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On Increasing Creative Output
This week I am juggling a number of things related to PyCon Canada, and life in general. Also I came to the realization in the past few weeks, that if I want to effectively work on long term projects like Rookeries, writing about tooling, working on my side adventure, et cetera, without burnning out I…
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Using Blender for Cover Design
One of the fun parts of writing Juggling JSON with jq, is that I can experiment with various things. From the technical writing side, working with Sphinx has forced me to learn the ins-and-outs of that technology. Also very likely I will need to get into working with LaTeX for more of the advanced PDF…
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Getting Started with Writing a Technical ebook
The early release of my ebook Juggling JSON with jq comes out tomorrow! However this post is more about the process of writing the book itself. Getting started on an technical ebook, (such as Juggling JSON with jq), requires a bit of upfront setup. On the ebook side, I decided to go the route of…
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Book Announcement: Unjumbling JSON with jq
jq is an amazing tool for querying and manipulating JSON in command-line, that I learned about from one of my good colleagues, Eric Olsen. And I feel that jq deserves a good book describing how to use this tool. Hence I am writing a book called Unjumbling JSON with jq on the topic. As mentioned…
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…And We’re Back!
Or rather I am back. As in I am going back to blogging. I apologize for the months of silence. Moving houses, and migrating web hosting providers will do that to a person. Migrating the web hosting to a completely self-managed environment was quite a learning process, and took quite a bit of time. I…
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Ghosts in the RSS Feed
A few days back I noticed a new entry in my RSS for an old blog of mine: http://opensourcegamer.blogspot.ca/ I was really surprised, since I had left that blog and closed down account years ago. I started that blog when still in university and before I could afford my own fancy WordPress installation. Years later after…
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Website Hosting Migration
You may have noticed the recent changes on my blog & portfolio website. I am in the process of migrating my websites, domains and what not to a new hosting service. A nicer hosting service provider who doesn’t support SOPA/PIPA for one. Plus is much more responsive and nicer to work with. Anyways a lot…
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A Quiet Moment to Reflect, Regroup, and Rethink
The madness of the past few weeks, has taught me the importance of quiet time. Time that I can truly reflect quietly and calmly work on the next steps I need to take. Most of the week I have rushed, ran and tired to compact as much I could into a single day. But you…
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Grey Morning in a New Reality
Outside the window, grey clouds fill the sky and raindrops stream through the air. A warm morning for an early December day, the weather being more likely for mid-November. The rain does not bother me as I am sitting in a GO train headed to downtown Toronto, and getting ready for the start of a…