Busy day. Couldn’t do much. Had a ton of fun, talking writing and blogging, over at DGPLUG though :) P.S. Also figured out what a reverse proxy is, how to terminate an ssl connection at NGINX for the proxy and how to add a subdomain to a Let’s Encrypt certificate.
One of the assignments in the DGPLUG summer training is to watch “The Internet’s Own Boy”. I keep telling the youth in the channel, I lived through Aaron Swartz’s life and followed him throughout. And then I began to wonder how I did it. I’ve never followed him personally; not his blog, or any mailing list. Early on, I only knew him, through Google and Dave Winer & John Gruber’s posts. And then it struck me today. ...
If you haven’t subscribed to Seth Godin’s podcast already, well then what on earth are you doing? I’d written about it here on the home blog and you can go subscribe here. This episode (Season 2, Episode 1) on blogging is very important to me. I think it’s a distillation of all of Seth’s thoughts about writing and blogging in a crisp, crackling 20 minute episode. I wanted this for permanant reference, so I thought, I’d transcribe it for myself, and then I thought, well, if it helps me, it’ll surely help others. ...
Problem: I wanted to launch Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code from the command line at will. What I did: Launch VS Code Hit cmd-shift-p (⌘-⇧-P) Begin to type Shell … and choose and execute “Shell Command: Install ‘code’ command in PATH” Launch Terminal and check to see if VS Code launches by typing the code command. Edit the .bash_profile file in the home folder and change the $EDITOR variable like so … # Setting Visual Studio Code as $EDITOR export VISUAL=code export EDITOR="$VISUAL" ...
This post is for my younger colleagues on the student planet. Yes kids, this is a long post. Suck it up and read it over the weekend. This is important stuff. And please go, read this on the blog. Introduction In The Intelligent Investor, published in 1949, Benjamin Graham1 wrote: In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into the single phrase, “This too will pass.” ...
Note: This series and words of opinion are also aimed at the Student Planet. OK, I’ve changed my mind. Before, I talk tactics, let me tell you something about intention. All intention means to me is, “I, Decide!” I decide how to feel. I decide how to invest my money. I decide if I want to be fit or not. I decide whether to pursue that career or that degree. Or not. I decide whether I want to jump on the bed, every morning or not. ...