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This morning, I read a rather click-baity article about the kinds of questions that runners hate answering.

During the 2016 edition of the Super Bowl, Colgate ran an ad highlighting our overconsumption of water during tooth-brushing.

At work, we have a few Clojure services in production.

Warning: this is a rant Recently, I have made great progress in my journey towards Haskell enlightenment.

In this post, we will attempt to make a simplified clone of Redis in Haskell.

Python, Ruby concurrency lol packaging lol Golang lol if you don’t like typing err := y u no generics lol imports Haskell need PhD will never be mainstream Idris only for concating lists Erlang lol syntax Javascript javascript Rust how do I do x this week?

In the last year or so, there seems to have been an explosion of markdown editors and markdown previewers.

Junior programmers will often ask, “Which language should I use?”

(That’s quite a title, isn’t it?)

Perhaps the number one reason why people are afraid to try Lisp or don’t like it is the huge amounts of parentheses cluttering up the code.

This is a simple guide on how to use Saltstack, the configuration manager, in masterless mode.

… from source when you’re using the homebrew-provided Python.

For the longest time, I was using Time Machine to keep copies of my files.

Reading stuff online can become addictive.

The text of the ESV was used.

Text used: ESV.

When starting to work on an existing codebase, I often find myself in a state of despair.

When you look around you while sitting in a church service, you will generally have a sense of who is who.

What I don’t understand is: why should you ever care how your editor looks, unless you’re trying to win a screenshot competition?

Google+ has been the target of numerous jokes in the tech community.

In this post, I’m going to show you how I made a Lisp to Javascript compiler.

If you find yourself interviewing for a software engineering position today, you can be 90 percent sure that you will be asked to solve some programming puzzles.

I’m from the Czech republic.

Book 3, chapter 23 When Paul declares that we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4), he certainly shows that no regard is had to our own worth; for it is just as if he had said, Since in the whole seed of Adam our heavenly Fa…

Clojure has virtually zero syntax.

I have now lived in Canada for over two years and there are some things that Canadians can’t seem to make up their mind on.

You get through the less glamorous parts while still being nourished.

In a recent sermon at our church, a pastor student said to us that we are no longer able to say that Jesus will make his disciples fishers of men.

The sidebar in Mutt is useful if you have multiple email accounts and want to switch between them quickly.

It continues to amaze me how bad Haskell is at processing strings.

Prefix notation I’m a big fan of the prefix notation.

This post isn’t going to tell you that you should use MVC to structure your application.

You are a ninja-rockstar developer with a billion dollar idea.

Recently, I have noticed that there are quite a few wrappers around git to give you a nicer interface to work with.

I have recently switched jobs and had to set up a home office.

I have been with Rackspace for a while now and never had problems.

Arguably, CapsLock is the most useless key on your keyboard.

When deploying a Django application, you often use a requirements.txt file that contains a list of the application’s dependencies.

We all know that Gmail is the best email provider out there.

I was using django-filebrowser on a project and my Rackspace VM quickly ran out of disk space.

As evangelical Christians, we believe in what is called the inerrancy of the Bible.

To say that node.js has enjoyed a great deal of positive publicity in the last few months would most certainly be an understatement.

Many people today who claim to be and likely are sincere followers of Jesus Christ aren’t properly educated in the discipline of biblical exegesis and interpretation.

Under normal circumstances, the human eye should blink about once every 5 seconds.

Over the last few weeks, I have been trying to think of a way to design medium to large client-heavy web applications.

The leadership in the local church is often made up of very incompetent people.

Today, news broke about Richard Stallman’s comment on Steve Job’s death.

One of the complaints many atheists raise against becoming a Christian is the fact that heaven will be boring.

There are many English translations of the Bible.

This year at DjangoCon, it seemed like everybody was talking about automatic deployments and namely Chef.