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Fun with Certs

(or how I finally got around to figuring out how to use fly.io with Cloudflare) As I've mentioned previously, this site is running on fly.io after Heroku got rid of their free tier. For most (all?) of the time since I cut over to fly, I&

Running Ghost on fly.io

This blog runs on Ghost on fly.io's (now deprecated) Hobby plan tier. In this post, I'll share how I arrived at this setup as well as two tips that might help others trying to host a Ghost blog in a cost effective way. How I

I built a Chrome extension

As someone who occasionally stumbles upon an interesting job opportunity, one thing that always bugged me was the lack of information about when a job was posted. Sure, some sites provided that data, but many didn't - leaving me to wonder if that "amazing role" was

Process-Driven Work

A thought hit me earlier today about the role of processes in our (humans) work. As I observe it, I think we can divide work into either being focused on the process (leading to outcomes) or on the outcomes (driven by process). In the former (i.e., process-focused work), the

Career Thought: work by the hour or work by the outcome

During a stretch of recent downtime, my brain got to thinking about some economic aspects of labor, specifically as it relates to professional careers. While the idea spun around in my head, I eventually distilled my thinking down to two key compensation models for professional labor: 1. You either get

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