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  • Start Before You’re Ready

    10/11/21: The irony is that I didn’t post this because “I wasn’t ready”. We are risk adverse. Jump in before you’re ready. Ask for help. “I’ll figure it out.” Get outside your comfort zone. Failure is not the end, it’s a lesson for your future self. “Knowing what you know now, what will you do…

  • You Need a Fish Bowl

    Limitless choices or options cause paralysis. You need bounds or limitations. Therefore, you need a fish bowl.

  • Beware Adjectives

    I just wrote: “There’s a beginning phase where you basically have to take whatever work you can…”. Basically is entirely unnecessary. Adjectives can bolster your writing if used well but they tend to clutter your writing unnecessarily.

  • Questions

    Question everything. If there’s something you don’t understand, ask for clarification. If there’s a word you don’t know, look it up in the dictionary. “If you don’t understand a concept, break it down until you do. If you don’t know how something works, dig in until you do.” That’s how you learn. A great concept…

  • List Comprehensions in Python 3

    10/21/21: This is old from when I was taking a Python course. I often forget how to write list comprehensions, so I decided to write a blog post about it. The basic syntax goes like this: If you want to manipulate it, you can do stuff like this:  

  • Run Caddy on Boot

    10/11/21: This article does not explain every step well but may be useful so I’m posting it. Add the following to the root crontab: screen -d -m bash /home/josh/caddystart Create a bash script that launches Caddy with your Caddyfile. Create a Caddyfile in same directory you put your script in: blog.joshmudge.com tls myemail@email.com root * /var/www/wordpress…

  • Prose

    Prose is the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.   Marriam Webster Dictionary

  • Perspicuous is An Ironic Word

    Perspicuous is an ironic word. It means “easy to understand”. The word itself is not. Source: Merriam Webster

  • What You Want To Do

    Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.” – Richard Feynman  I think who you’re becoming is all important but it’s a good lesson to not getting caught…

  • We Have Energy Only When We Begin

    when we stare at some unwelcome task and feel no strength to do it, we can forget that God often gives strength only as we start doing. The Jordan River stopped only as the priests stepped in (Joshua 3:13). The widow’s oil flowed only as she poured (2 Kings 4:1–6). The ten lepers were cleansed…