There are three pieces of information that every kid wants to know at all times:
The Three Most Important Pieces of Information for a Kid
2013-04-23
- 2024 Feb-22 β Adding types to react-editable-label
- 2024 Feb-08 β What makes an excellent developer?
- 2024 Feb-06 β We're Breaking the Web (again)
- 2024 Jan-30 β Bloganuary: What do you complain about the most?
- 2024 Jan-29 β Bloganuary: What are your favorite sports to watch and play?
- 2024 Jan-28 β Bloganuary: What would you do if you won the lottery?
- 2024 Jan-27 β Bloganuary: What books do you want to read?
- 2024 Jan-26 β Bloganuary: Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.
- 2024 Jan-25 β Bloganuary: What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?
- 2024 Jan-24 β Bloganuary: Name an attraction or town close to home that you still havenβt got around to visiting.
- 2024 Jan-23 β Bloganuary: List five things you do for fun.
- 2024 Jan-22 β Bloganuary: If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?
- 2024 Jan-21 β Bloganuary: Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc.
- 2024 Jan-20 β Bloganuary: Whatβs your dream job?
- 2024 Jan-19 β Bloganuary: What makes a good leader?
- 2024 Jan-18 β Bloganary: If you could un-invent something, what would it be?
- 2024 Jan-17 β Bloganuary: Can you share a positive example of where youβve felt loved?
- 2024 Jan-16 β Bloganuary: Where can you reduce clutter in your life?
- 2024 Jan-15 β Bloganuary: What is your favorite animal?
- 2024 Jan-14 β Bloganuary: In what ways do you communicate online?
- 2024 Jan-13 β Bloganuary: Think back on your most memorable road trip.
- 2024 Jan-12 β Bloganuary: What snack would you eat right now?
- 2024 Jan-11 β Bloganuary: Come up with a crazy business idea.
- 2024 Jan-10 β Bloganuary: Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth.
- 2024 Jan-09 β Bloganuary: What is your mission?
- 2024 Jan-08 β Bloganuary: What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?
- 2024 Jan-07 β Bloganuary: What could you do differently?
- 2024 Jan-06 β Bloganuary: If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?
- 2024 Jan-05 β Bloganuary: Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past?
- 2024 Jan-04 β Bloganuary: What's the greatest gift someone could give you?
- 2024 Jan-03 β Bloganuary: What colleges have you attended?
- 2024 Jan-02 β Bloganuary: Do you play in your daily life?
- 2024 Jan-01 β Bloganuary: What are your biggest challenges?
- 2023 Dec-31 β Celebrating Bloganuary
- 2023 Oct-10 β The Case of the Missing iPad App
- 2023 Sep-22 β Uniqueness of US City Names
- 2023 May-03 β Let's Talk About AI
- 2022 Dec-01 β Learning a Large System
- 2022 Jul-14 β Advice from a software-development old head
- 2022 Feb-25 β Launching vim from a PHP cli app and reading the output.
- 2021 Nov-17 β Using jq to filter JSON by regex
- 2021 Sep-29 β Making a Typescript property dependent on the value of another property
- 2021 Apr-08 β Recreating Laravel Accessor attributes
- 2021 Mar-11 β Plugin Unit Testing in WordPress
- 2021 Feb-12 β On learning and stupid questions
- 2020 Oct-22 β Learning about TypeScript interfaces
- 2020 Aug-17 β How to get a driving road test during a pandemic
- 2020 May-27 β Outputting the SQL of an Eloquent query
- 2020 May-06 β Linting code with husky, lint-staged and git hooks
- 2019 Nov-14 β Syntax error creating MySQL view with UNION
- 2019 Oct-15 β Laravel PDOException - General error: 2031
- 2018 Oct-24 β Issues with redux-saga's takeEvery and the Redux DevTools extension
- 2018 Oct-18 β Bash while-read loop breaking early
- 2018 Jan-19 β Running Laravel 5 in a Subdirectory
- 2018 Jan-18 β Javascript Page Visibility API
- 2018 Jan-15 β Dolores O'Rierdan, RIP
- 2015 Jul-01 β My heart lives in Portland
- 2016 Dec-27 β React-Native "Could not get BatchedBridge"
- 2016 Sep-16 β Scotty's extra-lean Thanksgiving
- 2016 Aug-11 β Nothing else you do matters if you're fat
- 2016 Jun-01 β A Dad's Guide to Snapchat
- 2016 Apr-28 β The bullshit I put up with by not driving
- 2016 Apr-14 β A restrospective on my wisdom teeth
- 2016 Mar-10 β Waze Wants Me to Die
- 2016 Feb-29 β The Time Kentucky Wanted a Submarine
- 2016 Feb-08 β Phone calls from Mrs. Rothstein
- 2016 Jan-20 β Ani DiFranco, Chinese food, and poor decisions
- 2016 Jan-05 β The sun rises in the East
- 2015 Nov-15 β Scotland, Day 5: The Wedding
- 2015 Nov-14 β I've discovered the secret to true happiness
- 2015 Nov-14 β What's happening at Bowman Field?
