Blog - I am BARRY HESS

2026
Jan 12 Bónus poetry
Jan 10 Turning an Old MacBook Into a Minimal Writing Workstation
Jan 7 Problems Transferring from an Old to New Playstation 5
Jan 2 Spell Check
2025
Dec 29 Stock Image Books
Dec 23 Connecting TikTok Remote (Adzerd) to Kobo Clara BW eReader
Dec 16 Words Matter
Nov 30 No Socials November Fin
Nov 8 I’d Like a Better Fortnite System
Nov 1 No Socials November
Oct 27 Log Out Process for Various Social Networks
Oct 15 Unplugging, Two Weeks Later
Oct 14 RIP D’Angelo
Sep 30 A List of Unplugging Possibilities
Sep 22 A Bit Naive
Sep 20 Today’s Home Screen
Aug 18 Experimental August: Week Two
Aug 11 Experimental August: Week One
Aug 2 Experimental August
Jul 20 Capture & Reset
Jul 16 When in Seoul
Jul 11 Turning on the Newsletter
Jun 10 Spotlight and Mei Semones
Apr 25 Appreciate Everything Endlessly II
Apr 7 Florence: Finale
Apr 6 Cortona: A Florence
Apr 5 Cortona: Esplorare
Apr 4 Cortona: Riposo
Apr 3 Florence: A Cortona
Apr 2 Florence: Sonno e Regalità
Apr 1 Florence: Davide, Le Chiese e i Dottori
Mar 31 Florence: Giornata Libera
Mar 30 Florence: Arti II e Calcio
Mar 29 Florence: Arti e Musica
Mar 28 Florence: Rimpinzati di Cibo
Mar 27 Florence: Arrivo
Feb 10 Appreciate Everything Endlessly
Feb 9 Calypso Frelimo
Feb 3 Mark All Read
Feb 2 b2evolution
Jan 31 Socials-free February
Jan 30 I’m Not a Monster
Jan 28 FOMO Machines
Jan 26 High-quality Silicone Utensils
Jan 20 WILLOW
Jan 19 Now & Then on Pika
Jan 16 How To Be Here
Jan 4 DDoS’ing Yourself with To-dos and Reminders
Jan 1 Recent Paper Products
2024
Dec 31 2024 App Defaults
Dec 26 The Holidays
Dec 16 David Gilmour
Dec 15 Mini Santa
Dec 12 How Do I…
Dec 8 Migrating from Feedly to Feedbin
Nov 7 Reconnecting By Disconnecting
Nov 6 Still Bill
Oct 10 I Finally Lost My Smart Ring!
Sep 22 Hans Zimmer
Sep 1 Faces of the North
Aug 24 Routine
Aug 21 It’s Been Awhile
Jul 15 The Falling Glacier
May 31 Blogging Every Day
May 30 Soccer Night
May 29 When whois and nslookup Disagree About Name Servers
May 28 Maybe Next Year
May 27 Maintaining an Old Blog
May 26 Share the Things You Like
May 25 It Was a Different Time
May 24 The Jacksons and the Patriots
May 23 Hey Piggy Piggy Piggy Pig Pig
May 22 Screen Time Doesn’t Work (For Me)
May 21 Music Appreciation
May 20 Creative Environments
May 19 Gettin’ Reps
May 18 All Blogs Are Welcome
May 17 My Blogging Workflow
May 16 The Amazon App Being Stupid with AI
May 15 We Are the Curators of the Web
May 14 Northern Lights
May 13 Dear Evan Hansen
May 12 Mother’s Day Soccer
May 11 Abandoned Tabs
May 10 Private Concert
May 9 Seeking Ikigai
May 8 Focus
May 7 Thoughts on Chips
May 6 Track Meets
May 5 Gardening the Blog
May 4 Do We Need a Satellite Communicator for Remote Trips?
