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I’ve collected kind words said to me over the years and stored them in notes, emails, etc., and now a few are documented here. I hesitated to publish this. Would people think it’s vain? Is it weird to make these things public? I decided to go for it anyway, redacting names and info as needed. Mark Twain once said, “I can live for two months on a good compliment.” I agree. They serve as a nice pick-me-up on a bad day too. This is a living doc.

I had a… problem. I was working with shell scripts that I didn’t own. These scripts happened to use python. But, my Mac didn’t have python, it only had python3 (which was still compatible).

I’m a big AoM fan. Brett and Kate McKay know how to research the heck out of a topic then deliver a fun, engaging piece. Years ago I read their How to REALLY Avoid Living a Life of Quiet Desperation. It’s worth your time.

Update: As of June 19, 2022, this is now an official PurgeCSS guide, yay. If you haven’t heard yet, PurgeCSS is awesome. Say you wanna use Bootstrap, but you only need some of the classes? You can do that! Instead of serving the full CSS file with your site, you can use PurgeCSS to purge the unused classes, which results in a much smaller CSS file. This tutorial shows you how to do that with my favorite static site generator, Hugo.

When writing about things like tool installation or environment setup on Mac, I often need to mention shell config files. So, instead of doing that each time, I’m going to (hopefully) write about it once, then reference it as needed.