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On dryers and problem solving

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My dryer broke and we had a bunch of towels that were wet in the dryer and another load in the washer ready to go. Of course, when issues happen they always happen at inopportune times so I rushed in to fix it. I got my ratchet set out, screwdrivers, gloves (metal is sharp) and got to work taking it apart to see what was wrong.
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Finding Joy In The Simple By Leading A Minimalist Digital Life

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Over the past few months, I have been finding myself unable to meaningfully find joy or pleasure in things. In an attempt to break out of my loops, I started an evaluation of whats complicating my life and the prescriptions for making it more simple.
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Book Review - The Glass Hotel

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The Glass Hotel is a book by Emily St. John Mandel. Heavily inspired by the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the book explores interconnectedness of characters and the paths we choose not choose.
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Now with syntax highlighting

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I spent some time getting actiontext code blocks to work with highlight.js syntax highlighting. Come and check it out!
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Rails, postgres and a single database in production

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I got the site back up after migrating to Rails and using Postgresql.
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