2022

• Nesting and the sense of home
• About time for an update
• A Porchfest Porchcat Saturday
• A brisk wonderland
• Summer's last hurrah, I hope
• As the leaves turn
• Back to work
• I don't want to go back
• Montréal, the land of beautiful people
• Un paradis piétonnier
• Je suis arrivé
• Farewell, Pittsburgh
• Moving... to Pittsburgh?
• 57 varieties of Pittsburgh history
• Accepting you're a dirty mess
• Camping diversion in western Pennsylvania
• Why did we pave paradise?
• A leisurely hourslong walk to the Warhol
• Reconnecting with the old world in Pittsburgh
• Charmed at the Moogseum
• Rambling in West Asheville
• I'll always be a mountain man
• Waking up at the Cracker Barrel
• Preparing for departure

2021

• Love
• Crying

2020

• The nature industrial complex
• Buying nothing in 2020
• How I'm staying youthful in my thirties
• My perfect next gig

2019

• Darkness
• Rise of the digital flâneur
• The joy of an experiential life
• Do thoughts create reality?
• My favorite teas
• Autumn update
• Learning to be alone
• I got rid of my home office
• Anticulturalism
• Terrible employee
• Divide and rule
• GTD & The Artist's Way
• 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
• How to bind React component event handlers in ES6
• Fixing Postgres errors after an ungraceful shutdown on your Mac
• Why doesn't React immediately mutate state when calling setState?
• So you're really good at hammers
• Things I wish I'd known at 20
• 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

2014

• Mallsterbating

2013

• Leaving my privately defined world
• What I've Learned About Love
• Why I'll Always Be A Mercenary
• The Fool's Guide to Sustainable Saving

2012

• Trailer Chic: My Ignite Portland talk is online!
• Listen to others for fun and profit
• My tiny living ebook is now available for free!
• Tmux for Vim users
• Disable volume buttons on iOS using Activator
• Random acts of aggression
• What I've learned after three months living tiny
• Using HTML data attributes to elegantly create Mixpanel trackers
• A holistic approach to happiness
• Affluence, transience and identity
• Bay Area Exploits
• Cycling at Laguna Seca
• Detour to Monterey
• Coastal forest bliss in Big Sur
• Welcome to Walmart. Would you like some fucking chamomile?
• Reflections on a month living small
• A Jasmine matcher for Backbone.js Event Expectations
• A leak is a good excuse for bamboo.

2011

• RVM, Ruby 1.9.3, Homebrew and PostgreSQL make me want to kill babies
• My inner monologue
• Sugar is a poison and should be regulated
• Coffeehouse hipster technocrats are the linchpins of tomorrow
• We have the capacity for renaissance

2007

• Sticker/poster designs.
• What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out?
• I am in love with this town!
• A smattering of holiday “cheer”
• The West Coast Departure Project
• Casper’s Doppelgänger
• They sold out.
• I just traveled five hours to sit at Gimme! Coffee.
• Summer slack-off roundup.
• So long, Dundee, and good riddance indeed.
• Deerhoof in Glasgow!
• Not even the locals like Dundee…
• Aboard the Stansted Express.
• A drink at Stansted.
• Notting Hill Gate.
• Shake-up at St. Christopher’s.
• Pubhopping at Picadilly.
• A base of operations.
• Welcome to the Four Stars Hotel at London.
• Hopeless.
• Greyhound.
• On Computers, circa 1994
• Autobiography, circa 1994
• The Tree Princess, circa 1994
• Crocodile Camper, circa 1994
• ruby-wmii SVN log notifier
• TJ@EU: A teejayvanslyke! featured series.
• What I found written in my journal today…
• API Hell: The Rise of Application Frameworks and the Fall of Sanity
• Which Programming Language Am I?
• Mike Gravel ‘08
• Hildebrands Deutsche Schokolade
• Gliese 581 c
• Is that a gavel in my uterus?
• New York, London, Dundee, Glasgow, Amsterdam
• Accountability: Blaming individuals for worldly problems.
• Tompkins County March For Peace
• Javascript Inheritance Diagrams with GraphViz and Base.js
• Free as in Skool
• Your environment, your wallet: Seven tips to save money and reduce your ecological footprint.
• Film Review: Our Daily Bread
• Like the White Rabbit, with less fat around the edges.

2006

• I am Jack’s Blue Screen of Death.
• Fall in love.
• Newspeak, here we come.
• Giving Rails its own GUI
• It’s summertime.
• The rise of the neo-green revolution.
• Cyberwar On Terror… or The Long Cyberwar?
• iranisnext.org
• World War III
• TJVD&D is now Flex.
• Three years later and still in chains.
• Iran: Our next warzone.
• Spring Break: Neither spring nor break.
• Weekends — such a brilliant concept.
• The Middle East ran fresh out of democracy; Rice asks if she can buy them some more.
• I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.
• My first weekend off
• Rounded corners make me happy.
• State of the Union
• Intellectual Property — A follow-up
• I’m a Fair Traitor.
• Back to school…
• Corpse Economy
• That’s Dr. Teejay to you!
• Vonnegut’s Fortune Cookie #2
• Vonnegut’s Fortune Cookie #3
• It’s the end of the world as we know it: A follow-up.
• Funded?
• Everyone has a story.
• Vonnegut’s Fortune Cookie.

2005

• The Cold War II: A follow-up
• It’s the end of the world as we know it.
• And I thought I had seen it all…
• The Cold War II — only this time it won’t be a nuclear winter.
• To Ph.D or to not Ph.D…
• Words of wisdom.
• New party with old friends.
• teejay vanslyke development & design: it’s legit.
• teejayvanslyke.com is a reality.
• All break and no school makes Teejay a huge nerd.
• It’s cold, it’s December, and it’s going to be a long haul.
• Ideas, ideas, ideas!
• The beginning of my freelance career
• Winter is close enough…
• Happy birthday to me!
• Hydrino?
• I can make you a man
• And the leaves keep falling.
• Holy Crap!
• A few thoughts…
• Welcome to the Fourth Reich - Part 2
• Forever since an update…
• Here comes the Fall
• Open Source Incorporated
• Emperor Bush and the Landslide of Tyranny
• Adventures into Python
• Compassion from an old friend
• Part 4: Pentium III laptop for $35? Why, I'll take it.
• Part 3: Pentium III laptop for $35? Why, I'll take it.
• Update: Pentium III laptop for $35? Why, I'll take it.
• Pentium III laptop for $35? Why, I’ll take it.
• Summer
• Inspiration Inside a Tibetan Monastery
• My Journey Into Awareness — Buddhism as a Way of Life
• Welcome to the Fourth Reich