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Running Your First Marathon
While I’m not actually training for a marathon right now, as my first actual race is to be the Fifth Third River Bank Run 5K, I think this is good stuff to start thinking about. I am looking to do the Grand Rapids Half Marathon in the Fall and I will need to work on a lot of these points.
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WordCamp GR 2017 – WP-API: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – J Andrew Scott
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The Road Of Lifelong Learning To Be A Better Developer – Using Git Better
As a developer and, in some areas, a perfectionist I’m always after better #development practices when working collaboratively. An I personally find value in the #commit history. As a #git user I appreciate detailed case from @ecampidoglio on the proper way to keep a clean commit history. The Case for Pull Rebase
Always On The Lookout For New And Healthy Recipes – Greek Wrap
This Greek roasted red pepper wrap by Maebells‘ is made simply by rolling up roasted red pepper, spinach, cucumber, goat cheese, feta, olives and green onions together. This version of the recipe calls for a whole grain wrap, or use a gluten-free substitute if needed. These veggie wraps are delicious served with a side of hummus for dipping. Print Greek… via Recipe: Greek Roasted Red Pepper Wrap — Under Armour
Running Your First Marathon
While I’m not actually training for a marathon right now, as my first actual race is to be the Fifth Third River Bank Run 5K, I think this is good stuff to start thinking about. I am looking to do the Grand Rapids Half Marathon in the Fall and I will need to work on a lot of these points.
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So about 6 months ago I decided to make some changes to my personal development environment. I’ve been using a Chromebook as my primary machine since about 2013. I first purchased an Acer C710 for my wife to use but compared to our Macbook Pro it was a frustrating and subpar experience for her, not to mention she was a heavy Adobe Suite user. Since sharing the Macbook Pro was challenging I set out to use the Chromebook as me development machine. Originally I went with the crouton option. It was pretty sweet to have a full Linux environment alongside Chrome OS. I was then running a full LAMP environment with PhpStorm as my IDE. This worked OK, I had performance and stability issues at…
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Development / Geek / Links / Programming
The Road Of Lifelong Learning To Be A Better Developer – Using Git Better
As a developer and, in some areas, a perfectionist I’m always after better #development practices when working collaboratively. An I personally find value in the #commit history. As a #git user I appreciate detailed case from @ecampidoglio on the proper way to keep a clean commit history. The Case for Pull Rebase
Always On The Lookout For New And Healthy Recipes – Greek Wrap
This Greek roasted red pepper wrap by Maebells‘ is made simply by rolling up roasted red pepper, spinach, cucumber, goat cheese, feta, olives and green onions together. This version of the recipe calls for a whole grain wrap, or use a gluten-free substitute if needed. These veggie wraps are delicious served with a side of hummus for dipping. Print Greek… via Recipe: Greek Roasted Red Pepper Wrap — Under Armour
Running Your First Marathon
While I’m not actually training for a marathon right now, as my first actual race is to be the Fifth Third River Bank Run 5K, I think this is good stuff to start thinking about. I am looking to do the Grand Rapids Half Marathon in the Fall and I will need to work on a lot of these points.
Geek / Programming / WordPress
WordPress Development On A Chromebook, Termux, & Neovim
So about 6 months ago I decided to make some changes to my personal development environment. I’ve been using a Chromebook as my primary machine since about 2013. I first purchased an Acer C710 for my wife to use but compared to our Macbook Pro it was a frustrating and subpar experience for her, not to mention she was a heavy Adobe Suite user. Since sharing the Macbook Pro was challenging I set out to use the Chromebook as me development machine. Originally I went with the crouton option. It was pretty sweet to have a full Linux environment alongside Chrome OS. I was then running a full LAMP environment with PhpStorm as my IDE. This worked OK, I had performance and stability issues at…
WordCamp GR 2017 – WP-API: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – J Andrew Scott
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