May 3 Work Hard
May 2 Find Bugs Once and the Joy of Bug Fixing
May 1 Things I Like About Things
Apr 26 Self-Promotion
Apr 24 I Cheerfully Refuse
Apr 23 What Is Good Enough?
Apr 10 My First Program
Apr 8 The Streaming Pendulum
Apr 3 Safer Table Saws Are Coming
Mar 29 Small Towns Everywhere
Mar 26 You Deserve It
Mar 19 Anna Meredith: Nautilus
Mar 10 RSS Bomb
Mar 8 Accidents Happen
Feb 24 P.M. Dawn
Feb 15 Why We Love Baseball
Feb 8 Digital Relationships Offer Real Hope
Feb 7 Pika Has Launched!
Jan 31 Project Tapestry
Jan 30 How Do Search Ads Run the World?
Jan 29 Time is running short and my January blogging streak is at risk...
Jan 28 Whiskey Rebellion
Jan 27 Today we went to a college basketball game...
Jan 26 Welcome to Wrexham
Jan 25 My First Mac
Jan 24 Joe Mauer, First Ballot
Jan 23 Family & Travel Journaling
Jan 22 Giving MistoBox Coffee a Try
Jan 21 The Chronicles of Narnia
Jan 20 Redirect Pizza
Jan 19 This work week has flown...
Jan 18 HTTPS Traffic Redirection Service?
Jan 17 Trade Coffee Pricing Gets Convoluted
Jan 16 Working with Mild Illness
Jan 15 Demon Copperhead
Jan 14 -34°F Windchill, Don't Care
Jan 13 Together, Musically
Jan 12 You’re a Blogger, Not an Essayist
Jan 11 Dusted Popcorn
Jan 10 Toe Reset
Jan 9 Keychron Makes Typing Lovely
Jan 8 Making the Web Easier for Blogging
Jan 7 FAFSA Season
Jan 6 Why2K
Jan 5 Coming in just under the wire with a small post...
Jan 4 HappyLight
Jan 3 Writing a post every day in January...
Jan 2 Summer of '99
Jan 1 2023 Reads
2023
Dec 24 2023 App Defaults
Dec 8 Driving an LG UltraFine 5K Monitor and a 4K Monitor with the CalDigit TS4 Dock
Dec 2 Read: Born Standing Up
Nov 27 Cable Management for My Standing Desk
Nov 18 Fresh-Installing That Old Mac
Nov 15 John Cleese Is Actually Alive
Oct 31 RubyMine So Far
Oct 25 Classic Albums, Unlistened
Oct 18 Export PDF Files Out of Evernote
Sep 23 Peter Gabriel's New Music Tour
Aug 19 Remember the Photo Blog
Aug 14 Fast Car
Aug 3 City Pop
Jun 13 Twins Walk-off and More
May 29 Where Have I Been?
May 25 Sharing Things
May 6 Gratitude Day
Apr 27 Declaring Tab Bankruptcy
Feb 19 Helpful People
Feb 9 Rails Form Redirect Not Rendering HTML
Feb 8 Rails System Tests with Safari
Jan 25 How To Teach Your Customers
Jan 6 Why Does My Apple TV Suck?
Jan 4 CDs Like Baseball Cards
2022
Dec 15 Silly Customer Service
Nov 17 Before They Were Huge
Oct 17 They Might Be Giants Flood Tour
Aug 10 Vin Scully
Aug 3 Lutz
Aug 2 Shatner in Space
Jun 15 Shared Photo Library
May 29 Anti-Leadership
May 23 Markdown to HTML on macOS
May 19 Two Newsletters
May 16 Why I Went HTML Only
May 13 HTML Only
May 12 My Basic Salad Dressing
Apr 30 Strong Songs
Apr 15 Video Gaming vs Videos of Gaming
Apr 13 Anti-Joy in Sports Commentating
Mar 23 Auto-generate sitemap.xml with Rails on Render.com
Mar 10 Watching a Musical Six Times
Mar 7 Are Straight A's Worth It?