- 2015 Nov-13 β More Bardstown Rd Pedestrian Safety Improvements
- 2015 Nov-13 β My favorite video store
- 2015 Nov-10 β Scenes from the weekend: Day of the Dead
- 2015 Nov-10 β A good team needs good company culture
- 2015 Nov-08 β College jobs
- 2015 Nov-06 β I'm scared to run tomorrow
- 2015 Nov-06 β The importance of teaching civil disobedience to our children
- 2015 Nov-03 β That time I hit a kid with my car
- 2015 Nov-02 β Stop blaming and fix the thing
- 2015 Nov-02 β Basics of pedestrian safety
- 2015 Nov-01 β The best (and worst) Halloween
- 2015 Oct-31 β Reflections on Friends
- 2015 Oct-30 β The Interview Where I Completely Froze
- 2015 Oct-29 β Louisville needs to step up its bike-lane game
- 2015 Oct-27 β A Farewell to a Server
- 2015 Oct-26 β Gnocchi is a labor of love
- 2015 Oct-26 β Middle School Shadow Economy
- 2015 Oct-25 β Don't let your weaknesses define you
- 2015 Oct-23 β Tales of woe in the college health center
- 2015 Oct-22 β My favorite painting
- 2015 Oct-22 β The oddity of passing time
- 2015 Oct-21 β My kids are allowed to read anything they want
- 2015 Oct-19 β The young fisherman
- 2015 Oct-19 β Taking the lane
- 2015 Oct-16 β The Soundtrack to Love
- 2015 Oct-15 β Scotland, Day 4: Stirling
- 2015 Oct-15 β An essential computer skill that most people don't know
- 2015 Oct-13 β The nerdiest thing I ever did
- 2015 Oct-12 β Tales of High School Theater
- 2015 Oct-12 β Throwing things off other things
- 2015 Oct-12 β I don't always know why I do things
- 2015 Oct-08 β Passing an object to an ASP.NET MVC Controller
- 2015 Oct-08 β Anger ruins everything
- 2015 Oct-06 β Stories of love and hair
- 2015 Oct-05 β Scotland, Day 3: Edinburgh
- 2015 Oct-04 β Generating a client-side PDF with Javascript
- 2015 Oct-03 β Vernacular: A digression
- 2015 Oct-02 β Scotland, Day 2: Glasgow
- 2015 Oct-01 β I have to enjoy my work
- 2015 Sep-30 β Scotland, Day 1: Traveling
- 2015 Sep-30 β Why I run
- 2015 Sep-29 β My personal beard history
- 2015 Sep-22 β My first nightmare
- 2015 Sep-21 β Moms are tough as fuck
- 2015 Sep-21 β Pedestrian safety improvements on Bardstown Rd.
- 2015 Sep-20 β Free pass to Heaven
- 2015 Sep-18 β The blue bus is calling us.
- 2015 Sep-18 β Screaming with April and Kristin
- 2015 Sep-17 β Viking Girl is growing up
- 2015 Sep-15 β People who love you aren't afraid to call you out.
- 2015 Sep-14 β You sometimes find terrible things on the side of the road
- 2015 Sep-13 β The cure for teen angst is a river
- 2015 Sep-13 β My son is me, but also not me.
