Topic - Index
This is an index of my blog posts (https://sachachua.com/blog/outline/). If you want to get in touch with me, please check out https://sachachua.com/blog/contact . =)
Oldest post in index: Most recent post in index:
Main resources:
- Emacs configuration and Emacs posts (including Emacs news)
- Sketched books, sketchnotes, and other sketches
- Archives by category
- All blog posts
I'm slowly working on making more topic maps. Here are some topics for starters:
- Emacs
- Emacs Lisp
- Org Mode
- Subed - subtitle/video/audio editing in Emacs
- Personal knowledge management
- Supernote
- Questions
- Visual book notes
- Yearly
The rest of the posts are in this very large outline below. Quick links to trails that are already logically ordered:
- Blogging, A No-Excuses Guide to
- Blogging, Discovering Yourself through
- Blogging, Get More Value from
- Sketchnote Lessons
You can also view posts by year:
Summarizing posts
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| Year | Posts | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | added iPad to the mix |
| 2024 | 148 | cargo bike |
| 2023 | 122 | even more EmacsConf automation |
| 2022 | 78 | SuperNote A5X |
| 2021 | 132 | |
| 2020 | 94 | |
| 2019 | 121 | EmacsConf, COVID-19 |
| 2018 | 176 | |
| 2017 | 145 | |
| 2016 | 141 | Emacs News, A+ was born |
| 2015 | 251 | Emacs hangouts, more scripting |
| 2014 | 339 | drawing, delegation |
| 2013 | 359 | business, Emacs Chats |
| 2012 | 361 | experiment with semi-retirement |
| 2011 | 397 | blogging |
| 2010 | 399 | more presentations, Drupal |
| 2009 | 452 | presentations |
| 2008 | 421 | drawing |
| 2007 | 510 | working at IBM |
| 2006 | 877 | research, presentations |
| 2005 | 678 | grad school |
| 2004 | 971 | internship in Japan |
| 2003 | 869 | graduated, teaching |
| 2002 | 31 | wearable computing |
| 2001 | 3 | university |
Topic index
5-year experiment
See also: Starting my own business
- ☑ Moving past getting things done (June 2015)
- ☑ What did I learn from this experiment with semi-retirement?
- ☑ Growth, experiments, and shifting my preferences (June 2015)
- ☑ From dreams to experiments (May 2015)
- ☑ Leaning into absent-mindedness (May 2015)
- ☑ Embracing the fuzziness (May 2015)
- ☑ Quiet afternoons and weeks (May 2015)
- ☑ Fuzzy brain; also Ni No Kuni (May 2015)
- ☑ A constant observer (May 2015)
- ☑ Starting from a small life (April 2015)
- ☑ Learning from a diversity of ways to live a significant life (April 2015)
- Motivation
- ☑ Thinking about when I enjoy helping people (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Reflecting on motives (Oct 2014)
- ☑ The 5-year experiment: A conversation with my anxious side, and how sharing time might be better than giving money (Feb 2015)
- ☑ A conversation about writing, and reflections on taskmasters (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Finding a model for my sharing (Jan 2015)
- Vision
- ☑ What do I want to get ready for next? (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Future pull and the power of imagination (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Experimenting my way to an awesome life (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Trying on common goals (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Figuring out my own path to awesomeness (Nov 2014)
- ☑ What could I do if I showed up in a bigger way? (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Reflecting on what I want to contribute to and how interested people might (semi-)work with me (March 2014)
- ☑ Reflecting on wild success (Feb 2014)
- Planning ahead
- ☑ Planning for possibilities (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Planning ahead for experiments (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Anticipating experiment outcomes (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Experiment update: Mid-term pre-mortem check (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Planning ahead for the stories (Apr 2014)
- Choosing
- ☑ Learning to work on my own things (Jan 2015)
- ☑ What to do during open days (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Things to do when you aren’t sure what to do with your life (May 2014)
- ☑ Thinking about what I want to do with my time (May 2014)
- ☑ Reinvesting time and money into Emacs (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Becoming my own client; also, delegation (Jan 2014)
- ☑ The power of no: being completely* unhireable until 2017 (and possibly longer) (Oct 2013)
- ☑ On making big, scary decisions, and how I left an awesome job to do my own thing; or how to be a Builder Lemming
- Pace
- ☑ Learning to live slowly (Mar 2015)
- ☑ A reflection on otium (Mar 2015)
- ☑ The imperfect fungibility of time: thinking about how to use money to accelerate learning (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Different dimensions of scaling up (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Intentionally interrupting momentum and limiting flow (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Hmm, maybe I’m not slacking off after all (May 2014)
- ☑ Reducing my consulting (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Nudging the balance toward work (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Living your dream (March 2014)
- ☑ Working fast and slow (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Going fishing for three years (March 2014)
- ☑ Growing slowly, adjusting the speed (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Towards wonderful new normals (Apr 2013)
- Things I'm learning
- ☑ Reflections on learning to be an entrepreneur (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Reflection: Two years into my 5-year experiment (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Reflections on infopreneurship (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Reflecting on a month of experimenting with Proper Retirement
- ☑ Things I'm learning about semi-retirement (May 2013)
- ☑ Filling in the occupational blanks (Jan 2015)
- Getting ready
- ☑ Squishing my excuses: idea edition (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Setting things in motion (Jan 2012)
- ☑ Getting ready for my next experiment! (Jan 2012)
Android [5/5]
- ☑ Controlling my Android phone by voice (2025)
- ☑ Sleep as Android (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Learning how to tweak my Android devices to fit me
- ☑ More gadget changes
- ☑ Learning more about Android development
- Tasker
- Emacs and MobileOrg
- Tablet
- Phone
Arduino [4/4]
AutoHotkey [5/5]
Biking [10/10]
- ☑ A year with my cargo bike (2024)
- ☑ No longer worried about flat tires
- ☑ Back to biking
- ☑ Riding on my bicycle; taking advantage of novelty
- ☑ Fifty kilometers on my bicycle
- ☑ Back to biking
- ☑ Shifting gears
- ☑ Riding on my bicycle
- ☑ It's Bike Month in Toronto! (June 2011)
- ☑ Bike ride in the rain (June 2011)
Blogging
Key resource: A No Excuses Guide to Blogging (PDF, EPUB, MOBI - free!); also, notes on publishing (Feb 2014)
See also: Writing
See also: Blogging, A No-Excuses Guide to
- ☑ Reading more blogs; Emacs Lisp: Listing blogs based on an OPML file (2025)
- ☑ Through blogging, we discover our thoughts and other people (2025)
- ☑ Working with smaller chunks of thoughts; adding anchors to paragraphs in Org Mode HTML export (2025)
- ☑ Updated my blog index using Org Mode
- ☑ What do I want instead of or in addition to advice roundups? (May 2015)
- Tips
- ☑ Start your titles with a verb to make them stronger; or reflections on titles, filler phrases, and my life as a gerund (Dec 2014) Self-directed and other-directed posts in terms of titles (vague gerunds versus clear, concrete verbs); thinking about better titles and post structures
- ☑ Making personal blogs useful for other people too (Dec 2014) Looking for a middle ground between dry advice and personal journals, using the metaphor of travel guides and photo albums. A travelogue might be a good metaphor.
- ☑ Help your readers discover more posts by organizing your content with a reverse outline (Feb 2015)
- ☑ 10 tips for new bloggers
- ☑ Clear out your drafts by scheduling Minimum Viable Posts (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Meta-post: Revising my post on emptying one's cup (Feb 2015)
- Planning and decisions
- ☑ Choosing openness and scale
- ☑ Thinking about what I want to do and where I want to go with this blog (May 2013)
- ☑ One post a day, or the value of a bottleneck
- ☑ Questionnaires from people (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Daily blogging and different interests (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Growing this blog (Oct 2013)
- Design
- Experiences
- Static site generation with 11ty
- Stats
- Looking at my blog post stats by year (2024)
- ☑ Shifts in my writing (May 2015)
Blogging, A No-Excuses Guide to trail book
See http://sach.ac/no-excuses-blogging
- I don't know what to write about
- There's so much I can't write about
- But I'm not an expert yet!
- Share while you learn (Jan 2014)
- I don't want to be wrong.
- Test what you know by sharing (Oct 2013)
- I feel so scattered and distracted.
- I have all these ideas, but I never finish posts…
- How to develop your ideas into blog posts (Feb 2014)
- I don't feel like I'm making progress
- It takes too much time to write.
- I'm too tired to write.
- No one's going to read it anyway.
Blogging, Discovering yourself through trail
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 1): Blogging and introverts
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 2): Growing into blogging
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 3): Blogging and other social tools
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 4): Parenting
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 5): Getting started
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 6): Looking back
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 7): Learning how to write
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 8): Slow life down and speed it up
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 9): Learning from others
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 10): Difficult situations
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 11): Looking back at the year
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 12): Two homes
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 13): On frequency
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 14): Writing for yourself and writing for others (Dec 2011)
- Transcript: Blogging (Part 15): Tools to help you get started (Dec 2011)
- Session follow-up #1: Discovering Yourself through Blogging
Blogging, Get more value from [8/8] trail
- ☑ Get More Value from Blogging, part I: The Immediate Benefits of Thought
- ☑ Get More Value from Blogging, part II: The Compounding Value of an Archive
- ☑ Get More Value from Blogging, part III: Sharing Makes the Blog Go ‘Round
- ☑ Get More Value from Blogging, part IV: Connecting with People
- ☑ Get More Value from Blogging, part V: Communication Matters
- ☑ Get More Value from Blogging, Part VII: Inspiring Yourself and Inspiring Others
- ☑ Get More Value from Blogging, part VI: Let's Get Down to Business
- ☑ Questions and answers from #infoboomSC tweetchat on blogging
Book notes, other [14/14]
- ☑ Book reflection: Raising a Secure Child
- ☑ Textbook Thursday: How Children Develop Ch. 8: Intelligence and Academic Achievement
- ☑ Textbook Thursday: Conceptual development
- ☑ Book: Daddy Long Legs, and letters (2011)
- ☑ From the book bag (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Textbook Thursday: elaboration, board games, tech
- ☑ On libraries at school
- ☑ My reading round-up
- ☑ I am a young shock-worker
- ☑ Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant? Eat like a bee!
- ☑ Of storytellers and pattern-makers; Book: Solitude: A Return to the Self
- ☑ Quick book notes
- ☑ Book notes
- ☑ More books
Business [63/63]
- ☑ Getting ready for my third fiscal year end (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Thinking about rewards and recognition since I'm on my own (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Planning my next little business (July 2014)
- ☑ Thinking out loud about how to help other sketchnoters go professional and how to help people get their ideas sketched (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Help me figure out how I should reinvest business profits
- ☑ Thinking about hard commitments and soft commitments, and adapting my life accordingly
- ☑ Thinking about business cards
- ☑ In which I do the same thing again and again (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Accelerating my business learning: setting a goal for a new business every month (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Web app idea: Stamp mix calculator (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Experience report: Designing my logo
- ☑ Experience report: Naming my company!
- ☑ Understanding how I'm changing as a speaker
- ☑ Imagining sketchnotes as a business
- ☑ One to three, that's all
- ☑ Experiment pre-mortem: Imagining and dealing with causes of failure
- ☑ Investing time into building sketchnotes as a business
- ☑ Sketchnote reflection: conference intensity
- ☑ Networking with notes - and sketchnotes, in particular
- ☑ When your personal value proposition shifts
- ☑ Investing time-and money—to help make good things happen
- ☑ Thinking about wild success
- ☑ Business card kaizen
- ☑ Planning how to learn about validating business ideas
- ☑ Learning how to bring people together
- ☑ Toolmaking
- ☑ Discovery: I like making sketched animations
- ☑ Thinking about ways to help people who are in between
- ☑ Coverage-mapping business models, or thinking of this like a business tasting menu
- ☑ Thinking about how to learn how to manage others
- ☑ Making myself create space
- ☑ Taking a month off from consulting
- ☑ Building my skills and getting ready for the next steps
- ☑ “So what do you do?”
- ☑ Business notes: Working with a virtual accountant
- ☑ Helping startups
- ☑ Learning from the basics
- ☑ Thinking about pricing and consulting
- ☑ Experience report: Editing, formatting, and publishing an e-book
- ☑ Trusting myself with making time
- ☑ It's okay if you don't do everything
- ☑ Things I would like to see fixed
- ☑ 80% and tweaking
- ☑ Breaking down something that's intimidating to learn
- ☑ Business update: Four months in!
- ☑ Not getting overwhelmed by learning, no siree
- ☑ Still working on that shift from services to products
- ☑ Thinking about the next mini-experiment
- ☑ Learning about business finances
- ☑ Getting the hang of making time for business development
- ☑ On why I don't want to work on a tech startup (yet)
- ☑ Happy monthsary to me!
- ☑ Starting up my experiments in delegation again; the difference between what I want to do and what I want to see
- ☑ What I learned from The Art of Marketing
- ☑ Getting the hang of leading small things
- ☑ Tips for entrepreneurs (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Making people's eyes shine with wonder
- ☑ Reinvesting
- ☑ Finding finishers, building a team
- ☑ Leadership and Embracing Challenge
- ☑ Swarming talent and manpower outsourcing
- ☑ Entrepreneurship tips from Sarah Prevette (Sprouter) at the Toronto Girl Geek Dinner
- ☑ To dream the impersonal dream
Business books [4/4]
Business paperwork [3/3]
- ☑ Services
- ☑ Taxes
- ☑ Experience report: A brief chat with an accountant
- ☑ Experience report: Applying for a Harmonized Sales Tax account
- ☑ Business experience report: Setting up payroll and benefits
- ☑ Business experience report: Amending my T2 corporate tax return (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Experiment notes: Accounting, sales, and marketing-all the other parts of a business (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Business update: Tax update
- ☑ Business experience report: Filing taxes!
- ☑ Business adventures: Accounting
- ☑ Celebrating my fiscal year end; planning how to improve
- ☑ Other paperwork
Calendars [7/7]
- ☑ Planning meetings, get-togethers, and interviews with AgreeADate
- ☑ Okay, even more impressed by Timebridge
- ☑ Tungle for the win: kaizen and calendar management
- ☑ Dealing with a bad calendar week
- ☑ Still looking for an awesome calendar management system
- ☑ More thoughts on calendar management
- ☑ Dealing with weaknesses: calendars
Career [10/10]
- Experiment
- Confidence and perception
- Big companies
- ☑ When you're new to the job and everyone knows more than you do
- ☑ Context-switching and a four-project day (June 2011)
- ☑ On developing a reputation for project work
- ☑ The sweet spot at work
- ☑ Technical leadership
- ☑ Braindump: What I learned from our virtual leadership conversation
- ☑ How to be dispensable, and why you should document and automate yourself out of a job (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Ideas for making my work more effective and efficient, creating value, and rocking my work
- ☑ Log your accomplishments
- ☑ Moving from testing to development
Cats [24/24]
- ☑ Laptops and lap cats (May 2015)
- ☑ Lion cut (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Slice of life: Meowrnings
- ☑ From cats to keystrokes (May 2013)
- ☑ Random cat moment
- ☑ Three cat life
- ☑ Mr Fluffers: Stray or not stray?
- ☑ Cats in high places (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Cats in high places (July 2011)
- ☑ Diminishing returns on cat affection
- ☑ Relationship between affection expressed by cat and person
- ☑ Kitty TV
- ☑ Luke looking up
- ☑ Caturday
- ☑ Making arrangements for my cat
- ☑ What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose
- ☑ Sketchcat
- ☑ The only way to fight the darkness is to blaze even brighter with light
- ☑ And just like that, we have a cat
- ☑ Le Chat Gris
- ☑ We're adopting a cat!
- ☑ Leia's home!
