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Creating Happiness Out Of Sadness

January 3, 2020

A story on how I made the Happy Dev podcast after suffering a huge personal loss.

Implementing RICE in Trello

January 12, 2020

At Laravel we use Trello to store all of the ideas we come up with and also any suggestions that are sent to us. Recently, Taylor shared an article about RICE with the team and we could immediately...

Podcasting With GarageBand

January 6, 2020

I record, edit and produce all of my Happy Dev podcast using GarageBand, which is a free app from Apple. There are many other alternatives available, but I chose GarageBand for its balance between...

Tighten's Jigsaw, GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions

January 1, 2020

This blog is powered by Tighten's Jigsaw project, which if you're thinking about starting your own blog, I can highly recommend! Since Jigsaw generates a static website, I chose to host it with...

Not My First Blog Post

December 31, 2019

We're about to enter a new decade, so let's start it with a new blog.