💻 Blog

• Focus - Jan 12, 2021

  Julian Shapiro reviews this checklist each morning before he starts work. It’s a great reminder that you have agency over how you spend your day.

• I Built A Poet’s Portfolio Site With Softr.io - Jan 7, 2021

  My wife, J. C. Scharl, is a writer. Using a no-code tool called Softr, I built her a site to centralize links to all her published works in one place.

• Building Something in 2021 - Dec 31, 2020

  This tweet was a great reminder to me. When the math is parsed out like this, it feels achievable!

• Web Scraping in Python - Dec 7, 2020

  I built a Python script that opens a web browser to YouTube and searches my name.

• Sending Texts with Python and Twilio - Dec 6, 2020

  I learned how to manipulate the Twilio API in Python to send text messages from my pc’s command line.

• Personal CRM - Nov 15, 2020

  For years, I have struggled to maintain relationships with friends and family in distant places. Who says robots can’t help?

• My First Ruby Program - Feb 22, 2020

  The other day I wrote my first Ruby program, after finishing this tutorial.