- ☑ Cat's doing better; school barbecue
- ☑ Cat scratching post
Change [8/8]
- ☑ True Change: How Outsiders on the Inside Get Things Done in Organizations
- ☑ Writing and "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance"
- ☑ Book: Closing the Innovation Gap
- ☑ Book: Leading Outside the Lines (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Book: Making Work Work
- ☑ Book: Leading Out Loud
- ☑ Book: On Becoming a Leader (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Tip: Use visibility to motivate new habits (Jan 2012)
Communication skills [12/12]
- ☑ Categorical imperatives versus genetic algorithms (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Rhetoric and advocacy: the value of a different approach
- ☑ Rhetoric (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Kaizen: unsqueaking
- ☑ Smiling over a distance
- ☑ Taking the Stage
- ☑ Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice
- ☑ Learning assertiveness (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Learning more about interviewing
- ☑ Learning from interviews
- ☑ Notes about business communication
- ☑ Book: How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic (Sept 2010)
Connecting [31/31]
- ☑ Becoming more social
- ☑ What can I do to support friends? (April 2015)
- ☑ To never need to be needed (April 2015)
- ☑ Experimenting with spending more time at Hacklab (April 2015)
- ☑ What I'm learning about small talk (April 2015)
- ☑ What are people looking for when they talk about their challenges? (July 2014)
- ☑ From networking with people to networking around ideas: How I stopped worrying about keeping in touch (Feb 2014)
- ☑ On introversion and friendships (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Exploring the idea of advice (Dec 2013)
- ☑ My new Google Hangouts On Air checklist, plus upcoming Nov 29 Q&A on learning (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Thinking about small talk at networking events (June 2013)
- ☑ Getting to know people who read this blog–hooray for hangout experiment #1! (June 2013)
- ☑ Web experiments this week: Webinar on "How to Improve Your Visual Thinking" and a Google Hangout on blogging; would love to connect with you! (June 2013)
- ☑ Keeping in touch (May 2013)
- ☑ Hacking my way around networking
- ☑ The Shy Connector: Thinking about the difficulties people encounter
- ☑ Tweaking my introduction, focusing on sketchnotes
- ☑ On friendship and becoming more social
- ☑ Learning from Mr. Collins: Practice, conversation, and what to do when someone says something mean
- ☑ Reflections from a tweetup
- ☑ Learning storytelling from my parents
- ☑ Pick my brain
- ☑ Wild success and social networks
- ☑ Gifts
- ☑ Vision + Value + Voice = Connection
- ☑ The Road to Me 2.0: How I Was the Chosen One « Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
- ☑ Notes from conversations: Conscious competence
- ☑ More random notes from last night's conversation
- ☑ Twitter, Whuffie, and Amazing Connections
- ☑ Not personal enough
- ☑ Book: Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations into Contacts
Connecting at conferences and events [14/14]
- ☑ Simplifying my event commitments; tips for people looking for event sketchnotes (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Pre-conference networking tips for the Instructional Technology Strategies Conference
- ☑ Sketches: If you want to make the most of your next conference, you should blog :sketch:
- ☑ ITSC guide to conference awesomeness
- ☑ Braindump: Social media advice for events (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Networking events
- ☑ Proactive communication: Five tips for following up
- ☑ Old notes on staffing a virtual conference booth (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Making the most of the conference hallway track
- ☑ Conference tips: planning your attendance
- ☑ Blogging and conference networking tips
- ☑ Braindump of conference networking tips
- ☑ Thinking about conferences
- ☑ TLE2008: Networking: A Workshop in Getting the Most from the TLE, Jim De Piante, part 1 of 2
Connecting in person [18/18]
- ☑ House culture (July 2014)
- ☑ Caag yaaa daawaamee
- ☑ Mental hacks for slower speech (May 2014)
- ☑ Thinking about how to make the most of the new Hacklab (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Small talk tweaks (May 2014)
- ☑ Static friction and socializing (March 2014)
- ☑ Figuring out how to get better at following up with people in person
- ☑ Get-together ideas for Toronto
- ☑ Reflecting on introductions
- ☑ The delicate dance of status
- ☑ It's okay if you can't remember or spell my name; being human (Sept 2010)
- ☑ GreaterIBM: Turbocharging real-life social networking events
- ☑ When I grow up, I will have friends and strangers over for dinner
- ☑ Tea, a drink with jam and bread
- ☑ The economics of entertaining at home
- ☑ After the tea party
- ☑ Thinking about activities to share with others
- ☑ Taking it Offline
Connecting online [21/21]
- ☑ Learning from online role models (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Setting e-mail expectations: Roughly once a week
- ☑ Virtual hang-out experiments: Notes on AnyMeeting
- ☑ LinkedIn tip: Customize your profile URL
- ☑ Imagine success for social media
- ☑ Getting started on your web presence (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Being visible
- ☑ Braindump: On face-to-face and online social networking (xpost)
- ☑ Keeping in touch with diffuse networks
- ☑ Thinking about those newsletters
- ☑ Twitter brings down walls
- ☑ Social media and education
- ☑ Combining multiple social media services
- ☑ Social media changes real-life conversations
- ☑ How do you keep in touch with 500+ contacts?
- ☑ Offline and online conversations (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Building relationships: 10 ways to get the most out of social networking sites
- ☑ First impressions in an e-mail world
- ☑ Conversations about networking; scale, structure, and skills
- ☑ Crazy business idea: videoconferencing event/party spaces =)
- ☑ Story: Connecting through social computing
Connecting online, presentations about [10/10]
- ☑ Making a name for yourself: thinking out loud about my talk
- ☑ Making a Name for Yourself
- ☑ From zero to hero: a newbie's guide to learning and building a reputation along the way
- ☑ The Busy Person's Guide to Learning from the Network (a guide for IBMers)
- ☑ The Read/Write Internet: Advice to students
- ☑ Networking outside the firewall
- ☑ Planning a talk! =) "Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job… and into a Career"
- ☑ Thinking out loud: Taking it off/online
- ☑ Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way out of a Job… and Into a Career
- ☑ Notes from "Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job and Into a Career"; the experience of speaking
Consulting [11/11]
- ☑ How do I want consulting to fit into my life?
- ☑ More lessons learned from the recent sprints (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Crunch mode (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Yay! I rocked (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Recovering from a sprint (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Doing more consulting (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Notes from conversations: Ushnish Sengupta, consulting
- ☑ More reflections on code and consulting
- ☑ Code and consulting
- ☑ Book: Beyond Booked Solid (Jan 2010)
- ☑ How to talk to execs and clients about social media
Continuous improvement [25/25]
- ☑ Oops, forgot my library card (Jan 2016)
- ☑ Using some babysitting time for personal projects
- ☑ Thinking about more reflection and sharing
- ☑ Planning little improvements (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Keeping a process journal (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Improving my response to oopses (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Turn your unfair advantages into more unfair advantages (June 2013)
- ☑ Practice Perfect: Calling your shots (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Debugging my brain: typos (write-os?) in my sketchnotes
- ☑ Listening to the clues about what's working well: writing
- ☑ Taking advantage of a bad cold
- ☑ Managing uncertainty
- ☑ Less Wrong meetup notes: Goal factoring, fight-or-flight, and comfort zones
- ☑ Deliberate performance
- ☑ Identifying my reactions to stress
- ☑ Dealing with professional envy
- ☑ Dealing with presentation block
- ☑ Dealing with distractions
- ☑ Moving my memory outside my brain
- ☑ Lists and actions: Learning how to hack my way around the impostor syndrome
- ☑ Kaizen in the little things: The way the door opens (June 2011)
- ☑ On friendship and getting better at it
- ☑ Ideas for becoming a better networker
- ☑ Exercising my network
- ☑ Investing in awesomeness (Dec 2011)
Cooking [40/40]
- ☑ Eating more vegetables
- ☑ Thinking about grocery stores and recipe variety (Jan 2016)
- ☑ Bubble tea and tapioca pearls (Sept 2015)
- ☑ Various cooking-related notes (May 2015)
- ☑ Japanese curry at Hacklab, curry udon at home (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Cooking at Hacklab: Coconut barfi (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Leveling up in cooking (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Cupcake challenge: accepted! (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Hacklab Cooking: Thai curry from scratch, and coconut tapioca pudding too- [X] (Oct 2014) Sharing cooking adventures (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Hacklab open houses and connecting through cooking (July 2014)
- ☑ Ten years of learning how to cook
- ☑ Weekend cooking (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Cooking: Warm lentil salad with sausages (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Work is love made visible
- ☑ Making polvoron
- ☑ Of recipes and memories
- ☑ Coconut buns and the economics of home awesomeness
- ☑ Recipes: Coconut cocktail bun recipe
- ☑ First foray into community-supported agriculture
- ☑ Cook Or Die Season II: Community-Supported Agriculture (June 2011)
- ☑ Make-ahead meals (June 2011)
- ☑ Getting the hang of community-supported agriculture (June 2011)
- ☑ (500) days of salad (June 2011)
- ☑ Strawberry rhubarb baking (June 2011)
- ☑ A zucchini a day keeps the vegetable drawer okay
- ☑ Cake was not a lie
- ☑ Jalapeño jelly
- ☑ Comparing Plan B Organic Farms with Cooper's Farm CSA (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Batirol tablea, and tsokolatera - the joys of hot chocolate (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Kitchen kaizen
- ☑ Bread of salt and taste of home
- ☑ Blueberry jam, apricot syrup, and kiwi jam
- ☑ CookOrDie: Passing it on with lemon-rosemary chicken
- ☑ Taho
- ☑ Cookie recipe: Oatmeal (chocolate chip/raisin) cookies
- ☑ Geek cooking: In search of vanilla
- ☑ Taro
- ☑ Spontaneous outbursts of baked goods
- ☑ Seasons and salad days
- ☑ May 29, 2011: bagels, banana bread, bok choi, bath stuff, and books
Cooking, bulk [14/14]
- ☑ Avoiding spoilage with bulk cooking (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Bulk cooking by the numbers: A ton of tonkatsu
- ☑ Making bulk cooking easier
- ☑ Wontonomics: Dumpling numbers
- ☑ Wonton movie marathon (June 2013)
- ☑ 524 wontons
- ☑ Pizza pizza pizza pizza
- ☑ Batch baking for fun and awesomeness
- ☑ Stocking up on chicken stock stock stock
- ☑ Batch cooking
- ☑ Thinking about improving our freezer use
- ☑ Batch cooking, community-supported agriculture, and gardening
- ☑ Thinking about how to get even better at bulk-cooking
- ☑ Saving time and money with a chest freezer
Decisions [9/9]
- ☑ On "Hell, yeah! or No" and other approaches (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Reflecting on risk aversion (May 2014)
- ☑ Making decisions that don't matter that much to me (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Cheat uncertainty by sweetening the potential outcomes (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Things I value unequally (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Thinking about getting better at decisions
- ☑ The value of constraints (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Systematically eliminating choices (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Decision trees and self-challenges: how my laptop's recent battery failure is a great excuse to think
Decisions about stuff [9/9]
- ☑ Two weeks with the iPad Air (+ SuperNote A5X and Lenovo P52) (2025)
- ☑ Decision review: Logitech H800 wireless headset
- ☑ Decision review: Samsung Note 8
- ☑ Decision review: Mid-range phone (Moto G), and thinking about how to get even more out of it (Oct 2015)
- ☑ Decision review: Razor A5 Lux kick scooter
- ☑ Decision review: Got the Lenovo battery slice for my X220 tablet
- ☑ Decision review: Lenovo X220 tablet PC (with graphs!)
- ☑ Decision review: calendars, development, standing desks, toe shoes, Kindle, bike, CSA, Autodesk Sketchbook, blogging (June 2011)
- ☑ Walking outside my comfort zone - bike? push/kick scooter?
- ☑ Decision review: Battery
- ☑ Forgot my keys; automating memory
Decisions and decision reviews [22/22]
- ☑ Thoughts on getting a membership to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
- ☑ Decision review: Seven months at HackLab (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Analyzing my London trip decisions: What worked well? What can I improve? (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Decision update: HackLab.TO
- ☑ Thinking about joining HackLab.to
- ☑ Upcoming decision: Considering different cellphone plans for J- (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Decision review: Decision review (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Decision review: Scheduling posts and using themes
- ☑ Decision review: Metropass instead of biking to work in November
- ☑ Decision review: Cat boarding
- ☑ Decision review: Working at IBM
- ☑ Decision review: Switching from Rackspace Cloud to Linode
- ☑ Decision review: Marrying W-
- ☑ Planning for currency conversion
- ☑ Decision: Not getting an Ontario Science Centre family membership
- ☑ Decision review: Kitchen counter computing (ad hoc standing desk) (June 2011)
- ☑ Experimenting with standing desks
- ☑ Decision review: Limiting my blog to one post a day
- ☑ Switched my Fido plan
- ☑ Keeping my name
- ☑ Experiment: Shopping for groceries online
Delegation [7/7] outlined
- ☑ Rethinking delegation (Nov 2014)
- ☑ On why frugal me is cool with paying other people to do things (May 2014)
- ☑ Hiring
[6/6]- ☑ How much does it cost to start with virtual assistance? (March 2014)
- ☑ Delegation: How I hire and manage my virtual team
- ☑ Delegation: Being clear about what you value
- ☑ Poach my assistants, they're awesome
- ☑ Trying out virtual assistants
- ☑ Figuring out a fair price for outsourcing work (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Planning
[8/8]- ☑ Contemplating co-op: How can I get to the point of being able to offer a good high school co-op placement? (March 2014)
- ☑ Thinking about the systems I can put into place to scale up sharing (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Making lists of things I do so that I can learn more about delegation
- ☑ Ramping up delegation (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Managing virtual assistants: Imagining more possibilities
- ☑ Tips for getting started with virtual assistance
- ☑ Getting started with virtual assistance
- ☑ What do I delegate, and why?
- ☑ Processes
[6/6]- ☑ Improving and delegating more of my podcasting process (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Starting up my delegation experiments again: data entry from receipts
- ☑ Virtual assistance process: Manage Toronto Public Library books
- ☑ New library reminder script
- Transcription
- Scheduling
- ☑ Managing virtual assistants: My process for managing talk deadlines and information
- ☑ Virtual assistance: Process for managing my to-read books
- ☑
Management
[4/4]- ☑ Delegation: "How can I trust people?" (Feb 2014)
- Sketch: 2013-11-27-Trust-and-assistants
- ☑ Meta
[6/6]- ☑ Thinking about how virtual assistants can help me with learning and writing (March 2014)
- ☑ Delegation update (March 2014)
- ☑ Validating ideas and working with other people
- ☑ A perspective on outsourcing
- ☑ Why automation matters to me
- ☑ What the LEGO Movie and programming are helping me learn about delegation (Feb 2014)
Demographic shifts [7/7]
- ☑ My Charity Connects: The A, B, Cs, of Boomers, X, Ys, Zs: Reaching Different Generations Through Social Media
- ☑ New presentation: "New media, New generation"
- ☑ Gen Y Perspective: Why Gen Y Won't Stay at Jobs that Suck
- ☑ TLE 2008: I.B.Millennials: The Net Generation and Those Who Recruit, Hire, Work With, Manage, and Sell to Us
- ☑ Gen Y Growing Up:
- ☑ Do what works for you; It's not about being Gen Y, it's about being new
- ☑ Generational differences
Design [6/6]
- Thinking about webpage margins (2024)
- ☑ Made my first laser cut thing! (July 2014)
- ☑ Learning to design Help and Support communities: Adobe deep dive (July 2014)
- ☑ Learning from things I like: Smashing Magazine’s responsiveness (July 2014)
- ☑ Learning to design Help and Support communities: Apple deep dive (July 2014)
- ☑ Designing Help and Support: Skype (July 2014)
- ☑ Developing opinions (July 2014)
Developing on other platforms [4/4]
Development [17/17]
- ☑ Listing random npmjs.com packages updated today
- ☑ Minor bug fix: autocomplete styling on quantifiedawesome.com
- ☑ Compiling autotrace against GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick
- ☑ Learning more about Docker
- ☑ Making a simple clock webpage for A-
- ☑ Scripting and the grocery store flyer (Dec 2015)
- ☑ Scripting and the Toronto Public Library's movie collection (Dec 2015)
- ☑ Thinking about adaptive menus for tracking (May 2015)
- ☑ Building tools for my future self (May 2015)
- ☑ Beginner web dev tip: Use Inspect Element to learn more about HTML and CSS on a (Nov 2014) page
- ☑ Things I learned from the GenArtHackParty
- ☑ Helping people learn more about programming (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Having fun with code
- ☑ Using behavioural economics to motivate yourself when working on risky projects
- ☑ Negative optimization (June 2011)
- ☑ Love, web development, and imaginary friends
- ☑ Lessons learned from project M
Development process [16/16]
- ☑ Reflecting on my growth as a programmer (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Back to the joys of coverage testing: Vagrant, Guard, Spork, RSpec, Simplecov (June 2013)
- ☑ Leveling up as a developer!