- 2015 Sep-11 β How to find out whos building stuff in Louisville
- 2015 Sep-10 β Where's the new Bardstown Rd. Costco?
- 2015 Sep-09 β My son, the mystery
- 2015 Sep-08 β The first poet to blow my mind
- 2015 Sep-08 β Focus on the things you did right
- 2015 Sep-06 β The Saga of John the Baptist: Parts I III
- 2015 Sep-06 β Camp, NOFX and Fire
- 2015 Sep-04 β The magnetic poetry book
- 2015 Sep-03 β Just temporarily disconnected
- 2015 Sep-02 β Please don't ride your bike on the sidewalk
- 2015 Sep-01 β I'm always afraid I'm in trouble
- 2015 Aug-31 β My dog has many smells
- 2015 Aug-31 β Perdido en la selva
- 2015 Aug-29 β Not a wild child
- 2015 Aug-28 β Weird things my kids have said
- 2015 Aug-28 β When I realized I'm a grownup
- 2015 Aug-26 β Crushes and more bad teenage poetry
- 2015 Aug-25 β Me and High School Football
- 2015 Aug-24 β The Mt. Lassen Motel, Red Bluff, CA
- 2015 Aug-23 β The loneliest guy at Chilis
- 2015 Aug-22 β Restaurant Reviews: The Bardstown
- 2015 Aug-22 β My cultural knowledge void
- 2015 Aug-20 β I want to go live in the woods sometimes
- 2015 Aug-19 β The strangest domain name
- 2015 Aug-18 β Sisi means aunt in Italian
- 2015 Aug-17 β Debugging remote ASP.NET apps is super easy!
- 2015 Aug-16 β The time before your child is born is an amazing and terrifying time.
- 2015 Aug-15 β Email, poetry, madness and nostalgia
- 2015 Aug-14 β The house on Klickitat Street
- 2015 Aug-13 β That time I walked a little old Ecuadorian lady home
- 2015 Aug-13 β All the kids I've hit
- 2015 Aug-11 β Lets end the trope of the idiot dad
- 2015 Aug-10 β A reminder about 4-way stops
- 2015 Aug-09 β Ordering pizza in Germany
- 2015 Aug-08 β The Mercy Underground
- 2015 Aug-07 β My bicycle has a 115 dB air horn
- 2015 Aug-06 β The only rule is work
- 2015 Aug-05 β Restaurant Reviews: Havana Rumba (Highlands)
- 2015 Aug-04 β Advice from my mom
- 2015 Aug-03 β What I want in a job.
- 2015 Aug-01 β The Ecuadorian toilet paper incident
- 2015 Jul-30 β The budding photographer or why I can't hear Garth Brooks anymore
- 2015 Jul-29 β Fear and loathing in Milwaukee
- 2015 Jul-28 β Making food for the people you love
- 2015 Jul-26 β Amanda Grimes, I'm sorry
- 2015 Jul-25 β I am the dude with the hat
- 2015 Jul-24 β The art of sneaking out
- 2015 Jul-23 β Foo, bar, and other metasyntactic variables
- 2015 Jul-22 β Freshman year in hell
- 2015 Jul-21 β Vaccinate your damn kids, already
- 2015 Jul-20 β Acts of rebellion
- 2015 Jul-19 β The worst restaurant review ever
- 2015 Jul-18 β I had my first migraine at 10
- 2015 Jul-17 β Storage devices I have loved
- 2015 Jul-16 β Bad teenage poetry #tbt
- 2015 Jul-15 β Your partners problems are your problems
- 2015 Jul-15 β Depression is like being in a loud room
- 2015 Jul-14 β There is an art to asking questions
- 2015 Jul-13 β I am a child of the BBS age
- 2015 Jul-12 β Irrational fears
- 2015 Jul-11 β The worst thing you could be in the 80's was poor
- 2015 Jul-10 β My kids prefer video chats to phone calls
- 2015 Jul-10 β A relationship is a choice
- 2015 Jul-09 β My kids are terrible at knock knock jokes
- 2015 Jul-09 β I gave my dad a haircut today
- 2015 Jul-07 β I am a terrible traveler
- 2015 Jul-06 β Hidden perks of being a blonde kid
- 2015 Jul-05 β Indie music, pre-Internet
- 2015 Jul-04 β Night swimming
- 2015 Jun-26 β Zen and the art of resource editing
- 2015 Jun-25 β Junior Developer, hard lessons learned
- 2015 Jun-24 β Stories and thoughts
- 2015 Jun-23 β I hate notifications
- 2015 Jun-22 β The intimacy of smell
- 2015 Jun-21 β My Geometry teacher was an alcoholic?
