I would consider April a total failure for reading. At the beginning of the month I decided I wanted to try and focus on more self improvement and reflection style books, but hadn't checked many of these out on time, and wasn't very motivated to read. I only finished one …

In March I finished 5 books and met my goal. Part of this was sticking to my rule that if I'm not pulled in by the 50th page I put it down and move on, and part of it was simply selecting better books. I also read one book that …

This month I only finished 2 books and both of those were completed in the first week of February. I'll discuss the other books I didn't finish as well since there were 2 of them. This was a pretty bad month simply because I read a couple of books that …

I've been trying to read more recently and finished about 18 books last year. I am aiming for 4 books a month this year. I figured I might as well do a quick review of what I've been reading and only made it through 3 books in January unfortunately. I'm …

Last year around this time I decided that I would start buying music regularly from Bandcamp.com instead of using subscription services. I had bought music sporadically previously but realized it was time to start supporting the artists I care about more regularly. Subscription services don't benefit many of the …

Late last year I shut down the first full scale project I had built. It was an excellent learning experience (as documented here). I didn't make any money on that project, but the cost of learning was pretty low. A few weeks ago I finished the initial content and made …

Recently I wanted to created a scheduled Lambda event that would send a message to an SQS queue. I ended up using Cloudwatch to trigger a Python based Lambda event that would make a call to the appropriate queue.

This process was pretty easy to set up and required configuration …

Over the past few years I've been trying to eat more and more vegetarian meals both to reduce how much meat I eat and reduce costs. Bulking and cutting for physical fitness is an expensive endeavor, so any time I can I want to explore these potential options. I've been …

Earlier this week I read an interesting blog post from packagecloud.io talking about some testing they had done to set the TZ environment variable to reduce system calls. I thought this was a great idea for users who wanted to set their environment variable for a specific script or …

A few weeks ago my Windows 7 machine wouldn't post. I spent a good number of hours troubleshooting the problem but ended up having to RMA my mobo. Upon return I hooked everything back up, and while it would post as soon as Windows started up the processor was making …