RyanJM

I hit my goal weight recently.

Imagine you are on a week-long vacation at an all-you-can-eat resort.

I've had the Nomad (A6 X2) for about a month and I'm enjoying the experience.

Why am I writing a blog post before I even received the device?

Inspired by Marques Brownlee's recent video, Apple Vision Pro is Missing Something, I figured I should finally get around to publishing my wishlist for Obsidian.

I put together an in-depth video around how I setup a new Mac and... there is a lot.

What is the difference between Apple Sherlocking an app and Amazon Basics copying existing products?

Assuming I stick with making videos, I am sure I will add new gear to my setup eventually.

Whether you are working on a habit, goal, or developing a skill, you should always start small.

In 2021, I have started a YouTube experiment.

I've always enjoyed drawing but I never felt good at it.

Pastries in France got me thinking about how we perceive the world.

Every couple of months I think about starting a YouTube channel and to start making videos regularly.

The TrueDepth Camera is being marketed about reading faces, but at the foundation, it is just checking the depth of anything in front of the camera.

Every day we have a chance to do something different.

You only have 19.05 GB of storage.

It's a cliche, but we know it's true.

I heard everyone's enjoyment about standing desks.

"Stop.

Matt pointed me to a great slide share called 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I'd Known at 20.

When developing in Rails, I preferred TDD and wanted to apply the same approach to an Ember.js project.

Maybe I'm just easily impressed, but I really like Robin Ward's Ember Press.

Ember makes it easy to add an action to a button or an anchor tag with the {{action}} helper, but sometimes you need more control.

I had a hard time with nested routes the first time, so I hope to clear it up for others.

I've been exploring Ember for several months and recently committed to a deeper investigation.

One of the big time savers I loved in TextMate was the ability to copy and paste multiple things at a time.

After realizing I had 400 unread articles in Instapaper (dating all the way back to 2009), I've declared bankruptcy by moving them into their own folder.

Terminal I've recently picked up an amazing Terminal shortcut: Ctrl + R.

I've been working on redoing the OrangeQC website the past couple weeks and it was good to put into practice some of the stuff I was learning at the end of my time at Nelson Cash.

Here are some of the great articles I've come across this week.

Scott Porad writes about why software is hard: "First, name one other thing in the world, he said, that is used by so many people and which is created entirely by hand?

Last week was the end of my position at Nelson Cash.

This past week I was working on a Ruby on Rails project where I needed to list out a lot of attributes of an object.

My mindset on how to use and develop in jQuery has just changed dramatically.

I don't have much to add to this discussion right now, but I just wanting to point out that the next two years is going to be pretty exciting for the web development community.

Cringely raises an important point regarding student motivation and its effect on learning.

From an article about David Oglivy and his habits as a copywriter.