- ☑ Dealing with intimidating projects
- ☑ Thinking about a developer setup template
- ☑ Becoming a faster developer
- ☑ Thinking about our development practices (June 2011)
- ☑ Saving development time through virtual appliances
- ☑ Development kaizen: Deployment and testing
- ☑ Making things tangible: agile bug-tracking with LEGO!
- ☑ Deploying to servers
- ☑ Working on a small project
- ☑ VMWare Samba, Eclipse, and XDebug: Mixing a virtual Linux environment with a Microsoft Windows development environment (June 2011)
- ☑ Keeping track of multiple projects
- ☑ TLE2008: Essential Problem-Solving Skills That Will Shorten A Project, Dick Orth
- ☑ Software and making pots
Digital sketchnoting [7/7]
See also: Drawing tools and processes
- ☑ Hyperlinking SVGs (2025)
- ☑ How I prepare for professional digital sketchnoting
- ☑ Working around the limits of digital sketchnoting
- ☑ How I set up Autodesk Sketchbook Pro for sketchnoting (May 2013)
- ☑ My digital sketchnoting workflow
- ☑ Developing a workflow with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
- ☑ Decision: No Illustrator CS6 for now
- ☑ New Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch!
Drawings [107/107]
See also: Sketchnotes
- ☑ Sketching practice: Beaver, goose, squirrel, sparrow, flower, sheepdog and sheep (2025)
- ☑ AGO field trip #2: Moments in Modernism, landscapes (2025)
- ☑ Looking at landscapes; art and iteration (2025)
- ☑ 2023-12-30-01 Daily moments (2023)
- ☑ Doodle Thursday: BrainDoodles.net lesson 3 and 4 (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Capturing moments
- ☑ I’ve been making time to draw
- ☑ Doodle Thursday: Going through BrainDoodles' lessons (Dec 2013)
- ☑ My evolution as an “artist”, or why there's hope for you yet
- ☑ Drawing studies
- ☑ Yay, I finished Me and My Katamari
- ☑ How do you change the rules of the game?
- ☑ 2 geeks, 4 laptops
- ☑ The commute up
- ☑ Dec 17: Awesome!
- ☑ Dec 19: Waking up was hard, but things got better
- ☑ Dec 19: Awesome
- ☑ A great workday
- ☑ Oh, the weather outside is frightful
- ☑ Status report: Dec 16
- ☑ The Tick
- ☑ Hello world
- ☑ That took more hacking than expected
- ☑ So close!
- ☑ He loves to cook
- ☑ Sketchblogging with the Nintendo DS Lite
- ☑ Salmon steak with dill
- ☑ Happy holidays, eh!
- ☑ Happy Holidays, Eh! First edition greeting card giveaway
- ☑ Sketches: People-watching at High Park
- ☑ IBM Comic: Watson on helpdesk duty; variants
- ☑ "Hello Monday!" comic series launched on IBM intranet home page; now I'm a comic artist!
- ☑ Getting rid of the "I can't draw"s
- ☑ Pirate kitties
- ☑ Cats: 0, toilet paper monster: 1; also, ArtRage and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
- ☑ Unbaffled
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Why I do them, how I do them, and how you can get started
- ☑ Sketches: Wicked
- ☑ Getting more drawing into my life
- ☑ I want to learn how to draw better
- ☑ My cats have been teaching me how to draw
- ☑ Sketch: Getting past the tyranny of the blank page (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Sketch: Elephant love (Jan 2010)
- ☑ I want more colour in my day (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Gifts and graphs: visualization and gift-giving (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Notes from VizThink video on Visual Notetaking 101
- ☑ Trying out visual notetaking at a workshop
- ☑ Drawing is about seeing the magic in everyday things
- ☑ Drawing by Seeing, and some reflections on life
- ☑ Squeezing through a traffic jam
- ☑ Missed sketchblogging!
- ☑ Flowcharts and drawing
- ☑ Sketches: Do these look like cats to you? =)
- ☑ One stick figure's day
- ☑ Why my cat loves sleeping on my Esc key
- ☑ Stick figures on campus; IBM at the University of Toronto
- ☑ Sleeping Cats
- ☑ Scenes from a geek life: Wireless mice
- ☑ Homebody
- ☑ Oooh pretty presentation!
- ☑ Mindmapping on infinite paper
- ☑ A geek's guide to Toronto
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ But how do you know what to draw?
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ Welcome to my new host!
- ☑ New workflow for sketching; ooh, batch import!
- ☑ How to sketch with a Nintendo DS
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ Sketches from the Web 2.0 Summit
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ He loves his new white hat
- ☑ It is the choices we make that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ Doodling
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ Sketch: My first writing group
- ☑ Headless chicken impression
- ☑ Sketch: Editing
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ Sand and snow
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ Someday like seas
- ☑ You have received a painting from Sacha
- ☑ You have received a painting from sacha
- ☑ Not quite the same
- ☑ Everything looks better
- ☑ Darling…
- ☑ Dictate blind
- ☑ I need new glasses
- ☑ Pizza is the mind-killer
Drawing tips - see Sketchnote Lessons
Drawing tools and processes
See also Sketchnote lessons
- ☑ Playing with sketching again (2025)
- ☑ I’m learning to draw with crayons
- Workflow
- ☑ Organizing my sketches (2025)
- ☑ Hyperlinking SVGs (2025)
- ☑ Reflecting on my process for visual journaling
- ☑ How can I make better use of my index card drawing process? (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Learning from artists: making studies of ideas (Feb 2015)
- ☑ How to draw a visual summary of a book (May 2014)
- ☑ How I animate sketches with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and Camtasia Studio (March 2014)
- ☑ How I organize and publish my sketches (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Visual thinking: build your visual library (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Learning more about illustrating my blog posts (Oct 2013)
- ☑ How I read books and do visual book reviews (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Building my visual vocabulary: Breaking down other people's sketchnotes into component parts
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Building my visual vocabulary
- ☑ Six ways I'm learning how to get better at drawing sketchnotes
- Tools and software
- ☑ Free/pay-what-you-want resources for sketchnoting with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro (Feb 2014)
- ☑ On pen and paper (Jan 2010)
- ☑ I'll never buy a Moleskine again (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Paper is the new PowerPoint
- ☑ Cintiq 12WX on Ubuntu Jaunty with ATIconfig
- ☑ My Inkscape settings
- ☑ Sketches: What index cards are teaching me about drawing
- ☑ Drawing with my tablet
- ☑ Learning how to model with Google Sketchup
- ☑ How to cheat when animating sketches (Nov 2013)
- ☑ How I use Evernote to support my sketchnoting practice (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Cherry blossoms in High Park, and playing with digital watercolour in Artrage 4 (May 2013)
- ☑ How I draw presentations (May 2013)
- ☑ Here's the recording from "How to use Evernote to improve your visual thinking" (June 2013)
- ☑ Back to drawing digitally, thanks to Wacom drivers (Aug 2014)
- ☑ What I'm learning from the sketchnote index
- Templates and layouts
- Tips
- ☑ Minimizing upward or downward skew in your sketchnotes (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Drawing thoughts on index cards (Jan 2015)
- ☑ It's okay to draw simple visual notes (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Tips for growing as a sketchnoter
- ☑ Handwriting (Nov 2013)
- Colour
- ☑ Colour update (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Sketchnote Hangout: Playing with colour (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Exploring sketchnote colour styles (Dec 2014) Comparing fifteen colouring styles and experimenting with decorations, accented text, toned text, background, and flood
- ☑ Exploring colours (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Building a habit of drawing with colours (Jan 2014)
- Practice
- ☑ Practising drawing: variations on a theme
- ☑ Practising drawing
- ☑ Learning by imitation: getting inspired by Exploding Dog
- ☑ Practising faces
- ☑ Daily drawing update: So far, fantastic! (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Drawing practice: Daily drawing (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Drawing in action (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Drawing update (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Sketchnote Army Interview: Sacha Chua (Dec 2014)
- ☑ Where am I in terms of design? (Dec 2014)
- ☑ Replay: Meloney Hall interviewed me about sketchnoting (March 2014)
- ☑ Sketchnote: Visual Thinking (Patricia Kambitsch) (May 2013)
- ☑ Transcript of my chat with Mike Rohde (The Sketchnote Podcast) on digital sketchnoting
- ☑ Decision review: Art class (includes sketches)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Visual Problem-solving-Dan Roam (DAN ROAM!)
- ☑ What I want from visual notetaking; imagining wild success
- ☑ Making space to plan for visual summaries
- ☑ I want to learn how to make drawings/videos like this
- ☑ Index cards (Sept 2014)
Drupal [38/38]
- ☑ Hacking Drupal views and taxonomy: looking for 100% matching of terms
- ☑ Drupal HTML Purifier, and embedding IFRAMES from YouTube
- ☑ Drupal: Overriding Drupal autocompletion to pass more parameters
- ☑ Drupal: Finding nodes through autocomplete
- ☑ More Drupal awesomeness: hosting with aegir
- ☑ Drupal and return on sharing
- ☑ DrupalCon 2009 abstract: Totally Rocking Your Development Environment
- ☑ Notes from today's Drupal hacking
- ☑ Drupal rockitude
- ☑ Learning more about Drupal 6
- ☑ Drupal: Patching simpletest for Drupal 5 to understand the Location header
- ☑ Drupal: Storing data in the user profile
- ☑ Drupal makes me feel like Bruce Lee + Jackie Chan
- ☑ Drupal: I'm learning how to be a JQuery/Date+Calendar ninja! =)
- ☑ Drupal: Timezones and places
- ☑ Drupal from the trenches: This is my game
- ☑ Lessons learned from this phase of our Drupal project (June 2009)
- ☑ Lessons learned from this phase of our Drupal project (April 2009)
- ☑ DrupalCon Day 1: Notes and Links from March 4, 2009
- ☑ DrupalCon 2009 Recap
- ☑ Drupal in the Trenches: Fighting with Views
- ☑ Haciendo que tu entorno de desarrollo de Drupal rocks
- ☑ Free Drupal-IBM-Acquia webinar: Integrating Drupal with Enterprise Back-office Systems - Thu Jan 21 2010 1PM EST (Jan 2010)
- ☑ DrupalCampToronto organizing notes
- ☑ Drupal fixes: Modifying the entries in Calendar
- ☑ Drupal SimpleTest, and the node access API
- ☑ Notes from DrupalCampToronto 2010
- ☑ Drupal: Adding a footer to all of your system e-mail
- ☑ Drupal meetup in Toronto later - 7:00 at the Drake
- ☑ Notes on backporting modules from Drupal 6 to Drupal 5
- ☑ Websites that write websites
- ☑ Hooray figured out Drupal 5 multi-step registration form with validation and invites
- ☑ Setting up your Drupal development environment
- ☑ IBM Drupal Drop-in Clinic
- ☑ Finally got my new landing page off the ground! =)
- ☑ Programmatically creating CCK nodes in PHP (interaction with the Path module)
- ☑ Software reconstruction
- ☑ Squeezing another project in
Drupal, debugging [7/7]
- ☑ Drupal debugging story: Rules defined in multiple Features
- ☑ Drupal Gotcha: Watch out for $user during update.php
- ☑ Drupal gotchas: Never ever ever use anything less than module AND delta to specify blocks
- ☑ Drupal gotchas: watch out for Views dependencies
- ☑ Drupal from the trenches: Database glitches
- ☑ Drupal in the trenches: AJAX history makes my brain hurt
- ☑ Drupal in the trenches: MySQL and DELETE joins; multiple tests
Drupal, development process for [22/22]
See also: Testing
- ☑ 25 Tips for Totally Rocking Your Drupal Development Environment: pre-session notes
- ☑ Kaizen: What would make our Drupal lives better?
- ☑ Getting through the plateau of mediocrity; Picking up the idioms
- ☑ Configuration management with Drupal - Multiple developers, live site
- ☑ Drupal workflow for small projects
- ☑ Drupal staging and deployment tips: It's all code
- ☑ Upcoming talk: Totally Rocking Your Drupal Development Environment
- ☑ IRC backchannel log for Totally Rocking Your Development Environment, DrupalCon 2009
- ☑ Managing configuration changes in Drupal (June 2011)
- ☑ Drupal Makefiles: save time, make awesome
- ☑ Drupal 5: Migrating a production database to a QA server
- ☑ Drupal: Programmatically installing and enabling modules in the .install file
- ☑ Deploying Drupal updates onto a live site
- ☑ Drupal: Changing module behavior without changing the source code
- ☑ Reflections on mentoring new developers in Drupal
- ☑ My Drupal Makefile
- ☑ Drupal notes from helping a client improve her development environment (June 2011)
- ☑ Working with FTP sites
- ☑ Drupal: Making our build system better
- ☑ Drupal: Deploying two branches to three systems
- ☑ Drupal Features and Drush: updating our development workflow
- ☑ Drupal: Lather, rinse, repeat - Cleaner development with installation profiles and Makefiles
Drupal, Drush and [4/4]
Drupal, Javascript and [1/1]
Editing [4/4]
Elsewhere on the Net [9/9]
- ☑ From the feeds: entrepreneurship, teaching, biking, riding
- ☑ From the feeds: Saving money, making money, balancing life, reading books, and making rainbows
- ☑ From the feeds: Ramen, personal assistants, productivity, co-schooling, and being yourself
- ☑ From the feeds: Writing, more writing, journalism, and automation
- ☑ From the feeds: Selling benefits, not features; caramel apples; graphic novels for kids
- ☑ From the feeds: Friendship, planning ahead, and crossroads
- ☑ From the feeds: Development, food, connecting with people, e-books, finance
- ☑ XKCD tic-tac-toe, and fractal goodness
- ☑ From Lifehack: How to Make Yourself INSANELY Useful
Emacs
Now in emacs
See also: Org Mode, Yay Emacs, Emacs chats, Emacs Hangouts
Emacs and development [10/10]
- ☑ Emacs file-cache, and ido
- ☑ Emacs: Keyboard shortcuts for navigating code
- ☑ Eclipse to Emacs: Navigating your source tree
- ☑ Emacs and PHP tutorial: php-mode
- ☑ Emacs and PHP: On-the-fly syntax checking with Flymake
- ☑ Emacs: Working with multiple source trees
- ☑ Emacs and PHP: There's more than one way to do it, of course
- ☑ From Eclipse to Emacs: Drupal development with Subversion, tags, templates, and xdebug
- ☑ Drupal, Emacs, and templates: Module update functions
- ☑ Testing from Emacs
Emacs and the Web [8/8]
Emacs and writing [8/8]
- ☑ When I blog with Emacs and when I blog with other tools
- ☑ Using Emacs to figure out where I need to improve in order to type faster
- ☑ Deliberate practice, typing faster, and Emacs
- ☑ Emacs artbollocks-mode.el, and writing more clearly (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Automating tedious wiki editing tasks with Emacs and w3m
- ☑ Book triage
- ☑ Capturing Notes with Remember
- ☑ What gets measured gets managed
Emacs BBDB [12/12]
- ☑ Emacs BBDB, and getting your contacts on the Android or iPhone
- ☑ BBDB: Filtering by Mail Alias
- ☑ BBDB: Show a phone list
- ☑ BBDB: Show an address list
- ☑ Chapter 6: Being Big Brother (plan)
- ☑ Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Keeping track of contact dates
- ☑ Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Use nicknames and custom salutations
- ☑ Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Set up BBDB
- ☑ Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Work with Records
- ☑ Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Import CSV and vCard Files
- ☑ Emacs: BBDB: Modifying the record creation process
- ☑ Emacs: Someone who's even geekier about BBDB!
