Dreams of a Meaningful Life

The Bible and how it represents people

What comes to mind when you are thinking of David? How about Moses? If you have not read the bible, you might get the impression that these are perfect people who are setting the standard for what it means to follow God. However, when you read their stories in the

Ordinary choices can be extraordinary

How meaningful is your single act of kindness? How much impact do your choices as part of society have? Do you feel that most of your choices don't matter and that whether you do right or wrong, it will not have any real impact in the grand scheme of things?

programming

What is in a name?

I was about to submit my PR after having worked on it for an afternoon. The code I was writing was not too complex. I had spent more time investigating it than writing it and I was feeling good about myself. I took one final look with my "code review"

Awareness for improvement

If you are unaware of yourself, you cannot improve yourself I have recently noticed that as my life has gotten busier, I have had less and less time to reflect on myself and my thoughts. After a few years of having gone through the process for several years, I have

Parent, please stop trying to teach your kids to stop acting like you

A child only really learns from your actions and your words. I have seen so many parents try to teach their child not to be like them. They yell and hit their child to teach them not to yell and hit other kids. They ignore their child when they feel

Monty Hall Problem Re-framed

Hmm. Embarrassingly enough, it took me 2 years since first hearing the Monty Hall problem to understand the answer. I would oscillate between a feeling of being close to an Ah! moment, and utter loss at what is going on. Wikipedia has the essence of the problem phrased as such,

Believe the better story

No one has any idea how their life will turn out. No one knows the consequences of their choices or how the life they live today will determine their future. However, we have a choice in terms of the expectations that we have about the future as we make the

Odd today, normal tomorrow

The Weird kids of today are the creators of tomorrow

The Kingdom Awaits

You are a boy just living his life. A girl trying to just make it through. The man trying to just provide for his family. The woman trying to just keep the family together. We cannot climb mountains we cannot see. We cannot cross oceans without a destination. We cannot

Matebook X Pro

I love this laptop. It is a beautiful machine. On the hardware level, I haven't found a single thing I hate about it. In every catagory, it has simply impressed me on every level. I don't want to talk about specs, because there are plenty of reviews that cover that.

Installing Ubuntu 18.04 on Surface Pro 3

I am not writing this from the perspective of an expert but rather from someone who has spent the last couple of days doing the same things over and over again expecting different results. I cannot express how frustrating this whole installation process has been. After booting in live mode,

spiritual

Neglecting what you already have while you seek what is out of your grasp

Please forgive the abysmally ugly title I have plastered on this article. Hopefully, I will have fixed that by the time I finish this and you will be wondering what I am talking about. As people, we tend to focus on the things that are wrong in our lives. We

Christian Economics

*All gifts accept material donations as defined below Material price required - The amount of money that is required to acquire the gift. Gift cannot be acquired without payment of this sum Material Donation - The amount a person might give. The difference between a requirement and a donation is

Apple Vs. FBI : Why I think Apple is right

Note This article was written during the height of the FBI case against Apple to force it to create a version of it's OS that doesn't put a limit on the number of attempts to unlock. I didn't publish it for various reasons but thought I would do so now.

Avoiding tasks you don't like, eh?

Is there work you normally avoid? Do you plan your day around maximizing the number of tasks you love to do and minimizing the number of tasks that aren't as interesting? It is such a natural habit for us to find admittedly creative ways to get around doing necessary tasks

daily

Fulfillment of our Ancestors' Dreams

Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there. -Gen 11:31

How to Interview a Developer

Finding the right people to work with on a project is one of the first problems you run into when trying to grow your company. It is absolutely essential that you get the process right (notice how I said the process, not the actual individual cases) because it will determine

How we affect others

He [Noah] drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. - Gen 9:21 Noah, the only one who was found to be worth saving from all of humanity was found drunk and knocked out. Whatever his reason for being so, we do not see

Know thyself

... the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth... Genesis 8:21 A lot of times we struggle and are often blindsided by our own evil desires. We are surprised and caught off guard when our image of ourselves as the ultinate champion of all that is good and

Not everyone died from the flood

And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. -Gen 7:21-22 The great flood from Noah's story killed much of the

Does God Change His Mind?

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. -Gen 6:5-6 There

How August locked me out of my apartment

I am a tech nerd who finds pleasure in having and using any gadget or tech that is remotely useful (pun intended). So, it's with great pain that I must say that I ran into an August lock that was "malfunctioning". Basically, it wouldn't let me turn the

Seth

...At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord. Gen 4:26 It was when Seth became the head of the family of Adam that for the first time since humanity was evicted from the Garden of Eden, man called out to God. There is something

Hardship for others

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 2CO 1:6 ESV Those of us who have ended up in relatively liberal countries where

Good men

When good men squander their good name, the devil prospers