The modern view on feelings is leading millions of people astray from the Truth. Modern psychology would have us all validate the feelings that we experience, and if they are thus valid, then they are correct. Not so. This is detrimental to the human being, for feelings are whims - they come and go like the seasons....

The more that I use a computer, the more that I realize that using a computer all of the time is one of the worst things you can possibly do for your body. Consequently, the more that your body deteriorates from using a computer, the less effective your mind you will be, too. All is interconnected. In order to...

Money isn’t real. Value is. Although most of humanity is obsessed with “getting that bag” - the truth is that money is a construct on which we have agreed. And, the “value” of money is not consistent. Those that have sold their soul to the dollar bill have effectively sold their soul for nothing because that is the...

A friend of mine sent me a .pages file the other day. Upon receiving the email I said out loud “what in tarnation is a .pages file?” Apparently that is Apple’s notes app file format. The fact that these companies don’t export to .txt blows my mind - to use a format that you need an apple device to read for a simple...

Decluttering is a meme in a society with so much abundance. The average American owns something like 300,000 things. What if we focused on owning that which is essential and purposeful? I invite you to take a look at your life and evaluate it for that which really matter. That which does matter, go all in on. That...

Instead of using actions or some other way of CI/CD’ing my apps, I simply work with a deploy script that will build a Docker Container, push it to my registry, SSH into the remote, pull the container, make sure it runs, then apply NGINX configurations and SSL certificates so that the app is live on the internet for...

I have a bit of an unconventional way to deploy docker containers - I saw that Docker Hub wanted to charge montly fees when I am simply pushing and pulling images infrequently, so I decided to do this via my Gitea instance. Create your Dockerfile in your project to properly deploy the app. docker build -t app-name ....

As of today, this blog and all of my projects are Google analytics free. I do still allow login with Google on some of my apps as it is an easy way for those that don’t care to use their email to sign up, but it is the final Google service I will integrate with any of my sites. For some time, I’ve been using Google...

A little under two months ago, I started a different kind of journey to learning something new. I swapped out the tired old qwerty layout on my keyboard for Colemak (specifically Colemak-DH variant) in an attempt to have less finger fatigue and create more comfort when working. On my Chocofi board, this was easy to...

If there is one thing that I have personally changed about myself over the past few years it is my stringent reduction in the use of expletives in my vernacular. You will nearly never see it in my writing or my videos, and even though there are videos of me using swears in the past (in a podcast I used to do for...

I have been using go lang and the Echo framework for all of my app builds over the past six months and can’t see myself ever returning to a javascript or python backend. Here is how I set up a very basic backend in 4 simple steps: Initial Setup# Create a Directory for the project to live, create main.go & .env file...

Perhaps the greatest roadblock on my path to spiritual growth has been falling again and again to the sin of lust. Not just the lust for the flesh, but the lust of items, money, beautiful things and that which ties us to the world. With the smartphone culture we live in, we have created a world in which we seek for...