I've been thinking a lot about motivation lately, specifically what motivates me to action. Case in point: two plugins for Open Metalcast have aged out (newer versions of PHP have made them so they don't work quite the same and I'm sure that eventually they will break). I'm not ready …

I've found myself stuck on a lot of my writing and programming projects. For weeks (months?) I've been putting off working on them for one reason or other. Today I feel I stumbled on what might be causing it.

Whenever I work on a project I have a tendency to …

I've had a pattern that I'm starting to realize can be an anti-pattern. These are patterns that aren't particularly helpful, though they don't have to be harmful. This pattern is substitution, where I will try to find a substitute for something that I'm no longer able or willing to use …

Checking in for October for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

This past month was pretty rough for me. I'm not sure if it's been burnout or depression or what-not, but I found myself really struggling this …

This is a quick bit of notes for anyone out there searching for info on how to fix an issue with vim not being able to find the tmux-256color terminal profile (terminfo) under Ubuntu 18.04 and possibly later. Many posts on the internet recommend using screen-256color, but this isn't …