In this blog post, I delve into a variety of topics, from mastering family finances and upgrading home networks to tips on maintaining happiness and managing time effectively. I also explore technical subjects like test automation strategies, C# switch statements, and creating DIY network-attached storage. Plus, there’s advice on leadership during crises and hints for effective research discoveries. It’s a bit of everything!

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• 8 Essential Strategies for Mastering Your Family Finances: Learn eight simple strategies to master your family finances, including my Conscious Spending Plan and Monthly Money Meeting Guide to secure a stable financial future for your household.
• Upgrading My Home Network With MokerLink 2.5-Gigabit Switches: I am changing course again. I used to have a small 40-gigabit Infiniband network segment in my home office. This was necessary at the time because I …
• DIY NAS: 2024 Edition and the 2024 EconoNAS!: A two-for-one DIY NAS build blog! I detail the components that I would pick for 2024’s DIY NAS and EconoNAS builds. Which one will be your favorite?
• 10 Daily Habits that Often Drain 90 Percent of Our Joy and Inner Peace: You ultimately become what you repeatedly do. If your habits aren’t helping you, they’re hurting you. Here are some fairly common and widespread examples of the latter that will drain all your joy and inner peace.
• My Recommendations for a Test Automation Strategy: I’ve been helping a JasperFx Software client with their test automation strategy on a new web application and surrounding suite of services. That makes this a perfectly good time to reevaluate how I think teams can succeed with automated testing as an update to what I thought a decade ago. I think you can justifiably…
• 7 Things about C#: Switch Statements: This article explains how to use the C# switch statement.
• Cooking up recipe data for the Feast app: Any dish worth its salt needs the finest ingredients. In the case of the new Feast cooking app, we needed a structured recipe archive. This is how we rustled it up
• An ESP32 Delivers Perfect Slot Car Control: If your memory of slot cars as a childhood toy is of lightweight controllers with wire-wound rheostats inside, then you’re many years behind the state of the art when it comes to competitive …
• JT-4000 Micro DAW in a cigar box:
• Building a better First Draft for designers: We’re reintroducing our Make Designs feature with some key improvements, including a new name—First Draft
• 🧠How to automate competitor homepage analysis using AI and no-code: competitor
• Conducting a Time Audit: Every CEO, founder, and executive I’ve met periodically struggles to manage their time. Metaphors of spinning plates, plates too full, and being pulled in too many directions collide with feelings of overwhelm and wanting to pull one’s hair out and run away to hide in a corner.The solution begins with a “Time Audit”
• The #1 Mentorship Mistake I Made Which Held Back My Growth: And how you can avoid it with the template I created
• It’s hard to write code for computers, but it’s even harder to write code for humans: How to build developer tools for happiness and productivity.
• Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout: New Study from BCG Reveals That When Employees Feel Included at Work, the Likelihood of Burnout Is Halved
• 5 Timeless Tips to More Effectively Manage Your Time: Business owners may understand there are only 24h in a day, but the frenetic pace at which they lead their lives suggests they hope to find more.
• How to Lead Your Team when the House Is on Fire: Wartime can be extremely demanding for Engineering Managers. But by ruthlessly focusing on delivery, building a resilient team, investing in individuals, and maintaining their own strength, an EM can lead their people to not just survive but thrive under pressure.
• 7 Tips for Successful Discoveries: Discovery is challenging; it can be hard to know what to research, how to do discovery as a team, and how to get buy-in. Follow these 7 tips for smoother discovery efforts.
• IEEE Spectrum: Flexible 32-bit microprocessor can bend around a pencil, do machine learning tasks, and consumes just 6 milliwatts
• Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture: I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.
• Sanding UI: Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
• Critical Mass and Tipping Points: How To Identify Inflection Points Before They Happen: Critical mass, which is sometimes referred to as tipping points, is one of the most effective mental models you can use to understand the world. The concept can explain everything from viral cat videos to why changing habits is so hard.
• SQL-tips-and-tricks: SQL tips and tricks. Contribute to ben-n93/SQL-tips-and-tricks development by creating an account on GitHub.
• AI Can Now Make (Surprisingly Good) Podcasts From Your Writing: Google NotebookLM is cool
• Maker Pipe: We empower you to make something you love. Whether you’re a beginner or DIY pro, our products are a great fit for your project. Learn why.