Mar 4 View from My Doom Scroll
Mar 3 Using a Kinesis Foot Pedal to Shift Modify a Mac Keyboard
Mar 1 Trying Phoenix and Elixir
Feb 25 Magazines at Your Library
Feb 24 Numbr
Feb 21 Everyone's a Starter
Feb 17 log.txt
Feb 4 Google Programming in 2022
Jan 26 Tab Groups in Safari
Jan 20 ActiveSupport Image Storage and Processing at Render.com
Jan 18 Writing Is a Muscle
Jan 15 Now Blogging at Micro.blog
Jan 15 Beginner's Mind Micro.blog
Jan 10 Movie Art
Jan 6 Discomfiture of Thought
Jan 3 Announcing Owatonna Even/Odd Parking
2021
Dec 20 Dark Mode Colors with CSS Variables
2020
Mar 24 So Now You're Working From Home
2015
Sep 30 Happily Fixing Bugs with a Bugmash
Mar 26 Neil Gaiman's "Locks"
Mar 8 Politeness, Kindness
2014
Oct 8 How We Fix Bugs at Harvest
Mar 1 The End Is the Beginning
Feb 9 Poodr
Feb 4 Finding the Courage to Constantly Critique
2013
Dec 14 Theater
Dec 12 Sparkly Dollar
Jan 17 A Week to Learn and a Lifetime to Master
2012
May 3 Testing with Wrong
May 1 High Fidelity
Apr 24 Improvise
Apr 19 Mise en Place
Apr 12 Craftsmen
Feb 9 Quick Alert
Feb 4 Years On
Jan 23 Books Read 2011
Jan 7 Drawing Dots
2011
Dec 14 User Groups
Jun 17 Feynman
May 4 Habit
Apr 8 30 Days of Exercise
Mar 25 Dive Deep
Mar 8 Sxsw 2011
Feb 14 Make It Easy
Jan 28 Delta Force: The Secret to Legendary Customer Support
Jan 23 Nesting in Code
Jan 16 A Week Off the Grid
Jan 9 Books Read 2010
2010
Sep 7 Don't Let Failures Deter You
Aug 21 In the Sixth Year
Aug 12 Mac Bluetooth Not Available After Power Outage
Apr 1 The Twins Secret Stadium Weapon
Feb 28 Ruby Whenever and Day of Month Crontab Syntax
Feb 23 Setting Up Watchr and Rails
Feb 17 Co-Op Capistrano Deployment Script
2009
Dec 31 Books Read 2009
Sep 2 JavaScript Optional Parameter Hash With Default Values
Aug 28 Crush It
Aug 21 Five Years Old
Jul 28 Leaving the Corporate Nest (Fin)
Jul 23 Security of Dreams
Jul 14 So You're Motivated by a Tech Conference. Now What?