Emacsconf
Now at emacsconf
Emacs, configuring [10/10]
- ☑ Using bug-hunter to quickly find a problem in my long Emacs configuration (2023)
- ☑ Emacs Hydra: Allow completion when I can't remember the command name (2021)
- ☑ Emacs: Making a hydra cheatsheet for Lispy (2021)
- ☑ Emacs configuration and use-package (Dec 2014)
- ☑ Literate programming and my Emacs configuration file
- ☑ Emacs 24 and the package manager
- ☑ Dusting off my Emacs config files
- ☑ Emacs keypresses, and why keyboard combinations aren't that scary
- ☑ Emacs: Caps lock as M-x
- ☑ Emacs basics: Changing the background color
- ☑ Tweaking my Windows 7 setup more: Emacs on all virtual desktops!
Emacs mail [8/8]
- ☑ Mail with Gnus on Windows (Nov 2015)
- ☑ Emacs Gnus: Searching Mail
- ☑ Slowly getting my Gnus mail sending setup working again
- ☑ Geek: How to use offlineimap and the dovecot mail server to read your Gmail in Emacs efficiently
- ☑ Emacs Gnus: Organize Your Mail
- ☑ Emacs Gnus: Filter Spam
- ☑ Faster mail with Emacs
- ☑ Emacs and Gnus: zomg, new chapter out the door!
Emacs subed - editing subtitles
Emotions [3/3]
- ☑ Stepping sideways into Alternate Universe Sacha (May 2013)
- ☑ Learning how to deal with mild panic (May 2013)
- ☑ Hacking my motivation for workouts (May 2013)
Entrepreneurship [5/5]
- ☑ Getting ready for my “The Shy Entrepreneur” talk at the Toronto Reference Library tomorrow (Apr 10 Tue, 6 PM)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: William Mougayar (engagio) at Third Tuesday Toronto
- ☑ Visual book notes: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- ☑ Visual book notes: 6 Secrets to Startup Success
- ☑ Celebrating rejection and failure
Equity [9/9]
- ☑ Towards equity (Sept 2010)
- ☑ What can I do to help make the world more equitable? (Sept 2010)
- ☑ On appearance and bias: thoughts from the Nerd Girls panel at Lotusphere 2011
- ☑ Reflecting on life as an experiment, gender gaps, and privilege
- ☑ The Enchantress of Numbers; Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
- ☑ Looking for female IT role models in Toronto?
- ☑ Ada Lovelace Day linkfest and wrapup
- ☑ Gen Y Perspective: Flexibility, Work-Life Balance, and Curb Cuts
- ☑ Women and technical leadership
Events [14/14]
- ☑ Science 2.0: July 29, 2009 1pm-6pm MaRS
- ☑ Visual notes - Gary Vaynerchuk and Democamp Toronto 24
- ☑ Informed Judgment, Terrence Hickey
- ☑ Upcoming events
- ☑ Software as a service, high tech startup
- ☑ Why DemoCamp is one of my favorite networking events
- ☑ Best Practices Conference - April 1, Day 2
- ☑ WordCamp Philippines: September 6, 2008 in Manila
- ☑ Canada and Web 2.0 conferences
- ☑ BarCampManila
- ☑ Upcoming webcasts on social networking, Gen Y
- ☑ Reinvention: virtual storytelling summit Nov 11 - 22, 2010
- ☑ #lifecampto up - January 31 (Sat), 10:30 AM brunch
- ☑ Upcoming Web 2.0 Conferences
Exercise [4/4]
- ☑ Getting the hang of exercising (Aug 2014)
- ☑ This is the year I’m going to build an exercise habit (June 2014)
- ☑ The smugometer (Jan 2013)
- ☑ 13,705 steps and counting
Facilitation [12/12]
- ☑ Lightweight personas for ideation workshops (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Facilitating workshops: What I learned from doing a trend overview
- ☑ Notes from the road
- ☑ Reflections on the Innovation Discovery workshop in Boston
- ☑ Figuring things out on the fly
- ☑ Meeting resolutions
- ☑ Back on the ground; lessons from Innovation Discovery Tel Aviv and CASCON
- ☑ Learning more about facilitation (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Facilitation: Thinking about the ends and means (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Reflecting on how to prepare for workshops
- ☑ Quick notes from a conversation about speaking and facilitation
- ☑ Brainstorming breakdowns, assumptions, and possibilities (Jan 2012)
Family [47/47]
- ☑ Helping with physics (Jan 2016)
- ☑ Thinking about impact
- ☑ My story about my dad
- ☑ Quick thoughts on leadership, impact, and finding my own path
- ☑ Post-mortem post-mortem
- ☑ Notes from helping with physics (June 2015)
- ☑ So that's what three tons of stuff looks like (June 2013)
- ☑ It's my dad's 65th birthday today (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Looking forward to watching the Avengers
- ☑ That's my dad!
- ☑ 129 summer camp ideas
- ☑ Learning about my grandmother
- ☑ Lucas
- ☑ Halloween
- ☑ A little less wise, a little more awesome
- ☑ Woodworking
- ☑ Show your work
- ☑ Squirrels shop class and drafting: making my peace with high school
- ☑ The fruits and chairs of our labour
- ☑ Television and the push and pull of motivation
- ☑ ‘round the bend (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Redoing things (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Married!
- ☑ Toaster's toasted
- ☑ Watched Wicked again; thinking about experiences
- ☑ The story of the shoes at our wedding; also, wedding pictures
- ☑ Ten lessons learned from disassembling and rebuilding our washing machine
- ☑ Thinking about housework
- ☑ The great washing machine adventure
- ☑ More about getting 27″ washers and dryers down 26″ hallways
- ☑ Shanghaippy birthday, John Grimme! Recipe: Lumpiang shanghai
- ☑ An elephant love story: Real stories of Manila Zoo
- ☑ Mornings at our house
- ☑ Public transit day
- ☑ High school acceptance, yay!
- ☑ High school application season (Jan 2012)
- ☑ Fourteen kids and an impromptu pie party (Jan 2012)
- ☑ Lego Star Wars
- ☑ Exploring the senses at the Ontario Science Centre
- ☑ Check out my parents =)
- ☑ Volunteer notes: Free Geek Toronto
- ☑ Stories from our trip: Furry caterpillar
- ☑ January 22, 2012 (Jan 2012)
- ☑ January 15, 2012 (Jan 2012)
- ☑ January 13, 2012 (Jan 2012)
- ☑ Dinner on the periodic table
- ☑ My convocation; or how my mom's a much better blogger than I am
Friends [9/9]
- ☑ Time enough for friends (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Appreciating people
- ☑ Reading old letters and relearning how to write (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Getting together
- ☑ Thinking about dinner parties
- ☑ Tea
- ☑ Fall down intentionally
- ☑ A night with the barkada (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Keeping in touch
Games [4/4]
- ☑ On scattered moments and video games
- ☑ What I'm learning from Borderlands 2 (July 2015)
- ☑ Portal 2 (June 2011)
- ☑ LEGO and Indiana Jones: nuking the fridge got a lot more fun (Jan 2012)
Gardening [41/41]
- ☑ Garden notes as we wrap up spring (2023)
- ☑ Gardening update: Reviewing my goals for this year (Sept 2014)
- ☑ It’s okay to clear the garden and start again (July 2014)
- ☑ The garden is becoming part of my daily life (June 2014)
- ☑ In the garden (June 2014)
- ☑ More gardening notes (May 2014)
- ☑ Started gardening – April 2014 (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Gardening plans for 2014 (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Gardening review: 2013 (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Slim pickings from the garden, and that's all right
- ☑ Impatient for spring (Apr 2013)
- ☑ A day of gardening
- ☑ Building the foundation for a shed
- ☑ Gardening with herbs and exercising the senses
- ☑ Garden update
- ☑ Ice cream season and the first seeds in the garden
- ☑ Back in the garden, the perennials are coming back
- ☑ Compost magic and happiness
- ☑ Starting up our garden
- ☑ Victoria Day weekend: back to the garden
- ☑ Gardening: Horticultural investments, social dividends
- ☑ Hungry hungry compost and other garden updates (June 2011)
- ☑ Gardening notes: Cut-and-come-again lettuce (June 2011)
- ☑ An abundance of cilantro, now freezing in cubes; strawberries and peas (June 2011)
- ☑ On cherry tomatoes, frugality, and wanting
- ☑ The first blueberries from our garden
- ☑ Seeds
- ☑ I heart gardening
- ☑ The garden in May
- ☑ Getting the hang of gardening
- ☑ Garden riches
- ☑ Purple carrots
- ☑ More gardening
- ☑ No magic beans required
- ☑ Gardening
- ☑ More gardening and sewing
- ☑ Garden updates
- ☑ More strawberries!
- ☑ From here to first frost
- ☑ Gardening and cats
- ☑ Garden updates
- ☑ Garden plans for 2010
Google Helpouts [4/4]
- ☑ Google Helpouts update: Building the community (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Google Helpouts update: Helping people learn, thinking about business strategies (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Google Helpouts Update: People like it, so how do we scale this up? (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Experience report/invitation: Pick my brain through Google Helpouts (Nov 2013)
Happiness [19/19]
- ☑ Optimism, happiness, and being young
- ☑ Always look on the bright side of life
- ☑ Happiness at work
- ☑ Happiness
- ☑ Thinking out loud: happiness
- ☑ Embracing Pollyanna
- ☑ Hypercubes happiness, and serenity
- ☑ Living an awesome life: Not a Greek tragedy
- ☑ Smiling
- ☑ Sometimes you have to work at being happy
- ☑ Happiness and cats
- ☑ Reality check! Things are awesome
- ☑ Mapping what makes me happy
- ☑ On the practice of happy-do
- ☑ Mapping my work happiness
- ☑ Even the dentist's assistant thinks I'm happy =)
- ☑ Happy-do epiphanies, and relentless improvement
- ☑ Relentless improvement and a focus on the positive
- ☑ Book + sketchnotes: Gretchen Rubin, Happiness Project book tour
Hobbies [3/3]
Home improvement [3/3]
IBM [13/13]
- ☑ The innovator's innovator
- ☑ Yes I work at a big company
- ☑ Changing hats
- ☑ How I got my job at IBM
- ☑ Happy Bee-Day to me!
- ☑ GBS Learning Week: First set
- ☑ Notes from GBS Learning Week
- ☑ Many hats: Technical writer
- ☑ Happy BlueDay to me!
- ☑ Estimating the impact of the Community Toolkit, or how the company got an incredibly good deal when they hired me ;)
- ☑ Five things I've learned from five awesome years at IBM
- ☑ Pre-experiment potluck
- ☑ Notes from my exit interview with IBM
Immigration [6/6]
Improvisational comedy [10/10]
- ☑ Started my Improv 101 class!
- ☑ Improv 101 class 2: Scenes, objects, and environments
- ☑ Improv 101, class 3: It's not about stuff, it's about relationships
- ☑ Improv: Catch 23′s Next Act, people-watching
- ☑ Observational humour and solo improv play
- ☑ Improv 101, class 4: Characterizations
- ☑ Improv 101: Learning more about characterizations
- ☑ Improv 101, class 6 (really #7 in the series): Getting the hang of it!
- ☑ Improv 201, class 2: This is going to be tough
- ☑ Comedy and self-promotion
Introversion [15/15]
- ☑ Sometimes - often - I don't feel like making conversation (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Digging into my limiting factors when it comes to interviewing people for podcasts (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Vacations and the introvert
- ☑ The shy connector's schedule: making time to breathe
- ☑ Upcoming talk: The Shy Connector (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Reflecting on introversion and shyness; help me find better words! (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Notes from WITI: The Shy Connector
- ☑ Kaizen: WITI: The Shy Connector
- ☑ The shy connector
- ☑ New presentation: The Shy Connector!
- ☑ Expanding on The Shy Connector: What do you want to see next?
- ☑ Working around networking weaknesses and playing to strengths
- ☑ The shy connector's guide to business travel
- ☑ Editing feedback on The Shy Connector
- ☑ Fast-forwarding through small talk
Japanese [2/2]
Knowledge management [5/5]
Laptops [9/9]
- ☑ Tweaking the fingerprint settings on my Lenovo X220T
- ☑ Setting up my new tablet PC - apps, config, etc.
- ☑ On a Lenovo X61
- ☑ Asus EEE 1008HA and Ubuntu: Keep a USB drive handy
- ☑ Fixing SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 for Karmic wireless on Asus Eee 1008HA
- ☑ Dusting off my Sony Vaio U1
- ☑ A tale of two laptops
- ☑ Laptop hard disk still dead
- ☑ Just ordered a tablet
Latin [4/4]
Learning [26/26]
- ☑ On routines and depth (Jan 2016)
- ☑ Thinking about problem-solving and sequencing (June 2015)
- ☑ Thinking about changing interests (June 2015)
- Tips
- ☑ Break down what people mean so that you can learn from the specifics (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Tell the difference between diminishing returns and compounding growth when it comes to investing in skills (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Read business books more effectively through application, visualization, or reviews (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Adapt to your learning style (Jan 2014)
- ☑ How I learn: 16 things I've learned about mindset and process - list post
- ☑ More tips for self-directed learning: deliberate practice (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Find your attention wandering during teleconferences?
- ☑ What to do when you have a hard time listening to lectures: adapting as a visual learner
- ☑ What to do during boring teleconference calls
- ☑ Cultivate memories deliberately (Mar 2015)
- Plans
- ☑ Learning more about what I want to learn
- ☑ Learning more effectively by exploring various unknowns (Dec 2014)
- ☑ Figuring out what to read by figuring out what you want to become or make or do (Dec 2014)
- ☑ Learning with the end in mind (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Things I want to learn more about through work (Jan 2012)
- ☑ What am I learning about and what can I write about more? (June 2014)
- Learning about learning
- ☑ Learning a little more quickly (Jan 2015)
- ☑ What do I want to learn about learning? (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Shrinking my learn-do-share-review cycle (Mar 2015)
- Techniques
- ☑ Coming to terms with online courses (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Test-driven learning (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Getting better at learning on my own (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Check out these getting started guides - suggest more! (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Enjoy the prep work (Mar 2015)
- Creativity
- ☑ Programming and creativity (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Learning from the Alternative Uses Task (Sept 2014)
- Questions
- ☑ Thinking about how to get better at asking questions (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Dealing with uncertainty (June 2014)
- ☑ Learning from people (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Learning from people (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Finding the right balance between thinking, learning, doing, and reviewing (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Sometimes you don't know what you know until someone asks; why I like preparing talking points for podcasts and chats
- ☑ The Heisenberg uncertainty principle of learning
- ☑ Learning update May 2013 (May 2013)
- ☑ Relearning QWERTY
- ☑ If you throw enough pots
- ☑ Accessing tacit knowledge and building pathways for two-way learning (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Information gardening tasks (Jan 2010)
- ☑ On role models
- ☑ Reclaiming
- ☑ The unexpected lightness of learning
- ☑ Advice to IT students: Learning to love what you might hate right now
- ☑ Five types of coaching
- ☑ The way I work
- ☑ Thinking about my personal learning environment
- ☑ A toolbox of questions
- ☑ Learning how to drive is about starting even after you stall
- ☑ Celebrating the little things you learn
- ☑ Learning languages
- ☑ The Return on Mistakes
- ☑ Learning research skills
Learning about lots of different things [5/5]
- ☑ When it comes to juggling multiple interests, it helps to limit your expectations (Oct 2013)
- ☑ I notice I have cyclic interests (June 2014)
- ☑ Focus and fluency: learning when you're a fox (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Planning my learning; It’s okay to learn in a spiral (Jan 2014)
- ☑ How I explore my interests (Jan 2010)
Library [7/7]
Life [137/137]
- ☑ Embracing the shallows (2024)
- ☑ Thoughts about time (August 2015)
- ☑ Summer (June 2015)
- ☑ Alternatives to sitting meditation: How I clear my mind (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Miscellaneous memories (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Level up! Making IKEA-compatible shelves (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Becoming Filipino-Canadian (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Woohoo, closure! (Aug 2014)
- ☑ The ingredients of your life (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Routines (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Quiet days (July 2014)
- ☑ Dealing with the doldrums (June 2014)
- ☑ A long, long weekend (June 2014)
- ☑ Think about your delta: increasing the difference you want to make (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Exploring limiting beliefs (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Thinking about how to celebrate my 30th birthday
- ☑ Sewing or on soldiering on
- ☑ Replacing my lost Philippine passport (part 1 of…?)
