The One-Handed Clap: Archive

May 19th

Thank You Darice for Fixing My Shoulder

Short story: Darice has really really helped my shoulder when others could not. I highly recommend her if you are having chronic pain issues. She goes exceedingly well with CrossFit :) Long Story: Last May or June I started to have A LOT of trouble with my left shoulder to the point where I had trouble lifting my arm over my shoulder. I went to my primary care doctor and he gave me a shot of...

Apr 26th

Thank You Darice for Fixing My Shoulder!

Short story: Darice has really really helped my shoulder when others could not. I highly recommend her if you are having chronic pain issues. She goes exceedingly well with CrossFit :) Long Story: Last May or June I started to have A LOT of trouble with my left shoulder to the point where I had trouble lifting my arm over my shoulder. I went to my primary care doctor and he gave me a shot of...

Apr 26th

Thank You Darice for Fixing My Shoulder!

Short story: Darice has really really helped my shoulder when others could not. I highly recommend her if you are having chronic pain issues. She goes exceedingly well with CrossFit :) Long Story: Last May or June I started to have A LOT of trouble with my left shoulder to the point where I had trouble lifting my arm over my shoulder. I went to my primary care doctor and he gave me a shot of...

Apr 26th

Watch

Last week I missed a max box jump attempt (how high can you jump) and landed funny on my leg that is attached to the knee that has issues. I got an MRI today and decided to crack open the cd they gave me and this is what I found.

Apr 24th

Three Months In

At the end of last year I wrote about how I was going to reduce my 2012 client work by one day per week per quarter. This was an attempt to get myself to finally make the switch from client work to product creation. I’m supposed to drop to three days of client work a week today, so I thought I would fill you in on how the past three months have gone. Not everything has been according to plan. ...

Apr 2nd

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Feb 1st

Alternative CrossFit Pricing Scheme

You could say that I have a small obsession with pricing schemes and using them in a way that affects people’s behavior (see Lose It or Lose It). I like exploring situations in which pricing schemes can have a big impact, and one such situation that caught my eye recently was CrossFit registration. I thoroughly enjoy being a CrossFitter and have noticed a small hiccup in the way their system...

Jan 31st

Jan 18th

Giving Myself a Kick in the BUTT in 2012

Four and a half years ago, I quit a job that I didn’t like and was forced to hustle a little bit in order to make a living. While that busy phase mostly went smoothly, it still posed an interesting challenge that kept me on my toes. Now I’m getting lazy again. I never wanted to do client work for a living, but here I am, four and half years later, doing client work for a living. Over...

Dec 27th

Tools I Use to Run a Business on the Internet (for...

In part one, I went over the essentials for looking professional on the internet. In this post, I want to help people who are new to the business world learn about some services that exist to make life easier. The best part? Most of these services are available for little to no cost. Bookkeeping/Billing At this point, I bill most of my work by the hour and use Freckle for time tracking. Freckle...

Dec 22nd

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Why I am Not a Fan of this Time of the Year

I wish I could skip this time of year entirely. It often fills me with anxiety and, up until recently, I wasn’t quite sure why. The stress would just build and build, which left me with what appeared to be a pretty bad attitude. Unfortunately, that was mostly because I hadn’t figured out how to communicate better. I have recently identified the underlying cause of that sneaky,...

Dec 16th

Dec 6th

CopyPasteCharacter →

Everybody should know about this website. If you ever needed to get at a special character quickly, you should bookmark this. These are especially dangerous if you own Text Expander and set up some shortcuts for common symbols. For example, “sskull” results in ☠ for me.

Dec 5th

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Dec 4th

PSA: Time to Install Winter Wipers!

The only thing more delightful than new wiper blades is new winter wiper blades! Yes, they exist! If you live in the northeast, December 1 is a good time (maybe setup a recurring task in Flow? If you sign up, let me invite you so I get free months ;) to buy yourself a new set of winter wipers and install them for the next 4-5 months. What’s different about winter wipers you may ask? First...

Dec 3rd

Essentials of Looking Professional on the Internet

Update 12/4/2011 - Squarespace gave me the discount code “r38y” for 10% off (expires 6/1/2012). Once you are finished the 14 day trial and ready to pay, just enter that code. Thank you Squarespace! More and more of my friends and family are starting their own businesses in the non-tech world. As they begin to set up their business, plans often screech to a halt when it is time to...

Nov 29th

Nov 23rd

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“Just a note of thanks. The users are really liking Stacks over our old program...”

– Josh Balmer (RE: an app I built for them to manage truck loads of propane)

Nov 22nd

Mar 27th

Howdy Par'dner

Last Saturday was Barcamp Philly and it rocked (thanks to you @jptoto, @stellargirl, and @kelaninichole)! The first session I went to was titled “Web Apps and Hookers” which was presented by the dynamic duo of Allan Branch and Steven Bristol of Less Everything fame. Sadly, I have to admit, before I met those guys I wasn’t huge fans of them. I thought they were kind of arrogant....

Nov 17th

Cha Cha Cha Change, TSA Style!

Please bare with me as I tell a story about my trip home from LessConf! It was 1:30 PM on the Monday after LessConf and I had just checked my baggage with Southwest and was heading to security at the Jacksonville airport. As I was about 100 feet from the entrance to security, I noticed there was a Nathan’s hot dog place to my left and I hadn’t eaten anything yet. Realizing I had...

Nov 13th

Artichokes

I asked twitter “Can’t figure out which part of the artichoke to eat… suggestions?” and I received the following responses: “Shake well w/ ice 2:1 vodka:artichoke juice & 1 artichoke heart (canned, no oil) Enjoy!” ~ @ruthkalinka “Artichokes: First tear off leaf, put formerly attached end in mouth, pull through almost-closed teeth to drag tasty lower...

Jun 9th

The New Ride

I bought a motorcycle. A Suzuki DRZ400SM to be more exact. I took the PA Motorcycle Safety Course last October and received my license in anticipation of this day. I wasn’t planning on buying one until the Spring but there were a number of reason why I did. First, we have had some incredibly warm days for February and not having a motorcycle was driving me crazy. Second, it was a Friday...

Feb 8th

Nerd Merit Badges

So John Young and I received our first batch of Nerd Merit Badges yesterday and threw up a website to collect information from people who are interested. Patch 01: Contributed to Open Source - The thing that started it (for me at least) was contributing some fixes and enhancements to a few open source projects hosted on GitHub which made me extremely happy that I was able to give back. Some of...

Jan 7th

Dec 31st

utf8 + MySQL

If you are having problems with utf8 characters in MySQL, add this to your my.conf: [mysqld] init_connect='SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci' init_connect='SET NAMES utf8' default-character-set=utf8 character-set-server=utf8 collation-server=utf8_general_ci Note that init_connect won’t run when the user has super privileges, so make sure you use a user without them: REVOKE SUPER...

Dec 10th