Jul 7 Announcing Hai to the Ku: Twitter, Haiku and You
Jun 30 Security of Ignorance
Mar 23 Security of Loyalty
Jan 19 Rails Date Calculations Could Stand Some Timezone Love
Jan 16 Thawing the Brain
Jan 7 Hardware and Software
2008
Dec 22 Educating Software Developers
Nov 11 Announcing Time Warp Ruby Gem
Nov 3 Filter Unwanted Tweets From Your Twitter Stream
Oct 24 25+ Celebrity Twitter Users and Their Follow Costs
Oct 16 Fading Flash Message
Oct 13 Announcing Follow Cost
Oct 11 Barry Hess, a Story of Mistaken Identity
Oct 9 Security of Stuff
Oct 3 Announcing Harvest Co-Op
Sep 25 Security of Group Health Insurance
Sep 24 I Love You, Grandma
Sep 17 Security of Income
Sep 15 Security of Retirement
Sep 11 Security of Employment
Sep 10 Leaving the Corporate Nest
Aug 29 Windy City Rails
Aug 21 Blogiversaire
Aug 1 Distributed Team Horseplay
Jul 22 Post Redirect Get in Rails
Jul 15 Fixing Slow Rake on Leopard
Jun 30 Open_id_authentication Plugin and Remember Me
Jun 1 Presentation: An Audience Perspective
May 28 RailsConf '08
May 7 Ventorium: My Lark of a Project
May 5 MinneBar 2008 and Distributed Teamwork
Apr 27 Five Rails Tips
Apr 22 Virtual Teamwork or You Can Go Home Again
Apr 13 Kauffman Stadium, Day 2
Apr 12 Cold Kauffman Stadium
Mar 31 A Rails Way to Track Additional Schema Info
Mar 29 ActiveResource HTTP Basic Auth With Email Address
Mar 3 HOWTO Commit an Incremental Rails Upgrade to SVN
Feb 28 Move Server Configuration Files Into Your Repository
Feb 23 Twitter Has Rewrite Problems
Feb 19 Calling MailBuild AddWithCustomFields With Ruby
Feb 10 Amazon Fixes Subscribe and Save
Feb 7 One Year on the Lam From the Expected
Jan 27 Awake, Laptop, Awake
Jan 21 Meanwhile, Apple Says “Nevermind”
Jan 17 SuperDuper! Is My Savior
Jan 14 Amazon, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Jan 7 Two Macs? No Problem!
Jan 2 Integrating Rails and WordPress
2007
Dec 26 Assert_select Selectors Using Regular Expressions
Nov 28 Rails Before_destroy Gotcha
Nov 23 GTD Quarterly Financial Temperature Checklist
Nov 12 A Rails Way to Popup Secondary Windows
Oct 29 World Clock Project
Oct 22 Ruby Console Spacebar Problems
Oct 15 When Single-Table Inheritance Attacks
Oct 8 Has_many_polymorphs and Checkboxes
Oct 4 Rails Migration Max Key Length Error in MySQL
Oct 1 A Model Diagram for Your Rails Application
Sep 26 Disabling Markdown in Your WordPress Comments
Sep 19 My Foray Into Has_many_polymorphs
Sep 12 Rails Auto Select Text Field Tag
Sep 5 TextMate Find in Project Slow in Rails
Aug 29 Adding a Mongrel Instance to a Slicehost Rails App
Aug 27 Make Sure to Properly Scope Your Ruby Mixins
Aug 21 Apple Ain't All That All the Time
Aug 21 L'anniversaire
Aug 20 Ignoring English Articles With Regular Expressions
Aug 19 Lakefront Property
Aug 15 Syntax Highlighting With WordPress and Markdown
Aug 12 Time Warp for Rails Testing
Aug 8 John Carmack on Constraints
Aug 6 Rails Maintenance Page With Images and Styles
Aug 2 My Dad's First Twins Game
Aug 1 Rolling Your Rails Logs With Logrotate
Jul 30 Don't Forget the Return Value on Rails Callbacks
Jul 25 Stubbing Objects in Radiant
Jul 18 Redirecting a Subdomain to a URL at Slicehost
Jul 16 Transferring Your "Cached" WordPress Blog
Jul 11 Automatically Pull Photos Off Your Flash Card With Ruby
Jun 27 Exporting Your Netflix Queue With Ruby
Jun 25 More TextMate Dates for Your WordPress Blog
Jun 19 Changing Tabs in Safari
Jun 16 Popup a New Gmail Compose Window
Jun 7 Adding Lightbox to FlickrMate
May 30 Installing HAML Bundle for TextMate
May 26 When Rake Fails but Tests Succeed
May 3 Radiant Extension Gotcha
May 2 Taking Notes and Checking Them Twice
Apr 30 Specifying Date When Blogging From TextMate to WordPress
Apr 27 Change Default Text Editor on OS X
Apr 27 Loading Up Windows Shares Upon OS X Login
Apr 25 Startup Camp Minnesota
Apr 24 Minnebar and David Heinemeier Hansson
Apr 23 Startup School and Minnesota Converge
Apr 6 Why Not Internationalize?
