Continued work in the Digital Garden during the first month of the new year.

Best Films

Consolidated my lists of films (300+ movies in the last ten years) into a list of 32 33 “best” films I watched in the last decade that I highly recommend watching.

Book Clubs

Notes on research I was conducting around running technical book clubs, particularly in anticipation of the #TechniColorRainbow book club restarting reading Hacking the Art of Exploitation.

Async Javascript

Notes on exploring the space around promises, async/await in modern Javascript.

Pantry Spices and Sauces

The essential list of spices and sauces to keep available always in the pantry.

Personal Productivity: Annual Review

Deep dive into my annual review process, updated with new notes as I conducted it for 2021.

Personal Productivity: Quarterly Reviewa

Deep dive into my quarterly review process, updated as I conducted it for the new year.

Currently Reading: 2020

Ended my Currently Reading list for 2020 with 21 books, 29 films, 7 shows, 4 games and however many articles. Ranked for the end of year by recommendations.

Currently Reading: 2021

Created a new reading list for 2021. Tracking books read, films watched, games played and a running article list for things I found interesting online.

Continued work in the Digital Garden.

On Unit Testing

Insights into when to use Test Driven Development (and when not), how to write good unit tests, and how to write tests that test behavior instead of implementation details.

Bullet Journal

Notes on my Bullet Journaling routines. The syntax, and how I apply it myself in my overall personal management scheme.

Annual Review

Very rough outline of my annaul review which will be coming up during the first two weeks of 2021.

Continued work in the Digital Garden.

Quarterly Review

Step-by-step note on the quarterly review process used for summarizing the previous quarter and goal setting for the next.

Docker Networking

Detailed notes on how to navigate between the external and internal networks of local docker containers as well as configuring Docker for firewall management on Ubuntu using UFW.

Docker Sendmail for PHP

How to get sendmail for PHP working inside a local development docker container for testing outgoing e-mail from the application.