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2020
Review: The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Review: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Review: Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Review: Huey Long
Review: The American Dream Is Not Dead:
Review: Books that Changed America
Review: Arlo Finch in the Kingdom of Shadows
Review: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Review: Into the Wild
Review: The Call of the Wild
Review: The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Review: Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Review: The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
Review: Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Review: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Review: Bolivar: American Liberator
Review: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Review: Echo Island
2019
Review: Thunderstruck
Review: Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two
Review: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Review: Arlo Finch in the Lake of the Moon (Arlo Finch, #2)
Review: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Review: Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
Review: Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier
Review: The Right Stuff
Review: The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
Review: The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Review: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Review: Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
Review: Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
2018
Looking for my next great team
Hello InVision
My Year in Books
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Review: Hidden Figures
Review: Grant
Review: Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Review: Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy
Review: Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Review: Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Review: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Review: The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
Review: William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life
Review: Confessions of a Food Catholic
Review: Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
Review: Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Review: Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Review: The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War
Review: Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire (Arlo Finch, #1)
Review: The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Review: Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
Review: On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books
2017
Supercharge your static site with Netlify
On keeping up
Making a habit of saying thanks
Ask me about...
A tech book reader's lament
Suppress generated JavaScript on GitHub diffs
Extending the command line
How we work
Local exclusions in Git
Engineering consistency
Engineering onboarding
Engineering team identity
AWS in plain English
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Side-by-side diff and Git commit message editing in vim
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We’re Generation X, and we've got this.
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Right tool for the job
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Twitter and the ephemeral rant
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Typography primer
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A CLI for Amazon Athena
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asdf: Extendable version manager
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2017 ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
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Review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Review: Animal Farm
Review: Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
Review: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Review: The Big Book of Irony
Review: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Review: The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
Review: Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
Review: The Kingdom of Speech
Review: The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
Review: To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Review: Alexander Hamilton
Review: The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-Of-Age Crisis--And How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Review: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Review: The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World
Review: Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language & Style
Review: Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Review: Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
2016
Chris Bowler on standing
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Review: The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Review: Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
Review: Works Well with Others: An Outsider's Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You
Review: Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Review: Humans Are Underrated: Proving Your Value in the Age of Brilliant Technology
Review: Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Review: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
2015
My interview with Linux Format
Gotalk
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Remote-First Communication for Project Teams
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Groundhog Day Resolutions
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jq is sed for JSON
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New Go book in early access
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Trailing Conditionals Considered Harmful Unless Used Sparingly
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2014
Flint: lint your project for sources of contributor friction
Don't tell me how fast I read
Switch context with less friction using stateful tmux workspaces
Three underused Ruby Array methods
Putting the emote in remote work
Patches speak louder than words
The motivation for public speaking
Reed Esau's growing list of Vim plugins for writers
I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
Unsticking someone else is shipping, too
Iterative music is my focus jam
Thanks, Jim
Will trade Atom invites for pull requests
Radio silence and the remote worker
Unix shell if statement explained
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Words to avoid in tech writing
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Nomad - world-class command line utilities for iOS development
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A good vimrc
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Unread
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A field guide to static apps
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Curious George returns from (near) space
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House of Cards cinegrams
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vimtronner
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Everyone on the Internet
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Every line of code is always documented
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Only 90s web developers remember this
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Aesthetics
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Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
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Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.
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2013
Project badges: ease or sleaze?
How to get great support as a technical user
Shipping and the art of Getting *Thing* Done
vim-sensible
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LOST Island
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Speaking at Big Ruby
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Bootstrapping consistency
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Rdio-cli does lyrics
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I don't know jack (yet)
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2012
GitHub is a fish bowl
Oops, can't find a feed
On vendor prefixes
Dotfiles discovery
Contextual TODO list counts in your zsh prompt
A stylesheet author's guide to terminal colors
Nice collection of body typefaces
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Move off of GoDaddy with no downtime
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Explain Responsive Web Design to your client, boss, etc.
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Damien Katz on Apache and CouchDB
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The Noun Project - “sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world's visual language”
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Topfunky's beautifully annotated command line prompt
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A fix for the iOS orientationchange zoom bug
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Waste time productively
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Rob Pike on complaining
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Witness: a free font from Mars Hill
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Responsive web design and the role of Photoshop
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New Android design site
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Brent Simmons rediscovers the joy of web development
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Metadown
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Aliases for common Vim typos
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Life - sketched up
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Move faster in Vim with relative line numbers
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Rake - not just for Rubyists
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Vim anti-patterns
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Header repair
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CSSWG, save us from CSS
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Insanely fluid ASCII art
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Directory-based environments
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Command Line Tools for Xcode
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dotfiles.github.com
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2011
App Store change logs: the good, the bad, and the silly
Octopress Classic is the new Kubrick
CSS selector performance breakdown
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Worst board evar
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Making a blogazine with NestaCMS
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Micro Gems: Brilliant
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Font design - from vision to sketch to reality
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Vim + tmux = custom IDE
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“Twenty-two stars.”
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Learn the Illustrator pen tool step-by-step
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Hungry Academy
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Design icebergs
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Understand, then automate
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Visualizing tweets with D3
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Dave Gamache on craftsmanship
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“Why I Don't Write Web Apps”
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WebKit gets selector profiler
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It shouldn't be this easy
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Look locally, hire remotely
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2010
Enhance your site search with OpenSearch
2009
@font-face made easy with Font Squirrel
CSS Mixins vs. multiple classes
Sass up your WordPress themes with Compass
Rubyists: Meet Underscore.js, your new favorite JavaScript library
@font-face-off: Typekit vs. Font Squirrel
What makes a good API wrapper?
Speed up your API development, sniff your network calls on OSX with HTTPScoop
Use JavaScript to put GitHub info on your site
Quick tip: Use APIdock to hunt down missing methods