- ☑ Homebodies
- ☑ Sunday (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Growing into an artist
- ☑ The weekends are just packed
- ☑ Awesome articles on leadership
- ☑ Some of my favorite quotes
- ☑ Just ordered Dragon Naturally Speaking - Preferred
- ☑ Rethinking
- ☑ Rethinking II
- ☑ The evils of blur
- ☑ Quick update: purse found
- ☑ Visual book review: Enough, by Patrick Rhone
- ☑ Getting through the beige days (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Busy busy, busy week (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Massages, physical feedback, and behaviour modification
- ☑ Thought roundup: Podcasts, drawing, cats, and towels
- ☑ Passioneer survey (Submit your answers by Oct 18)
- ☑ It turns out that "I suck" moments are more negotiable than I thought
- ☑ Reflections on creativity
- ☑ Discovering Yourself through Blogging (free teleconference Aug 16, 6 PM PDT, 9 PM EDT, 9 AM Philippine time)
- ☑ Rhetoric and the Manila Zoo; reflections on conversations and a request for insight
- ☑ In an imperfect world
- ☑ Getting things ready for the next week: cooking and gardening (June 2011)
- ☑ Taking a break while working on presentations
- ☑ On people changing companies
- ☑ Stuff or experiences
- ☑ On typing in Dvorak
- ☑ A story of pi
- ☑ Hackbuzzbuzzbuzz
- ☑ Snippets from life
- ☑ Sick days
- ☑ More thoughts on week beginnings: it's about being proactive
- ☑ Work and life
- ☑ Limiting flow
- ☑ Conversations: Stian Håklev
- ☑ Quick catch-up
- ☑ Memories of Mandelbrot
- ☑ How I got into computer science
- ☑ Thinking of autumn (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Stuff is just stuff, and experiences are just experiences (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Filipiniana (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Long weekend reflections
- ☑ Diversity and awareness of privilege
- ☑ Backyard trades
- ☑ Yogurt change, and growing oldness
- ☑ Cool mornings
- ☑ Thank you, David Singer
- ☑ Some of my favourite quotes
- ☑ Growing up
- ☑ Goals
- ☑ Imperfection
- ☑ Holy cow, that was a lot of mail. So sorry!
- ☑ Exponential awesomeness
- ☑ Exercising the senses
- ☑ Dear future Sacha,
- ☑ A letter to my 8-year-old self
- ☑ Find your wall
- ☑ An abundance of opportunities
- ☑ Thinking about indexing and connecting the dots
- ☑ Teapot
- ☑ Experiments in awesome
- ☑ Circuses pots, and cathedrals: three key stories
- ☑ ACM Hypertext conference in Toronto this June; paper deadline Feb 14
- ☑ Recovering (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Rabbit-holes of awesome (Jan 2010)
- ☑ La-Z-Boy cinemas, massages, and seafood (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Around the watercooler (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Agendas (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Superpowers and vision security
- ☑ Speaking of routines: life is cyclic
- ☑ Seeing in three dimensions
- ☑ Routines
- ☑ Quick thoughts
- ☑ Personal connection and a trip to the dentist
- ☑ Just in case
- ☑ The sweetness of life
- ☑ Food and shelter, health, love, skill, meaning
- ☑ The fullness of days
- ☑ Never get used up
- ☑ Learning from Gen Y: Help needed!
- ☑ The ups and ups of Mondays
- ☑ Science Rendevous, May 9 11 AM - 5 PM, Toronto
- ☑ LifeCampTO: April 5 (Sun), 10:30am - 1:00pm, LinuxCaffe
- ☑ Your subconscious is your friend
- ☑ LifeCampTO: Tweaking the plan!
- ☑ LifeCampTO social graph
- ☑ There are no words to describe the geeky awesomeness of this
- ☑ Craftsmanship
- ☑ Also: a whole slew of talks and events!
- ☑ One of Canada's Most Influential Women in Social Media?
- ☑ #hohoto conversations
- ☑ There's something about mornings
- ☑ Learning about conviction and life
- ☑ It's a little bit scary
- ☑ I'm so sorry!
- ☑ Catching my breath
- ☑ Squee! Won Slideshare's Best Presentation Contest!
- ☑ Not the best day ever, but that's okay
- ☑ Hacking the Domestic
- ☑ Dan Pink
- ☑ Happy birthday to me!
- ☑ Morning pages from Ottawa
- ☑ Hello I'm Sacha Chua! (Self-introduction and sitemap in verse)
- ☑ Awesome I've been quoted in Portuguese!
- ☑ Trudge trudge, trudge
- ☑ Don't know where to start
- ☑ Morning Pages
- ☑ Jetlag-assisted wakefulness
- ☑ Notes along the way
- ☑ Juggling; paperwork
- ☑ I so rock =)
- ☑ Today
- ☑ Not much writing today…
- ☑ My head is buzzing
- ☑ More progress
- ☑ I love open source
- ☑ Re-centering
- ☑ Convocation party pics
- ☑ Christmas carols
Life and energy [4/4]
- ☑ Slow days, weeks, months, years (2023)
- ☑ Preparing for middle age (2023)
- ☑ Working with fragmented thoughts (June 2015)
- ☑ A deeper dive into absent-mindedness and misplacing things (June 2015)
- ☑ High energy and low energy activities (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Low energy day
Lotus Connections [3/3]
Lotus Notes [11/11]
- ☑ Even more awesome LotusScript mail merge for Lotus Notes + Microsoft Excel
- ☑ Custom fields in Lotus Notes / Domino? You may need to set the SUMMARY field flag
- ☑ LotusScript: Checking another database for categories that do not contain a document of a particular type
- ☑ Troubleshooting my Lotus Notes 8.5.2, Expeditor 6.2, and Eclipse 3.4 setup
- ☑ Sample code for allowing drag-and-drop of Notes/Domino documents (including email) to a table in a plugin
- ☑ Lotus Notes mail practices
- ☑ I like Lotus Notes 8.5 =)
- ☑ Thank you, Lotus forums!
- ☑ Lotus Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
- ☑ Lotus Notes tweaks: Toolbar buttons to file mail
- ☑ Lotus Notes Tweak: End of Message, No Response Needed
Mastodon [7/7]
For an archive of toots, see https://sachachua.com/blog/category/weblog/
- ☑ Archiving public toots on my blog (2024)
- ☑ Moving from @sachac@emacs.ch to @sacha@social.sachachua.com (2024)
- ☑ Combining Mastodon timelines using mastodon.el (2024)
- ☑ On Mastodon: @sachac@emacs.ch (2022)
- ☑ Solving the mastodon.el error mastodon-auth–access-token: invalid (2022)
- ☑ Collect my recent toots in an Org file so that I can refile them (2022)
Mentoring [6/6]
Miscellaneous scripts [5/5]
New hires [7/7]
- ☑ Welcome to IBM! Advice for other newcomers like me
- ☑ New hires, ignorance and innovation
- ☑ Stitching together a semi-rotational program; training is not the limiting factor
- ☑ On finding a great job
- ☑ Enough time: a new hire's reflections
- ☑ Networking for new hires
- ☑ Book recommendations for new grads
Notetaking [6/6]
- ☑ Read more effectively by asking yourself questions while you read (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Rock those meeting minutes (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Make the most of a day of lectures (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Making the most of paper notes (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Scanning my notebooks
- ☑ Taking stock of the way I take notes
Organization [12/12]
- ☑ Decluttering and reimagining the house (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Experimenting with adding labels to photos
- ☑ Current state of my backups (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Labeling toy storage bins with photos and text using ImageMagick and org-babel
- ☑ Dealing with thought fragmentation, reducing mental waste
- ☑ Using exiftool to put date, rating, and title in photo filenames
- ☑ Organizing my digital life
- ☑ Clearing out the basement (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Digital uncluttering: my backup and clean up plan
- ☑ May 2010: Remember and declutter
- ☑ Yay more food containers! (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Reducing clutter in the kitchen (Dec 2011)
Org Mode [66/66]
Now at org
Parenting
See also Play
- School:
- Workshops and programs:
- ☑ Experience report: Toronto's Early Years resources were really helpful
- ☑ Notes on the Smart Start program at the Royal Conservatory of Music
- ☑ Notes from the Let’s Get Started parenting series
- ☑ Notes on the Healthy Babies Healthy Children program
- ☑ Planning a few activities for A-
- ☑ Tips for new parents near High Park, Toronto
- ☑ Experience report: Toronto’s Early Years resources were really helpful
- ☑ Reflecting on the kindergarten readiness program
- ☑ Notes from the parent advocacy workshop - my goals
- Early childhood education:
- Physical activity:
- Babysitting:
- Language and literacy:
- Time:
- Self-care and independence:
- Social:
- Emotions:
- Music:
- Household:
- Health:
- Other:
- ☑ Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten and life with kids
- ☑ Notes on cloth diapering so far
- ☑ Learning to become a parent
- ☑ How can we prepare for W-'s return to work?
- ☑ New experiment: focusing on childcare
- ☑ What’s getting in my way when it comes to being more present as a parent?
- ☑ External brains – current state
- ☑ Figuring out my own social life
- ☑ Beginning to trust myself as a parent
- ☑ How do I want to grow as a parent?
- ☑ Bringing who I am to parenting
- ☑ Ideas for parenting-related things to build
Passion [11/11]
- ☑ Crossing worlds (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Passion and uncertainty
- ☑ Let's talk about passion
- ☑ Cultivating enthusiasm
- ☑ You are in a maze of twisty passages, all different; a life of many interests
- ☑ Passion
- ☑ On passion and luck
- ☑ Reflections on passion: Don't let your job get in the way of your career
- ☑ Loyalty and love at work
- ☑ Work that I love: reflecting on the whats and hows
- ☑ Refuse to Choose: or life is a many-splendoured thing
People [3/3]
Personal finance [23/23]
- ☑ Dipping my toes into the ETF waters (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Ledger-cli and reporting stock allocations
- ☑ Keeping (financial) score with Ledger (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Checking PC Optimum’s math for PC Mastercard points from Google Pay
- ☑ Baby steps towards investing (June 2014)
- ☑ How hacking my wants helped me experiment with early retirement (June 2013)
- ☑ Thinking about movies (May 2013)
- ☑ How I got started in investing (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Planning for retirement when you don't know where you'll be
- ☑ Mindful spending, experiments, and living in line with your values (June 2011)
- ☑ How I organize my personal finances
- ☑ Closing my 2009 financial ledger, looking forward to the next year (Jan 2010)
- ☑ For love of numbers
- ☑ Personal finance
- ☑ Hooray! Tax-free savings account!
- ☑ Thinking about the Canadian Tax-free Savings Account
- ☑ Finally decided what to do with the tax-free savings account
- ☑ Thinking about making ridiculous amounts of money
- ☑ Young and savvy
- ☑ My financial network map and virtual envelope system
- ☑ Grocery round-up: Toronto
- ☑ Gen Y Growing Up: My first chat with a financial planner
- ☑ Book: Let's Get Real About Money: Profit from the Habits of the Best Personal Finance Managers
Personal knowledge management
I'm moving this to pkm.
Philosophy [18/18]
- ☑ What Stoicism means to me (April 2015)
- ☑ [X] Reflections on Aristotle, ends, and leisure (June 2014)
- ☑ [X] Simplifying with Stoicism: examining negative feelings (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Learning philosophy at the right time (Aug 2014)
- ☑ "Call no man happy until he is dead" - I think it's okay to be happy (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Appreciation and imagining loss (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Becoming comfortable with simplicity and even discomfort (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Thinking about leisure activities: noble, advantageous, pleasant (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Living like you're old (Aug 2014)
- ☑ That moment when time comes together (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Reflecting on relationships for a good life (July 2014)
- ☑ Learning life skills from philosophers (July 2014)
- ☑ Learning from frugal lives of years past (July 2014)
- ☑ Becoming the sort of person I want to be (July 2014)
- ☑ On Aristotle and talking to people about troubles (July 2014)
- ☑ What’s in your handbook? (July 2014)
- ☑ Teaching myself to prefer what’s good for me (July 2014)
- ☑ Stoic impressions: Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down (July 2014)
Photography [6/6]
Piano [7/7]
Planning [49/49]
- ☑ Past, present, and future (June 2015)
- ☑ What do I want to learn next?
- ☑ Making the most of the next three weeks of kindergarten readiness
- ☑ Dealing with uncertainty one step at a time (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Reflecting on goal factoring and akrasia (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Good enough, good, awesome: Thinking about what I want to get to (March 2014)
- ☑ Goal factoring, reflecting on what I can do with my time, and enjoying a buffet of goals (March 2014)
- ☑ Seeing the futures
- ☑ Imagining the next five years and planning 2013 (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Planning by the numbers: Checking the length of my runway (Jan 2013)
- ☑ An embarrassing failure is the result of a series of unfortunate decisions, and that's a good thing (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Planning my code/development learning (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Thinking about what wild success at 29 looks like
- ☑ Planning my life
- ☑ Responsive web, responsive life
- ☑ Plans for summer: Relationships, work, gardening, biking, drawing and photography, making, and finances (June 2011)
- ☑ Personal projects (June 2011)
- ☑ Four-day weekend ahead
- ☑ Planning for summer
- ☑ Long weekend ahead
- ☑ Figuring out how to plan for a month
- ☑ Learning plans and time budgets: packing things into 2012 (Dec 2011)
- ☑ What I want to talk about in 2010 (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Training wheels for setting goals (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Unstructured time update
- ☑ In my dreams of wild success
- ☑ What do I hope to inspire people to do and be?
- ☑ Thinking about what people remember
- ☑ Thinking about the path ahead
- ☑ Planning ahead
- ☑ What's success, anyway?
- ☑ Limiting my options so that I can focus
- ☑ Fit for You: Thinking about my priorities (Sept 2010)
- ☑ What I'm focusing on
- ☑ "What are you planning to do in 2009?", or thoughts about #lifecamptoronto
- ☑ Creative encouragement and following passion
- ☑ What does wild success look like? Kaizen and life; tweaking mornings
- ☑ Planning projects for April: making remote presentations that rock, managing virtual assistants
- ☑ Unstructured time
- ☑ Finding the sweet spot
- ☑ Thinking in terms of decades
- ☑ Big dreams and small dreams can coexist
- ☑ Reflecting on how I can create value
- ☑ Living in the sweet spot
- ☑ Learning plan for 2010
- ☑ What do I want to learn?
- ☑ On Changing the World
- ☑ Getting better at writing design documents
- ☑ Condensing requirements into use cases
Planning projects [5/5]
Play [14/14]
- Minecraft
- ☑ Playing Minecraft parkour together (2025)
- ☑ Minecraft tree orbs, tree farm upgrade (2025)
- ☑ A brief foray into Underdog, a realistic Minecraft modpack; returning to Total Animation (2025)
- ☑ Cuberventures: Early game Create Mod (2025)
- ☑ Updating my Minecraft command book using Emacs, TRAMP, and mcf.el (2023)
- ☑ Free PDF instructions for a simple LEGO ball dispenser (2024)
- ☑ Playing sungka with the kiddo (2024)
- ☑ Supporting A+'s cubing journey so far (2023)
- ☑ Using rubik.el to make SVG last-layer diagrams from algorithms (2023)
- ☑ Minetest and MineClone 2 (2023)
- ☑ MineClone 2 so far: new worlds (2023)
- ☑ Making a menu of activities (2021)
- ☑ Turns out the Rubik's cube is just right for this stage with A- (2021)
- ☑ Expanding our pretend play with roleplaying games
- ☑ When both W- and I can play with A-
- ☑ Building A-'s Duplo collection
- ☑ Learning how to play with dough
- ☑ Working on play
- ☑ Bubbles
Podcasting [1/1]
Presentation design [4/4]
Presentation interaction [3/3]
Presentation process [19/19]
- ☑ Kaizen: Thinking about presentations
- ☑ Experiments as a presenter
- ☑ Braindump: Presentation kaizen
- ☑ Thoughts on preparing an Ignite-style presentation
- ☑ Presentation kaizen: Seven everyday ways to become a better presenter
- ☑ Presentation lessons from Ignite; deliberate practice
- ☑ Reflections on PresentationCampToronto
- ☑ Reflections on presentation; looking for a coach
- ☑ Improving my talk management process
- ☑ Reflecting on public speaking and my talk management system
- ☑ Preparing presentations: from mindmap to storyboard
- ☑ Keeping things fresh; Analyzing session feedback
- ☑ Want to grow as a speaker? Look for inspiration!
