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When I get tired, either at night or in the afternoon, it "feels" like it's my brain getting tired more than my body. It's harder to concentrate, make decisions, and see things clearly. My core solution is pretty…

Easily distracted by new email messages (or old ones that make you feel guilty for not replying) whenever you go to Gmail to send an email? Try this: instead of going to Gmail directly and being confronted by your inbox…

I need to throw together a simple but elegant and visually well-designed database-driven web app to run the daily operations of a small local business. Workflow tasks include checking in and out customers, making sure…

I have a simple WordPress site hosted on Bluehost. It was unresponsive on Monday morning, and it took Bluehost half a day to fix it. While the site was down, Bluehost was unable to give an ETA on when the problem would…

I noticed the following pattern of email distraction happens to me regularly. I'll be working on or thinking about something. I think of a specific archived email I need to search for to get some information related to…

It's the classic amusement arcade game Whac-a-Mole on a wall -- any normal wall, with an overhead projector and Kinect (on the floor in front of the wall, pointed upwards). Done as an exercise to learn Processing and…

I'm an aspiring web application developer with a strong though outdated programming and computer science background. I picked up the basics of Ruby on Rails in a few days, and like it, but the websites it creates still…