Josh Vickerson's Blog

April was a pretty good month.

A few slip-ups set me back a bit on my financial goal for the month, but otherwise, I’m pretty happy with March.

February was a hectic month, but I think I made good progress on my financial goals and continued to do well on my productivity goals.

My monthly reviews are taking a new format this year.

Continuing my tradition of looking back on the previous year, I’m thinking about 2016 and its many ups and downs.

The Numbers Productivity pulse of 62 (135.8 hours logged) (+5) Average of 7h 21m of sleep each night (+4.2%) Average calories of 2,171 (-4.2%) Average steps: 5,708/day (+27.9%) Money spent: 54.7% of income) Books read: 1 (+1) Blog posts written: 1 (-1) Ex…

The Numbers Productivity pulse of 57 (218.2 hours logged) (+7) Average of 7h 3m of sleep each night (-4.7%) Average calories of 2,268 (+8%) Average steps: 4,460/day (+17.9%) Money spent: 85.4% of income Books read: 0 (+0) Blog posts written: 2 (+1) Exist…

The Numbers Productivity pulse of 50 (232.3 hours logged) (-13) Average of 7h 24m of sleep each night (+0%) Average calories of 2,100 (-11.8%) Average steps: 3,780/day (-7.5%) Money spent: 72.6% of income) Books read: 0 (-1) Blog posts written: 1 (+0) Exi…

I have a lot of thoughts about Donald Trump as President.

The Numbers Productivity pulse of 63 (166.6 hours logged) (+7) Average of 7h 22m of sleep each night (+1.1%) Average calories of 2,382 (-0.4%) Average steps: 4,089/day (+43.4%) Money spent: 118.2% of income Books read: 1 (+0) Blog posts written: 1 (-1) Ex…

I'm still shocked that August is over.

I've spent a long time thinking over what to say about finishing college.

The Numbers Productivity pulse of 56 (188.9 hours logged) (-2) Average of 7h 17m of sleep each night (+4.5%) Average calories of 2,241 (-6.7%) Average steps: 4,723/day (-3.3%) Average body fat percentage: 11% (+0%) Money spent: 85.9% of income Books read:…

Looking back on June, which I feel was a good month.

I never got around to publishing April's review because May was a really hectic month.

This review is a few weeks too late, but I wanted to publish it anyway.

The word "hacker" means a lot of things these days.

Continuing after last month, this is my review for February.

Graduation is fast approaching, which means my job hunt is on.

This year, I decided to take a slightly different approach to a New Year's Resolution, and left it purposely open ended.

I typically take some time at the start of each year to reflect on the previous year and what I'd like to focus on in the year ahead.

Every once in a while I benchmark web browsers.

I care about things a lot.

A month ago my nearly two-year-long relationship came to an unexpectedly abrupt end.

I am a big fan of Belle Beth Cooper.

If you didn't read my earlier post about living on Soylent, you should read that first.

A while back, Chris Ziegler of The Verge wrote about a fascinating food replacement called Soylent.

I recently redesigned my website.

Par for the course, I failed almost miserably at last year's New Year's Resolution.

Okay, I'll admit it.

I've set out to see if Safari 8 is as fast as Apple claims.

Late last week, Apple held their annual iPad and Mac event where they unveiled next generation iPads, iMacs and Mac Minis.

About a month ago, I made the brave decision to quit my job.

I've been doing a little digging lately.

My to-do list makes me cringe.

I mulled over this entire project for more than a year, so it's about damn time I actually sat and wrote some code.

I wrote last week that I'm beginning a new side project which I'm calling the Beanstalk Adventure Kit; a text adventure framework in Java.

My advice to new college students is to invest in side projects.

As part of my training to become a Lead Orientation Assitant for RIT's New Student Orientation office this year, I was asked to read a book called This I Believe.

2013 was a significant year for me.

It seems like each year continues to be a bigger and bigger deal for me as college progresses. 2012 was fuller than 2011, and now 2013 stands as the fullest year of my short life.

All month long I've seen a portion of my Facebook friends continue the annual November tradition of posting something they're thankful for each day.

Something I've been struggling with for a long time is how to balance connections on social media websites.

It's been tossed around a lot in the past year or two: "You should learn to code".

Back in middle school, I "dated" a handful of girls.

Admittedly, I just sort of fell into this job.

The day Facebook announced the new news feed design, I brought it to attention in my UI Design and Development course (which was, sadly, not nearly as great as the title suggests), hoping we could have some meaningful conversation about it.

There's a testing method that seems to be found in two places these days.