- ☑ Growing as a presenter
- ☑ ROI for public speaking and Web 2.0; graph and case study
- ☑ Learning from the speeches of grade seven students (June 2011)
- ☑ Seven tips for making better presentations
- ☑ Storytelling in presentations
- ☑ Writing presentation abstracts together
Presentations [13/13]
- ☑ Getting ready for my Hardlines Dealer Conference talk: So You Don't Have an Army of Online Marketers
- ☑ Seven Tips for Short Talks
- ☑ Thoughts on speaking
- ☑ A thousand ways that didn't work
- ☑ Presentation Zen: Visualization of the credit crisis
- ☑ Conversations with the students at Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- ☑ Thinking out loud about my presentation
- ☑ My talks in 2009
- ☑ blue horizon 2008: My first IBM keynote!
- ☑ When I grow up, I'm going to present like Steve Jobs
- ☑ Two presentation stories for today: Oooh, shiny; Reaching the back row
- ☑ Please vote for my about-me/sitemap slideshow on Slideshare!
- ☑ Bio: "IBM: The Next Generation"
Presentations and anxiety [8/8]
- ☑ On presenting, anxiety, and moving forward
- ☑ The Shy Presenter: Why conventional advice on learning public speaking sucks, and how to really get started
- ☑ The Shy Presenter: braindumping an introvert's guide to public speaking
- ☑ Dealing with stage fright
- ☑ IgniteToronto video: The Shy Presenter
- ☑ Speaking: In case of emergency, break glass
- ☑ Speaker's block
- ☑ Stage fright, visualization and improvization
Presentations and the backchannel [3/3]
Presentations, remote [7/7]
See also: Remote Presentations That Rock
- ☑ Remote training that rocks
- ☑ Giving a presentation using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and a web conference
- ☑ Virtual conferences change the game
- ☑ Quick tips for making the most of Sametime Unyte
- ☑ Hosting a teleconference call
- ☑ How to extract just the audio from Sametime Unyte recordings, on Linux
- ☑ Notes from Totally Rocking Presentations at IBM
Presentations, remote - How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar [5/5]
- ☑ How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 1: The best seats in the house
- ☑ How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 2: From audience to participants
- ☑ How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 3: Reading the room
- ☑ How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 4: Taking the next steps
- ☑ How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Webinar: Energy, Interaction, and ROI
Presentations, selecting a topic for [4/4]
Productivity [25/25]
- ☑ Tiny chunks (2024)
- ☑ Making my to-do list more detailed; process versus outcome (Dec 2015)
- ☑ Pleasure and utility (July 2015)
- ☑ Tweaking my daily routines for that feeling of progress (June 2015)
- Accepting myself:
- ☑ Embracing the shallows
- ☑ Learning slack (Dec 2014)
- ☑ Relaxed routines (Dec 2014) Where I tell people it's okay to have a relaxed, not-crammed-to-the-gills schedule, and I extol the benefits of slowing down and taking notes
- ☑ When you feel like you're spending a lot of time on low-impact activities (Dec 2014) Embracing your constraints, laying the groundwork for action, acting in tune with yourself, and accumulating gradual progress can help you keep moving forward even if it feels like you're taking such tiny steps.
- ☑ Unstructured time, shaping your wants, and giving yourself permission (June 2013)
- ☑ Move your goalposts to get around an inability to finish projects How redefining your projects can help you satisfy a novelty-seeking brain, and how you can deal with interests or experiments that don't have clear ends (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Realistic expectations, ruthless elimination, and rapid exploration (June 2014)
- ☑ What’s on your back burner? (Oct 2013)
- Decisions about time:
- ☑ Morning, afternoon, evening, commute: thinking about what to do when (sketched) (Jan 2015)
- ☑ What do I want to do right now? Understanding my algorithm for discretionary time
- ☑ Making the most of opportunities - tips for managing time, energy, and money
- ☑ A long reflection on getting more out of each hour
- ☑ Predictable advice about productivity (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Figuring out how my temporary sleep schedule interacts with programming, (Nov 2014) writing, and drawing
- ☑ Dealing with feeling under the weather (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Figuring out how to deal with sub-optimal times (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Three productivity tools (May 2014)
- ☑ Making the day count
- ☑ Understanding my procrastination (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Three tips for cheerful chores
- ☑ Tweaking fun and nudging myself out of procrastination
- ☑ Negative productivity and learning from oopses
- ☑ Being less stupid is harder than being smarter
- ☑ lifecampto
- ☑ Lessons from LifeCamp
- ☑ From reactive to proactive, from inboxes to goals; thinking about the big picture
- ☑ Preventive maintenance and the Goldtouch Go! keyboard
- ☑ Working on not misplacing things
- ☑ Moments of truth
- ☑ What will you stop doing?
- ☑ Speech recognition - a month of fun
- ☑ Lifehacking: Switching to a rolling laptop bag
- ☑ Book: The Hamster Revolution for Meetings
Quantified Self - blogging [4/4]
- ☑ Blog analysis for 2012: ~133,000 words so far
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Blogging, WPM, and the speed of reflection
- ☑ Writing, writing, writing - pace (10wpm), brain as bottleneck, outlining, writing
- ☑ Blog analysis for 2011: 173,363 words so far; also, using the Rails console to work with WordPress (Dec 2011)
Quantified Self - groceries/food [9/9]
- ☑ Exploring our grocery numbers (July 2015)
- ☑ Building tools for myself: grocery receipt tracking (May 2015)
- ☑ Quantified Self: a year of grocery data (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Grocery update - Oct 2012
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Grocery update!
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Tracking clothes, groceries, and other everyday things
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Back to buying our own fruits and vegetables
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Analysis of the winter/spring season for the Cooper's Farm community-supported agriculture program
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Community-supported agriculture with Plan B Organic Farms, fall 2011 (Jan 2012)
Quantified Self - time-tracking [26/26]
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Added sparklines and percentages (June 2014)
- ☑ Quick notes on my current interface for time-tracking
- ☑ Update on time tracking with Quantified Awesome and with Emacs (May 2014)
- ☑ Rethinking my time categories: the blurring of business and discretionary activities (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Planning a time-tracking workshop for Quantified Self Toronto (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Quantified Time: Comparing notes
- ☑ Quantifying my habit of writing, and things I've learned along the way (May 2013)
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Adding calendar heatmaps to categories
- ☑ Not about not wasting time
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Analyzing time data–the questions I ask and how I answer them (June 2013)
- ☑ Planning a Quantified Self workshop on time tracking (June 2013)
- ☑ Quantified Self time-tracking: Choosing your buckets
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Time and building mastery
- ☑ Quantified Self: Learning from a year of time data and planning what to tweak in 2013
- ☑ How I track my time, and how I'd like to
- ☑ Waking up: looking at my data
- ☑ Quantified: How I spent seven weeks
- ☑ More thoughts on time analysis: correlations and revealed preferences
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Data from waking up 3 hours earlier than normal
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: How I'm starting to use Tap Log for Android (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Thinking about personal random moment studies
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Building my own time tracker (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Android: Tracking sleep with Sleep Bot
- ☑ Experimenting with mornings
- ☑ Thinking about time tracking
- ☑ Work extracurriculars, and measuring time: an epiphany (Jan 2012)
Quantified Self Toronto meetups [11/11]
- ☑ What kind of tribe do I want to build around Quantified Self in Toronto? (May 2015)
- ☑ New: Quantified Self Meetup Map!
- ☑ Pub nights and thinking about networking at events
- ☑ Quantified Self Toronto: July 11, 2012
- ☑ Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto meetup #3
- ☑ Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto meetup: Conferences, pollution sensing, and growing old at home
- ☑ Sketchnotes from Quantified Self Toronto Oct 21 2011
- ☑ Notes from Quantified Self Toronto, October 27, 2010
- ☑ Quantified Self Toronto: Second Meetup
- ☑ Organizing resources for Quantified Self Toronto
- ☑ Quantified Self Toronto #9 (Jan 2012)
Quantified Self - Tracking other things [15/15]
- ☑ Gradually evolving my data entry interfaces (July 2015)
- ☑ Recreating and enhancing my tracking interface by using Tasker and Javascript (June 2015)
- ☑ Quantified Self: The numbers on sewing (May 2015)
- ☑ Quantified Self: How can you measure freedom? (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Getting Started with Quantified Self
- Clothing
- Stuff
- Other
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Analyzing my non-fiction reading, and why I don't mind paying taxes
- ☑ Raspberry Pi LitterBox Cam and quantified cats (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Analyzing my cellphone data
- ☑ Learning from my mood data
- ☑ Things I'm learning from tracking
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Squishing my excuses (Jan 2012)
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Why I track
- ☑ Answering questions about the Quantified Self
- ☑ Quantified Awesome feedback
- ☑ Thinking about a Quantified Self directory
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: How much music do you have?
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Development-driven behaviour and integrated tests for life
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: 116 web resources for Quantified Self
- ☑ Quantified Awesome: Thinking about what I want to build next (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Placeholder: The Examined Life: Technology and Experimentation
- ☑ Thinking about Quantified Awesome, meetups, and DemoCamp (Jan 2012)
Rails [6/6]
- ☑ Setting up Ruby on Rails on a Redhat Enterprise Linux Rackspace Cloud Server
- ☑ Rails: Exporting data from specific tables into fixtures
- ☑ Rails: Paperclip needs attributes defined by attr_accessible, not just attr_accessor
- ☑ Ruby on Rails: Extending ActiveRecord::Base to define your own ActiveRecord association methods
- ☑ Rails experiences: Building an interactive tutorial
- ☑ Rails experiences: Things I learned from project O (Dec 2011)
Reading [12/12]
- ☑ My current book workflow (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Becoming a better reader (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Thinking about my reading (Jan 2014)
- ☑ How to read blogs efficiently with a feed reader (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Marking up books
- ☑ Moving my book notes online
- ☑ Speed-reading
- ☑ Book workflow
- ☑ Reading isn't Dead Yet!
- ☑ Some thoughts on reading
- ☑ Visual book notes: How to Read a Book
- ☑ Reading books
Reflection [1/1]
Relationships [13/13]
- ☑ Good influences in partnerships (June 2013)
- ☑ Pamanhikan (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Patternicity: how things come together, and happiness
- ☑ On vintage portaits and wedding photography
- ☑ How not to propose marriage
- ☑ Getting ready for a new adventure
- ☑ Love and reaction
- ☑ Tweaking married life for everyday happiness
- ☑ Thoughts from marriage: Learning together
- ☑ In-jokes and shared experiences
- ☑ Reflecting on relationships
- ☑ Scenes from a geek life: Duel
- ☑ Book: Choose to be happily married: How everyday decisions can lead to lasting love
Remote Presentations That Rock (see also: Presentations, Remote) [12/12]
See also: Presentations, remote
- ☑ The "Remote Presentations That Rock" reading list
- ☑ Thoughts from "Remote Presentations That Rock", changing dynamics
- ☑ 7 Tips for Remote Presentations That Rock
- ☑ Check out "7 Tips for Remote Presentations That Rock" - notes posted
- ☑ Posted revised "Remote Presentations That Rock" presentation
- ☑ Survey responses for TLE: Remote Presentations That Rock
- ☑ Coaching people on how to give better remote presentations - Thinking out loud
- ☑ Remote Presentations That Rock (revised)
- ☑ Presented Remote Presentations That Rock v2 for the Best of TLE 2009 series
- ☑ Remote presentations that rock: Challenges and opportunities of remote presentations
- ☑ Visual notes from Remote Presentations That Rock
- ☑ How you know your training sessions are working; Remote Presentations That Rock
Reviews, processes for
- ☑ On the practice of a weekly review (Jan 2010) - why I do a weekly review
- ☑ What do I want from an annual review?
- ☑ Use the weekly review to give yourself permission to do things you want to do (May 2013) - additional benefits of weekly planning
- ☑ Looking back and looking forward (Jan 2013) - reviews for progress tracking
- ☑ How I review my notes (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Thinking about reviewing archives (Jan 2012)
- ☑ Reviewing my archives (Dec 2011)
- ☑ This is what my blog looks like on paper (June 2011)
- ☑ Poll: How often would you like to receive e-mail updates? Also, quantifying my blog posting history (May 2013)
See also:
- How I use Emacs Org Mode for my weekly reviews (June 2013)
- Emacs Org mode and publishing a weekly review (Sept 2010)
Self, understanding [11/11]
- ☑ Cultivating coping mechanisms (April 2015)
- ☑ Questions I often ask myself
- ☑ Tickling my brain
- ☑ Scribe and tinker
- ☑ More thoughts on fuzzy days (April 2015)
- ☑ Reading while fuzzy (April 2015)
- ☑ Squirrel brain (April 2015)
- ☑ Being extra-kind to myself (April 2015)
- ☑ The work of self-understanding
- ☑ Influence map; introspection
- ☑ On circumstances and somebodies
Sewing [36/36]
- ☑ Level up: figured out how to add a zipper pull on continuous zipper tape
- ☑ Learning about patchwork and sewing (Dec 2015)
- ☑ What's worth making? (Dec 2015)
- ☑ Learned how to replace a zipper (Oct 2015)
- ☑ Fabric from the thrift store (Oct 2015)
- ☑ Programmatically rescaling and manipulating the darts in sewing patterns (Oct 2015)
- ☑ Python + sewing: Making basic shapes and splitting up larger patterns (Oct 2015)
- ☑ Pattern-making: Generating SVGs for sewing with Python and tmtp (Sept 2015)
- ☑ Making things around the house (Sept 2015)
- ☑ Planning the next things I want to sew (May 2015)
- ☑ Laser-cutting bias tape in off-cut regions (May 2015)
- ☑ Laser cutting registration experiments and cutting long pieces of fabric (April 2015)
- ☑ Thinking about my sewing next steps, particularly with the laser cutter (April 2015)
- ☑ Laser cutting update: Marvel version (April 2015)
- ☑ Assorted sewing-related sketches and thoughts (April 2015)
- ☑ Back to sewing! (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Sewing: Made a PS Vita case!
- ☑ Made a stuff sack for J- (June 2011)
- ☑ Made a kitty soap holder
- ☑ Making some wool skirts
- ☑ Just a simple red skirt
- ☑ Thinking about organizing sewing patterns
- ☑ Putting together an inspiration board
- ☑ Making things; Vogue 8020
- ☑ Thinking about the next summer dress I'm going to make
- ☑ Sewing: Of sewing more dresses and making more pots
- ☑ The joys of making things
- ☑ Sewing arghs
- ☑ On sewing and improv
- ☑ Made a lunch bag
- ☑ Made a sofa wrap!
- ☑ The luxury of making
- ☑ Learning sewing and French
- ☑ Sometimes you just have to do it
- ☑ Sewing: Wool jumper, blazer
- ☑ Sewing: Red jacket, V8343
Sharing
- ☑ Yay Emacs 5: Tweaking my video workflow with WhisperX and subed-record (2024)
- ☑ Stepping up to publishing (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Other-work and self-work (Jan 2014)
Shopping [3/3]
Simple living [2/2]
- ☑ Caring for things without caring about things (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Thinking about routines after an extended trip (Jan 2014)
Sketched Books
This is now at visual-book-notes.