Apr 4 The Kid in Russian
Apr 1 OS X and Web Browsing
Mar 29 Startup School 2007
Mar 22 Of Scrawlers and Startup School
Mar 9 Clear Rails Sessions on Dreamhost
Mar 9 Scrawlers Has Launched
Mar 8 TextMate, Blogging, Wordpress, and Dreamhost
Mar 7 Blog Simplified
Feb 26 Firefox Nested Div Problem
Feb 24 Detect Alphanumeric in Ruby via Regular Expressions
Feb 22 Two Weeks of Web Developing
Feb 20 Missing Log Messages in Ruby on Rails
Feb 16 Subversion GUI on OS X
Feb 15 Notes on a Book - Don't Make Me Think
Feb 13 So What Is My Goal?
Feb 9 Anchor Tag and Element ID Standards
Feb 7 Full Steam Ahead
Feb 6 Notes on a Book - the Long Tail
Jan 25 Empowerment
Jan 23 Notes on a Talk - Guy Kawasaki
Jan 22 Notes on a Book - the Elements of Style
Jan 19 My Eyes! My Eyes!
Jan 19 My Poor Sleeping Body
Jan 17 Wrestling With Your Personal Information
Jan 16 MacBook Purchased
Jan 15 Personal Information Management
2006
Dec 21 Lessons Learned
Dec 18 Notes on a Book - Purple Cow
Dec 15 Mac & Me - Dual Monitors
Nov 30 Notes on a Book - the Big Red Fez
Nov 22 What Have You Been Doing?
Oct 25 Smidgen
Oct 16 Lost in Episodic Entertainment
Oct 8 Acting and Directing
Sep 22 A Weird Thing Popped Into My Head
Sep 8 Get an Emergency Fund
Aug 30 Sea Change
Aug 23 Interruptions
Aug 15 Blogging Frequency
Aug 4 Badlands
Jul 27 You Down With DMV?
Jul 20 Biking and Carrying
Jul 13 Where to Go
Jul 2 The New World
Jun 17 Lacy
Jun 12 Stupid Fees
Jun 9 Estate Tax
Jun 1 Gardenfire Watch
May 29 A Long Weekend in Milwaukee
May 25 The Bike Decision Approaches
May 25 What Does the "Da Vinci" Popularity Tell Us?
May 23 Parking at the New Twins Stadium
May 16 I Need a Bike
May 12 Proper Dinner Conversation
May 11 I'm Tired of the RIAA's Bitching
May 10 Warner Playing in Torrents
May 3 ManBearPig
Apr 28 Tasteless
Apr 25 In Lieu of a Post
Apr 21 Totten's Road Trip to Iraq
Apr 19 Jason Mewes's Drug Addiction Journey
Apr 2 What a Weekend
Mar 23 Twins vs Phillies, March 14, 2006
Mar 21 Twins vs Tigers, March 11, 2006
Mar 19 Florida Trip
Mar 9 Hooray for Florida
Mar 6 Good Night, and Good Luck, Puck
Mar 6 The Time Sink Server
Mar 3 Moral Control
Mar 1 Transporter
Feb 27 Hair Bands
Feb 22 Hollywood: Liberal or Capitalistic?
Feb 21 American Gods
Feb 14 Milwaukee
Feb 13 Why Ring Tones
Feb 9 Tax Season '06
Feb 3 Augie Band
Jan 31 In the Spirit of an Update
Jan 25 What Do You Love to Do?
