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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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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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Just to Write
I feel as if this blog were a summer residence of sorts. I do not live on it. I do visit often or as often as I’d like to. And when I do I first must dust the cobwebs, and vacuum the dust before I can do what I really want to. What I really…
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Ash Wednesday
Today is Ash Wednesday. What a day it was. Started off with a dentist, ended up with me walking through slush in the driving wet snow. Not exactly the funnest of days. But I guess appropriate for the beginning of Lent. I’ve decided that this Lent, I will work on resolving a nagging deep personal…
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Catholic Writing Reprint: Learning to Love God
Author’s note: This short story is reprinted from the Fall 2010 edition of The Alexandrian. It concerns about an epiphany I’ve personally experienced and that has deepened my faith. The original publication can be found here: http://thealexandrian.org/journal/learning-to-love-god Learning to Love God Dorian Pula I decided to take a short break from cleaning in the kitchen. I dried…
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There is Writing… And There is Writing
I enjoy writing, I really do. If I did not I would not spend my time blogging and writing novels. Heck I even like writing documentation in my code at work. The written word is nothing I fear nor loathe. However there is some writing I could do without. Or rather, prefer not to do.…
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Odds and Ends and Everything in Between
When one ought to go sleep, but instead insists on staying up to finish one more thing… than one is an workaholic. But who am I kidding here? My excuse is really that I’ve realized that this week is a crucial crunch week. And that once things are done, I can take things a bit…
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Daily Writing
I’ve done a lot of thinking today. About what to do next in life, and what will be the next big thing. I feel that I should seriously back into writing in a big way. Managing all the projects that I’d like to do will be challenging. But I think I should try and dedicate…