- 2015 Jun-20 β You never know fear until you become a parent
- 2015 Jun-19 β I'm tired of all the gun violence
- 2015 Jun-18 β Gaming handhelds I have loved
- 2015 Jun-17 β The glorious act of creation
- 2015 Jun-16 β The overwhelming drive to feed a child.
- 2015 Jun-15 β Why I give coding test during interviews
- 2015 Jun-14 β Pitbull dogs are family
- 2015 Jun-13 β word.camera
- 2015 Jun-06 β Never complain about having enough time
- 2015 Jun-08 β Naked body surfing in Ecuador
- 2015 Jun-10 β Just because you're allowed to curse doesn't mean you have to
- 2015 Jun-05 β Journalism is Dead
- 2015 Jun-01 β I ride a bike to be a better person
- 2015 Jun-09 β "I don't know" is an acceptable answer
- 2015 Jun-07 β Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb
- 2015 Jun-04 β Deep is the lizard's eye #tbt
- 2015 Jun-12 β Highs and Lows
- 2015 Jun-03 β TARC's cashless fare system screws poor people
- 2015 Jun-02 β Writing begets writing
- 2015 Jun-01 β How much do I really remember?
- 2015 May-31 β I love the Idaho-Stop
- 2015 May-29 β Scary decisions are the best decisions
- 2015 May-28 β Never trust your inputs
- 2015 May-27 β That one-off thing with the terrible name will be around forever
- 2015 May-26 β The joy of difficulty
- 2015 May-22 β Anger and regret
- 2015 May-21 β I am not a great programmer
- 2015 May-21 β Free-writing: Lissie, Live at Brighton
- 2015 May-19 β Don't get too hung up on tools
- 2015 May-18 β The urge to grow things
- 2015 Apr-16 β I refuse to let this city beat me
- 2015 Feb-26 β Let's talk about interruptions...again.
- 2015 Feb-23 β Bardstown Rd Businesses That Don't Care About Pedestrians (part 1)
- 2014 Dec-09 β Bikejoring or, How to Wear Out Your Dog as Fast as Possible
- 2014 Oct-12 β Thoughts on wasting time
- 2014 Oct-02 β Tragedy and Perspective
- 2014 Sep-08 β On the idea of admiration
- 2014 Aug-27 β The joy of waiting for things
- 2014 Aug-18 β Advice for junior developers
- 2014 Jul-23 β The 4 common ways cars try to kill me
- 2014 Jun-16 β I ran a marathon
- 2014 Jun-09 β The Madness of Saturday
- 2014 Mar-26 β Keeping a daily work log
- 2014 Mar-24 β A frustrating Web.config transformation error
- 2014 Feb-24 β My first century
- 2014 Feb-20 β How _not_ to compare file versions in C#
- 2014 Jan-28 β Auto-incrementing build numbers in Visual Studio 2012
- 2014 Jan-14 β "The definition of the report 'XYZ' is invalid."