Jan 23 Weekend Update
Jan 19 Video Content Delivery
Jan 18 Re-Education of a Computer Scientist
Jan 16 Weekend Notes
Jan 5 Cash Investments
2005
Dec 27 Webmail
Dec 22 The Story of Wheat
Dec 20 Ubuntu Installed
Dec 18 Computing Hell
Dec 17 It's About the Content, Baby
Nov 28 Fall '05 Car Polish
Nov 23 Santa Worship
Nov 18 Vegas Vacation
Nov 8 On to the Television
Nov 7 A New Home Theater Option
Nov 2 Netflix's Sweet Class Action Boondoggle
Nov 1 Home Theater Wishy-Washyness
Oct 21 Scarlet Fever
Oct 12 iPod Video
Oct 12 Vertigo
Sep 30 Dragline
Sep 26 Weddings
Sep 12 God Is in the Details
Sep 8 Our American Public
Sep 6 Katrina
Sep 1 You Know You're a Nerd When...
Aug 29 Champion
Aug 25 Suv
Aug 23 The Self-Focused Life
Aug 22 L'anniversaire
Aug 17 Twins Memories
Aug 13 Terroristic Threats
Aug 11 'Double Duty' Radcliffe Dies at 103
Jul 22 How We Would Fight China
Jul 16 Bits From Slouching Toward Fargo
Jun 28 Freedom of (All) Speech
Jun 25 The College World Series 2005
Jun 24 The Irony of "Support Our Troops"
Jun 19 Balls Out - Dock Ellis
Jun 16 Comedian for Senator? Don't Laugh
May 27 A Prequel to the Phantom Menace?
May 24 Hibbing High School
May 23 Bloomberg's Billionaire Boondoggle
May 20 Star Wars III
May 18 Hanger Bumps
May 16 Nascar
May 13 Sid Hartman: Twins Stadium Would Pay Off
May 11 Stadium, F*** Yeah!
May 11 TV Now
May 8 Support
May 6 IDiots
May 2 Chicago
Apr 25 A Twins Stadium Is Inevitable, Right?
Apr 21 Another Drive Home
Apr 19 The Drive Home
Mar 28 Cartime for Bjhess
Mar 21 How John McCain Reformed
Mar 12 Bankruptcy Bill
Mar 11 Wild Goose Chase
Mar 3 The Village
Mar 1 Most Hated Buzzword
Feb 28 Tucker
Feb 17 Evolution 101
Feb 9 Speaking of Jon Stewart
Feb 1 The Other Side of Secondhand Smoke Science
Jan 30 The Quiet American
Jan 24 89.3 the Current
Jan 24 Small Time
Jan 23 Billions Served: Norman Borlaug
Jan 22 The Ghost of Tiananmen
Jan 21 Collateral
Jan 17 Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
Jan 13 Mac Mini Launches
Jan 9 Man on Fire
Jan 7 Congress Formally OKs Bush Election
Jan 6 William Shatner - Has Been
Jan 5 Iraq Casualties
2004
Dec 31 Published
Dec 27 Four Quartets
Dec 20 The Full Maria
Dec 18 Lawrence
Dec 17 Pendulums
Dec 15 This Week in Movies
Dec 9 Wyoming and Me
Dec 6 Sleep Apnea II
Dec 3 Sleep Apnea
Nov 16 Before Sunset
Nov 15 Notre Dame
Oct 30 Electile Dysfunction
Oct 29 The Whole Country Is Texas
Oct 19 Last Day of Class
Oct 18 Update on Me
Oct 13 Has Bush Failed in Iraq?
Oct 12 Which Side Are You On?
Oct 7 Second Guessing the Second Guessing
Oct 3 Bowling
Sep 30 Better Than Two in the Bush
Sep 29 Do-Si-Do
Sep 27 The Fog of War(s)
Sep 19 Lost in Translation
Sep 14 Santana
Aug 31 The Wiener
Aug 30 What Am I Watching This Summer?
Aug 27 Sick
Aug 25 Slow Pitch Softball - a Justification
Aug 24 Presidential Politics
Aug 23 CableTV
Aug 23 You've Been Drafted
Aug 22 The SCFF Is Rolling to a Finish
Aug 21 Oh Boy, This Could Be a Long Road