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In my eternal quest to be better, I thought it would help to improve some higher-level skills that might help me be more productive (and someday get to all the things on my Wishlist). There are also some specific skills that I wish I had (like understanding Morse Code), but never seemed to have the … Continued
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General The Book of Knowledge, which is seriously one of the best pages for learning things. Wolfram Alpha: It’s pretty cool (though some of their products are pretty expensive). A vast amount of data is available and the query structure is pretty robust. I often use this when I need mathematical or scientific data. Students … Continued
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Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization … Continued
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Zilu asked how to serve the spirts and gods. The Master said: “You are not yet able to serve men, how could you serve the spirits?”
Zilu said: “May I ask you about death?” The Master said: “You do not yet know life, how could you know death?”
The Analects 11.12
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I just realized that the my email signature directed people to https://aidanmontare.net/about/contact/. Since the Contact page is a child of the About page (which has nothing on it by design), I expected that this would cause some 404 errors and a bit of confusion, since the real path should be https://aidanmontare.net/about/contact/. Luckily, it seems that … Continued
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I finally set up an email server for aidanmontare.net. It took two days, but I finally realized that I had set the certificate path incorrectly in Postfix, and was able to send an receive a bunch of test messages. Now I can use my own email server as contact information. I followed the guide from … Continued
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This past week, WordPress 4.1 was released. While distraction-free writing is nice (I am using it now), the best part of the release for end users is probably the new default theme, Twenty Fifteen. I decided to follow the pattern of releasing a new theme each year by creating my own derivative theme for every … Continued
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Each year I customize the default WordPress theme and release my changes on code.aidanmontare.net. Each year gets a theme, a Git repository, and a page here at aidanmontare.net explaining what I did for those who are interested. The motivation behind my yearly WordPress themes is explained in detail at Twenty Fourteen, my first WordPress theme. … Continued
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Prologue Twenty Fourteen was the year I started aidanmontare.net. While I originally planned to use the default theme only temporarily until I developed my own, I realized I quite liked the default theme. I modified the theme somewhat to fit my site, but mostly kept the existing look and feel. For a while, I was … Continued
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