Feeling overwhelmed? You may need a clean start

This is, unintentionally, almost like what I did to my email when I first decided to target Inbox Zero. I archived everything that was more than a day old. I gave myself a fresh start.

Keyboard triggers to custom workflows for Trello

I’m a fan of the keyboard. And I’m a fan of not doing tedious, repetitive actions. And I very much enjoy using Trello as my dashboard. What had started as my hack to easily move Cards around Trello is actually a pretty flexible way to apply custom workflows

On the shortcut value in a favicon link element

MDN said to avoid it. I looked for why.

💪 You Can: make a Firefox browser theme

Making your own theme is as easy as changing some values in a manifest.json

Getting Started in Open Source: Brave Browser

Alternative title: "Open source products are good for the curious user, because they let you peek under the hood".

Friction-log: ActiveState

Does what it says on the box.

API: HTTP Headers

I used half the time thinking of recursive acronyms for this series: APIs Par Introspection.

Why I Write

tl:dr, to have a conversation, even with myself.

💪 You Can: Set up your own VPN

tl:dr: ssh into a server, scp files from it, set up your own VPN.

Setting up Mailgun DNS records with Namecheap domains

The settings I’ve described above should let you use Mailgun with your domain. In case you stumbled on the same blocks I encountered, I hope you find this helpful! 💛