Sketchnote lessons [12/12] trail
- ☑ Resources for getting started with sketchnoting
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: Quick Lettering
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: Adding color
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: Adding Emphasis
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: Having fun with words
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: Arrows and Connectors
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: Banners and ribbons
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: Speech bubbles and thought clouds
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: Drawing Emotions
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: Stick figures
- ☑ Sketchnote Lesson: Metaphors (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Sketchnote Lessons: How do you want to grow as a sketchnoter? (Oct 2013)
Sketchnotes [18/18]
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- ☑ New free/pay what you want resource: Sketchnotes 2013; also, Emacs Dired rocks (March 2014)
- ☑ Sketchnotes 2013 in print, yay! (March 2014)
- ☑ Mindmapping chat with Billy Waters (@vitaminsludge) (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Announcing this 2012 Sketchnotes collection! (free/PWYC) (June 2013)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: How to Live an Amazing Life (C.C. Chapman, Third Tuesday Toronto) (June 2013)
- ☑ First impressions of Artrage 4 (May 2013)
- ☑ Sketchnoting: Finding a balance of details and diagrams, and calibrating your writing to time (May 2013)
- ☑ Imagining an index of sketchnotes (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Reflections on sketchnoting TEDxOCADU (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Sketchnote about mindmapping: Rock the Monkey: Visual Facilitation Skills and Brain-based Learning-Chuck Frey (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Awesome Foundation Toronto pitch night: Kensington Mesh Network, Women and Tech, Lovecraft TO, 360 Screenings
- ☑ Made my largest sketchnote ever! Painting the MaRS Lean Startup Day banner
- ☑ Coming up with a three-word life philosophy
- ☑ Capturing my sketchnotes with Camtasia Studio Pro; organizing the digital workflow
- ☑ Paper, Tablet, and Tablet PC: Comparing tools for sketchnoting
- ☑ Thinking about a visual process library
- ☑ Process: Reading nonfiction books
- ☑ Process: Keeping notes of conversations
- ☑ The Virtual Self: Nora Young at Third Tuesday Toronto
- ☑ Sketchnote workflow
Sketchnotes - Business [22/22]
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Small business network meetup with Kristina Chau at the Toronto Reference Library
- ☑ Sketchnote: Managing Oneself (Peter Drucker)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Conversations About Social Business (Jennifer Okimoto, IBM)
- ☑ Sketchnote: Reboot Your Business, Reboot Your Life: Your Future Depends On It - Mitch Joel (Third Tuesday Toronto)
- ☑ Sketchnote: Solving Wicked Problems with Dialogue Mapping (Chris Chapman, Toronto Agile Support Group) (May 2013)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Venus Ventures Town Hall
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Girl Geeks Toronto: Vexed in the City
- ☑ Sketchnotes: #INNOTalkTO Innovatively Speaking - Joanna Track, Justin Raymond, David Nam, Brenda Rideout
- ☑ Discovering the MaRS #startupbookclubTO: The $100 Startup
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Startup Communities and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
- ☑ #SMref panel: Changing Nature of Influence-Moderator: Terry Foster-Panel: Matt Juniper, Patrick Thoburn, Ron Nurwisah, Eric Alper
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Different Types of Entrepreneurship, Kerri Golden, Allyson Hewitt (MaRS ENT101)
- ☑ Cameron Lewis at the Toronto Small Business Network meetup
- ☑ Centre for Social Innovation - Small Business Network meetup at the Toronto Reference Library
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Christine Steiger, Christine's Fitness and Personal Training @ Small Business Network, Toronto Public Library
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Sandra Emilia Calderaro, Multilingual Kids; Andres D'Imperio, Creative Design (Small Business Network @ Toronto Reference Library)
- ☑ #torontob2b: Sean O'Donovan on managing content for lead generation + Q&A with Ben Harrison and Scott Armstrong
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Jeremiah Owyang @ Third Tuesday Toronto (#3TYYZ) on the Social Business Hierarchy of Needs
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Red Rocket Coffee, Toronto Public Library Small Business Network meetup
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Sal Sloan of Fetching! at the Toronto Public Library: Small Business Networking Event
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Dave Ley, Jen Nolan, Leo Marland and me at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information's career panel
Sketchnotes - Business conferences [5/5]
Sketchnotes - Entrepreneurship 101 at MaRS [11/11]
- ☑ Sketchnote: ENT101 Lived It Lecture-Kunal Gupta, Polar Mobile (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: #ENT101 Meet the Enterpreneurs: Social Innovation - Izzy Camillieri, IZ Adaptive; Kaela Bree, AussieX; Dessy Daskalav, Greengage Mobile
- ☑ Sketchnotes: ENT101 Business Plan and Other Communication Tools-Veronika Litinski
- ☑ Sketchnotes from #ENT101: Business Model Canvas-Mark Zimmerman
- ☑ Sketchnotes from #ENT101: IP Management - Creating Value by Protecting Knowledge-based Assets - Nathaniel Lipkus, Matthew Powell, Ashlee Froese
- ☑ MaRS ENT101: Meet the Entrepreneurs: Life Sciences & Healthcare - Peter Adams, Joel Ironstone, Trevor Van Mierlo, Alex Hodgson
- ☑ Sketchnotes: ENT101: Value Proposition-Joe Wilson
- ☑ ENT101: Startup Law 101: Legal Launchpad (Arshia Tabrizi)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: #ENT101 Entrepreneurial Management-Jon E. Worren
- ☑ Sketchnotes: ENT101: Lived It Lecture - Bruce Poon Tip (G Adventures) on Social Enterprise
- ☑ Sketchnotes: ENT101: Finding and Validating Your Idea, Keri Damen
Sketchnotes - Marketing [9/9]
- ☑ Sketchnotes: The Very Versatile Drip-Mathew Sweezey (Pardot)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: The 5 Key Elements of a Better B2B Content Marketing Strategy-Nolin LeChasseur
- ☑ Sketchnotes from #torontob2b: Dragging an Organization into the Digital Age; 7 Steps to Social Media Success
- ☑ Sketchnotes: #torontob2b: Free trials, cold-calling, brainstorming
- ☑ Sketchnotes from #torontob2b (antispam, mobile websites, marketing programs)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Marketing Automation, Jeffrey Yee (#torontob2b)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Marketing in the Round, Gini Dietrich
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Building a Social Enterprise - Andrew Jenkins (#torontob2b)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Designing content so that it works - Carl Friesen (#torontob2b)
Sketchnotes - Technology [12/12]
- ☑ Sketchnote: Fun With Dead Languages: Damian Conway
- ☑ The Sketchnote Challenge: Those Algorithms That Govern Our Lives (Kevin Slavin)
- ☑ Sketchnotes from WordCamp Developers Toronto 2012 Day 2 #wcto
- ☑ Sketchnotes: WordCamp Developers Toronto 2012 Day 1 (#wcto)
- ☑ Sketchnotes: AndroidTO-The Business of Mobile
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Quantified Self Conference 2012
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Girl Geeks Toronto - Adventures in Arduino
- ☑ Sketchnotes: Custom Post Types & Custom Fields (Wes Bos, #wpto)
- ☑ Sketchnotes from MobileDevTO: Android development, social apps
- ☑ Meetup sketchnotes: The Publishing Side of WordPress, Andy McIlwain
- ☑ Sketchnotes from WordCamp Toronto Day 1: Marketing, giving back, multilingual sites, security, SEO & analytics, e-commerce
- ☑ Sketchnotes from WordCamp Toronto 2012 Day 2: Case studies
Slideshare Zipcast [3/3]
Social sciences [2/2]
Social software [43/43]
- ☑ I'd like to build the post-connector workplace
- ☑ Leadership going virtual: how we can help managers
- ☑ Steeped in collaboration
- ☑ Large team challenges
- ☑ From the ground up: Helping our organizations work smarter
- ☑ On getting started with collaboration
- ☑ Smarter leaders braindump (long, visual)
- ☑ Sooner or later? Expertise and the new
- ☑ Welcome listeners of the Taking Notes podcast! (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Getting past generation-based conversations (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Unfinished Business: Design and New Media in the Obama campaign
- ☑ Lessons learned from hosting today's IBM Web 2.0 for Business community call with Amy Shuen
- ☑ A tale of a smarter planet
- ☑ Reblogged: Web 2.0, Sharing, and Uncertain Times
- ☑ Making things up
- ☑ Helping people learn about Web 2.0 through stories
- ☑ The influence of trees, webs, and clouds
- ☑ A teacher's guide to Web 2.0 at school
- ☑ Deeper insights into private versus public
- ☑ Brainstorming around Smart Work
- ☑ Thinking about the Smart Work Jam
- ☑ The man who should've used Connections
- ☑ Connecting in a large organization
- ☑ Process: How to ask communities for help
- ☑ Process: Using Activities to organize workshop-related information
- ☑ Thinking about improving the connective tissue of organizations
- ☑ social networking
- ☑ Passed it on!
- ☑ Kaizen Presentations: Web 2.0 and the University
- ☑ The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work
- ☑ The Incoming University Student's Guide to Web 2.0
- ☑ Are you neglecting new employees? Web 2.0 can help you with relational onboarding
- ☑ IBM Pass It Along - social learning!
- ☑ Web 2.0 @ Work: Creating a professional profile
- ☑ The Orange Chair » Social networking and innovation in a large company
- ☑ Knowledge (shared) is power
- ☑ My Enterprise 2.0 blogroll
- ☑ Notes from the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit
- ☑ Notes from Rahaf Harfoush's talk on the use of social media in Obama's campaign
- ☑ Web 2.0 Inside and Outside the Enterprise: York University MBA
- ☑ Slidecast: New Media, New Generation
- ☑ Microblogging talk (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Lessons learned from microblogging talk
Social software tools [2/2]
Social software - wikis [2/2]
Speech recognition [6/6]
- ☑ Yay Emacs 5: Tweaking my video workflow with WhisperX and subed-record
- ☑ Using WhisperX to get word-level timestamps for audio editing with Emacs and subed-record (2024)
- ☑ Yay, I can get live speech recognition results from Emacs to Etherpad (2023)
- ☑ Working with the flow of ideas (2023)
- ☑ Getting live speech into Emacs with Deepgram's streaming API (2023)
- ☑ Late-night braindumps by talking to myself (2022)
Starting my own business [5/5]
Steno [1/1]
Streaming and videos [3/3]
- ☑ Quick notes on livestreaming to YouTube with FFmpeg on a Lenovo X230T (2024)
- ☑ My Evil Plan for Yay Emacs! (2024)
- ☑ Using Emacs and Python to record an animation and synchronize it with audio (2022)
- ☑ Adding an overlay to my webcam via OBS 26.1 (2021)
- ☑ Controlling my stream audio from Emacs: background music, typing sounds, and push to talk (2021)
Supernote
See supernote
System administration [11/11]
- ☑ Scaling a BigBlueButton server down to a 1 GB node between uses (2025)
- ☑ Using systemd to switch nginx configurations based on number of CPUs (2025)
- ☑ Next steps for system administration (Oct 2013)
- ☑ Oops report: Moving from i386 to amd64 on my server
- ☑ Dealing with SIGSEGV in php5-fpm and Nginx
- ☑ Setting up dynamic DNS with Tomato and Namecheap, and limiting SSH
- ☑ Switching back to Linux as my development host (June 2011)
- ☑ Re-setting up my computer
- ☑ Geek tidbits: Postfix configuration for development and testing (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Using supervisord for Nginx+FastCGI+PHP
- ☑ Rough guide to getting an existing Windows XP partition to boot as a VMWare guest under Linux
Teaching [6/6]
Teaching kids and study groups [18/18]
- ☑ Meaning and acknowledgement (June 2011)
- ☑ Why we use more than math textbooks and general-purpose resources
- ☑ Math study group: Positive and negative numbers
- ☑ Study group update: negative numbers, exponents, and awesomeness
- ☑ The enemy of your enemy is your friend: mnemonics and negative integers
- ☑ Study group: Flashcards and the Leitner method
- ☑ On kids and the learning of tangible things
- ☑ Helping kids learn about automation
- ☑ Back to school, back to study groups
- ☑ Every teachable moment (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Thoughts from helping with homework
- ☑ Helping kids learn algebra
- ☑ Helping kids build their vocabularies: spell-offs and bedtime stories
- ☑ Portal 2 and teachable moments in argument (June 2011)
- ☑ Notes from the Ontario Science Centre field trip
- ☑ Learning new tricks about learning: maps and history
- ☑ Filling in the learning gaps
- ☑ The three argumenteers
Technology [66/66]
- Artificial intelligence:
- ☑ Two weeks with the iPad Air (+ SuperNote A5X and Lenovo P52) (2025)
- ☑ Revisiting wearable computing (2025)
- ☑ Updating Planet Venus so that planet.emacslife.com can handle mix-blend-mode in my SVGs (2024)
- ☑ Figuring out how to use ffmpeg to mask a chroma-keyed video based on the differences between images (2022)
- ☑ Putting off laptop upgrade again (2021)
- ☑ Toggle screen recording with AutoKey and vokoscreenNG (2021)
- ☑ Avoiding automatic data type conversion in Microsoft Excel and Pandas (2021)
- ☑ A+ 0, X220 1! (2023)
- ☑ Resetting the Python logger level (2023)
- ☑ Extracting the xinput device number instead of hardcoding it
- ☑ Calibre and Qt 5.5 (Jan 2016)
- ☑ Building a simple sketch navigator for myself (Jan 2016)
- ☑ Trying out dual-booting Linux again (Nov 2015)
- ☑ Finding missing dates in PostgreSQL (June 2015)
- ☑ Thinking about simplifying capture on my phone (June 2015)
- ☑ Reviving my Asus Transformer TF700T with the KatKiss ROM
- ☑ Considering tech and the home (April 2015)
- ☑ More ideas for tech and the home (April 2015)
- ☑ Tech and the kitchen (April 2015)
- ☑ Windows: Pipe output to your clipboard, or how I've been using NodeJS and Org Mode together (Feb 2015)
- ☑ De-dupe and link: Using the Flickr API to neaten up my archive and link sketches to blog posts (Feb 2015)
- ☑ Tablet thoughts (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Microsoft Excel: Converting a summary table / crosstab back into data rows (Oct 2014)
- ☑ Upgrading from Rails 3 to Rails 4; thank goodness for Emacs and rspec (Oct 2014)
- ☑ My path for learning AngularJS (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Don’t worry about your tools in the beginning: Avoiding premature optimization (July 2014)
- ☑ SSL issues after moving to Ubuntu Precise (June 2014)
- ☑ Slowly getting the hang of Clojure (June 2014)
- ☑ Playing around with Clojure, Cider, and 4Clojure (May 2014)
- ☑ How I use Google Chrome custom search engines for quick access (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Sharing Google Docs: One link to edit, one link to view (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Automating bulk web stuff with iMacros (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Decision review: Clipboard managers, and why you should get one (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Quick show update: Learning Together #01, Helpers Help Out #02 (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Setting up virtual machines with Vagrant (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Thinking about how to type faster than 110wpm
- ☑ Thinking about how I can use Evernote more effectively
- ☑ Mohiomap: A visual way to browse your Evernote notebook (June 2013)
- ☑ Oooh, Camtasia Studio 8.1 now has green-screening–which means awesome sketch videos just got easier! (June 2013)
- ☑ Disabling touch on Windows 8 on a Lenovo X220 tablet
- ☑ Starting from scratch with Windows 8
- ☑ First thoughts on Windows 8 (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Sketchnotes from Democamp Toronto 29, June 2011 (June 2011)
- ☑ Quick guide to domain names
- ☑ Editing audio and embedding it into a MS Powerpoint file
- ☑ Electronic ears: Using Performous to learn how to sing
- ☑ Cleaning up HTML from Microsoft Word
- ☑ Helping my parents learn more about Internet and business; any tips?