- 2014 Jan-14 β Side effects of bike commuting
- 2014 Jan-06 β By the numbers: Coldest ride ever
- 2013 Dec-10 β The difference between 'git fetch' and 'git pull'
- 2013 Oct-04 β Freshman Lunch Shenanigans
- 2013 Aug-16 β Getting an '__doPostBack is undefined' error in IE10
- 2013 Jul-15 β Noticing an odd difference between different implementations of JSON.stringify
- 2013 Jul-10 β How not to make a sale
- 2013 May-20 β Prayer for the repose of the dead
- 2013 May-10 β You Meet All Kinds of People Cycling
- 2013 May-06 β So iBooks Have a Hidden Unique ID
- 2013 Apr-23 β The Three Most Important Pieces of Information for a Kid
- 2013 Apr-16 β 20 Years Later, I Still Can't Read Ramona the Pest
- 2013 Jan-03 β In which I decide not to bother with New Year's Resolutions
- 2012 Dec-24 β I kinda regret deleting my Instagram account
- 2012 Nov-06 β Hacking my eating habits
- 2012 Oct-29 β I have been a dad for 10 years
- 2012 Oct-22 β The most uncomfortable training session ever
- 2012 Oct-01 β Minor hiccup with Google Drive
- 2012 Sep-15 β I love living in The Highlands
- 2012 Sep-13 β A dark start to the day
- 2012 Sep-12 β Renting an Apartment in Boston
- 2012 Aug-20 β I think I need to get over myself a little bit
- 2012 Jul-31 β Making a mobile site behave like an iOS app
- 2012 Apr-02 β Picasa data API fun: Creating albums and uploading images
- 2012 Mar-26 β SVN working copy is nested?
- 2012 Mar-19 β My one, feeble attempt at being a cracker of software.
- 2012 Feb-09 β My Own Personal Daily WTF v1
- 2012 Jan-23 β Get on your bike. No excuses
- 2012 Jan-16 β Pixel level drawing with the canvas element
- 2011 Dec-31 β New Year's Resolutions
- 2011 Jun-21 β How to write a very simple jQuery Plugin
- 2011 Mar-28 β Must-Have Chrome Extensions
- 2011 Mar-11 β Preserving the $ with jQuery.noConflict
- 2011 Feb-24 β Can't load XRegExp twice in the same frame
- 2011 Jan-10 β Converting a Unix timestamp to a real Postgres date
- 2010 Nov-17 β HTML5 Data Attributes and jQuery.data()
- 2010 Nov-05 β Memories Wrapped Up in Music
- 2010 Oct-26 β A poem for our daughters
- 2010 Oct-05 β Handling Windows API Callbacks in VB .NET
- 2010 Aug-25 β My Favorite Explanation of clip: rect();
- 2010 Jul-27 β Basics of QR Codes
- 2010 Jul-21 β Adding/Deleting Events with the Google Calendar API
- 2010 Jul-14 β Basic Authentication with Titanium.Network.HTTPClient
- 2010 Jun-29 β Even better overriding the Firebug console in IE
- 2010 Jun-21 β SQL Management Studio 2008 says Saving changes is not permitted.
- 2010 Jun-16 β Revert to a previous revision with Subversion
- 2010 Jun-14 β Catching Ajax errors with jQuery
- 2010 Jun-09 β Fun with Vim movement commands
- 2010 May-25 β Copying ADODB Recordsets Across Databases
- 2010 Apr-07 β The Proxy Pattern in Javascript
- 2010 Mar-29 β Snippet for popping up a jQuery UI Dialog
- 2010 Mar-22 β A Caveat When Declaring Javascript Arrays
- 2010 Mar-15 β With jQuery, Awesomeness Abounds
- 2010 Mar-02 β One-liner to syntax check a Python script
- 2010 Feb-24 β Coding for Doctors in Haiti
- 2010 Feb-08 β Changing an application's favicon in CherryPy
- 2010 Jan-25 β Localizing PHP with gettext
- 2010 Jan-20 β Running a CherryPy app with Apache and mod_python
- 2010 Jan-13 β Basics of the Alternative PHP Cache (APC)
- 2009 Dec-23 β Converting an RFC 3339 date to a Python timestamp(plus an update to my Google Docs backup script)
- 2009 Dec-21 β Flickr REST API Basics
- 2009 Nov-19 β Short list of required web developer tools
- 2009 Nov-18 β Getting the caption of an image attached to a WordPress post
- 2009 Nov-13 β Simple tabbed HTML navigation buttons
- 2009 Oct-29 β Making sure FireBug console calls don't bomb in IE
- 2009 Oct-26 β You have to be able to talk to people
- 2009 Sep-30 β Not breaking the rules, but still being a jerk
- 2009 Sep-22 β Fear
- 2009 Sep-08 β Growing Up Pyro
- 2009 Aug-25 β Locking Down Facebook
- 2009 Aug-16 β Automatically blocking Twitter spam accounts
- 2009 Aug-06 β File modification date/times in Python
- 2009 Jul-22 β SSH Tunneling: Taming the series of tubes
- 2009 Jul-14 β My single-handed destruction of an Ecuadorian cafe
- 2009 Jul-07 β Basic page routing with CherryPy
- 2009 Jun-30 β Handy VBScript ASP syntax shortcut
- 2009 Jun-30 β Demystifying Python Decorators
- 2009 Jun-18 β Twitter Trends: Experimenting with Adobe Air
- 2009 Jun-16 β Getting started with CherryPy
- 2009 Jun-11 β Installing things on Linux is still a pain in the tuchus
- 2009 Jun-04 β Facebook's OpenID Support: Much Improved!
