All Essays

February 2023

1. First Define, Then Refine: How Goals Shape Successful Systems

December 2022

1. WebFinger for ActivityPub Feed Discovery

February 2022

1. Andrew Shell Headshot 1

December 2021

1. Unified Theory of Goal-Setting

November 2021

1. That's All Folks
2. Don't Ask for Permission
3. My Weekly Checklist
4. Fostering Confidence
5. My 3 Favorite Productivity Books
6. How To Get Things Done
7. Finding Clarity in "Why?"

October 2021

1. Small Pieces, Loosely Joined
2. Goal Brainstorming
3. Don't Fight Inertia
4. Don't Burn Out, Level Up
5. How to Make Intentional Choices
6. Why I Use a Daily Log
7. Feedback Loops
8. Changing Direction
9. Validate Your Lead Metrics
10. Lead vs Lag Metrics
11. You Need a Goal Funnel
12. Margin Helps You Live Life
13. My Favorite Useful and Weird Book
14. Aligning with Success
15. 5 Ways to Leverage Your Subconscious Mind
16. Are You Productive?
17. Teaching is an Unfair Advantage
18. The Importance of Margins
19. The 3 Enemies of Shipping
20. 8 Steps to Decide Project Priorities
21. 20 Questions for Overcoming Procrastination
22. Letting Go of Toxic Stories
23. Why I'm Shipping 30 for 30?

May 2021

1. My iPad Setup

April 2021

1. Roam Morning Pages Demo

March 2021

1. FedWiki Demo
2. Avoiding the Final Death
3. Douglas Engelbart and Linked Data

February 2021

1. Personal Productivity: Through the Lens of Executive Functions
2. Async/Await for callback users

January 2021

1. The Federated World Tesseract

December 2020

1. Alternate Linked Data Syntax
2. Linked Data and the Semantic Web
3. Fediverse of Federated Things

November 2020

1. My Growing ThinkTank Collection
2. Developing better developers
3. Philosophy in re RSS 2.0

October 2020

1. How Frontier got started
2. Free standing rssCloud testing tool
3. My thoughts about rssCloud
4. Little Outliner and rssCloud?
5. Re-Thinking Blogs

April 2020

1. Music, Media, and Mood

February 2020

1. Updating rssCloud Server

January 2020

1. Feeling School Nostalgia

November 2019

1. Understanding Javascript Object References

September 2018

1. How To Build A Time Tracking App In React

June 2018

1. Ionic 4 and MobX

June 2017

1. How to Develop with Laravel Homestead

May 2017

1. What is the best way to use DomainSession in a command line environment?
2. What is the best way to handle sessions with ADR?

March 2017

1. What is the best way to inject a logger?

December 2016

1. PSR-7 Objects Could Be Immutable

November 2016

1. What is the best git branching strategy for small teams?

October 2016

1. Using Action-Domain-Responder on the command line
2. Introducing Cadre.Module
3. Tracking Multiple Connections with PHP Debug Bar and Atlas ORM
4. Collecting Data from Atlas ORM with PHP Debug Bar
5. Complex Database Relationships with AtlasORM
6. LazyArray Officially Part of Aura.Di

September 2016

1. Discovering Clean Architecture
2. Radar Under the Hood
3. FutureProof Your Code
4. The Top 4 Techniques That Make Your Code More Flexible

January 2016

1. Jumping in with PHP 7

December 2015

1. Getting started with Radar

June 2015

1. What is rssCloud?
2. Rebooting rssCloud

May 2015

1. Facebook Comments
2. Laravel UTC Model

February 2015

1. PHP 5.5 vs HHVM

June 2014

1. Running River4 with forever

January 2014

1. Identifying my priorities

November 2013

1. Figuring out Silex SecurityServiceProvider

October 2013

1. What is a social network?
2. Building a better Meetup

August 2013

1. Revisiting fs-key-value
2. The future of PHP (and JavaScript)
3. Introducing fs-key-value My First NPM Module
4. Multi-Process LevelUP
5. Moving My RSS Feed
6. Triggering Safari Reader
7. GitHub Pages Gotcha
8. Improving My Code

July 2013

1. Can You Be a Reading Roll Model With an iPad?
2. My YNAB Budget
3. Fourth of July in New House

May 2013

1. Understanding Base URL
2. Heart Surgery

March 2013

1. Joining Hyperboria

December 2012

1. A better social news experience?

September 2012

1. Dead Drops 'How to'

June 2012

1. PHP Functions on the Fly

May 2012

1. Introducing DocCloud: Using RSS Cloud for more then just RSS

March 2012

1. World Outline Podcast #7

February 2012

1. Apple and the future of TV

January 2012

1. Digital Decentralism

June 2011

1. Rock-It at Work - Start a Group

May 2011

1. What does it mean to have character?
2. Developers and the Growth Mindset
3. Following Outside of Twitter

April 2011

1. Shipping is Scary

March 2011

1. Data Minimalism
2. Rebooting The News #86

February 2011

1. Escaping Corporate Silos With WordPress
2. Giving Up On Web Ownership?
3. Are you suffering from News Poisoning?
4. Putting your life on autopilot

December 2010

1. What would you do with 60 hours?
2. Technology delegation vs abdication
3. Structured data via RSS

October 2010

1. Interview with Ryan Healy and Ryan Paugh

September 2010

1. Conflict with Minimalism

August 2010

1. Expanding Your Passion
2. RSS, FlipBoard and Me

June 2010

1. Interview with Greg Tracy

May 2010

1. Kickstart Madison Coworking

December 2009

1. Managing Feeds Part Two
2. How do you know what you stand for?

October 2009

1. Managing Feeds

March 2009

1. PHP Frameworks are Governments

August 2008

1. Yahoo and the semantic web

August 2007

1. Drains of Canada: An Interview with Michael Cook

April 2007

1. A Brief History of Me Programming

September 2006

1. PHP Works 2006
2. PHP/DB | Works 2006

December 2004

1. First PHP Meetup