Fixing a Ruby crash using Middleman 4.1x with Ruby 2.3.0
• Why doesn't React immediately mutate state when calling setState?
• Fixing Postgres errors after an ungraceful shutdown on your Mac
• How to bind React component event handlers in ES6
• Things I wish I'd known at 20
• So you're really good at hammers
• Why I stopped drinking alcohol

2015

• The freelancer's guide to retirement savings accounts
• Slack, the ultimate workday distractor
• Your best candidates demand to work remotely
• Using jQuery Deferred to wait for multiple Backbone models to save
• How to authenticate Instagram in a command line application
• Software is 10% Code

2013

• Leaving my privately defined world