Adrian Unger

I've reached a point where my comfort level with Linux and my annoyance level with MacOS have both reached their tipping points.

I'm something like 3 years now on my Sabbatical.

Many moons ago, there was a lovely service called OhLife which has been shutdown for some time now.

The sun was out.

The other day I was walking and chatting with my partner Angela—as we so often do—and realized what made me good at my software development job despite having no formal education: I hate work.

Friction is an undeniable aspect of our reality.

Or, the year of the sabbatical.

My photography is about capturing the beauty of existence as it unfolds, naturally in every moment, rather than a planned creation.

From the most benign self-help books to ancient philosophy and spiritual texts, the goal is awareness.

Beat my record set last year and didn't blog even once this year!

Well, I didn't blog for a whole year.

It was a year of quiet introspection and growth.

I struggle to understand the messaging around the vaccines and what they are purported to do, and how mask mandates seem contrary to a vaccine mandate, especially when it results in firing healthcare workers.

Recently, Alberta Health attributed their youngest COVID-19 related death to a 14-year old boy.

Our response to the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted hospitalizations and mortality from the over-65 to the under-65 age group.

Early on in the Pandemic, it was all "we're in this together!"

At first, the secularisation of the capitalist world during the 19th century elided the judgment of God into the judgement of History in the name of Progress.

Massive energy use and the creation of e-waste have been talked about rather extensively in regards to BTC -- Still waiting on a decent rebuttal to those points -- but I haven't seen much said about the inherent inequities of BTC.

It seems proponents of BTC think that it actually has a net positive on the environment.

Alberta's United Conservative government recently announced they are investing $1.5 billion directly into the Keystone XL pipeline, plus a $6 billion loan guarantee.

Lately there's been some "discussion" about the boilerplate around using Redux for application state.

Recently, at work, we were coming up with our React Style Guide (based on AirBnBs).

This past winter, I was tasked with figuring out why certain views on a Rails app were slowing to a crawl.

I've been getting more and more into shooting 35mm film these past few months.

Keeping API calls decoupled from React components keeps your views pure and without side-effects!

This past weekend we hiked a similar route that we did about the same time last year.

Almost exactly 2 years ago today, I bought a OnePlus One.

View components are all the rage in the frontend JavaScript world, with React popularizing their usage.

Recently, I was added to a couple of existing AngularJS projects to implement new features and refactor some existing ones.

I am currently working on writing an API backend with LoopBack.

I've been using Facebook's React for most new UI components in recent months at Ecquire.

I came across How I Got Converted to GMOs via ma.tt.

Roy Choi is a pioneer of awesome street food with the Kogi, korean taco, truck. nothing is authentic and tradition is in the human mind. we can create new ones as long as we are honest.

This is how Ecquire caught my attention ~2 years ago.

Still not used to being on the east coast but I am starting to appreciate the more subtle beauty.

Veganism is not the end-all answer to a better world.

My partner and I have been scouring British Columbia, checking out potential properties to purchase.

Awhile back, I lived atop Burnaby Mountain.

James Somers asks if coders are worth it.

Last year, I spent 8 months living and working out of a 5th Wheeler.

I've been out of the freelance game since I joined Ecquire back in May.

John Lius, a documentary film-maker and ecologist, has dedicated his life spreading the knowledge and successes of rehabilitating large-scale, damaged ecosystems.

Anna Bronnes recently published on Ecosalon a link-bait article—with good intentions—that unfortunately fell a bit flat.

Running Jasmine tests against a webpage?

I spent 10 days this July, in the breathtaking town of Tofino, surfing and writing code as part of Nerds on Vacation.

Responsive Web Design has gained in usage and ease of use.

A jQuery plugin that replaces a textarea with multiple text inputs, automatically appending a new input when the last is filled with content.

Inspired by Dustin Curtis' Svbtle and the subsequent open-source project Obtvse, I took a shot at simplifying the blogging interface.