My son Andrew downloaded a fitness tracking app twelve days ago. He's already in the top 6% of all users on the platform. Twelve days. Not twelve months. Not even twelve weeks. At first that sounded like a compliment to his consistency — and it is. But the more I dug into it, the more...
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I Gave Claude a Long-Term Memory — Here’s How
Every developer who uses an AI coding assistant has hit this wall. You spend an hour getting Claude up to speed on your project. The stack, the quirks, the half-finished refactor in the auth module, the reason you chose SQLite over MySQL. By the end of the session, the AI is practically a team member....
How We Built an Automated Blog That Publishes Itself Every Day
And how we can build one for you. There’s a particular kind of magic in waking up to find your website has already done its job — researched a topic, written an article, and published it — while you were asleep. That’s not a fantasy. It’s exactly how DailySideHustle.me works, and it’s built from three...
Extending Google WiFi
Ever since moving to a larger home two years ago, I’ve been dealing with WiFi dead zones. The home is 2800 sf and it is a two-story home. The footprint is not very large though. You would have thought that a centrally located router/access point (router) would do the job. Not so. From day one...
Where can I get my own personal beach table?
Every time we pull this little Personal Beach Table out of the bag someone asks me where I got it. My wife got it at Ross, locally, but they have them on Amazon for only $16.94 and free shipping with Amazon Prime. It’s the perfect table to accompany the Tommy Bahama Beach Chairthat everyone is...
Straight Talk Wireless APN Settings for MMS
Around September 2013 I decided to ditch AT&T for my mobile phone service and move to Straight Talk Wireless. I love the service, especially the price. The service is $45 for unlimited talk, texts and data. I have not tested the limits of “unlimited”, but it works well. One caveat is MMS. Straight Talk has...
Amazon Raising Prime Service to $99/year
It was inevitable. I received the following email today from Amazon informing me that the price of their Amazon Primewill go up from $79 to $99 per year. Dear Russell Turley, We are writing to provide you advance notice that the price of your Prime membership will be increasing. The annual rate will be $99...
Great Gifts for the Geek in Your Life
People are always asking me if this tech gift or that geek gift is right for their significant other. The one rule that I try to follow is this, “most electronics are crap”. This is particularly true for many of the gifts that are marketed for “the geek in your life” around the holiday season....
Why I’m Passing on Apple Products in the Future
I was recently talking to my wife about not buying any more Apple devices. We have a few Apple computers in the house. Both of them are Mac Minis, one old G4 version, and an Intel Mini that I use as my main workstation for producing podcasts, writing, paying bills, etc. We also have a...