- 2009 Jun-03 β Basic Lighttpd Setup
- 2009 May-27 β Be Safe and Don't Be a Jerk
- 2009 May-20 β Facebook's OpenID Support: It's cute and all but...
- 2009 May-20 β Basics of the PHP PCRE functions
- 2009 May-13 β This Bash trick will make your brain explode
- 2009 May-06 β Saving the world with PHP array functions
- 2009 Apr-29 β The PalmOS Browser War That Never Was
- 2009 Apr-23 β 8 years today (and 14 years last March)
- 2009 Apr-14 β It's not hard to avoid sounding like a moran moron
- 2009 Apr-07 β Premature Optimization less harmful than Immature Stupidity
- 2009 Mar-22 β Where am I? Where are you?
- 2009 Mar-15 β Using PrototypeJS with Greasemonkey
- 2009 Mar-11 β Yes, it's a camera. No, it doesn't need film
- 2009 Mar-05 β Backing up your Google Docs
- 2009 Mar-01 β Twitter Search API: Make millions, wow your friends.
- 2009 Feb-24 β The shapening
- 2009 Feb-17 β Writing a simple Twitter-bot in PHP
- 2009 Feb-15 β Event handling with PrototypeJS
- 2009 Feb-13 β Sometimes being a dad is all too real
- 2009 Feb-09 β A refugee from the world
- 2009 Feb-02 β HTML Emails for fun and profit
- 2009 Jan-27 β Javascript awesomeness with Prototype
- 2009 Jan-20 β Regular expressions in VBA
- 2009 Jan-20 β Manipulating PDF files with Visual Basic .NET
- 2009 Jan-13 β Google Client Logins
- 2009 Jan-11 β Your data is your life. Why aren't you protecting it?
- 2009 Jan-09 β RAID basics
- 2009 Jan-08 β My .vimrc file
- 2009 Jan-07 β I'm just a little bit starstruck
- 2009 Jan-05 β In which handiness ensues
- 2009 Jan-05 β It begins
- 2008 Nov-26 β Profiling PHP with APD
- 2008 Nov-07 β Fun with Branching Merging
- 2008 Oct-29 β Comment Engine: Round 2
- 2008 Oct-22 β Comment Engine: Round 1
- 2008 Oct-20 β Foray into the Google App Engine
- 2008 Oct-16 β Un-befuddling OpenID
- 2008 Sep-29 β From Javascript to PHP and Back Again
- 2008 Jul-08 β The fun solution is not always the right one
- 2008 Jul-05 β Good Lazy vs. Bad Lazy
- 2008 Jun-28 β Search Replace with vim
- 2008 Jun-27 β The Editor War
- 2008 Jun-26 β Interviewing is hard and annoying
- 2002 Jun-03 β Further Adventures of a Domino's CSR
- 2002 Jun-02 β How I Single-Handedly Further Disgruntled a Disgruntled Domino's Assistant Manager
- 2002 May-25 β Further Tales of a Disgruntled Domino's Manager in Training
- 2002 May-19 β Domino's Nightly Stoner Encounter
- 2002 May-12 β Most bizzare lack of tip on a delivery
- 2002 May-05 β The Saga of an Uhappily-Married-Disgruntled Manager at Domino's: Part 1