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2024


2023


Easy Closed Captioning

·6 mins
Closed captioning for online videos doesn’t have to be difficult with the wide availability of high-quality speech-to-text software tools. OpenAI-powered MacWhisper makes generating transcripts a snap.

Hosting Multiple Sites on One Host With a Caddy Proxy Server

·7 mins
As I mentioned in my recent article Choosing a CMS, I decided to trim my monthly webhosting expenditures by switching a number of Squarespace websites over to Hugo-generated static sites running inside Docker containers on a small Alpine Linux host at Linode.

Embracing the Docker Lifestyle

·6 mins
Using Docker is a great way to manage and isolate dependencies when developing software on a local machine. Once created, Docker containers can be deployed to servers and run directly. It all seems like magic sometimes.

Choosing a CMS

·5 mins
After evaluating the Jekyll and Hugo static site generators, I chose Hugo running inside a Docker container on my MacBook Pro as the development platform for rebuilding my Squarespace websites.

Tools for Solo Archery Practice

·3 mins
Almost everyone has an amazing video camera in their pocket theses days. Here are some apps you can use to make your solo archery practices more productive.

2021


Iron Sharpens Iron

·2 mins
Do you have someone in your life who’s pushing you to be better at something that matters to you?

Capturing Commitments

·2 mins
At the end of your team meetings, how confident are you that everyone involved will fulfill their commitments? Here are some recommendations to ensure that the commitments made in a meeting are more likely to be kept.

How to Complain

·2 mins
We all encounter situations occasionally where we need to complain in a professional and respectful way, and without the ability to make an effective complaint, it’s difficult to maintain systems of accountability.

Don’t Be Like the Cavendish Banana

·3 mins
The Cavendish banana represents 99% of all global banana exports, but it’s a monoculture vulnerable to multiple fungal diseases that could wipe out the entire world’s crop of banana plants. Monocultures are unhealthy in work environments too.