philosophy
Mindful Practices to Enhance Your Daily Life
Cannot sit still for 5 min? Try these easy practices that allow increasing mindfulness in everyday life.
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life
A Framework for the Mastery of Life (V0.1)
Describes a framework for the mastery of life based on various elements of mastery, such as mastery of our body, emotions and thought.
ruby
Install Ruby on Windows
In order to try out the Fastlane tool, I needed to install Ruby on my Windows development machine today. The process took me a few attempts, so I thought I share here some of the mistakes to avoid and how to get everything running. How to Install Ruby The easiest
breathing
On Waiting: A Skill Often Overlooked
Waiting seems like a waste of time. I argue it is actually one of the most powerful things we can learn.
breathing
Three Surprisingly Useful yet Simple Skills: Breathing, Waiting, Thinking
Mastery of skills allows us to have a greater impact on the world around us. Whether it's coding, painting, or any other skill, becoming better at what we do enables us to create more and make a difference. However, with countless skills to choose from, it's
purpose
Defining a Personal Purpose: A Practical Guide with Four Questions
I have already discussed the philosophical merits of defining our own personal purpose outside the context of the framework provided by traditional religions in the post Finding Purpose. In this post, I want to provide some more practical advice about how one might go about defining a personal purpose, vision,
philosophy
What Does it Mean to Be Good
I haven recently been watching the TV show The Good Place. The titular Good Place is simply what we understand to be heaven; a place where some hope to go after they die to be rewarded for their good deeds while alive. It is explained that only the most outstanding
cognito
A Beginner's Guide to Cognito for Web Applications
Amazon Cognito is a cloud-based, serverless solution for identity and access management. It provides similar capabilities as Auth0 and Okta. The main benefit of Cognito is that it is just another services within the AWS suite of services, and can thus easily be used if other parts of the stack
gcp
Tutorial HTTP Endpoints with GCP Function (2nd Gen) and Go
Cloud Functions provide a lightweight execution environment for code in various languages. They are the serverless compute solutions in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is similar to AWS Lambda functions in AWS. There are two different versions of Cloud Functions available: 1st Gen and 2nd Gen. 2nd Gen is recommended
nextjs
Fixing Next.js Error: Invalid next.config.js Options Detected
I have recently upgraded the Next.js and Next.js + Bootstrap Goldstack templates to Next.js 13. After following the upgrade instructions, I encountered encountered a few errors that I document here along with the solutions that I found. Error: The root value has an unexpected property The first error
joy
The Merits of Suffering
No one likes to suffer; but suffering is often the portal to a richer life.
habits
Some Ideas for Habit Design
To change one's behaviour is not always easy - what can help is to start with some well-designed habits.