- ☑ Compfight: Search Flickr for CC-licensed images
- ☑ MacBook Air
- ☑ Microsoft Excel - Alt-Enter
- ☑ Geni - Your family tree online
- ☑ Linux and Windows playing nicely together
- ☑ Rumor has it that Dragon NaturallySpeaking works under WINE
- ☑ Wow Physics can be phun.
- ☑ I need a faster web host
- ☑ Switching to Ubuntu
- ☑ OpenOffice.org: Replacing dingbats
- ☑ Mouse woes on Ubuntu Hardy
- ☑ Cintiq
- ☑ Taming the Firefox keyboard with keyconfig
- ☑ Internet Explorer - hovering on non-link items
- ☑ TCP window scaling, or zomg the Internet works for me again
- ☑ Cintiq 12WX, OpenSuse 11.0, and much pain and suffering
- ☑ Leavin' well enough alone
- ☑ Two screens without rebooting, with xrandr
Technology evangelism [7/7]
- ☑ Lispy Gopher Show 2025-02-05: programming languages, history, blogging, and communities with screwtape, Ramin Honary, and me (2025)
- ☑ Why I love free software
- ☑ Thinking about how to reinvest the Google Open Source Peer Bonus (2023)
- ☑ Brainstorming ways to help build the Emacs community (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Sowing seeds: What is technology evangelism, anyway?
- ☑ Sowing seeds: Common objections to technology evangelism for collaborative tools
- ☑ Technology evangelists: What we do, how to find and hire one, how to become one
Testing [16/16]
- ☑ First steps towards Javascript testing (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Drupal: Adding lines to settings.php in an installation profile
- ☑ Drupal tip: Test mail sending with Devel
- ☑ Running the Selenium IDE testing plugin with Firefox 4
- ☑ Drupal: Testing multisite/domain-access Drupal locally and on a testing server
- ☑ Drush Simpletest, and continuous integration for Drupal using Jenkins (previously Hudson) (June 2011)
- ☑ Learning browser-based testing with Selenium
- ☑ The joys of development with Selenium web-testing
- ☑ Rails: Preserving test data
- ☑ Cucumber Capybara, and the joys of integration testing in Rails
- ☑ Growing as a developer: Automated tests (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Holding my (quality assurance) horses
- ☑ Using Simpletest and spreadsheets to populate Drupal with data
- ☑ Test-driven development and happiness
- ☑ Running groups of Drupal tests from the command line
- ☑ Scaffolds and structures
Theming [6/6]
- ☑ Learning from CSS tweaking (Dec 2011)
- ☑ Figuring out my CSS workflow (Dec 2011)
- ☑ CSS theming, magnification, and foot pedals (Jan 2012)
- ☑ Making good progress on theming the site (Jan 2012)
- ☑ Drupal 6: Adding color support to your theme
- ☑ My CSS theming setup (Jan 2012)
Time management [27/27]
- ☑ Tiny chunks (2024)
- ☑ Making better use of time as we grow more independent together (2022)
- ☑ Making the most of the moment (2021)
- ☑ Reflecting on wasted effort (2021)
- ☑ Sharing more of my discretionary time (2021)
- ☑ What makes my week satisfying?
- ☑ More thoughts on the timing of discretionary time
- ☑ Getting coding back into my life
- ☑ A reflection on leisure and discretionary time (Jan 2016)
- ☑ Balancing writing with other things
- ☑ Thinking about a pro-bono policy; being deliberate about what I do for free, discount, or barter (May 2013)
- ☑ Figuring out my guidelines for time (Jan 2013)
- ☑ Procrastination
- ☑ Bugfix: Time estimation
- ☑ Get a grip on your tasks
- ☑ Week beginnings
- ☑ Waking up with barcodes
- ☑ From maker time to learner time
- ☑ Learning how to manage time
- ☑ Thinking about the time/money swap
- ☑ Optimizing for weather and other thoughts about self-employed time
- ☑ Unstructured time update, now that I have my own business
- ☑ How to do a lot
- ☑ Time management and work boundaries
- ☑ Optimizing my day
- ☑ Too much time on her hands
- ☑ Managing interruptions
- ☑ Kaizen: Moving time around
- ☑ My week starts with Mondays, and other ways perspective influences life
- ☑ Copious free time? Carefully protected!
- ☑ Moving time around (Jan 2012)
- ☑ Finding out if I'm overscheduled
Travel stories [29/29]
- ☑ Trip notes
- ☑ Raiding San Francisco's Japantown for bento accessories and pens
- ☑ Our trip to the Philippines
- ☑ Replaced my Philippine taxpayer ID
- ☑ Quick braindump after Quantified Self 2012
- ☑ Notes from the Quantified Self 2012 conference (Palo Alto)
- ☑ International cooking
- ☑ Tech report: Living on the T-Mobile 2G network
- ☑ Cambridge stories from the past and future
- ☑ On stores and surroundings
- ☑ The Exploratorium, or playgrounds for the mind
- ☑ Notes from the airport: Missed my flight; not the end of the world after all
- ☑ Travel updates: GPS, Pearl Street, Vibram toe shoes
- ☑ Finding the bright side of business travel
- ☑ Waiting for my Kindle
- ☑ Ordered a Kindle with free 3G
- ☑ Geek travel: Planning outfits using matrices
- ☑ Jetlag-assisted early days
- ☑ Stories from the trip: Making my peace with endings
- ☑ Geek travel update: Mostly as planned
- ☑ Stories from the trip: Terminal 3
- ☑ Recovering from jet lag (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Thinking about travel
- ☑ Getting ready for a long trip
- ☑ I hate flying
- ☑ Trying out the high-flying lifestyle
- ☑ Morning pages
- ☑ The Leisure of Work
- ☑ Things I do when I'm travelling on my own
Travel tips [12/12]
- ☑ Packing review: Things I used and didn't use on my trip
- ☑ Travel kaizen
- ☑ Working around my phone plan’s lack of roaming
- ☑ A braindump of tips for other new immigrants from the Philippines
- ☑ Making better use of travel time
- ☑ Travel kaizen and the meaning of life
- ☑ Travel tips
- ☑ Travelling with smiles
- ☑ Making business travel awesome
- ☑ Thinking of a travel dossier
- ☑ Quick travel notes: move through the airport quickly
- ☑ Three tips for long flights
Vacations [10/10]
Version control [3/3]
Visual book reviews
See
Visualization [7/7]
- ☑ Exploring neighbourhood libraries and other notes from the Toronto Public Library Hackathon (Nov 2015)
- ☑ What it's like to work with data (May 2015)
- ☑ Visualizing the internal citation network of my blog (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Digraphs with Graphviz
- ☑ Visualization resources
- ☑ Visualization of my blog categories
- ☑ Analyzing my Lotus Notes sent mail since January 2011
Visual metaphors (alphabetical) [10/10]
Visual Thinkers Toronto
Volunteering [3/3]
Weather [2/2]
See also: Winter
Web [1/1]
Wicked Cool Emacs [2/2]
Winter [10/10]
- ☑ Winter
- ☑ Fleece blankets and seasons
- ☑ Ways to make winter better
- ☑ Still cold? Wear a hat to bed
- ☑ Canadian winter tips (Jan 2014)
- ☑ Making the most of Standard Time as the days grow shorter (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Things to tweak or try this winter (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Planning for winter - tweaking my layers (Oct 2014)
- ☑ A weekend well-spent preparing for winter
- ☑ Integrating visual outlining into my writing process (Oct 2013)
Wordpress [31/31]
- ☑ Fixed paragraph breaks in WordPress, no more wall of text
- ☑ How to make a hand-drawn highlighted web page header (May 2013)
- ☑ How I use Feedburner to give people the option of different blog update frequencies (May 2013)
- ☑ Publishing WordPress thumbnail images using Emacs and Org2Blog (Oct 2014)
- ☑ WordPress: Make a sequence of posts easier to navigate with Organize Series (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Thinking about the design of my blog (Feb 2014)
- ☑ Reorganizing WordPress categories with Term Management Tools and other tweaks
- ☑ Quick question: What would you prefer for shorter URLs? (June 2013)
- ☑ Using Google's In-Page Analytics to understand how people use a site (June 2013)
- ☑ WordPress tweak: Proper navigation for date.php
- ☑ Changed to excerpts on the main page - What do you think?
- ☑ 10 Terrific WordPress Plugins
- ☑ New blog design
- ☑ Want to subscribe to a subset of my blog?
- ☑ Notes from WordCamp
- ☑ Firehose
- ☑ WordPress and lifestreaming - check out my draft firehose interface
- ☑ New domain name: livinganawesomelife.com
- ☑ My blog should be a little bit faster now
- ☑ Summarizing my WordPress posts using XSLT; 2008 as a PDF
- ☑ Working with the Editorial Calendar plugin for WordPress; on scheduling posts
- ☑ WordPress admin screen tweaks
- ☑ Getting the WordPress Lifestream plugin to work on my blog (Sept 2010)
- ☑ WordPress: Older posts, newer posts
- ☑ Windows Live Writer and blogging
- ☑ Understanding analytics for personal blogs
- ☑ Ideas for improving my website
- ☑ RSS footers
- ☑ A good reason to check out the WordPress version of my blog
- ☑ Meetup sketchnotes: The Publishing Side of WordPress, Andy McIlwain
- ☑ Jetpack subscribers: Terribly sorry about the test posts! Disabling, please use Feedburner to subscribe instead (Oct 2013)
Work-life balance [7/7]
- ☑ Work-life balance and the good life
- ☑ Tips from remote workers (Sept 2010)
- ☑ Reflecting on time and overtime
- ☑ The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence
- ☑ Dealing with web development and stress
- ☑ Getting better at working at the office
- ☑ Book: Making Peace with Your Office Life
World
Writing [35/35]
See also: Blogging
See also: Blogging, A No-Excuses Guide to
See also: Editing
See also: Writing, process of
- ☑ Daily, weekly, and monthly journals: my Memento + Google Sheets + Tasks Free + Google Tasks + WordPress workflow
- ☑ What do I want to think through when writing on my phone?
- ☑ Thinking about my frequency of annual reviews
- ☑ Posting more thoughts
- ☑ What do I want from my review process? (Jan 2016)
- ☑ Breaking down the skill of outlining (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Think more effectively by typing to yourself (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Learning from things I like: Books about applying advice to your life (July 2014)
- ☑ Writing for myself (May 2014)
- ☑ Things I'm learning about sharing other people's knowledge, or why you should show me what you've been meaning to teach others (Apr 2013)
- ☑ Pens are not the limiting factor for writing (Dec 2013)
- ☑ More writing is possible
- ☑ Growing authority
- ☑ Writing progress
- ☑ Tips for conference bloggers
- ☑ Writing for love and fun
- ☑ Thoughts on writing and starting again - on following through and getting over perfectionism
- ☑ Back on the writing wagon
- ☑ Sketchnotes: The Science of Blogging: Dan Zarrella (Hubspot)
- ☑ What if sharing knowledge could make a difference between life and death?
- ☑ Learning about note-taking
- ☑ I write because I cannot waste time
- ☑ Yes, I write too much
- ☑ Inching away, 1000 words at a time
- ☑ On second thought…
- ☑ Two tweaks = a great writing day
- ☑ Taking quick notes for books
- ☑ Taking book notes
- ☑ One sentence - microfiction, microlife
- ☑ Things I can do to make progress on my book
- ☑ The benefits of writing
- ☑ Writing more about life
- ☑ Working two jobs
- ☑ When it rains, it pours: query letter on personal finance accepted by Linux Journal
- ☑ My convocation; or how my mom's a much better blogger than I am
Writing, e-book [3/3]
Writing, plans for [3/3]
Writing, process of [16/16]
- ☑ Thinking about word counts and chunks (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Tweaking the way I write (Aug 2014)
- ☑ I still don't know what to call this post
- ☑ Update: Developing thoughts further - chunks, sketches (Dec 2013)
- ☑ Writing incomplete thoughts (Aug 2014)
- ☑ Priming the idea pump (June 2013)
- ☑ What keeps you from taking notes? 9 excuses and how to get past them
- ☑ Thinking about getting better at writing
- ☑ How much time does it take to blog?
- ☑ Note-taking revisited
- ☑ How to brain-dump what you know
- ☑ Playing the long game: writing, raw material, and backups
- ☑ Success and blogging
- ☑ Thinking about blogging and planning ahead
- ☑ Growth through writing (Jan 2010)
- ☑ Learning how to write
Writing, selecting a topic for [4/4]
Podcasts, interviews, and screencasts
Yay Emacs (2024) [5/5]
- ☑ Yay Emacs 7: Rewriting and copying custom Org Mode links (2024)
- ☑ Yay Emacs 2024-01-12: EmacsConf 2023 report, SVG animation, Embark, Org Mode links (2024)
- ☑ Yay Emacs: Using elisp: links in Org Mode to note the time and display messages on stream (2024)
- ☑ 2024-01-21 Yay Emacs: copy link, Spookfox + Org Babel, choosing what to hack on, SVG highlighting, ical (2024)
- ☑ 2024-01-28 Yay Emacs: closed captions and synchronized highlights for audio clips; exploring Emacs Lisp functions (2024)
Emacs basics [2/2]
Emacs chats [22/22]
- ☑ 2015-12-10 Emacs Chat: John Wiegley on maintaining Emacs and how you can help (Dec 2015)
- ☑ Emacs Chat with Steve Purcell (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Karl Voit (Dec 2014) Karl Voit talks about Org Mode, Memacs, Lazyblorg, Yasnippet, and other cool Emacs things.
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Mickey Petersen (Sept 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Harry R. Schwartz (July 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Phil Hagelberg (May 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Bozhidar Batsov (May 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Xah Lee (ErgoEmacs) (May 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Christopher Wellons (May 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Oh no, my chat with Bodil Stokke didn’t get recorded! (May 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Jānis Mancēvičs (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Iannis Zannos – Emacs and SuperCollider (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Tom Marble (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Reflecting on 10 episodes of Emacs Chats (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Magnar Sveen (Emacs Rocks) (Nov 2013)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Sacha Chua (with Bastien Guerry)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Bastien Guerry (May 2013)
- ☑ Emacs Chat: Carsten Dominik
- ☑ Emacs chat: Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson
- ☑ Emacs Chat with Avdi Grimm (Org-mode, Ruby, etc.)
- ☑ Transcript: Emacs chat with John Wiegley
- ☑ Emacs: Chatting with John Wiegley about the cool things he does with Emacs
Emacs hangouts [18/18]
- ☑ 2016-01-16 Emacs Hangout (Jan 2016)
- ☑ 2015-12-21 Emacs Hangout (Dec 2015)
- ☑ 2015-11-18 Emacs Hangout (Nov 2015)
- ☑ 2015-10-14 Emacs Hangout (Oct 2015)
- ☑ August 2015 Emacs Hangout (August 2015)
- ☑ July 2015 Emacs Hangout (July 2015)
- ☑ Emacs Hangout June 2015 (June 2015)
- ☑ 2015-05-13 Emacs Hangout (May 2015)
- ☑ 2015-04-30 Emacs Hangout - hosted by Philip Stark (April 2015)
- ☑ Emacs Hangout 2015-04-15 show notes (April 2015)
- ☑ 2015-04-08 Emacs Lisp Development Tips with John Wiegley (April 2015)
- ☑ Emacs Hangout 2015-03-18 show notes (Mar 2015)
- ☑ Experimental Emacs Hangout 2015-02-18 (Feb 2015)
- ☑ 2015-01-09 Emacs Hangout (blog post with video) (Jan 2015)
- ☑ Emacs Hangout #3: Emacs can read your mind (Dec 2014)
- ☑ Recording from Emacs Hangout #2 (Dec 2014)
- ☑ Experimental Emacs Hangout 2014-11-05 (Nov 2014)
- ☑ Emacs hangout notes (Oct 2014)
Frugal FIRE [3/3]
- ☑ Frugal Fire 003: Dealing with Pushback (Apr 2014)
- ☑ Frugal Fire 002: Justin McCurry (RootOfGood) (March 2014)
- ☑ Frugal Fire 001: Introductions (March 2014)