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Can a Cup of Coffee a Day Make You Rich?
Dec 31, 2025 · original
Around 2007, I started using a service called ShareBuilder, which was an online broker dealer that offered regular, automated, and dollar-based trades in the stock market. You set the amount, and the equity, and they took care of the rest. I recall signing up for a paid plan through them which came with some perks, including a ShareBuilder exclusive version of David Bach’s The Automatic Millionaire . Chapter two of his book is titled THE LATTE FACTOR: Becoming an Automatic Millionaire on Just a Few Dollars a Day, and the premise is that most people don’t really think about the little things we spend our money on. We tend to focus on “big ticket” things. For example, when we decide we need to cut back our spending, we often look to huge chunks to cut, rather than looking at the little nickel and dime items that we pay little attention to throughout the day. “A latte spurned is a fortune e
Declare Email Bankruptcy
Jun 13, 2025 · original
I have a bit of a problem. I’m a digital hoarder. That covers so many things, including email. I have several email accounts. All of them are chalk full of nonsense emails. Mailing lists, advertisements, you name it. You see, I’ll come across something that interests me, and then I’ll sign up for their mailing list. Then some time later, my interest will wane, and the mail will go unread. Thousands of them. Tens of thousands. It got bad enough that in my “main” account, I created a rule that identifies emails that come from mailing lists, and files them into a subfolder of the Inbox. Out of sight, out of mind, right? Except, they aren’t. They are still there. Collecting. Waiting. Increasing the count on the folder. Why the hell am I doing this? Sometimes it’s ok to throw out the baby with the bath water When you have 5 (6?) figures in emails stacked up, honestly, the best you can do is j
Splitting The Atom
May 17, 2025 · original
Or, How I’m Rethinking My Linux Installs Splitting the atom was, quite possibly, one of the most daredevil things that mankind has ever attempted. After all, we had our doubts if we’d ignite a chain reaction in the atmosphere and destroy the world. None the less, we went for it anyways. In (not quite so) similar fashion, Linux has gone atomic. Or, rather, you have some atomic distributions (sometimes called immutable ) of Linux available to you. But what the hell does that even mean? Well, that’s a wonderful question! Hayden James describes it pretty well on linuxblog.io . And, if you’re more for the visual side, rather than reading about it, then this Gary Explains video covers is pretty decently: And if you really want the TL;DR, it boils down to this: an atomic distribution is typically immutable in that you can’t change the running system while it’s running, it is updated all at once
I Used Claude.ai to Create a Discord Bot—Here’s What I Learned About the State of AI Code Writing
Oct 11, 2024 · original
As AI tools become increasingly prevalent in software development, many programmers are curious about their practical applications. In this article, I’ll share my experience using Claude.ai to create a Discord bot, offering insights into the strengths and limitations of AI-assisted coding. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know what Discord is. It’s a simple to use platform for text, video and voice exchanges with other people around the world. Simply put, it’s a chat application. And it’s quite popular with gaming streamers, among others. The Problem Discord allows the usage of bots to handle many automated tasks. One of the bot types is called an auto deleter. It basically allows a server owner to set a limit on how old messages can get in a particular channel before they get automatically deleted, thereby removing them from the channel history. There are many reason
I tracked my food every day for the last three weeks. Did I learn anything?
Jun 30, 2024 · original
For some time, I have been quite displeased with my weight. I was doing great, and then Covid hit. The lockdowns started. And I sort of lost motivation to do anything. Now, that’s entirely my fault. I have nobody to blame but myself. That said, since the start of Covid, I found myself slowly gaining close to 60 pounds, until I finally reached high point (or maybe, rock bottom) of 247. This was, plain and simply put, unacceptable. Thankfully, I haven’t seen 247 since April 13th of this year. However, even though that was my “high point,” I still didn’t seem to be taking things very seriously. I had a drive, a determination, to change, but I also wasn’t taking action towards making that change. Until June. The last day of May, I determined to get my ass in gear and get very real about changing. On May 31st, I was 240. June 1st, I was at 238.8. This morning I came in at 224.3. I’m well on m
Things to Practice for Greatness
Jun 3, 2024 · original
I keep a digital journal (it’s Day One for reference). I’m not the greatest at actually “journaling,” lately it’s more just tracking what I’ve done during the day in terms of food, activity, etc. However, one of the things I love about this journal is the “on this day” feature which shows me past entries from the same date. In 2018 I wrote myself 10 bullet points and titled it “Things to practice for greatness” and I’m thankful that today I got to see it again, because I wrote it 6 years ago and then filed it into the memory hole apparently. Without further ado, here they are: Things to Practice for Greatness Focus on the process. The end result will always be secondary. Improve yourself just 1% every day. Or every week. As long as it’s happening. Always lift others up. In conjunction with that, always be straight forward with people. Even if it’s uncomfortable. Even if it hurts. Speakin
Day 2 of 100 Days of SwiftUI
Nov 12, 2023 · original
Day 2 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI, this is my solution to checkpoint 1. The rules are to create a constant holding any temperature in Celsius, convert it to Fahrenheit, and then print out both values. I used explicit type definition for the constants, so I didn’t have to remember to add a decimal to the Celsius temperature. This isn’t covered yet in the 2 days we’ve done so far, so I’m cheating a bit, but it is what it is. import Cocoa let celsius: Double = -11 let fahrenheit: Double = (( celsius * 9 ) / 5 ) + 32 print ( " \( celsius ) °C is \( fahrenheit ) °F " ) I just finished Day 2 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at https://hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/2 via @twostraws The post Day 2 of 100 Days of SwiftUI first appeared on Aaron Graves, PhDude .
Day 1 of 100 Days of SwiftUI
Nov 12, 2023 · original
I just finished Day 1 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at https://hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/1 via @twostraws The post Day 1 of 100 Days of SwiftUI first appeared on Aaron Graves, PhDude .
If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing Poorly
Jul 10, 2022 · original
The first draft of this article began in February 2022. I’m getting around to posting it in July. What happened? Frankly, perfectionism happened. Perfect is the enemy of good. Perfection is the enemy of done . I want this article to be absolutely perfect. As a consequence of that, it’s sat unfinished, merely an amalgamation of disjointed thoughts, for 5+ months. My desire for it to be perfect has resigned it to a fate of being undone . Enter the title of this article. From now on, I want this phrase to be famous. “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly.” Aaron Graves As it turns out, this isn’t such a new idea. In fact, someone much more famous than I has previously said as much : “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.” G. K. Chesterton Ok, so maybe I’m not as original as I’d like to be. But who cares! The idea here is that we not let perfection become the enemy of good. Or, m
Beastie and *nix
Aug 28, 2021 · original
Fair warning, this post may get a bit long, maybe skip to the TL;DR A brief history It was the late 90’s, early 2000’s that I first got a taste for *nix. At that time it came in the form of two distributions of Linux. One of them was a version of Mandrake titled “Linux4Win” that basically allowed you to dual-boot with a Windows system, without actually having to re-partition your disk. The second was a live CD version of SUSE. Neither were incredibly remarkable, as some important hardware (i.e. my PCI DSL modem) didn’t seem to work with it. That made these systems fun to play around with, but ultimately mostly useless for me. Around the 2003/2004 time frame, I was introduced to FreeBSD . I should note that I was aware of it for at least a few years before that, however I didn’t actually get a chance to use it in person until later. So it was in this window, the 03/04 window, that I start

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