“I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of earth and heaven in the silence, the requiem birds, the mythic beasts, the flags, great horns, and old carved stones, the silver ice in the black river, the…
Get Pump is my collection of hip hop that makes life feel possible, like you're gonna kick it. It helps to play this loud when heading to that client meeting that's not gonna go well (s/o to Karen). Stay gold.…
Hi there! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install Node.js using NVM. If you want to learn more about Node.js and why it's useful, there's a good explaination over on the Modulus blog. Let's get started! We'll…
The web has become really complicated. It takes so much time, so much frustration, and so much specialized knowledge to set up a new site, blog, forum, or chatroom that many internet citizens no longer build independent experiences. It's become so simple to join an existing silo (tumblr,…
Lung Cancer is a collection of music that reminds me of one of my favorite people. Cody was cleaning up while he lived with my folks, and since I was pirating plenty of music back then, he had me fill up his new iPod with his favorites. For maximum relaxation,…
You could probably call Justin Hall the Godfather of the indieweb. I'm like, super ashamed to admit that I only learned about him today. Here's his new documentary, where he chronicles his life on the web and off, and makes a great case for breaking out…
Finally stopped by the Mighty Tieton facility in Tieton, WA. I've heard about their ambitious community-building and local development projects for years, but never really had a good sense of the scale or polish that's gone into their operation. Located in a tiny town of 1,…
My wife, Sarah, and I had never taken a "real" roadtrip together. I like to think that a year-long period of driving bi-weekly between my Eastern Washington desert and her Emerald City sound counted for something, but one thing it didn't count for was an expansive,…